Whos of Who-cester

 I'd like to be able to give you some sort of meaningful summary of last night's Board of Ed meeting on the DESE strategic plan ( li...

 And it is MCAS and Accountability release week. The agenda for the Board of Ed can be found here.  The MCAS data will go up on the school a...

Is there bad news on AI in education? There is ALWAYS bad news on AI in education! Chalkbeat earlier this month had a look at the AI slop ...

  Super weird to me that the update includes this "look this curriculum is everywhere" civics law passed in 2018 student-led civic...

 memo is here Craven has left; Hills now chairing speaking on this, per the memo: Rob Curtin, Deputy Commissioner, Matt Deninger, Associate ...

 Of course there is Monday bad news on AI! The Atlantic , not an organization known for having its eye actually on the ball when it comes to...

First, your periodic reminder both that I'm not a lawyer and that nothing I post here is from anyone other than me.    Among the cases t...

 on the award here boost educator morale, affirm their work and impact, sharing best practices Jillian Levreault, Southbridge Middle School ...

  During my first term on the Worcester School Committee, a colleague referred to me in deliberation as "Cassandra.*" For those no...

 Johnston:  I cannot read these slides at all and there is no shared backup advancing student learning high dosage tutoring: saw in Waltham ...

 Note that the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education not only meets tomorrow (for their regular monthly meeting); they meet TONIGHT fo...

 Johnston: district reviews in 2020 and 2022 city and schools and DESE agreed to systemic improvement now closing out second year of impleme...

Johnston starts by remembering  former Associate Commissioner John Bynoe  whom he credits with some of this what I assume was on a prior Wel...

And I mean that with all the negative baggage that carries, yes. And a periodic reminder that the only person I speak for here is me   xkcd ...

In the days since Tuesday's Board of Ed, I've been reflecting on a few places where the meeting raised some flags with me.

Yesterday's Massachusetts education coverage was all about Governor Healey's announcement of proposed new health and physical educ...

 Among the big things that happened at Thursday’s meeting of the Worcester School Committee was the adoption of a new ELA curriculum for e...

  compiled in part, though not entirely, from the weekly updates, Dr. Monárrez sends the Committee First up, ones that I've been worryin...

Carris Livingstone runs through the regional councils and what each was working on in their workgroups health and wellness workgroup: educat...

more or less; I'll add links later, but you can find my sources pretty easily  I think it important to note that we are deliberating thi...