Local Control

School & District Management Opinion After Standardized Testing--Then What?
It is important to fight for the reduction of standardized testing required. At the same time educators need the time and energy to spend on developing ways to monitor how students are developing those other skills and capacities.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, March 7, 2017
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School & District Management Opinion Creating a Learning Community at California's Education Department
California's Department of Education has espoused creating professional learning communities. Now, as key staffers write it's trying to recreate itself in that image.
Glen Price, Jacquelyn Ollison & Briana Mullen, February 22, 2017
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School & District Management Opinion No Complaints: Devos Criticized Them and DC Teachers Spoke Out
Action not only makes a difference in others, it fuels the actors with hope and purpose.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, February 19, 2017
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4 min read
School Choice & Charters Opinion Move Beyond 'Good Enough' and Vouchers and Charters Won't Matter
When attention turns to measuring the factors that contribute to successful learning, people will feel better about their schools, and want to support them as far more than 'good enough'.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, January 31, 2017
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5 min read
School & District Management News in Brief Local Board Takes Control of Schools in Detroit
A Detroit school board with the power to direct Michigan's largest school system has been seated for the first time in seven years.
The Associated Press, January 17, 2017
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1 min read
Professional Development Opinion Four Ways to Make Professional Development Work
Consultant and leadership coach Thomas Van Soelen, Ph.D is our guest blogger who writes the assumptions schools often make about teachers new to the profession can be quite destructive, particularly when planning teacher induction programs.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, December 29, 2016
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7 min read
School & District Management Opinion Calif. CORE Districts Pilot Accountability Measures
New research from California's CORE data partnership illustrates the possibilities and the implementation challenges in multiple measure accountability.
Charles Taylor Kerchner, November 3, 2016
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3 min read
Standards & Accountability Opinion New California Accountability System Signals Progress
It's good to count parent engagement and school climate, says Sonya Heisters. So, California has taken a step in the right direction with its new accountability system.
Contributing Blogger, September 28, 2016
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Equity & Diversity Opinion Why Calif. Local Funding Requires State Leadership
California's Local Control Funding Formula was announced under the banner of subsidiarity, but Arun Ramanathan argues that local control also means state responsibility.
Contributing Blogger, September 21, 2016
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Standards & Accountability Opinion Poll Shows Parents Not Engaged in Calif. Local Control
A new poll from Policy Analysis for California and the University of Southern California shows that the state has a long way to go to keep its promise to engage local stakeholders in the state's historic education finance reforms, writes Daisy Gonzales.
Contributing Blogger, September 14, 2016
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4 min read
Equity & Diversity Opinion Detroit's Children Are Also Ours
Detroit's problem ultimately is our problem. It can teach a lesson about patience and acceptance gone too far.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, September 11, 2016
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5 min read
School & District Management Opinion Multiple Indicators Work Only When Schools Can Learn From Them
The California State Board of Education is poised to adopt a multiple indicator accountability system to replace the state's discredited single number score. Good! But it will work only if schools learn from using it.
Charles Taylor Kerchner, September 7, 2016
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2 min read
School & District Management Opinion Leading Change Begins With 'We'
As part of the shift in teaching and learning, bringing schools into a more responsive model, one that fits better in this dynamic century, the hierarchy of leadership must become flatter.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, August 28, 2016
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6 min read
School & District Management Opinion Change Schooling to Improve Student Learning
The world in which we live, and in which schools sit, is in motion.The path to a new horizon line, to rethinking the vision for our schools, can be uncovered when the leaders begin the process.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, August 21, 2016
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4 min read
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