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Friday Open Thread
I don't know about you but I woke up to some snow on the ground. I did check SPS Communications Twitter feed but they have nothing about transportation so it's fine, I guess.King County Executive Dow Constantine ordered that under 18 year old youth currently being held at the Regional Justice Center in Kent be released to the Seattle Youth Services Center. Those kids had been in solitary for up to 22 hours a day (in order to protect them from the adult inmates) and had 10 minute of face-to-face interaction with a teacher. This after a lawsuit was filed on behalf of those youth.
Bellevue School District is seeing an uptick in suicide interventions in their schools. From the Bellevue Reporter:
During the first month of this school year, the Bellevue School District reported 56 student suicide intervention plans, nine student hospitalizations and one death by suicide.
“It’s more than half what we did in 2015-16 and in 2016-17 – it’s probably 40 percent of what we did all year in 2016-17,” Bellevue School District’s Supervisor of Counseling Deborah Kraft said, noting that those numbers are “pretty high.”I note that one Bellevue school official says that the use of the socio-emotional curriculum, RULER, seems to be helping.
Kraft said she thinks a reason for the rise is that the district is doing a better of job of convincing students it’s good to tell a counselor or teacher when they’re having suicidal thoughts and, in turn, more students are opening up.
Lots of talk about STEM and here's an interesting article from the New York Times about how it's really computer science jobs that seem to be the driver.
Oh geez, looks like former head of the College of Education (and Mr. TFA), Tom Stritikus, may be in the running for yet another local university post. He's gone from UW to the Gates Foundation and now is looking for yet another job. This is just since 2010. That TFA for you.Much of the public enthusiasm for STEM education rests on the assumption that these fields are rich in job opportunity. Some are, some aren’t. STEM is an expansive category, spanning many disciplines and occupations, from software engineers and data scientists to geologists, astronomers and physicists.But he believes that STEM advocates, often executives and lobbyists for technology companies, do a disservice when they raise the alarm that America is facing a worrying shortfall of STEM workers, based on shortages in a relative handful of fast-growing fields like data analytics, artificial intelligence, cloud computing and computer security.
“There is a huge divide between the computing technology roles and the traditional sciences,” said Andrew Chamberlain, Glassdoor’s chief economist.“When it gets generalized to all of STEM, it’s misleading,” said Mr. Teitelbaum, a senior research associate in the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. “We’re misleading a lot of young people.”
On Saturday, Directors Harris and Burke are having a joint meeting on Career and Technical Education (CTE) at the Capitol Hill Library from 4-5:30 pm.
Directors Burke and Harris are co-hosting a series of round table discussions with SPS educators. This November public meeting will be focused on Career and Technical Education. We enthusiastically invite our practitioners to share their success stories and ideas for improvement as we work to expand and align our CTE courses with future career opportunities.What's on your mind?
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