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Please check my update on the Science curriculum adoption; it includes how to give input.The District is laying off Director of Logistics head for Transportation, Kathy Katterhagen. This from the Seattle Times.
The decision stemmed from a budget cut, SPS spokesman Tim Robinson said in an email. There are more layoffs planned in the next fiscal year, he added. Last school year, Katterhagen’s salary was $155,000, according to the state education department.On the issues of the final closure of the Viaduct today:
A major bus-storage base is tucked away in South Seattle next to highways that will be clogged with spillover traffic.Oh look, it's the Gates Foundation (again) trying to make their vast public education spending relevant. From Ed Week:
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to invest in professional development providers who will train teachers on “high quality” curricula, the philanthropy announced this afternoon.This from a guy whose own kids never had any outside group trying to tell their schools what and how to teach.
The investment, at around $10 million, is a tiny portion of the approximately $1.7 billion the philanthropy expects to put into K-12 education by 2022. Nevertheless, it’s likely to attract attention for inching closer to the perennially touchy issue of what students learn every day at school.
The grants are not available in WA state. One interesting tidbit, though, is this (as we struggle over science curriculum in SPS):
The funding announcement also comes as a number of recent reports conclude that teacher training suffers by focusing on general teaching strategies rather than on how to use a specific curriculum."Traditional male masculinity" harmful to today's boys? From U.S. News & World Report:
A great list of children's books with characters with disability challenges from the blog, Nicole's Learning Lab.The American Psychological Association has zeroed in on the ideology of masculinity, suggesting that parents and psychologists should think twice before instilling elements of "traditional masculinity" in men and boys.Traditional masculinity ideology – which the APA says includes elements of "anti-femininity, achievement, eschewal of the appearance of weakness, and adventure, risk, and violence" – can be psychologically harmful to men and boys, the association noted in its 36-page "APA Guidelines for the Psychological Practice with Boys and Men" that's highlighted in the latest issue of its Monitor on Psychology magazine.
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