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Science Adoption Update
A savvy reader sent me a link to this story in the Queen Anne & Magnolia news about the science adoption. It reads a lot more as a cheerleading piece but more to the point, it gets one key point wrong AND it lets us know a funding point that should have been obvious all along.After almost 20 years without an updated science curriculum in Seattle schools, a new teacher-created curriculum is being field-tested. It was set to be adopted in the 2019-20 school year, but may be on hold due to large budget cuts.This would come as no surprise, given the district's budget but it's the first time I've seen it said out loud. I don't even remember this coming up at the Work Session in any real detail.
“Moving forward science adoption is on hold,” (JoLynn) Berge said.
What does the QA&M News get wrong (bold mine)?
After almost 20 years without an updated science curriculum in Seattle schools, a new teacher-created curriculum is being field-tested.
The curriculum was created solely by teachers and education leaders in Seattle, instead of being pulled from an education vendor or an outside program.
SPS received grant funding and personnel assistance from multiple universities, including the University of Washington, Seattle Pacific University and Michigan State University. Boeing also provided grant money for the project.
Teacher-created? All of it? If that were true, then the budget issue would not be nearly as dire AND we wouldn't have the arguments over the curriculum, especially around Amplify.
I'll have to ask about this seemingly new take on the issue.
Also in the newspaper, a story about a District 7 (City Council) seat candidate who opposes the removal of a tree near Queen Anne Elementary's proposed addition.
Seattle City Council District 7 candidate Don Harper is fighting the proposed removal of a tree along Bigelow Avenue North that would make way for a sewer line connection to the Queen Anne Elementary addition that remains under construction.Seattle Public Schools is building the addition with BEX IV Capital Levy funds approved in 2013 to provide eight new classrooms, a cafeteria and gymnasium to accommodate 500 students. Students were relocated to the John Marshall building in Ravenna during construction and are expected to return in September.But a design error may now require removing a Norway Maple tree on Bigelow Avenue North in order to connect a side sewer line to the addition.
Notice of an application to remove the Norway Maple, labeled Tree #70, was posted on March 12.
Harper wrote an email to interim Seattle Parks and Recreation superintendent Christoper Williams, protesting the planned removal of the tree and questioning SPR’s commitment to environmental stewardship, which resulted in the permit for the tree’s removal being temporarily revoked.
Update 4/9: Seattle Parks and Recreation will reissue a permit to remove a Norway Maple, after another assessment concluded again that its structural condition is poor.The SPR Urban Forest Tree Crew determined that years of pruning the tops of Tree #70 creating poor branching unions that resulted in wounds and wood decay. One large stem was determined to be a threat to pedestrians due to its level of decay.
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