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Title : Science Adoption Updates Before COW
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Science Adoption Updates Before COW
COW is Committee of the Whole and the Curriculum & Instruction Committee is having one on Tuesday, April 30th from 4:30-7:00 pm at JSCEE. No agenda yet available but committee chair Jill Geary stated at this week's meeting that directors should be prepared to have their questions answered and that should be the end of questions (unless, of course, new information comes forward as it might).I urge you to submit your questions/comments ASAP because the Board will likely need to submit them to staff by the end of today or Monday.
If you want your comments/questions to go to just the Board - spsdirectors@seattleschools.org.
If you want your comments/questions to go to the Board AND Superintendent/senior staff - schoolboard@seattleschools.org.
Outstanding issues:
- Receiving free Amplify curriculum. While Amplify may say they need to keep this donation source anonymous, the district has to quantify the cost for the curriculum delivered because the Board has the right to know that.
But again, what message does this send vendors? Send free stuff and you, too, get a push from staff to the Board for adoption?
- Also, there appears to be another possible source for the free curriculum and that would be via an NSF grant. As I posted earlier, I have to wonder why several different entities including SPS won't verify if this is true. It's a fairly simple question. If this is true (and public disclosure results - not documents yet - appear to support my theory), then the district really has a problem.
- District staff admitted that they did not bring the Instructional Materials Committee to the Board for approval, which means they violated state law. (RCW 28A.320.230 -- see below)
Kyle Kinoshita and others admitted this fact at the April 2 C&I work session.
- Per Board policy which requires all information to be publicly posted on the district website 24 hours in advance of a meeting, all the information for this week's C&I meeting was not available on the website 24 hours before the meeting. This despite high public interest.
- In one of the BAR docs, it reveals that Amplify has worked in close partnership with SPS since 2016 in 69 schools. Wait, what? There are only waivers for 20 schools. It also says that that SPS leadership helped with curriculum redesign with their feedback and "to promote adoption and continuity." No collusion or favortism at this point is a little hard to swallow.
- Costs? Where is the REAL accounting of ALL costs including technology?
The BAR says "licensing only" but no materials.
On technology needed to use Amplify, parents of high schoolers, understand the district was going to start with high schools for 1-1 computer use. I cannot see how that can happen if the district adopts Amplify and now all the middle school kids need 1-1. (Unless the district plans to continue on with what is described in the waivers as "tech-lite" with a 2-1 use of technology.)
I'll have some links for some topics soon.
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