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So the fight is on for the next couple of weeks about whether the Board will okay Amplify Science for the K-8 Science adoption.  At Wednesday's Board meeting, there were several pro-Amplify speakers.  There seems to be a meme out there that Amplify somehow will bring equity to schools with more students of color that rests on little evidence. I'll have another thread on this but it is a top story.

Many of you have been wondering about what happens for staff reductions at schools and the 2019-2020 Budget.  I don't have the answers but more may be made clear at an upcoming Work Session on the Budget on Tuesday, May 7th from 4:30-6:00 pm.

Good News in SPS

SPS Communications: Seattle Public Schools (SPS) is pleased to announce educator Toni Bader has been named 2019 National Teacher of the Year by the Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE).  Bader, who has taught at SPS since 2001, was recognized as one of the National Adapted Physical Education Teachers of the Year.

Bader's adapted physical education efforts at SPS have resulted in six schools offering “Partner PE,” which is a program that pairs students receiving special education services with their peers who don't receive services during PE class. The program provides opportunities for inclusion and community-building among all students. 

Last weekend at the Reno Jazz Festival,  the Washington Middle School Jazz Band took home second place overall, and third place combo, in the middle school division. Garfield HS and Hamilton MS placed as well.  (I just want to note that a reader alerted me to this and I had to cull together the information. SPS had no notice of this at all.)

Saxophonist                                            
Graham Cobden
Washington Middle School

Trombonist
Cornelia Goforth
Washington Middle School

Trumpeter
Joe Friedman
Hamilton Middle School

Rhythm Section
Kai Jordan
Hamilton Middle School

AA High School Combo
Garfield High School III

Outstanding Performer
Aiden Sieman
Garfield High School

One other bill that I missed from this session of the Legislature about teens and sexting, from Crosscut:

State Rep. Noel Frame, D-Seattle, said the law needed to be changed because it treated teenagers who exchange nude photos with other teens as harshly as adults who deal in child pornography.

The measure, House Bill 1742, also will ease penalties for teens who distribute naked photos of other teens who are within in the same age group. In most cases, those offenses will become misdemeanors or gross misdemeanors, rather than felony sex crimes that carry a requirement to register as a sex offender.

Camera above the classroom using facial recognition? It's happening in Chinese classrooms. (Bold mine)

Under the hashtag, someone had posted a photo depicting a bird’s-eye view of a classroom. Around 30 students sat at their desks, facing the blackboard. Their backpacks lay discarded at their feet. It looked like a typical Chinese classroom.

Except for the colored rectangles superimposed on each student’s face. “ID: 000010, State 1: Focused,” read a line of text in a green rectangle around the face of a student looking directly at the blackboard. “ID: 000015, State 5: Distracted,” read the text in a red rectangle — this student had buried his head in his desk drawer. A blue rectangle hovered around a girl standing behind her desk. The text read: “ID: 00001, State 3: Answering Questions.”

After all, Niulanshan never informed him — or any of its 3,300 other students — that facial recognition cameras were capturing their every move in class. In fact, it’s unlikely that the combined 28,000 students in the six other schools testing the same system know they are part of China’s grand artificial intelligence (AI) experiment.

Director community meeting this Saturday with Director Rick Burke from 10:30 am to noon at Greenwood Library.

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