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My last communication to the Board on the Science Adoption.  I also want to note that some communities of color are not excited about Amplify.  One of them is the Urban Native Education Alliance who will be speaking at tonight's Board meeting.  They say their learners do better will hands-on as well as group work.  Amplify doesn't have a lot of that.

My email today to the Board:

I write to you one last time asking you to consider voting no.
1) The issue of how Amplify came into this district is COMPLETELY murky and unclear. That MMW has given you four different stories is wrong.

2) I sent you emails showing that back in 2017, an NSF grantee asked MMW to participate in the elementary pilot of Amplify, sending her a template agreement letter. She wrote back enthusiastically and sent back the template with SPS letterhead saying yes.

You were never told this. This kind of, yes, collusion, misleading/dissembling is wrong. On that basis alone, you should vote no.

3) I got back my FOIA from the National Science Foundation, trying to find out if SPS was part of that grant for Amplify Middle School Science. I was told that they (NSF) had no documents related to WHO received grant funding from the entity carrying out the grant (WestEd).

So I have now asked:

- the NSF who gave the grant and asked via their media person/the principal investigator overseeing the grant/FOIA
- WestEd (the entity carrying out the grant)
- Amplify
- SPS

 if SPS is part of the grant and not a SINGLE person will answer the question, yes or no.

That should tell you something. It's a fairly simple question.

Again, another reason to vote no.

I again say to you, the committees did their job.

However, your job is not curriculum - it's oversight of both process (following policies/laws) and dollars (watching out for the funding given to you by taxpayers). I do not believe anyone viewing from that prism could say yes.

I do understand the value of including heart/conscience in many Board decisions. You want to do the right thing for those furthest from educational justice.

But you do them no favors picking a curriculum that has NOT shown promise in the pilot schools and one that takes away more hands-on learning.


Sincerely,
Melissa Westbrook
Seattle Schools Community Forum blog

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