I teach future citizens, Down n' Dirty sports 🥎🏒👟gal & Boymom 👦🏼👦🏼👶🏼. Crass musings are my own. 2016 Crystal 🍎 Winner; 2017 KEEN Winner #mrsbeeamazing
Garden City, KS
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Beyond grateful for our partnership w/ the @CityofGCKS , giving Ss the opportunity to ask tough questions, digging into finances, development, and policies, and realizing that their voices do matter and there are current pathways to local participatory citizenship!
@KsCommissioner let’s 👀 at the numbers
▶️ KS requires 1,116 instructional hours
▶️ Top 12 ranked states in education (@USNewsEducation) average 1,033 hours—less than Kansas, depended on your school = 10/11 days of school
▶️Despite this, KS ranks 13th right behind those states
Kansas Education Commissioner Randy Watson urged districts to cancel breaks or extend the school year to make up for snow days. He is also proposing half-day summer school for young students who are struggling in reading and math.
Via @ksnewsservice:
lawrenceks.news/3FCAvlL #ksed
So, if states with fewer hours rank higher, where’s the ROI in adding more time?
Is the issue really about hours, or is it about how that time is used? Before we start cutting breaks or stretching the calendar, maybe we should ask is it the seat time or quality instruction?
Becca Burnfin retweeted
Zac Kitch and Trevor Fry, both members of the WAC leadership team, received a handwritten note from the man himself, Mr. @joecoles33.
They have definitely learned the value of being #uncommon student-athletes at Garden City High School!
…& this is why I don’t want to talk about the teacher eval. system
It’s broken. It’s not supposed to be a got-cha & you have x weeks to fix it. if it’s a skill it needs time to be coached and developed.
It would take admin to be apart of the PLC, panning & teaching process
Absolutely a team effort.
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Holding students to expectations isn’t unfair. Enforcing rules isn’t ‘picking on’ someone. The real issue is when accountability is mistaken for persecution.
“When you wrestle one of us, you might as well be wresting all 14 of them. That love is embodied through the whole process…The kids committed to the process of raising the standard and that’s why we are here today…” Coach Lappin, GCHS
“This program is not just a program… to those who are involved. We put our time into to it. This is a family, a lifestyle and a personal development process.” Matthew Long, GCHS, #120 Buff Wrestler
“We raised the standard…this is just the beginning” Maya Tarbet, GCHS, #130 Lady Buff Wrestler
It’s the common sense for me 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼—Also best rule of thumb to follow, if you don’t give me a reason not to trust you, I trust you. Boom!
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Leaders have a ethical responsibility to be hard in those issues that are shown to affect student learning (Eaker & Keating 2012) 🎤
Absolute hill I will ☠️ on.
THIS… teachers will be remembered not because they taught s.studies or math but b/c they cared about teaching the Ss their passion for their subject, gave Ss confidence in themselves as learners & as people, treated the student as a person, & instilled a love of learning -Hattie
Pleasure of a lifetime to have these twinkle toes in my life. One of them has been a 7 year journey and her next adventure awaits—- good luck Shelby girl!
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Can’t wait to bring the 🔥 back next year!
