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AVP Accreditation & Quality Improvement @ Excelsior University π Student Affairs Assessment Leaders Board Member π Advocate for Educational Quality Assurance Dad | Music-Lover | Big Eater
Multiple situations, circumstances, and people at school and district level make me question what must be CPS-prescribed understanding/definitions for concepts like:
Strategy vs expectations/regular practice
Transparency
Monitoring
Discussion
SMART goals
Equity vs equality
Image of a book cover. Appearance has a thick blue and skinny yellow horizonal band at the top with an icon of the publisher - Routledge. The main image is vertical blue and yellow multi-shaded color bands with a blue box in the middle holding the title and author information. The title of the book is "Foundations of Assessment: From Theory to Practice"; the authors are Joseph D. Levy and Natasha A. Jankowski.
π£ So excited to share the official web listing for our #book!
Itβs been a 2+ year journey for Natasha Jankowski & I to get this manuscript finished & we absolutely canβt wait to share this #assessment awesomeness w/ the world!
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Pre-order available 7/28.
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And given my career working with state and federal governments, education boards, & accreditors/quality assurance bodies, I will be ready to escalate if I continue to experience systemic deniability & commitment to status quo instead of commitment to educational excellence & student success
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I will continue to try & work collaboratively with collegiality among people at my school & the district, but I will not be silent or complicit in violating educational standards/practices, expectations of elected officials, CTU rights, & state law.
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With teachers & admin overworked & undertrained for roles in the CPS machine, where the community can be support & help carry the load, CPS standard response is: keep parents at armsβ length, actively discourage transparency, & gaslight quality assurance efforts/ppl as troublemakers/anti-school
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Offices & individuals also often push off info requests by pointing to FOIA processes, thus wasting more time & resources of more ppl than initially needed. Cherry on top is its often discouraging info sharing from parties/individuals already supposed to share by nature of job/role/function.
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CPS Legal/law department is quick to try and intimidate and confuse parents with loosely-related laws around surveys/data collection, but reluctantly admits itβs their conservative preference/advice driving decisions and not in fact violations of FERPA or ISSRA.
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I continue to find the district at odds with itself.
OLSCR speaks of support re: accountability to process, but then are oddly silent when evidence of problems are brought to them. 1/
local school councils were originally a demand for local control by Black women in chicago but by the time the law was enacted, they were subverted to serve whiter interests + used to fire Black principals
cps has recentralized power, most local school councils do not challenge this
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a slide showing the non-teacher foundation positions for chicago public schools buildings 1 principal per school 1 assistant per school 1 clerk position 1 counselor for every 600 students, elementary school 1 counselor for every 500 students, high school
foundational teacher position formula for high school, chicago public schools 10 teachers for every high school for every 21 students, another teacher is allocated opportunity index impacts this formula
foundational teacher position, elementary position formula minimum 10 teachers and then opportunity index dictates
foundational level positions this describes the formula for restorative justice coordinators, recess, stls coordinators and athletic directors
i am on a chicago public schools presentation on school budgets and there is no possibility to chat or submit questions
the budget director, mike sitkowski, is attempting to go through budget calculations and while i'm sending slides to people, we all have questions
let's start with...
surgeons. Voting on how many chambers are in the heart
#science
Not everything is up for debate.
Expertise MATTERS.
On April 2 @ 3pm ET, I'll be presenting a free webinar w/ Modern Campus on The Data-Driven #StudentAffairs Leader: Demonstrating ROI with Engagement Insights (tie in w/ Student Affairs Assessment Leaders open course). More details/sign up info below: moderncampus.com/events/web-e...
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Last call to join SAAL's #FREE, self-paced, 8-module #assessment MOOC: Applying & Leading Assessment in Student Affairs. Enrollment closes March 22, giving you until March 30 to finish the course. Join 1600+ colleagues to engage on assessment: studentaffairsassessment.org/online-open-...
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We're wrapping up week 4 of 8 w/ SAAL's open course. Still time to register (reg closes March 21). Participants average 1-2 hrs per module, it's not too late to join our self-paced course w/ nearly 1600 folks in community for #assessment: studentaffairsassessment.org/online-open-...
28.02.2025 18:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0#FREE #Webinar! Join Drs. Sara Finney, Keston Fulcher, & me on March 10 @ 4pm ET for "What We Wish We Knew: Career Readiness Reflections in Assessment". We'll share decades of experience in #assessment of #studentaffairs, leaving folks w/ tips & resources. Sign up π
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Thereβs a lot of misalignment right now in all forms of news in trying to tell people (convince themselves?) what is important
09.02.2025 00:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0SAAL's free, self-paced course on #assessment launched today! It runs Feb 3 - March 30, w/ registration open through March 21.
Ciji Heiser, Kevin Wright, & I look forward to engaging w/ 1300+ folks (& more to come)! Learn more or sign up π
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