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The Surgery Was A Success…But The Patient Died | Superintendent's Blog
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Sublette County School District #1. Changing the District Calendar: A Disciplined Approach to Improvement. Tinker(ing) with Accountability →. The Surgery Was A Success…But The Patient Died. February 11, 2013. I know a lot of you probably suspected as much, but I just wanted to officially confirm that according to Einstein. I’m insane. Or maybe I’m just a fanatic. The scary possibility (probability? Will still be implementing school reform principles that don’t work. While that may sound hypercritical of ...
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Why PAWS is Meaningless to Our Students…And Why We Should Take Notice | Superintendent's Blog
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Sublette County School District #1. The Success of Failure. Accountability King (For a Day) →. Why PAWS is Meaningless to Our Students…And Why We Should Take Notice. January 6, 2012. Each spring our students in grades 3-8 and 11 take the PAWS test. According to the WDE website. The test is meaningless to our students. Let’s be clear, there are a lot of standardized tests that have meaning when it comes to determining which schools and career choices our student will have access to. The ACT. Ever gotten a...
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The Scesis Increases | Superintendent's Blog
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Sublette County School District #1. And a Butterfly Flapped Its Wings…. There’s Something to See Here →. August 27, 2014. 8220;Ello, I wish to register a complaint.” So starts Monty Python’s famous Dead Parrot skit. For fans of the Flying Circus, it’s a quintessential piece of British humor. For those with an eye for analogy, it’s also a burning effigy of the current state of affairs for education accountability in America. Often cited as the classic example of Scesis Onomaton. And in multiple ways.
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And a Butterfly Flapped Its Wings… | Superintendent's Blog
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Sublette County School District #1. And Now for Something Completely Different…. The Scesis Increases →. And a Butterfly Flapped Its Wings…. January 30, 2014. The Butterfly Effect is a term used for a small change in a sensitive system, that eventually results in large differences in the system at a later date. It’s the notion that a butterfly flapping its wings in Tokyo can cause a hurricane in the Bahamas. It’s part of a larger mathematical concept called Chaos Theory. School board elections occur ever...
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THE GRADUATION QUIZ | Superintendent's Blog
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Sublette County School District #1. Q&A at the PAC 3rd ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION. AED’s and The Fast Forward Button →. February 15, 2011. Q1: A student gets a terrible illness during their sophomore year and misses 6 months of school recuperating. They re-enroll, complete high school, and graduate as valedictorian after another 3.5 years (4.5 years total). Is that student considered a graduate or non-graduate? A3: Same answer as #2. We have to get documentation of the death. Think about that for a ...This ...
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Superintendent's Blog | Sublette County School District #1 | Page 2
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Sublette County School District #1. Newer posts →. December 16, 2012. In the near future, and as a result of this incident, there will be another renewed discussion of school safety. I say renewed because the difficult truth is that our collective memory can be rather short when it comes to these types of things. Less than a year ago, I wrote a post. Whether anyone wants to really talk about it or not, the basis for our security standards is contained in the Latin phrase, in loco parentis. Author Gary Ma...
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There’s Something to See Here | Superintendent's Blog
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Sublette County School District #1. Reality Bites →. There’s Something to See Here. August 12, 2015. If you’re a fan of 80’s comedies like I am, you count Naked Gun. As one of the classics. The Nothing to See Here. Scene in this film is one of my favorites. Police Lt. Frank Drebin arrives on the scene of an exploding fireworks factory (where there is plenty to see) and emphatically states, Move on, nothing to see here, please disperse! Wyoming educators of all description have asked for patience, noting ...
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And Is Better Than Or | Superintendent's Blog
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Sublette County School District #1. A Graduation By Any Other Name…. And Now for Something Completely Different… →. And Is Better Than Or. July 8, 2013. Of students was as important (or perhaps more important), than the individual or collective content matter being provided. Translation, learning how you learn is as important as what you learn. And I would argue, given the nature and influence of technology in our society, it’s never been more important. About HOW we do that isn’t. As a popular advertisi...
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High Stakes Testing and the Death of the Renaissance Man | Superintendent's Blog
https://sub1superintendentblog.wordpress.com/2012/07/23/high-stakes-testing-and-the-death-of-the-renaissance-man
Sublette County School District #1. The (Mathematical) Value of Strategic Planning. Oh, The People You’ll Meet →. High Stakes Testing and the Death of the Renaissance Man. July 23, 2012. At our last board meeting, the SCSD #1 Board of Trustees joined other school districts and organizations around the nation in passing a National Resolution Against High Stakes Testing. In 1983, President Reagan’s National Commission on Excellence in Education published a document called. One of the worst outcomes of this...
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A Graduation By Any Other Name… | Superintendent's Blog
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Sublette County School District #1. And Is Better Than Or →. A Graduation By Any Other Name…. June 20, 2013. A few weeks ago, the Wyoming Department of Education released the 2011-2012 graduations rates for the state and its individual districts. The state average was down 0.85% to 78.9%. Two years ago, I wrote a blog. So why does it matter if it takes them longer than four years to graduate? I think the folks making these laws need to ask themselves this question? Did I graduate college in four years?
