It has been a tough year so far for teachers across CISD. Mainly when you have no specific plans for how to deal with curriculum and discipline.
We know once again that reading is down this year. If you look at the final results by tea, some of the schools are right with the district average. Which means that there is no outlier group that is making big gains, it's coasting.
Discipline is still an issue where teachers don't get support and truly our students are not being supported socially and emotionally to avoid spending money.
Also Powell has indicated to the schools of choice, that students who are transfer from other campuses to attend the program, will count for their home campus and not the adopted campus. This was to make sure the home campus did not loose their best of the best. So now you have teachers on one campus helping the other campus. So some principals are not happy because they promoted and worked hard to sell the programs and now they won't get credit on their state results. Example is the dual language program which has now been diluted completely. You have more english speaking students in the program when it was supposed to be balanced with both languages. So basically you have a regular program teaching non-spanish speaking students. There is still no type of specialist support, no bilingual diagnosticians or support for SPED, etc. for spanish speaking students. The list goes on and on.
And yes back to discipline, teachers are fed up at the secondary level where students are cussing and basically harming staff. Lovette was seen at a few schools finally after being lost. But showing up is not going to solve anything, actions speak louder. So he purged last year and now the results are there, worse than before.
Hold on teachers, we are almost there to the holiday!!
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