"And we are all doing what is the very best for the children because as you know, ‘research’ tells us!!!"
I loved your response! My school is very slowly moving towards more programs and it's scaring the bejeezus out of me! I'm the only one with a background in Title I schools and for some reason that means I'm the only one with experience with true workshops (any subject area). It's all I can do to show up anymore. I'm totally alone in my philosophies this year. I thought my instructional coach was, but she's on the writing program bandwagon right now...and mainly because we are a high performing school and in order to keep our accredidation we have to IMPROVE. How do you improve advanced scores? Anyway, not my point. Your post reminded me of the article I just read in the Dec/Jan Reading Teacher mag. (http://www.reading.org/Publish.aspx?page=/publications/journals/rt/v62/i4/abstracts/rt-62-4-garan.html&mode=redirect) It's about SSR and the benefits, sort of...what I really got out of it was that the "research" that the US policy makers use to make policy has to be based on "medical research" with strict control groups...which, you can't really ever have in a classroom setting. So things like letting kids just READ at school may never be supported because there is not true quantitative research that supports it. I found it very frustrating! But happy that my principal leaves me alone...at least for now. We'll see when "my" scores come back this summer. Kristin Mitchell/4th/CO "Be the change you want to see in the world" -Ghandi _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
