I don't know anything about Reading Mastery. What is it? Also, our school is looking into using DIBELS next year. Should I be scared? (Don't know anything about it either)
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 3:02 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I know exactly how you feel. We were in the same position three years > ago. > We were reading Reading with Meaning as a faculty and introducing the > strategies school wide. We had grade level planning to talk about > activities/ > books that we could use with the kids. Workbooks were collecting dust on > the > shelves---the ones that had not been tossed!! We used the kids to guide > our > instruction. What topics did they want to learn about? What data did our > running records give us about each child? SCHOOL WAS A WONDERFUL PLACE TO > WORK AND > LEARN!! Then came a new administration--then came DIBELS and READING > MASTERY!! Retirement is looking better and better!! The excitement about > learning > is gone. > > > In a message dated 2/14/2009 12:29:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Dear Friends, > > I guess this is a Dear John kind of post, in a way. Ironically, this list > is the only place I can actually "talk" about what just happened in our > school district. You probably understand at least as much about the depth > of despair our staff feels. The backstory: We are 2 and 1/2 years into a > strong, district-supported, balanced literacy movement, which follows on > the > heels of years of workshop, etcetera teaching, always reaching toward best > practice. We have what I consider an extraordinary staff. We won the > 2008 > International Reading Association Exemplary Program Award for our state. > > I can't imagine why any of us would reach deep down to understand > effective > comprehension, or any other kind of effectiving instruction, given the > latest events in my district. Why would we want to know more and more > about > what is out there to make a better way? > > Our superintendent just announced yesterday that, in addition to the > layoff > of 20% of our staff which was announced in December, we're about to commit > to an enormous outlay of funds -- to purchase Reading Mastery. > > Our school has a 64% poverty rate (free and/or reduced lunches), a 25% > mobility rate, a 35% minority rate, 2400 square miles in our district > (think > something larger than two of our states--Rhode Island and somewhere else), > an extraordinary staff, and wonderful families. > > But RM has guaranteed that all our children will TEST at least in the > upper > half of the nation (probably higher) by the end of third grade. > > Anybody have any openings for 25 amazing teachers? > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > > > **************The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy > Awards. AOL Music takes you there. > (http://music.aol.com/grammys?ncid=emlcntusmusi00000004) > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > _______________________________________________ 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.
