Transforming Public Education: What's next for students, teachers and schools?

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Transforming Public Education: What'due south side by side for students, teachers and schools?

The 2022 EdSource Symposium was a meeting of the minds gathered to discuss the challenges to California's educational activity system today. Major topics included school finance, instructor quality, and standardized testing. Scroll down to read EdSource Symposium coverage and context on the issues.

Keynote Address: Linda Darling-Hammond
California is on the brink of an boggling "educational renaissance" that – if done correct – could aid the country regain its position equally a national leader in educational quality, Stanford University pedagogy professor Linda Darling-Hammond said in her opening address at the EdSource symposium.

Simply truthful change will take years, she cautioned, likening the transformation to the Marshall Plan that helped rebuild Europe afterwards World War Ii. "California is poised for this kind of transformation," she said, "simply we need to recognize this is going to be a long-term endeavour."
Rachel Wilner@RachelWWilner

Linda Darling Hammond at #EdSymp13 : iii big issues facing schools: funding, 21st century learning, developing strong teacher workforce.

Sat, May 04 2022 10:17:30

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Hammond: A "house on fire" that need to be fixed in the side by side year or two is better investment in teachers instruction SpecialEd. #EdSymp13

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Lillian Mongeau@lrmongeau

Darling-Hammond telling #EdSymp13 moving forward in #CAeducation means leveraging known best practices, high quality standards and money.

Sat, May 04 2022 10:39:00

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Linda Darling-Hammond delivers symposium keynote accost

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Tue, May 14 2022 xiv:28:thirty
Darling Hammond was i of the authors of 'Greatness by Design," which contains a blueprint for reform on instructor preparation and credentialing. http://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/in/documents/greatnessfinal.pdf
Featured Speaker: Martha J. Kanter
"I am obsessed about the achievement gap," U.Due south. Under Secretary for Education Martha J. Kanter said during a special accost at the EdSource Symposium, saying that closing the gap between poor children and their more affluent peers should be a focus of instruction reform.

Kanter said sees promise in the implementation of the Common Core Standards in most states. Mutual Cadre, which sets a standard nationwide curriculum, will also bring much-needed changes to the way in which student skills are tested, providing a more meaningful measure out of learning, said Kanter, who previously served as chancellor of the Foothill-De Anza Customs College District in Santa Clara Canton and is a old member of the EdSource board of directors.
Michelle Noel Maitre@michelle_maitre

Kanter: Common Core is the "most heady affair" on nat'fifty ed scene. #edsymp13

Sat, May 04 2022 13:22:56

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Rachel Wilner@RachelWWilner

@USMarthaKanter asks everyone in room to conditions the storm of #CommonCore implementation over next five years. #edsymp13

Sat, May 04 2022 13:24:54

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Kanter: Look at how to make Federal funding "catalytic." Talking near strengthening pipeline from P through 20. @USMarthaKanter #edsymp13

Sat, May 04 2022 13:29:54

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Kanter: What is the chapters in Washington to do big things? Since 2009, no timely budget. @USMarthaKanter #edsymp13

Sat, May 04 2022 thirteen:31:56

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Martha Kanter talks Common Cadre, school finance

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Tue, May xiv 2022 sixteen:54:09
Post-Prop 30 – A Brighter Upkeep Future For California Education, But Will It Last?
Subsequently years of spending cuts, the state is finally looking frontwards to "surpluses that are notable" said Jennifer Kuhn, head of the education partition at the Legislative Analyst'due south Office, in the first accost of the mean solar day. Kuhn said the passage of propositions 30 and 39 in combination with improve than expected income revenue enhancement revenue had resulted in the first surplus the country had seen for years.

Schools tin can look to see some of this surplus in their bottom line during the 2013-2014 school twelvemonth, Kuhn suggested, because a portion of information technology will exist directed to the schools' funding pool created by the passage of Suggestion 98. The details of exactly how schools will be funded and how much each district will receive is yet undetermined and volition exist hashed out in the coming weeks, Kuhn said.
Jennifer Kuhn leads the education analyst team at the Legislative Analyst's Role
Kuhn: California budget forecast moving into surplus zone starting in 2014/fifteen and will grow from $1b to $9b by 2017/18. #EdSymp13

Sabbatum, May 04 2022 10:51:47

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Heidi Emberling@HeidiEmberling

@EdSource #EdSymp13 Jennifer Kuhn from Legis. Anal. Off. says land owes schools $xiii billion. How can land repay & still rebuild programs?

Sat, May 04 2022 11:00:00

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Trent Allen @TrentAllen78

LAO's Kuhn says projections of $5B shortfalls just 1.5 years ago accept reversed to surpluses and Prop 98 guarantee going up #edsymp13

Sat, May 04 2022 xi:01:25

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CAPTA Legislation@capta_capitol

#CAPTAConvention2013 Kuhn problems with electric current funding overly complex, irrational, ineffective, out of engagement, highly centralized #EdSymp13

Sat, May 04 2022 xi:00:55

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Jennifer Kuhn on state school funding outlook and local control funding formula

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Jennifer Kuhn'southward Powerpoint Presentation at the EdSource Symposium:
Also, check out EdSource'southward coverage of Suggestion 30:
Panel 1: Local, Local, Local – Affect of Gov. Jerry Brown's Local Control Funding Formula
Panel Speakers:

Michael W. Krist: President, California Land Board of Education

Liz Guillen: Director of Legislative and Customs Affairs, Public Advocates

Eric Andrew: Superintendent, Campbell Matrimony Schoolhouse District

Richard Carranza: Superintendent, San Francisco Unified School District

Robert Miyashiro: Vice President, School Services of California
Governor Jerry Dark-brown's sweeping proposal to revamp California's complicated school finance organisation constitute stiff support from some panelists at EdSource's symposium session on the issue and conditional approving from others.

The proposed formula would eliminate categorical funds for special programs and necktie funding to students, with low-income students and English learners receiving 35 percent more than other students. Districts with a majority of high-needs students would get an extra bonus.
For one explanation of Governor Brown's school funding proposal, see this recent study from the California Budget Project (Note: the arrangement favors Chocolate-brown's proposal).
Non everyone supports Gov. Brownish'southward school reform proposal.
Muratsuchi opposes teaching funding proposal

Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi opposes Governor Jerry Dark-brown'southward program to redistribute education funding amidst all school districts in accordanc…
And here is EdSource's coverage of the fence over Chocolate-brown'southward proposal:
Michael W. Kirst: President, California State Board of Didactics
Michael Kirst, president of the Land Board of Education and one of the authors of the Local Control Funding Formula existence proposed past the governor, said the stakes are extremely loftier.

"If you accident this one, information technology'south not coming back," he said.
Rachel Wilner@RachelWWilner

Mike Kirst: only thing missing from @JerryBrownGov proposal is a cost of living aligning. #edsymp13

Sat, May 04 2022 11:17:nineteen

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Lillian Mongeau@lrmongeau

@EdSource: Krist: "We are in the fight of our lives…is it now or never." #EdSymp13 #LCFF

Sat, May 04 2022 11:53:48

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Michael Kirst on Gov. Brown's proposed local command funding formula

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Liz Guillen:Director of Legislative and Community Diplomacy, Public Advocates
Liz Guillen, director of legislative and community affairs for Public Advocates, said she is a strong supporter of the proposed changes, merely argued for strengthening the accountability provisions —including requirements to support customs and parental engagement and transparency in how funds are spent downwardly to the school site. This manner, she said, "local control actually means local."
Michelle Noel Maitre@michelle_maitre

Liz Guillen of Public Advocates supports LCFF but accountability must be strenghtened #edsymp13 @EdSource

Sat, May 04 2022 11:39:31

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Michelle Noel Maitre@michelle_maitre

Guillen: concentration grant is "mile high, inch deep" contribution — must remain #edsymp13

Sat, May 04 2022 eleven:41:nineteen

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Liz Guillen speaks about school finance in California

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Tue, May xiv 2022 17:53:58
Eric Andrew:Superintendent, Campbell Union School District
Eric Andrew, superintendent of Campbell Union School District, said his commune will lose nigh $4.iv 1000000 under the proposed formula. He said it is of import to notice a way to ensure that at least current funding is maintained for districts like his, in which disadvantaged children comprise less than half of the students.

"I retrieve there are ways in which we tin all win," he said.
Rachel Wilner@RachelWWilner

Campbell matrimony supe, small district, says LCFF volition make meaning cuts in some of his schools. #EdSymp13

Saturday, May 04 2022 11:34:32

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Michelle Noel Maitre@michelle_maitre

Campbell would lost about $iv mill under LCFF. #edsymp13 @EdSource

Saturday, May 04 2022 11:36:53

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Eric Andrew speaks about the impacts of California school finance reforms

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Tue, May fourteen 2022 17:01:28
Richard Carranza:Superintendent, San Francisco Unified School District
Richard Carranza, superintendent of San Francisco Unified School District, said the statement that some districts would be "losers" under the proposed formula overlooks the history of school funding in California.

"Nosotros already accept losers, and we know what they wait like and where they come up from," he said.
Heidi Emberling@HeidiEmberling

@EdSource #EdSymp13 Richard Carranza, SF Superintendent. This is an equity issue–we already take losers in CA. LCFF is an attempt to fix.

Saturday, May 04 2022 xi:28:49

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Carranza: "The time is now. How long do our kids have to wait?" @SFUSD_Supe #EdSymp13

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Richard Carranza speaks about school finance reform in California

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Robert Miyashiro:Vice President, School Services of California
Robert Miyashiro, vice president of School Services of California, agreed that the "broad compages" of the formula is audio, just the mechanism of how it will be implemented "revealed some areas where information technology can be improved and stock-still," he said.

"We wouldn't want to see information technology fail because some of these mechanical problems are not addressed," Miyashiro said.
Miyashiro: Will legislators take backbone to vote for the #LCFF formula fifty-fifty if it hurts their schoolhouse districts in the short-term? #EdSymp13

Sat, May 04 2022 eleven:25:52

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Rachel Wilner@RachelWWilner

Miyashiro: too many looking at whether their own commune will win or lose, not overall idea and what information technology will do for the state. #EdSymp13

Sabbatum, May 04 2022 11:26:34

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Robert Miyashiro talks almost Gov. Brown'south local control funding formula

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Panel 2: Changing the Conversation: Loftier-Quality Educational activity
Panel Speakers:

Linda Darling-Hammond: Chair, California Committee on Teacher Credentialing; Professor of Education, Stanford University

Ramona Bishop:Superintendent, Vallejo City Unified School District

Joan Buchanan: Chair, Assembly Education Committee, California Assemblymember

Tim Melton: Vice President, Legislative Diplomacy, StudentsFrist

Jennifer Thomas: President, San Jose Teachers Association
Panelists at the EdSource symposium session on educator quality agreed that California, once a leader in innovative programs for training new teachers, must take substantial deportment to better the state's teacher workforce. Simply they disagreed on priorities.
Linda Darling-Hammond: Chair, California Commission on Teacher Credentialing; Professor of Teaching,

Stanford University
"Salaries are disparate amongst districts, class sizes are large and supports are few," said Stanford teaching professor Linda Darling-Hammond, who chairs the state's Commission on Teacher Credentialing, summing up the current land of the teaching force. The state's i-yr cap on credentialing programs is limiting aspiring teachers' experience in the classroom. In one case they go teachers, teaching can be isolating. "Education is a squad sport," she said. What'southward critical is "a collaborative setting to piece of work with other teachers."
Michelle Noel Maitre@michelle_maitre

Hammond: Teaching is not the most attractive profession in the U.Southward. #edsymp13

Sat, May 04 2022 13:41:08

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Hammond: In places like Singapore, in that location is a professional evolution ladder for teachers to improve. In U.S., nothing. #EdSymp13

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Rachel Wilner@RachelWWilner

Darling-Hammond says u.s has none of the things to support high-quality teaching that highest-achieving countries do. #edsymp13

Sat, May 04 2022 13:41:06

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Linda Darling-Hammond on Reforming Instructor Preparation

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In April, Darling-Hammond published her latest book on teacher evaluations:
Ramona Bishop:Superintendent, Vallejo City Unified School District
Ramona Bishop, superintendent of the Vallejo Unified, said, "The best way to professionalize teachers is to bring them to the table" to brand key decisions on curriculums and policies affecting the classroom. In her district, "our best and brightest teachers" work with those who are struggling.
Rachel Wilner@RachelWWilner

Ramona Bishop, supe of Vallejo city schools, says we need the best teachers to be advising us. #edsymp13

Saturday, May 04 2022 13:49:51

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Bishop: I chose to teach in E. Oakland, I felt I had a moral obligation to give two students who might not be equally fortunate equally I was. #EdSymp13

Saturday, May 04 2022 13:48:38

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Ramona Bishop on Identifying Effective Teachers

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Joan Buchanan:Chair, Assembly Education Committee, California Assemblymember
Assemblymember Joan Buchanan, D-Alamo, who chairs the Assembly Education Committee and will be introducing a teacher evaluation nib afterward this twelvemonth, disagreed with Melton's statement that all parents in a school know who the skillful and bad teachers are. "We say we know the best teachers, merely I have twins. One says a ninth course teacher is terrible; the other says it's her best teacher." The claiming is not simply identifying weak teachers merely providing help to those you place, she said.

T
he get-go priority to school comeback, Buchanan said, should be administrator training.

"I take never seen a bang-up school without a great master. Leadership starts at the meridian. Then I would put more dollars into teacher training."
CA Ambly Joan Buchanan: What'southward non going to save education: technology and carter schools. What will: highly constructive teachers. #EdSymp13

Sat, May 04 2022 14:02:08

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Trent Allen @TrentAllen78

Joan Buchanan says tiptop priorities: Invest in admin training; invest in teacher training; invest in early babyhood teaching #EDSYMP13

Sabbatum, May 04 2022 14:12:37

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Joan Buchanan: Working on bill to evaluate more ofttimes based off multiple measures, includ how teachers adapt to exam scores. #EdSymp13

Sat, May 04 2022 14:09:nineteen

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Assemblymember Joan Buchanan speaks virtually teacher evaluations

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Tim Melton:Vice President, Legislative Affairs, StudentsFrist
Tim Melton, vice president of legislative affairs for the advocacy group StudentsFirst, chosen for a "rigorous evaluation," in which standardized examination scores are a meaning factor, and then help for them "to meet that all succeed."

"We talk almost great teachers, so why take not a system that identifies them?" he asked.
Melton: What's frustrating as parent right now, why don't we have a system that identifies infrequent teachers. #EdSymp13

Sat, May 04 2022 13:53:59

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Michelle Noel Maitre@michelle_maitre

Melton: We've got to discover who those special people are and put them in the right place so they can teach kids who need it nigh. #edsymp13

Sat, May 04 2022 13:57:36

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Tim Melton talks about identifying effective teachers

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Jennifer Thomas:President, San Jose Teachers Association
Jennifer Thomas, president of the San Jose Teachers Clan, described the process that teachers went through in proposing an innovative evaluation organisation that is "fair, equitable, authentic and inquiry-based." The system, based on trust, asks teachers to take risks. "We have asked them to be the professionals they were born to be."
Thomas: SJTA pushed for different evaluation standards based on a rich narrative based on observations of teachers. #EdSymp13

Sat, May 04 2022 14:13:58

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Rachel Wilner@RachelWWilner

Thomas: we are probably going to screw some of this up, but nosotros demand to have the leap together. Build
on tiny flame of trust. #EdSymp13

Sat, May 04 2022 14:fifteen:15

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Thomas: Public ed/school systems are "a matrimony where nobody picks their partner." @michelle_maitre #edsymp13

Sat, May 04 2022 fourteen:19:11

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Jennifer Thomas talks about reforming teacher evaluations

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Tue, May 14 2022 18:45:09
Console 3: Truth in Testing: Common Core and Standardized Testing
Console Speakers:

Pedro Noguera: Professor of Education, New York University

Linda Montes: Principal, Adelante Castilian Immersion Schoolhouse and Director of English language Learner Services, Redwood City School District

Lisa Andrew: Managing director, Assessment and Accountability, Santa Clara Canton Office of Education

Richard Colvin: School Accountability Good and Former Director of Education Sector

Deb Sigman: California Department of Education, Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction, Co-Chair, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
What is the quality of the state'southward electric current pupil and schoolhouse performance testing systems? What should effective testing await like, and will the proposed national assessments due for adoption in 2022 measure up?
Digital Storytime@iPad_storytime

Broad understanding that the way we are doing #testing in this country is not working … #EdSymp13

Sat, May 04 2022 xiv:38:06

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CAPTA Legislation@capta_capitol

Will new shift in testing truly transform didactics and tin nosotros effectively implement Smarter Balance? #EdSymp13 #CAPTAConvention2013

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EdSource Today's John Fensterwald writes that the new cess arrangement based on Mutual Core Land Standards is on rail, according to the Smarter Residue Cess Consortium:
Pedro Noguera:Professor of Education, New York University
California is taking the wrong approach to testing, said New York Academy instruction professor Pedro Noguera, during a panel on assessing educatee functioning nether common core. Testing is important, he acknowledged, only in the height performing countries, when a school isn't upwards to par, they send in experts to provide guidance and training. The attitude in this country, he said, is that "pressure level and humiliation will pb to improvement."
Nan Austin@NanAustin

Pedro Noguera, professor of ed NYU, assessment used inappropriately since NCLB, used to rank, not help. #EdSymp13

Sat, May 04 2022 fourteen:46:35

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Claudia Meléndez@MelendezSalinas

Professor of education Pedro Noguera: I practice not believe the common cadre will be a game changer
#edsymp13

Sat, May 04 2022 14:42:xl

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Michelle Noel Maitre@michelle_maitre

Noguero: Problem I see is we completely ignore the ability of schools to implement these policy decisions. #edsymp13 @EdSource

Sat, May 04 2022 fifteen:28:02

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Pedro Noguera questions Mutual Core

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Linda Montes:Chief, Adelante Spanish Immersion Schoolhouse and Managing director of English language Learner Services, Redwood City Schoolhouse District
Also on the panel were Lisa Andrew, Director of Cess and Accountability for the Santa Clara County Role of Pedagogy, and Linda Montes, Principal of Adelante Spanish Immersion School, who expressed confidence that common core will bring new models of educational activity that will engage students in a deeper level of learning and open the door to multiple ways of assessing students.
Claudia Meléndez@MelendezSalinas

Linda Montes, Adelante school: I'chiliad hopeful virtually common core because it changes how we see instruction #edsymp13

Sat, May 04 2022 14:52:41

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Michelle Noel Maitre@michelle_maitre

Montes: I withal believe I can change what happens in school, simply I exercise need back up. #edsymp13 @EdSource

Sat, May 04 2022 14:53:22

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Linda Montes talks nearly standardized tests

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Tue, May 14 2022 12:12:46
Lisa Andrew:Director, Assessment and Accountability, Santa Clara Canton Office of Education
Digital Storytime@iPad_storytime

Lisa Andrew (Office of Ed, Santa Clara): Biggest issue with #CCSS is instructor preparation – fear of change may hold u.s.a. back. #EdSymp13

Sat, May 04 2022 15:00:55

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Michelle Noel Maitre@michelle_maitre

Andrew: no thing what cess looks similar, it will still exist used by fed govt to rank us. #edsymp13 @EdSource

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Michelle Noel Maitre@michelle_maitre

Andrew: someday you lot put a 2nd or third or 4th grader in front of a computer to take a test, that causes a lot of anxiety. #edsymp13 @EdSource

Sat, May 04 2022 xv:19:53

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Lisa Andrew talks about Mutual Core

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Richard Colvin:School Accountability Skilful and Former Managing director of Pedagogy Sector
Richard Colvin, a school accountability skilful, said the fast pace of common core could atomic number 82 to less than stellar tests, but added there's a lot of political upper-case letter invested in making it work.
Michelle Noel Maitre@michelle_maitre

Colvin disputes idea that information technology takes a bunch of new $. "Tin't keep spending all $ yous have at present in aforementioned way" #edsymp13 @EdSource

Saturday, May 04 2022 15:23:01

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Michelle Noel Maitre@michelle_maitre

Colvin: API is targeted toward a proficiency that'southward a pretty low level. #edsymp13 @EdSource

Sat, May 04 2022 15:03:09

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Richard Colvin talks about Mutual Core

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Tue, May 14 2022 19:31:05
Deb Sigman:California Department of Didactics, Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction,

Co-Chair, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
"I think I'k a little bit more than optimistic," responded, Deb Sigman, Deputy Superintendent of Public Pedagogy for the State Department of Educational activity. Sigman, who co-chairs the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, said because of common core, the land can invest in tests that allow students to demonstrate knowledge and critical thinking.
Michelle Noel Maitre@michelle_maitre

Sigman: new common core assessments volition exist "more precise measurement of what your student is able to exercise." #edsymp13 @EdSource

Sat, May 04 2022 15:05:30

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Deb Sigman talks about standardized tests

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Tue, May 14 2022 11:45:38