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I support this! In an effort to help, I offer this as your Figure 4.1
If you like our style/like what you hear (or just generally like #assessment) you should check out the book 📚
www.routledge.com/Foundations-...
Check out this podcast of Natasha Jankowski & me talking about our #assessment book! Excited to bring academic affairs & student affairs assessment together in one place - aiming to be accessible & useful for assessment pros, faculty, staff, admin, & students!
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If you want or need SNAP benefits, literally the only barrier should be...signing up.
"But what about fraud?" My sibling in red, white, and blue, THE PENTAGON HASN'T PASSED AN AUDIT IN YEARS AND MONEY IS FAKE. I don't care if too many people have food assistance.
A friend recently told me that they didn’t think ICE would deploy tear gas in well to do neighborhoods with a high density of white people. I understood their thinking, but disagreed. Today, they gassed Lakeview. Nothing is off limits to these people.
Sorry I missed this! I’ll have to keep eyes peeled for the next one. Glad to hear it was a big success! Thanks for your labor here!
If you haven’t already, try the combo calzone! It’s like their old supreme pizza recipe just folded up 😎
Hard to hold CPS accountable to their own (and/or the state’s) rules when the quality assurance entity isn’t doing its job. Makes any school-based issue/concern escalation for review feel pointless. No wonder CPS can be so comfortable w/ opaque practices & flipppantly tell folks to FOIA for info
Whether a fan of history or practical tips for current #assessment practice, click below to learn more about our book, "Foundations of Assessment: From Theory to Practice". You can see table of contents, book description, reviews, & even pre-order it! (pt 5 / 5)
www.routledge.com/Foundations-...
This text would be unique by:
-Delving in detail re: historical & philosophical roots/context of where we came from & why things are as is
-Speak to tip/tricks re: successful #assessment practice for academic & #studentaffairs on equal footing.
We think we did that - & more! 💪
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Channeling Captain Planet, we wondered if our powers could combine to produce a text - for practitioners, #faculty, & #gradstudents - that illustrated both the historical & practical foundations of #assessment for academic & #studentaffairs. (pt 3 / )
Having my own experience working/consulting in #highered, I'd been on a kick creating how-to blogs & resources for nearly every aspect of #assessment practice, approach, & leadership. I loved giving practical advice, but it was all separated by topic & housed in different places (pt 2 / )
Almost 3 years ago, Natasha Jankowski & I hatched an idea. 🧠
She'd curated historical influences, progression, & connections of #assessment in relation to evaluation, research, & accountability in #highered. She wanted to tell that story, but worried folks wouldn't like just history. (pt 1 / )
Multiple situations, circumstances, and people at school and district level make me question what must be CPS-prescribed understanding/definitions for concepts like:
Strategy vs expectations/regular practice
Transparency
Monitoring
Discussion
SMART goals
Equity vs equality
Image of a book cover. Appearance has a thick blue and skinny yellow horizonal band at the top with an icon of the publisher - Routledge. The main image is vertical blue and yellow multi-shaded color bands with a blue box in the middle holding the title and author information. The title of the book is "Foundations of Assessment: From Theory to Practice"; the authors are Joseph D. Levy and Natasha A. Jankowski.
📣 So excited to share the official web listing for our #book!
It’s been a 2+ year journey for Natasha Jankowski & I to get this manuscript finished & we absolutely can’t wait to share this #assessment awesomeness w/ the world!
📅 Pre-order available 7/28.
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And given my career working with state and federal governments, education boards, & accreditors/quality assurance bodies, I will be ready to escalate if I continue to experience systemic deniability & commitment to status quo instead of commitment to educational excellence & student success
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I will continue to try & work collaboratively with collegiality among people at my school & the district, but I will not be silent or complicit in violating educational standards/practices, expectations of elected officials, CTU rights, & state law.
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With teachers & admin overworked & undertrained for roles in the CPS machine, where the community can be support & help carry the load, CPS standard response is: keep parents at arms’ length, actively discourage transparency, & gaslight quality assurance efforts/ppl as troublemakers/anti-school
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Offices & individuals also often push off info requests by pointing to FOIA processes, thus wasting more time & resources of more ppl than initially needed. Cherry on top is its often discouraging info sharing from parties/individuals already supposed to share by nature of job/role/function.
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CPS Legal/law department is quick to try and intimidate and confuse parents with loosely-related laws around surveys/data collection, but reluctantly admits it’s their conservative preference/advice driving decisions and not in fact violations of FERPA or ISSRA.
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I continue to find the district at odds with itself.
OLSCR speaks of support re: accountability to process, but then are oddly silent when evidence of problems are brought to them. 1/
local school councils were originally a demand for local control by Black women in chicago but by the time the law was enacted, they were subverted to serve whiter interests + used to fire Black principals
cps has recentralized power, most local school councils do not challenge this
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a slide showing the non-teacher foundation positions for chicago public schools buildings 1 principal per school 1 assistant per school 1 clerk position 1 counselor for every 600 students, elementary school 1 counselor for every 500 students, high school
foundational teacher position formula for high school, chicago public schools 10 teachers for every high school for every 21 students, another teacher is allocated opportunity index impacts this formula
foundational teacher position, elementary position formula minimum 10 teachers and then opportunity index dictates
foundational level positions this describes the formula for restorative justice coordinators, recess, stls coordinators and athletic directors
i am on a chicago public schools presentation on school budgets and there is no possibility to chat or submit questions
the budget director, mike sitkowski, is attempting to go through budget calculations and while i'm sending slides to people, we all have questions
let's start with...
surgeons. Voting on how many chambers are in the heart
#science
Not everything is up for debate.
Expertise MATTERS.
On April 2 @ 3pm ET, I'll be presenting a free webinar w/ Modern Campus on The Data-Driven #StudentAffairs Leader: Demonstrating ROI with Engagement Insights (tie in w/ Student Affairs Assessment Leaders open course). More details/sign up info below: moderncampus.com/events/web-e...
