On Friday, November 30, 2012, Sarah Z and Jay set up a meeting with Sarah D to share what they learned from a conference presentation at the recent NCTE conference in Las Vegas.
It was the story of a school that decided enough was enough--they would no longer chase after the requirements coming at them from above that forced them to focus as a school on things that did not serve the needs of their students. Rather than focusing on student test score data, they focused on teacher quality--for example.
Their packet is included here, so you can read more. But Jay and I wanted to share it with Sarah D and start a conversation to happen regularly, with whoever in the school wants to join us, to imagine what more we could do here at FHS to best serve the needs of our students as human beings.
