ReadyKentucky will focus on expanding communications networks through Parent Messenger Cadres. Key communicators are being recruited and trained in every region of the state at this time. Teacher Messenger Cadres will be formed soon.
My former FCPS colleague Robyn Oatley is the project manager and she does nice work. I'm looking forward to seeing how this web-based effort to present timely and reliable information wil play out.
Oatley describes her mission as - "to support the work necessary to assure that all students will be prepared for college and career success upon graduating from a KY public high school by communicating timely information to the community required to transform education in Kentucky.
We believe this: the more we all know, the better prepared we all are to help our children and schools succeed.Contact Robyn at ReadyKY@prichardcommitte.org.
This effort is being organized by the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence with initial financial support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. ReadyKentucky will partner with the Kentucky Department of Education, to make sure that the information is clear, factual and relevant.
5 comments:
Per Stu Silberman, teachers should not be on Facebook or contributing to public blogs. I would assume this applies to the "friending" the Pritchard Committee. Our first priority must always be "what is in the best interests of kids."
Really? FCPS is on Facebook. ...and Twitter. ...and run their own website.
Maybe it's OK for them but not for you.
We also just had an in-service in which we were told hat Dr. Silberman frowns on Facebook accounts for teachers. I really do see the wisdom of this, though. Dr. Silberman is trying to help teachers understand that theior pots are not private and can lead to problems for educators. Everything Dr. Silberman does is in the best interest of the child, the school, and the community.
August 23, 2010 7:39 AM:
Cautions about the use of social networking sites is very appropriate and is a better message than "should not be on." Everyone needs to understand the nature of these sites and many young teachers have gotten the mistaken notion that noone but their friends will ever see their stuff.
But we talk about it at the college level a lot and I think the message is getting out there much more. We don't see the problem quite as much as we did.
What we do still see are teachers text messenging with their students. This bears watching. The was a case out of Dayton where a teachers was accused of inappropriate behavior after exchanging hundreds of messages with a male student. The only thing that saved her, apparently, was that the phone company had purged all the records.
Superintendents wishing to help their teachers avoid problem with technology should not forget texting. It's less visable, but in some ways, much more personal.
I would agree that Mr Silberman is trying to do a good job for the district as a whole. But your perfect view of him, while reassuring, seems overly simplistic.
Thanks for the comment.
I agree with the texting comments, Richard. Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should teachers be texting students. We text our friends, not our students. Teachers who forget this should remember that they are setting themselves up for allegations of harrassment. Teachers who text students have forgotten their role as a professional!
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