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“Few people know better than Marc Tucker how to make sense of complex and unstructured data, and how to help educational leaders translate what works elsewhere into what can transform their own school systems. His latest book gives the concept of an education ‘system’ an entirely new meaning.”
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“In Leading High-Performance School Systems Marc Tucker distills lessons he and his NCEE colleagues have learned from decades of studying the world’s best education systems and makes those lessons available in clear, compelling, actionable language to U.S district and school leaders. In addition to the intended audience, I would strongly recommend this book to teacher leaders as well, for it makes a powerful case that teachers must be at the center of any comprehensive strategy to improve education outcomes for America’s children.”
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“In this highly accessible book, Tucker makes an evidence-based, clarion call for the US policy makers and practitioners to abandon the mediocrity of the status quo and embrace tried and true practices from the world’s highest performing school systems. By illuminating the architecture of the leading school systems, Tucker offers a theoretical framework as well as practical guidance on imple Dear friends and readers, This is the second of two conference reports on the ASECS conference I attended this past spring. You have ahead of you brief records of a session on “The Eighteenth Century on Film,” and of the titles of the papers on some Jane Austen films I missed (!); a session on Fanny Burney and women’s literary history; the plenary lecture on race, and a dramatic reading of a farce the last session of the conference. “The Eighteenth-Century on Film” panel occurred late Friday afternoon (5/19/10, 4:15 to 5:45 pm). The first paper, by Srividhya Swaminathan, was on Amazing Grace: “The African Slave Trade and the Cinematic Eye.” Ms Swaminathan suggested everyone can see that the way the slave trade and 18thc culture are depicted in this film is celebratory, biographical and hagiographic: 2007 was seen as an anniversary of the act of 1807. What has been less noticed is how it shows progress on race as a function of Christian belief which urges reform on people. That the movie was conceived as a vehicle to launch a missionary effort is shown by the “official website” which reveals the movie was funded and distributed by an evangelical wing of the Christian party (so to speak). There are many historical inaccuracies in the film; but what it does reach out to do is dramatize Wilberforce’s conversion experience. We get a history as a progress narrative enacted by privileged white (mostly — all but one) men. The movie is careful not to disturb the viewers for real: there is no dramatization of the middle passage at sea; no one seen at real labor on the plantations, no one whipped or left to die. Romance images abound. Simple equations are made: The Duke of Clarence who is pro-slavery is also a snob, so he is easy to recognize and there is an implication an uncommon type. The re Kevin Dolphin and Lisa Burhannan Kevin Dolphin once watched his friend, Lisa Burhannan, work her magic on a room of teenage girls. Their nonprofit, Breaking the Chainz, teaches cognitive development in schools, but these particular girls were “having a bad day.” So Burhannan got them to draw how they were feeling. “By the end of the day, you could see the light in their eyes,” said Dolphin. “They would always come to her for advice. They couldn’t wait for her to get there so they could ask her and talk to her about things. That is more priceless than anything.” Burhannan is gone now. So is Gerald Welch, who never backed down if it meant keeping children from falling through the cracks. COVID-19 has plowed through Black America, carving a gash in leadership structures and within families. In Harrisburg, those left behind are finding resiliency in the community and plumbing the legacies of lost loved ones for inspiration. Dreams Released The Rev. Dr. Brenda Alton no longer pastors her own church—she is system manager of spiritual care services at UPMC Pinnacle. But in the COVID year, she presided over more funerals than ever before. Her job, though, still inspires hope. She gets to deliver “good news in bad times” to a community rediscovering its strengths. “The pandemic has allowed the ‘neighbor’ to return to the ‘hood,’ so we have ‘neighborhood,’” said Alton, who lost dear friends to the pandemic while she and her family were “deathly sick” in March. “We have neighbors who check on each other. We have families that have restored a level of care. They pay more attention. There’s this heightened sense of protection for our elders and maybe even a return of respect for our seniors.” Quarantines have not halted a renewed grassroots activism, Alton adds. Community leaders o Education Recent Stories New to PA, covering Harrisburg for PennLive, former reporter for The KC Star, who writes while standing because prolonged sitting is as harmful as smoking Vicki Vellios Briner / Special to PennLive Sybil Knight-Burney during a Harrisburg School District board meeting with new receiver Dr. Janet Samuels on Monday, June 17, 2019. (Harrisburg) — A recently-released audit of the Harrisburg School District revealed $5 million in questioned costs and provided a glimpse into the district’s finances. But it may not be the full picture. That’s because the report by Wessel & Company analyzed a sampling of documents, not every contract, account and employee file. A team from the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit that was put in place last week by the district’s newly-appointed receiver will be reviewing individual accounts and employee files, potentially giving the public a more-detailed account of the district’s financial situation in about 90 days. The team was brought in by Receiver Janet Samuels after she eliminated 14 positions, including the superintendent, acting business manager, and in-house solicitor. The report by Wessel & Company, meanwhile, was intended to look at specific areas of concern including transportation (after an embezzlement case,) human resources (after a series of scandals including over-hiring 37 teachers) and grants management (after federal grants were suspended) as well as trying to determine why the district had been unable to create accurate budgets in recent years. The audit documented $2.6 million in “potential questioned costs,” and an additional $2.5 million in unsupported expenditures over the past three years. But the scope o
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The district also paid more than $900,000 to substitute service agencies for work that potentially wasn’t performed.