Here is the latest snapshot. Keep your questions coming.
Superintendent Snapshot
Air Conditioning and Auto-Shop
Here is the latest superintendent snapshot regarding air conditioning in certain places in our buildings. Please keep the questions coming and have a nice weekend!
Martin
Superintendent Snapshot – Pianos?
Here is the latest superintendent snapshot with a music related question. I appreciate the questions so please keep them coming! I am also interested in your comments related to the budget so don’t hesitate to post those as well.
If you have a question…ASK! Email your questions to SuperintendentsBlog@GraniteSchools.org.
Superintendent Snapshot – Budget Input
Welcome to the latest superintendent snapshot. Its budget time again and we are asking our employees and patrons for feedback. I am sending an email to all of our employees, school community council members and PTA leaders asking for their input through a specific feedback process. The budget projections presentation is linked below in a previous post. Feel free to post your budget questions (or any other questions) here, or you can email them to SuperintendentsBlog@graniteschools.org. Thank you in advance for your critical feedback!
Question about RMC survey and assessment
Since I can’t respond to every question I receive via video. I am posting additional questions on the blog for everyone to see. Feel free to follow up with a comment if you have additional questions or you can always email me at superintendentsblog@graniteschools.org. Thanks and keep the questions coming!
Superintendent-I believe it was last year or the year before that an outside company conducted surveys/supervisor evaluations. What happened with that information? How did that benefit the District? How much did it cost the District?
Response-
Granite School District is required by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act which is also known as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) to spend 10% of the Title I-A allocation to help the district achieve Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) standards. Granite School District has participated in two appraisals of the district by RMC Research of Denver, Colorado. The first appraisal occurred from 26-28 February 2008. Because Granite School District participated as a pilot district in this appraisal there was no cost to the district. The second appraisal was conducted from 24-25 March 2009. The results of both appraisals were reported to the Superintendent and to the Board of Education by RMC Research.
Granite School District has adopted a Local Education Agency (LEA) Improvement Plan to implement recommendations from the appraisals. The initiatives identified in this plan include:
a. Instructional audits of all Granite School District schools relying on rubrics developed in consultation with RMC Research.
b. Algebra/Pre-Algebra Institute training for all secondary mathematics teachers of these subjects.
c. Mobility analysis of students in the district.
d. Progress monitoring of school district improvement efforts.
Granite School District has benefited by improving support to students.
Superintendent Snapshot-Take 4
Welcome to the latest “Superintendent Snapshot”- Take 4. We are getting enough questions at this point that I won’t be able to answer them all with the snapshot, but I will post the questions here on my blog with the answer. If your question is site or school specific or dealing with a personnel matter, I will respond privately. I appreciate the questions from teachers, students and patrons so please keep them coming to SuperintendentsBlog@graniteschools.org.
Thanks and have a great weekend!
Superintendent Bates