Great Schools Teach-In:
How Should We Assess Our Schools?
Saturday, December 1
10 am to 12:30 pm–coffee from 9:30
Simon Fraser University Surrey Campus (Surrey Central Sky Train)
250 – 13450 – 102nd Avenue
The Great Schools Project is a collaboration among individuals who want to strengthen and protect public education in British Columbia. For almost four years, educators, parents, researchers, and leaders, both inside and outside the education system, have met to discuss how to improve the way we evaluate and assess our schools.
We feel the current system is both too narrow (focused on only a portion of the important work schools do) and too punitive (with substantial negative impact on individual students and educators).
After extensive discussions of the current system of Foundation Skills Assessment (FSAs) and their use to rank schools, the GSP working group has developed ideas about alternatives that would better serve both students and public schools.
The Great Schools Teach-In provides an opportunity for us to present some of these ideas and for you to debate them and provide your input.
Program:
- Alfie Kohn, outstanding critic of standardized testing and proponent of richer ways of understanding how well our children and their schools are doing (by videocast).
- Speakers from the Great Schools Project
- Discussion and debate.
Please RSVP to: dlaitsch@sfu.ca
For more information see our website: Great Schools Project
Great Schools Project Working Committee
- David Chudnovsky (retired teacher; former MLA; BCTF President 1999-2002
- Janet Dempsey (retired teacher; ESL specialist)
- Iglika Ivanova, (Ecomomist and Public Interest Researcher CCPA)
- Bill Hood (recently retired teacher; current PDP Faculty Associate SFU)
- Larry Kuehn (Director Research and Technology BCTF)
- Daniel Laitsch (Associate Professor Education Leadership, SFU Surrey; Founding Director SFU Centre for the Study of Educational Leadership and Policy; Co-Editor International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership)
- Sandra Mathison (Professor of Education UBC; Co-Director Institute for Critical Education Studies)
- Adrienne Montani (Provincial Coordinator First Call: BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition; former Chair, Vancouver School Board)
- Marion Runcie (former Chairperson BCTF Teacher Personnel Services Committee; Facilitator, Programme for Quality Teaching; co-designer, Burnaby School District Professional Growth Programme)
- Paul Shaker (Professor Emeritus, Dean of Education SFU 2003-2008)
- Michael Zlotnik (retired teacher; retired BCTF staff person: President, Public Education Network Society 2007-2012)
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