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Hi Sheila,
The page you provided does not reflect the meaning of “reflective assessment” or “self-assessment” as I use the terms. Rather, it is what this author means.
The questions this educator asks himself are:
1. What do I already know and do…
Our schoolbook policy involved a $50 deposit. Books for a new semester were not to be issued by any teacher to students with outstanding books on record (the school employed a sophisticated inventory tracking system integrated with the book deposit.…
Thank you, Sheila, for your continuing interest in the little understood value of EQAO assessments. I see 3 questions asked and will attempt to address each.
1. I can’t speak to what school principals do internally with a child’s EQAO assessments.…
Hello Joanne,
I can tell by your story that you have kindness in your heart and am warmed by your Samaritan response to a child’s hunger. I mean no chastisement by my comments.
I am shaken by your parenthetical comment, "yep amazingly not allergie…
Good morning, Sheila.
Dr. Deming used the quote, “My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge,” in his book, Out of the Crisis. You’ll find the quote here, and if you click on the hyperlink Page 97 you’ll be taken to the first page of Chapter 3…
Thank you for your reply, Sheila.
One word can make a critical difference.
Attached is the 1998 “Educator Handbook”. This was the second year of Grade 3 assessment. You’ll be able to verify the following quote:
The four levels of achievement do n…
Hello Sheila, and thank you for your feedback on my work.
You ask the question why EQAO’s assessment “is THE one that seems to have so much value and "hold" over everyone.”
Dr. Deming, a world-renowned statistician and management consultant in Qua…
Hello again, Gay.
Yes, anyone might agree that "barely passing" warrants additional parental attention.
You persist in associating the word "pass" with Primary and Junior grades. My premise from the beginning was that pass is not a word EQAO inclu…
Yes, Gay. This is the correct document.
It is intended for members of the legal professions.
It is useful to anyone.
Thank you.
This would be useful on joining, and as a regular refresher. Perhaps it could be linked at as a footnote, like "Share" and "Reply to This". I could be labeled "Netiquette" and serve as a pause before a hasty reply
For myself, I regular…
I understand your point, Gay.
My concern is the misinformation you lay down as you build your way to it.
With regard to Grades 3 and 6 EQAO assessments, you continue to call Level 1 a Pass, low or otherwise.
It is neither. This was my point: “I w…
It makes perfect sense to me, Sheila.
I intended my reply be specific to Gay's post.
My invitation to respond was directed to her.
I expect she's researching my understanding before replying.
Hello Gay,
I've a long history with P4E, and have never become comfortable with the organization.
I hear in your voice a call to confidence in the system’s performance in delivering the curriculum, as measured by EQAO results. Building confidence…
Comment Wall (2 comments)
- At 10:21am on May 28, 2009,
Gay Stephenson said…
- Word of mouth (or keyboard?) - good to know. See you in the discussions!
- At 5:10pm on May 27, 2009,
Gay Stephenson said…
- Wecome Bob from Belleville! Hope you will join in our discussions. How did you find us? I'm the website person here at People for Education - so if you have any questions about how things work, just post a comment on my wall.
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Parents often have questions about special education. Here's a place where we can ask questions, share ideas and information and help one another...
Our school is small, at 281 elementary students. It is Early French Immersion, which is not uncommon in Ottawa. I believe there are enough elementary-aged children within walking distance to fill the school twice. However, with the public/catholic s…
Briony before rushing to ideas I always like to take a deep breath and outline the goal and then priority for Parent Engagement/Involvement. Without that you will just try different things but perhaps achieve few results. Our PIC believes in giving…
Hi Briony,
There are also some great examples of what other people have done in our Parent Engagement Manual.
Hopefully you'll get lots of responses from parents here in our online community who have tried a bunch of different things.
It's also i…
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Hi Briony,
It is always hard to know how to start from zero when it comes to parent involvement. When I went to my first high school council meeting, the staff outnumbered the parents! There were only two of us, and the other mum showed up because h…
Thank you for sharing these photos and this project with us. It is wonderful to see those beautiful children learning together in a community school. Congratulations to the organizers of this initiative. To be able to offer this opportunity to 300 s…
I am the PIAC rep for Ward 10 of the TDSB.
PIAC is trying to offer more concentrated and targeted School council and parent engagement support this year and to that end we sent out a questionnaire asking schools what the state of things are at prese…
Beth: About the article in the Globe... unfortunately links to that newspaper only work for about 7 days, and then you must pay for the articles :( It's different from the Star which allows you to view them for free as long as you have the link addr…
Great article, Deborah (Playing the Game). I skimmed through and will read it again. Thanks! Looks like some good insight and food for thought from down under......!
Your link worked - yay Deb! It looks really good - I will read it this weekend :)
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