Friday, June 08, 2012

Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks …or the Stepford Wives? TRUE NORTH LOGIC: A picture worth 1000 words

smf wrote in the June 3rd  edition of the 4LAKids weekly e-newsletter:

The teacher evaluation, appraisal and retraining piece in LAUSD has already been contracted out – outsourced – to a company from Utah called TrueNorthLogic (“TrueNorthLogic provides K-12 product solutions that are designed to be easily configured and aimed at bringing an effective educator to every student.’)…a outside vendor/consultant and purveyor of business-school-tested/buzzword infused/data-driven magic bullets with a name that brings up images of the television series “Northern Exposure”(fish-out-of-water uptight Yankee doctor amongst the locals) …or maybe “Twin Peaks”.

Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks …or the Stepford Wives?  Check out this photo from TrueNorthLogic’s corporate “About Us” Page:

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Have you seen a less diverse classroom scene since Dick and Jane?

Slide 55 from the PowerPoint: LAUSD TEACHER TRAINING for the Initial Phase of the Teacher Growth and Development Cycle

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presenter instructions:

10:45-10:55 TECHNOLOGY ACTIVITY 1:

Getting onto the Web Platform. This is a place where you can create your lesson plan and share it with your administrator before you meet to discuss the lesson. Your administrator can share his/her observation notes with you following the lesson.

We’d like you to Create an account on the web platform for the observation process. If you don’t know your Employee ID, you can just type in “12345678.” This is a practice log in, not the final version you will use in the fall.

(35 min.) Learning Activity 8: Applying the lesson design template to your grade level/subject

Rationale: Participants will have the opportunity to try out the LAUSD Lesson Design Template, and get a feel for how they might answer these questions as they prepare to teach a lesson. Standard 1, Planning and Preparation

You get the gist: The Teacher Growth and Development Cycle. Remember that Twilight Zone Episode: To Serve Man?

  • Log In Now
  • Click “Performance Reviews”
  • Click your name

Be afraid, be very afraid.

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