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There is no "defeat" C-SCOPE is still around, it wasnt
banned, no one was indicted, or went to jail, no one got
sued. The program is still the same, we just supply the
exemplar lesson plans to districts they just go through
admins first. In addition weve progressed our training and
workshop program. There will always be more C-SCOPE/TRS to
learn. I dont see how anything or anyone with power did
anything, the sun has a lot of power but unless it goes
nova or there is a particularly strong flare, its not a
problem.

Your always advising people to do whats going to get them
non-renewed, our new ambassadors approach further
identifies and puts teachers on notice that what they say
and do in and out of the classroom and the school can be
held against them. Its coming up on a decade and C-SCOPE
is becoming stronger not weaker. Sure you have a right to
freedom of speech, tell that to someone working at Dell, or
USAA if they can just say whatever they want against their
company and keep their job, why do you think your any
different? You wont be non-renewed for your political
opinion, youll be non-renewed for "poor collaboration" or
something else thats indefensible.

Even if you got rid of C-SCOPE, something else would take
its place. You cant leave a vacuum and all that money on
the table. Its been that way for 50 years. This idea that
teachers will be trusted to get the job done and close
their doors is delusional. No one trusts teachers and half
of them think were stupid, and couldnt get real jobs.

On 9/16/14, Hope ahead. wrote:
> You are not alone in your stress. I hear teachers
dropping
> out of teaching reading over this. Yes, parents are
angry.
> Take heart. People are figuring out what is going on.
> Don't believe PsyGuy that people have no power. He still
> has egg on his face over his blustering about no one
would
> listen about the crappy lessons in CSCOPE...blah, blah.
> They sure did listen. There is a new wave of fireworks to
> come. But please, teachers, do what you can to stand in
> resistence. Call legislators, talk to parents privately
> and have them take action, join in to parent groups that
> are fighting against fed led ed, and speak up outside of
> your school district. You will not get fired. Teachers
> have always had the right to speak out on political
issues
> that affect their profession. Never try to change things
> in your school--that's the key. There are groups all over
> the state organized and ready to oppose STAAR testing.
> This is just the beginning. There will be good days
ahead.
>
>
> On 9/15/14, PsyGuy wrote:
>> We pretty much just modified the readers/writers
workshop
>> methodology with an added peer teaching component. Which
>> is actually just advance readers/writers workshop, since
>> at the advance level includes peer editing.
>>
>> On 9/15/14, Teacher wrote:
>>> It's a specific way that we have to teach-10 minute
mini
>>> lesson, 8-10 minute "struggle or think outside the box
>>> time," 20 minutes of the students teaching each other,
>>> and a 5 minute "wrap up." The kids leave not knowing
>>> what they were supposed to learn and the parents are
>>> angry because they can't help their child if the child
>>> doesn't know what they are supposed to do. Of course,
we
>>> are still required to use TRS assessments. It's just
>>> blowing up all over again from K-6th grade in my
>>> district because of this. I tried to attach a website,
>>> but the Texas Teacher Chatboard wants me to register.
>>> Um, no thanks. I need my job.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/14/14, what is the workshop model? wrote:
>>>> It is all about control. That is what the Professional
>>>> Learning Community stuff is all about (PLC). Can you
>>>> explain more about the Workshop Model program?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 9/14/14, Teacher wrote:
>>>>> It's like our school district is purposely driving
>>>>> students and teachers away! In addition to still
using
>>>>> the CSCOPE/TRS assessments, now we have to use this
>>>>> Workshop Model
>> program
>>>>> . Parents are really mad about it and we can't say a
>>>>> thing. We are now being encouraged to be "diplomats"
>>>>> for the school district and never say anything that
>>>>> could be negative beca use we are losing many
students
>>>>> to homeschool and private. I f we say anything we
will
>>>>> get bad appraisals. Who else is do ing this Workshop
>>>>> Model stuff?

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