Challenges for Dr. Bedell
July 7th, 2016
At the workshop meeting, a detailed 4-pronged process of how the project was being implemented was described. On paper it looked as though months had gone into the planning with parents duly debriefed by the opening of school and all teachers on board and assigned to planning teams.
Andrea Flinders, AFT President, took the floor and presented a very different picture of the upcoming digital conversion. The teachers had not been adequately involved and, in effect, would not have the necessary training sufficient to implement this new technology in the fall despite the programmed 2½ days of professional development on the use of curriculum. So the linchpin, the central and cohesive unit is missing: the teacher buy-in.
At the July 24 business meeting, Ms. Flinders and parent Pam Kingsley warned of the pitfalls, need for more planning, more student and faculty involvement, and beta tests. The administrative responded that they were already planning to deal with the issues laid out by Ms. Flinders and Ms. Kingsley.
An effective organization contemplating an investment and major change of this magnitude would be utilizing expert consultants, not vendors, who had successfully implemented such projects before.
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