22i Grants Not Announced today

It looks like they are not going to make a formal announcement about the 22i Grants today. It is now 5:45 and most have gone home. Next week we meet with the reviewers of the grant and they will let us know the tweaks we need to make on the grant. Hopefully not too many as the teachers I talk to, love the concept of the grant as it is right now. We had a Common Core Standards workshop at Ingham ISD today and it filled up. Teachers and administrators are concerned about the changes and when it comes to education this is really quite HUGE. Teachers have to change the way they teach and assess their students. It will force teachers to change the way they have taught for years. This is a good thing, but I worry about assessing our students to death. If we can build the assessments into our curriculum and use them to assess formatively, then the students will not feel like they are being tested to death. We need to assess our students, but it should be part of the learning process and not one that punishes the student if they don't get it the first time. I will keep everyone informed as we learn more from the State.