From the Harford County Board of Education:
The Board of Education of Harford County met for a business meeting on Monday, July 9, 2012, in the Board Room of the HCPS/A.A. Roberty Building and took the following actions or received the following presentations:
Recognized the following:
Approved the Consent Agenda:
– Affirmation of Monthly Contract Awards
– Minutes of Previous Meeting:
June 25, 2012
– Resolution David L. Brond’s Service – Ethics Panel of the Board of Education of Harford County
– Award of Contract: Church Creek Elementary School Chiller Replacement
– Award of Contract: Emmorton Elementary School Chiller Replacement
– Award of Contract: Havre de Grace Elementary School Chiller Replacement
Approved the promotion of Ms. Tamela W. Abbate, currently a Model Department Chairperson, to Assistant Supervisor of Reading, English and Language Arts.
Received a presentation and began deliberations on the FY14 Capital Improvement Program. The Board of Education will continue to deliberate through the summer and vote in September 2012 before submitting priorities to the state for funding. Please access the FY14 Capital Improvement Program Informational Report for item details.
Received the Superintendent’s Report:
– Welcome to Leadership Team Angela Morton as Executive Director of Elementary School Performance.
– Acknowledged that the school system will begin year two of the Educator Effectiveness Academies to prepare for the state’s Common Core standards and new assessments to follow.
– Announced that eight students from Joppatowne and North Harford high schools participated in a two-week Geographic Information Systems (GIS) internship. The internship gave the students involved a first-hand look at the world of using global positioning system (GPS) technology to mark data points and create an electronic source of mapped information.
– Recognized that the third annual summer camp for English Language Learners (ELL) was held on June 18-22 at Harford Glen. The Helping English Language Learners Outreach (H.E.L.L.O) Camp was conceived as a way to provide authentic, real-world experiences for ELLs entering third, fourth, and fifth grades, and to give these students opportunities to practice speaking, listening, reading and writing in the English language.
15 staff members leaving Edgewood High school. What is going on?
and 8 certificated separations from Aberdeen High?
Hmm…15 resignations/retirements at one school does seem too large.
Eight isn’t very high when you have over a hundred teachers. Besides maybe some of those were involuntary separations. Nothing wrong with getting rid of ineffective teachers. I would be more worried if their was no turnover.
Parentrap,
Who said they were ineffective? Maybe they did not like teaching at Edgewood! Do not assume anything unless you know the facts!
I hope we hear something.
What is it you wish to hear?
Why the big turn-over at these two schools?
What is the normal turnover at Edgewood and Aberdeen after each school year?
I would call and ask the school board for this data. They should be keeping it an using it to help make decisions to improve schools across the county. You could also ask how many teachers transferred out of the schools in addition to those that quit.
There is no incentive for educators to stay with HCPS. Those of you who keep saying to the teachers “go find a job somewhere else” are beginning to see that the teachers are going to take you up on that offer.
I hope that the people who are hired to fill these positions are as highly qualified as the ones who are leaving — unfortunately, I don’t believe that that will be the case.
It would be really nice if all new teachers were as qualified as the ones they replace. Most of the time that is not the case. As in most occupations, teachers do not teach forever.
It would be disturbing if the reason Edgewood and Aberdeen teachers/staff were leaving because of an undesirable work environment.
Well looky, looky. There always seems to be plenty of cash around to boost the number of “administrators” and “supervisors” while the teachers run around looking for a COLA. Anybody ever wonder why the public education system is so messed up? Just look at the news – get rid of the unnecessary, bloated and incredibly expensive bureaucracy and put the teachers in control of education – curriculum, school assigments for staff and the rest. I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s “fed up.”
Put teachers in charge? So if they are in charge when will they teacher? Oh, they won’t teach? Then they will be administrators and then your back to where you started.
So solve the problem with numerous administrative levels? That’s what the education machine has evolved into. Taxpayers lose, teachers lose and students lose. I guess that’s okay if the bureaucrats “win?” A streamlined system would be fine. We now have specialists and supervisors, Seniors, Directors and Executive Directors in every category – This is what fat corporate America looked like before reality set in during the great purges of the 90s and in progress for the past decade. The administrative herd needs to be culled – that’s where we waste our money in the education world.