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The state's Teacher Evaluation Advisory Committee was created via that stealth "extraordinary session" in January 2010, when state legislators passed the TN First to the Top Act enabling Governor Bredesen to submit TN's Race to the Top grant application.
Instruction to form the Committee and to define its duties was codified at TCA 49-1-302(d) and may be reviewed here.
Further details as to the Committee's work and a roster of its 15 members may be reviewed here. From among those 15, note that these were Bredesen's 9 appointees.
WRT these "test-less" teachers to have been a frequent topic of conversation locally, note that TCA 49-1-302(d)(A)(i) instructs the Committee as follows:
Thirty-five percent (35%) of the evaluation criteria shall be student achievement data based on student growth data as represented by the Tennessee Value-Added Assesment System (TVAAS), developed pursuant to part 6 of this chapter, or some other comparable measure of student growth, if no such TVAAS data is available.
Note that because the APEX model adopted locally employs two measures of "student growth data" (35% TVAAS and 15% "other student achievement") these TVAAS data ultimately comprise 25% of all teacher evaluation criteria in our local APEX model.
Also note that because codified instruction cited above does not specifically indicate that adherence to the TEAM evaluation model may not be waived by the Education Commissioner for any school, and because adherence to the TEAM evaluation model is not a statutory requiement itemized at TCA 49-13-105(b) detailing which statutory requirements of schools may not be waived for charter schools, it therefore appears that charter schools may appeal to the Education Commissioner for waivers of adherence to the TEAM model? Some states have already adopted such exemptions for charter schools, we know, and others planned to do so this legislative session?
Meanwhile, the TEAM website acknowledges that statewide and across all grades, 55% of all K-12 teachers lack any TVAAS data relating to the students they teach themselves--not 1/3 of all K-12 teachers, as many local teachers had estimated to me.
TEAM advises that for the current school year these teachers' evaluations will instead rely on available "school level" TVAAS data, while they arrive at some "comparable measure" to be applied to the formula in future years.
TEAM does not suggest what that "comparable measure" may be.
HB625/SB224 were passed 6/3/11 to terminate the TEAM Committee to have arrived at this model.
As to this spring's bipartisan legislative pushback to the TEAM model adopted, many bills were introduced to address the model's many problems.
HB3106/SB2881 addressed the vulnerability of "test-less" teachers, but died.
HB3049/SB2898 also addressed the vulnerability of "test-less" teachers and questioned the frequency of evaluation of teachers with more than 10 years service, but died.
HB2463/SB2276 addressed the vulnerability of teachers overseeing student teachers in their classrooms, but died.
Another bill which I can't immediately find again addressed the vulnerability of teachers WRT migratory students floating in and out of their classrooms. It would have established a set number of days a given student must have attended a given teacher's classroom before that student's TVAAS data may be applied to that teacher's TEAM/APEX evaluation model (status unknown until I find it again).
HB2299/SB2694 would have required "proof of attempts to improve the quality of instruction" on the part of teacher evaluators, but died.
Finally, HB2487/SB3518 would have allowed teachers statewide to evaluate the teacher evaluation model, but died.
It also would have instructed school principals to "determine and document the number of teacher retirements, dismissals, career changes, and severe medical conditions that have occurred in response to the implementation of the evaluation process required under TCA 49-1-302(d)," which data principals would report to their directors of schools, who in turn would report to their LEAs, who in turn would report to the Dept of Educ, who in turn would report to the general assembly.
See additional legislative proposals as to "what to do next" in comments.
Tamara, I'm just curious.
I'm just curious. What is a "stealth" session?
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The January 2010 "extraordinary session," as the General Assembly itself referred to it, was "stealth" in that--
1) it was called in advance of the time the legislature was to convene,
2) there was virtually no news coverage concerning what the session was to cover (our Race to the Top app), and
3) legislators attending and being asked by Bredesen to enact the First to the Top legislation that would pave the way for our successful Race to the Top app were not allowed to read the grant app to which the legislation related.
Bredesen cited a need to keep the grant app's contents strictly confidential, lest a competing state snatch away our plans for themselves. If only...
Read previous KV conversaton on it here.
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I'm still sidetracked from reporting to you legislators' thoughts for "what to do next"...
To back up to this primary subject of how we got our APEX model locally, though, I said earlier:
WRT these "test-less" teachers to have been a frequent topic of conversation locally, note that TCA 49-1-302(d)(A)(i) instructs the Committee as follows:
Thirty-five percent (35%) of the evaluation criteria shall be student achievement data based on student growth data as represented by the Tennessee Value-Added Assesment System (TVAAS), developed pursuant to part 6 of this chapter, or some other comparable measure of student growth, if no such TVAAS data is available.
At TEAM's website, however, I found this:
Q: How will the 35% growth component be determined?
A: All educators who teach grades and subjects for which there is a state assessment will use their individual TVAAS teacher effect data for the 35% component.
For educators in non-tested areas, the Department of Education, in consultation with educators and evaluation experts, is working to provide subject-specific growth measures for non-TCAP subjects and grade levels. We anticipate that some non-tested areas will have measures available for the coming school year, and others for the 2012-13 school year. While additional assessments are under development and review, school-wide value-added (TVAAS) data will be used for the 35%. In all cases, we are committed to providing timely communication and information about the options.
It appears, then, that it was the state's Teacher Evaluation Advisory Committee that adopted the TEAM model more reliant on TVAAS data than was actually required by the new statute.
It also appears that--since the Teacher Evaluation Advisory Committee was disolved last summer--someone, somewhere is now hard at work creating "measures" of some sort for teachers lacking TVAAS data. Are these "measures" more standardized tests? And who is this "someone, somewhere" who's creating them?
Nor am I yet grasping who created our local APEX model.
Even school board members I've asked about this don't know where the APEX model originated. They say only that the model was presented to the board by Broad Resident Nakia Towns, KCS's new Director of Human Capital Strategy--who has an MBA from Duke University and work experience as a VP with Wachovia Bank and "associate in debt capital markets" for Bank of America.
But Randy, I did catch your reference on another thread to the effect you thought possibly the Gates-funded Battelle for Kids foundation had produced the local APEX model?
I also spent some time at their site, but with regard to teacher evaluation and/or strategic comp, I caught only this bullet point...
•Developing a comprehensive plan to launch strategic compensation in several large urban school districts, including designing recognition and reward models, professional development, communications, and technology solutions
...and when I clicked on the link therein, I got a "Page Not Found" error?
Did you possibly "find" such a page last night in your reading? Is this why you suggest BFK created APEX? Links???
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Several members of the advisory committee...
...raised many of the issues that we have seen debated this past year during the development of the evaluation proces, but they were repeatedly told that they were only an "advisory" committee and that the DOE would make the final call. It was ultimately Commissioner Huffman who gave the go-ahead for the TEAM evaluation system, because Tennessee had sold its soul to get the RttT money and promised to deliver an standardized-testing-dependent evaluation system by July 1, 2011, that it simply couldn't deliver. So TPTB threw in a lot of unpiloted, illogical standardized testing BS, stuffed a square TAPP rubric into round hole, and pretended that, for 50-60% of teachers, the evaluation system wasn't a complete fiction. And before it was even finalized, the Republican-controlled General Assembly, just looking for an excuse to screw with tenure, tied tenure status and contract renewal to teacher performance under the evaluation system.
And Huffman, incompetent liar that he is, refused to acknowledge what a POS evaluation system had been foisted off on Tennessee teachers and administrators alike and kept saying that there were just "glitches" that need to be fixed. Fundamental design flaws are not glitches, and he's either too stupid or too duplicitous to admit it.
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While waiting to hear more from Randy, here--finally--are some bills proposed in which legislators suggested "what to do next."
HB3306/SB3224 asked the Department of Education to recommend changes to TEAM, but died.
HB2448/SB2525 proposed establishing a new Teacher Evaluation Advisory Committee--this time to specifically include 3 teachers who are TEA members (as legislation creating the original Committee did not specify TEA teachers) and also specified that Committee members must be evenly divided between political parties, but died.
And further, HB2001/SB1525 proposed changes to legislation creating the original Committee that presently require the Education Commissioner to remain on the Committee, even if he should leave/be removed from his post as EC, but died.
That last one seemed to indicate that even its Republican sponsors are irritated with Huffman...
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Tamara, on my way out, but
Tamara, on my way out, but here's some info:
(See "next steps" in above power point)
Under the guidance and assistance of Battelle for Kids, a national non-profit organization that provides assistance for innovative school districts across America, we formulated an Alternative Compensation Steering Committee to design an Alternative Compensation plan that specifically met the academic needs of the Trousdale County School district.
Trousdale County is only one of four school districts in the state to be awarded the Innovation Acceleration grant along with Putman County, Lexington City, and Knox County.
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Also this: (link...)
Also this:
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8 million to Battelle for kids?
What is that?
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Well, I think we have this figured out, now--and Randy's catching that Battelle for Kids mention was the missing piece.
--Bredesen pushed the First to the Top legislation in January 2010 on legislators who never got to read the grant app and were far too lacking as to the obligations it imposed on us. They passed the legislation, anyway.
--As to the obligation the legislation imposed on us to change our teacher evaluation model/teacher pay structure, Bredesen appointed 9 of 15 Teacher Evaluation Advisory Committee members (none of them legislators).
--The other 6 members of the Committee (appointed by I-don't-know-who) included its only three legislators--Harry Brooks, Delores Gresham, and Mark Maddox, all of them Republican and all of them members of ALEC.
--Given that legislation introduced this session just ended included a bill proposing a "re-do" of the Committee to specifically include an even split by political party of Committee members who are also legislators AND at least three teachers who are TEA members, I'll make a reasoned guess that teachers to have served on the original Committee were not TEA members--or else not many of them were?
--The Committee then contracted with Battelle for Kids (funded by the Gates/Carnegie/Joyce Foundations) to help them develop the TEAM model.
--Per that subsection of 49-1-302 cited above, the Committee wasn't required by statute to link in the TEAM model the performance evaluations of that 55% of "test-less" teachers statewide to school-level TVAAS data, but they did anyway.
--Once the TEAM model was in place, KCS in turn also formed a committee and that committee also contracted with Battelle for Kids to develop its APEX model for local use.
Their "Battelle for Kids: An Overview" lit says they "have partnered with
educators in more than 19 states as well as the District of Columbia and Hong Kong."
So yes, Randy, I completely agree with your characterization of Battelle for Kids as "the ALEC of public education."
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Wow, Tamara....
GREAT detective work!
It appears that Broad-trained superintendents serve as a sort of "advance party" to "prep the battlefield" for privatization in their respective school districts.
It's interesting that Broad's headhunting and placement agency ALSO shopped McIntyre to Wisconsin while they were selling him to us. We all know what Scott Walker has done up there. And with Haslam having been poised for the governorship of TN upon McIntyre's ultimate selection for Knoxville (lobbied for heavily by the Pilot corporation), it seems like these privatizers are rather adept at reading the political tea leaves.
They played their hand well in Tennessee, with Haslam in the Governor's mansion in Nashville, Huffman as the Ed Commissioner, and McIntyre doing his darndest to force through the Broad agenda in the eastern part of the state.
I think that what happens in Knox County with this budget will be pivotal to the survival of public education it was intended to be, at least in Knoxville.
It is a VERY scary time to be a teacher.
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Looking at the Wiki entry listing states with which Battelle is working and cross-referencing it to that review I did recently of states operating either voucher programs or tuition tax credit programs, it looks like about half of states contracting with Battelle operate one or the other.
I guess that's significant, given that 12 of 50 states (24%) now operate one or both types of programs, but 4 of 9 states (44%) working with Battelle do?
Among Battelle's nine state clients, that's Ohio, Louisiana, and Oklahoma that operate voucher programs, while Pennsylvania and Oklahoma operate tution tax credit programs.
Louisiana, of course, is also the only state in the nation to operate a public school district comprised exclusively of charter schools, in New Orleans.
I don't like the company we're starting to keep...
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Here's what they say about finding the right people
Our Human Capital team partners with districts to design educator selection systems, career ladders, evaluation frameworks, and comprehensive performance-management models. We have helped develop stakeholder engagement strategies around human capital issues in districts across the country. We have also worked collaboratively with multi-stakeholder teams in more than 40 districts to develop and implement strategic compensation models—ensuring alignment to district educational-improvement goals. In addition, we have partnered with 21 school districts in southeast Ohio through the Ohio Appalachian Collaborative (OAC) to develop a comprehensive approach for transformational change and evolved human capital systems in rural education to accelerate college and career readiness for every child, leading to wealth creation and persistent prosperity for the entire region.
I think I'm going to think about the word "obtuse" for a while.
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sounds EXACTLY like something that our very own Jim McIntyre would say.
Where in the HELL do these talking points come from???
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some of this must come from
some of this must come from administrator conferences.
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Relating this back to the budget....
In the name of "transparency" , I would SURE like to know EXACTLY how much taxpayer money McIntyre's administration intends to send to for-profit vendors such as Pearson and Battelle.
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That talking point
came from Batelle's website.
After I read it I stared at the screen and found myself asking,"Do whatttttt?????""
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It is a VERY scary time to be a teacher.
...or to be parenting a teacher-to-be.
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Persistent prosperity for disaster capitalists at public expense
"...leading to wealth creation and persistent prosperity for the entire region."
What a pile of BS. It should read: "Leading to wealth creation and persistent prosperity for mean, ignorant, arrogant third parties who extract tax money from poor kids' schools on the pretense of education reform."
McIntyre proposed a business plan not an education plan. By design his plan will destabilize communities by churning teachers, closing schools, and leaving communities hopeless. The public has a right to know that destroying public schools is a national trend, led by craven political and corporate opportunists- NOT educators.
The school board and the superintendent have no right to spend public money on statistical nonsense and make false claims as to it's efficacy (see my previous post on FAILED merit pay schemes.)
The Institute for Education Science (IES), the DoEd's research arm, shows 3 factors improve learning for children: lower class sizes, highly trained teachers (e.g., advanced degrees), and equality of resources.
Question every taxpayer and journalist should ask:
Why aren't McIntyre and his sycophants promoting proven education reforms?
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That's an easy question to answer.
Because TPTB want to do to public schools what they did to public prisons--privatize the operation and redirect taxpayer dollars into for-profit pockets, while giving up accountability for the welfare of the most vulnerable people in government custody.
And I predict that privatized schools will be as big a national disgrace and boondoggle as privatized prisons.
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More corporate speak
More at the KCS APEX page (in case there hasn't been a link already).
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Eh, whatever. I'm not much interested in their suit-speak, one way or the other...
I'm interested in TCA 49-1-302(d)(A)(i), here:
Thirty-five percent (35%) of the evaluation criteria shall be student achievement data based on student growth data as represented by the Tennessee Value-Added Assesment System (TVAAS), developed pursuant to part 6 of this chapter, or some other comparable measure of student growth, if no such TVAAS data is available.
So, are you guys seeing this APEX fiasco as "fixable," or not?
Because it appears to me that it is.
IF, IF, IF my understanding of the statute is correct that the law doesn't require these "test-less" teachers (comprising 55% of all teachers) to hitch their wagons to someone else's standardized test score "star"--and Joe Jarret could certainly take a look at it to confirm--why in the world can't the school board simply call their employee McIntyre on the carpet for hoodwinking them and demand that he go back to the drawing board???
Can't KCS contract with CTAS or CBER or somebody to devise an evaluation method that actually makes sense?
Really, is there any reason whatsoever to allow Battelle for Kids to drive this particular aspect of fulfilling our grant obligation, if the law is on our side?
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Eh, whatever. I'm not much
Eh, whatever. I'm not much interested in their suit-speak, one way or the other.
It's legitimate to question diverting public education funds to an out-of-state "non-profit" to create compensation plans. Particularly when they are so obtuse. (Or maybe that's the point.) What does Knox Co. already pay administrators for? If they aren't qualified to come up with a compensation plan, maybe they should be replaced with somebody who can. And it would seem that a $500K communications shop should be able to produce adequate pretty graphics and brochures without paying consultants.
Anyway, good point on the law. File a lawsuit!
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Evolved human capital systems
transformational change and evolved human capital systems in rural education to accelerate college and career readiness for every child, leading to wealth creation and persistent prosperity for the entire region.
Whoa, this is chilling. Yes I'd like to see our region lifted out of poverty but this seems like Brave new World or 1984 to me.
While I believe in the separation of church and state I must say, as a Christian, I find this kind of attitude contrary to my religion.
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Hoodwinked. That's an understatment!
The school board and KNS have fallen prey to snake-oil salesmen.
Battelle for Kids offers strategic communications support for "awareness-building."
Does the public know how much money in the budget plan will be funneled to Battelle if this statistical phrenology is adopted?
Who pays the lawsuits when teachers and children harmed by this nonsensical merit pay plan fails? As all scientific research shows merit pay will fail.
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There won't be any lawsuits.
The whole point of merit pay, along with the Governor's stated purpose of eliminating the salary schedule, is to put teachers in the position of being paid whatever the hell school systems want to pay them on whatever basis of "merit" the school system dreams up (which should work out just fine for spouses of directors of schools and coaches). Under that kind of discretionary compensation scheme, teachers would have little basis, absent some actionable discrimination, for challenging the fairness or sufficiency of their salaries. Plus, the elimation of a salary schedule with steps generally means that salaries will trend downward, so there will be fewer dollars needed to pay the teachers that remain, especially after the governor makes it possible to max out class sizes.
And since the General Assembly has already repealed that pesky bargaining law, teachers have no collective power to negotiate fair salaries and benefits or the standards by which "merit" is determined. PECCA is a joke and offers teachers no platform for discussion of merit pay, since PECCA clearly excludes differentiated pay and incentive pay based on employee performance as subjects for collaborative conferencing. Plus, as Ron Ramsey so gleefully crowed after the 2010 session, no board has any obligation to engage in collaborative conferencing under PECCA, if it doesn't want to participate.
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I didn't mean to imply that I'm not also put off with the corporatists' "suit-speak" (I am), just that I was mulling that legal question...
Even if some basis existed to file a lawsuit, tho, I couldn't file it. Since I'm not any teacher able to aver an injury relating to the evaluation tool, I'd lack standing.
I'm just trying to encourage school board members to fix it quickly.
So far, I haven't been very successful with that and I know that at least some of them are angry with me.
It doesn't make much sense to shoot the messenger, tho. I'm not the party to have "hoodwinked" them.
When they come around, they'll realize I'm actually on their side (but not Jim McIntyre's).
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I asked previously:
Can't KCS contract with CTAS or CBER or somebody to devise an evaluation method that actually makes sense?
Really, is there any reason whatsoever to allow Battelle for Kids to drive this particular aspect of fulfilling our grant obligation, if the law is on our side?
The answer to that first question appears to be "no," we can't use somebody like CTAS or CBER.
In searching the 264-page Race to the Top app for the word "Battelle," I do find the first of many references to them (on pdf page 40), which asserts:
In addition, Tennessee will work with organizations such as Battelle for Kids, a nationally recognized non-profit organization that provides strategic counsel and innovative solutions in the use of value-added data.
The answer to that second question, though--"must we allow Battelle for Kids to 'drive' this aspect of fulfilling our grant obligation"--is a bit less clear.
In fact, on having read both Battelle for Kids Strategic Comp lit and this portion of the RttT grant app, I can't tell whether it was Battelle for Kids to have "driven" these excessive teacher evaluation measures (i.e., linking "test-less" teachers' evaluations to the performance of other teachers' students OR conducting evaluations 4X annually rather than 1X annually, either one).
Having read every last word of the grant app relating to Section D, "Great Teachers and Leaders," which addresses plans for changed teacher and principal evaluations (pdf pages 76-118), I see that we asserted an intention to ultimately produce value-added data for "all educators."
I do not find, however, that we suggested what we would do to evaluate teachers during the interim, while those reams of additional tests are being created for "all educators," and I certainly do not find that we asserted our intention to tie one teacher's student test scores to another "test-less" teacher's financial future during this time.
And again, neither did the legislation passed in January 2010 (TCA 49-1-302(d)(A)(i), cited above) appear to instruct that we do so in the interim.
If the RrrT grant app didn't obligate us to that interim measure and the new law didn't obligate us to that interim measure, either, that seems to indicate that the suggestion for this interim measure, while these reams of new tests are in production, could have originated with the ALEC-loaded Teacher Evaluation Advisory Committee OR Battelle for Kids OR just Huffman himself--but I can't yet tell with which.
Well, I haven't read all those Teacher Evaluation Advisory Committee minutes, nor regs at the DoE's site, so I guess that's next...
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And when are all these new standardized tests for Pre-K teachers, voc-ed teachers, and school librarians supposed to be ready, anyway???
(I'll have more questions when they are...)
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And when are all these new standardized tests for Pre-K teachers, voc-ed teachers, and school librarians supposed to be ready, anyway???
I found the answer to that question here.
For the 2012-2013 school year, it therefore appears that--even after reams of new assessments are rolled out--up to 25% of "test-less" teachers will continue to hitch their pay raise "wagons" to other teachers' students' standardized test "stars."
For the 2013-2014 school year, it therefore appears that--following implementation of all manner of gerrymandered testing mechanisms including "peer-reviewed portfolio assessment" of elementary school music students and showing kindergarten children how to color in the ellipses on their SAT10 answer sheets--up to 10% of "test-less" teachers will still have to...well, you know the rest.
Anyway, Huffman is calling it a plan.
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I also learned today that it is, indeed, possible for school districts to "opt out" of the state's TEAM evaluation model.
That window of opportunity reopens annually.
To do so, school districts must notify the Education Commissioner by some date in April, then must have their new model in place by June 1 of that same year.
Whether through ignorance or intent, the Knox County Board of Education has missed its opportunity to make any change in evaluation model this year.
The catch, though, is that 1) any alternate evaluation model a school district may choose must be approved by Huffman, and 2) any alternate evaluation model's implementation and training costs must be covered by funding outside of the school district's RttT monies.
Among large urban districts, only Nashville is using this TEAM model.
Alternate evaluation models some districts have chosen include Project Coaches (Hamilton County and soon Bradley County), Tiger Aims (Maryville City, Lenoir City, and 12 other districts), and TEM Teacher Effectiveness Model (Memphis).
I don't yet know in what manner these teacher evaluation models differ as to their focus or their frequency, but I find it compelling that so many other TN school districts want to avoid the TEAM model so badly, they're willing to pay for alternatives from their scarce revenues outside of RttT monies.
Why aren't we?
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huffman schmuffman
1) any alternate evaluation model a school district may choose must be approved by Huffman
As a home-rule county, Knox could ignore and/or exempt itself from state attempts to micromanage its schools.
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home rule
Not so fast, Rikki. Remember, the supreme court ruled that the Knox County Charter's term limits provision does not extend to school board members because state law controls education. I would imagine - though I don't know the relevant code and case law - that the same court would rule state law is supreme in all K-12 education matters.
Apparently, Huffman has approved other school districts' use of alternate evaluations. Like Tamara, I don't know if the other methods are better than APEX, but it does show there is some flexibility.
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Actually, they ruled that
Actually, they ruled that term limits do not apply to the BOE because those offices are separately defined in the charter. Knox Co could impose term limits on the school board, but it would have to do so by amending Article VI.
The charter has this to say about the school system: "The exclusive management and control of the school system of Knox County (hereinafter referred to as the "School System") is vested in the Knox County Board of Education." Knox has the power to disregard or overrule Huffman. Granted, there may be complications related to the RTTT funding rules, but as a general principle, a home rule county needs no approval from the state for management decisions.
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you're wrong
The Jordan decision regarding school board members is based on the Education Improvement Act of 1991, not the charter (look up the decision). The supreme court explicitly stated that the Education Improvement Act prevents a charter county from restricting the terms of school board members.
In other words, home rule has limits, and one of those limits is the school system. Another is the court system.
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I was going to ask whether
I was going to ask whether that narrow ruling on term limits applies to this issue, but checking TCA reveals that just as Chapter 49 explicitly enables school board members to "succeed themselves," it also explicitly calls for employee evaluation methods to be approved by the state commissioner. So I guess telling Huffman we don't care what he thinks is not an option in this case.
(btw, I appreciate that you told me WHY I was wrong)
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Hmm. I hadn't thought of that, nor phoned anyone in Shelby County (the state's only other home rule county), so you just might be right.
I hadn't realized until this week that, for having piloted this TAP program that was essentially the model for Tennessee's TEAM, Jim McIntyre is the most hated school administrator in the state among education associations.
They hiss his name.
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Jim McIntyre only wishes he was hated as much...
...as people in Memphis hate Kriner Cash.
The TAP model was shoe-horned into the TEAM evaluation program and is not a good fit, because the model is not being implemented as it was designed to be implemented. The TAP model is not intended to be used to rank teachers according to a 5-point scale, which ranking could then be used to justify disciplinary action, up to and including dismissal. The TAP model is a performance improvement model and involves the implementation of a rubric that identifies multiple teacher performance behaviors, not all of which are expected be seen every lesson. The rubric is supposed to be used to note both the teaching behaviors observed and the teaching behaviors not observed during a classroom observation, with the ultimate goal of identifying additional teaching behaviors that the teacher might implement in order to improve his/her performance. The philosophy underlying the TAP model is the belief that all teachers can improve performance by identifying and implementing effective teaching behaviors. And when the TAP rubric is used the way it was designed, it's a very good rubric.
The TAP personnel who were asked to do the initial training for TEAM repeatedly pointed out during the training that the rubric was not being used as it was intended to be used. Of course, that fact didn't stop the TAP people from cashing the check.
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Memphis is jumping ahead in
Memphis is jumping ahead in our free fall off the cliff that TN lept from when they chose Huffman and Rhee as their coaches for socio-economic segregation. Get ready for a huge wave of TFA temps.
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Barker, the answer is "no"
"I don't know if the other methods are better than APEX
Correct answer: NO.
None of the other systems are better than TEAM. They are all equally bad. They use the SAME metrics, just slightly different behavior checklists. TEAM uses a 1-5 Likert scale and Tiger uses a 1-4 Likert scale. The APEX formula calculates these data and VAM scores into one meaningless score.
There is NO independent evidence that this statistical phrenology identifies effective teaching.
Further, there is little flexibility regarding the use of Value-Added scores (VAM= standard score) and the Likert scores (rank order score) to calculate teacher "value." The end product is exactly the same- only 15% of all teachers will be performing above expectations and 85% will not. Results? Churn and downward pressure on teacher salaries.
Educators KNOW how to improve schools. The business community in collusion with elected officials do not. APEX uses complex formulas to obscure from the public and dupe the school board into spending vast amount of education tax dollars to third-party snake-oil profiteers, like Battelle and TEAM/TAP, etc.
When will the authorities in New York City and Albany and Washington, D.C., and in state education departments across the nation recognize that they have created a monstrous, counterproductive and utterly harmful means of evaluating teachers? Are they wise enough to recognize the errors of their ways?
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So are you are saying there is no way to evaluate teacher performance?
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OK, then. Now propose what that evaluation would be based upon. I'm not being combative. On the contrary, I'm being open-minded in that I think a teacher evaluation system would be beneficial but I want a system that truly evaluates a teacher's effectiveness. So what model works?
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Here's a good introduction to
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Have you tried to present these to the school board? You can post all you want on knoxviews or in the knoxnews comment sections, but getting it before the people who can make a decision is best.
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I'm Trying...
I've shared material w/ Indya [my rep] here on several occassions and I am forever engaging in the futile effort of sending this stuff to my state and federal representatives. I also work on policy and teach for a living.
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There are many ways to evaluate teachers
Barker, You didn't read what I said.
The current evaluation systems chosen by non-educators (e.g., the lege, Huffman & the Nashville mogul class) are invalid, poorly designed, with unverified, non-peer reviewed data, that make false claims as to their efficacy(e.g., TEAM/TAP handbook graphs appear to be manipulated.) The claims made by Battelle, Milken, et al., are as valid as Sketchers shoes fraudulent advertising claims. If you don't believe me, take an assessment class so you can inform yourself about the appropriate meaning and use of test scores. There are MORE test types that measure performance that do not use standard scores.
Would you want your physician's performance evaluation designed by businessmen? If so, your physician would prescribe chemotherapy for you based on a few body temperature readings. That's the level of sensitivity in these TN eval tools.
Teachers want to be evaluated by competent peers and educators- NOT the business community or by profiteers who have never taught.
We're chasing a solution for a non-problem in public schools. The problem in TN is poverty, economic segregation, growing class sizes, and lack of school resources.
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The problem in TN is poverty,
The problem in TN is poverty, economic segregation
Bingo. How do you test teachers for that, much less hold them accountable for it?
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yes, i did
jcgrim, I did read what you wrote. I share some of the same concerns you do. My position is that it is not enough to trash the currently used model. Beyond that, it would be productive to advance other methods of teacher evaluation that would work better. Offer a model. Take that model to school board members. Fight for it.
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peer evaluators
Our budget proposal supports peer evaluation by adding more Lead Teachers. Lead teachers continue teaching, although with a lighter load when possible, but also take on a peer evaluator role, and we pay them for the extra work. After this year's experience we clearly need more people to handle this work.
Our budget also adds a lot of instructional coaches, teachers helping teachers, and coaches do not have any connection to evaluation, which teachers say they appreciate.
I'm very open to improving the evaluation model. More resources will help!
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Listen, Knox County is 37th
Listen, Knox County is 37th in the state in teacher pay. We pay our teachers as though all are mediocre. That's just not right. We have many outstanding teachers in Knox County and they need to be paid more. They are getting a 2 percent raise this year from the state, but that's not enough. We need to put more local dollars into teachers. Otherwise, the good ones will go to Maryville, Alcoa, Oak Ridge, Greeneville and other higher-paying school systems.
Now, we can argue about the best way to do that. We can argue that raising the base salary, as Nashville Mayor Karl Dean is proposing for his school district, is the way to go. Or we can opt for performance pay, as the school board is proposing. But the bottom line is that Knox County has to pay teachers better in order to attract and maintain good teachers.
The teacher compensation portion of the budget proposal doesn't kick in until year 2. If you are a proponent of across-the-board raises or an alternate merit pay plan or a combination of the two, I would suggest supporting the plan now and later lobbying for your position on the best way to distribute more money for teachers. If the school system proposal fails, there will be no pie to split and our teachers will continue to be paid less than their counterparts in Polk County.
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Look... there is a lot more
Look... there is a lot more to incentive structures than pay, and there is a lot of research on that very topic. Primer
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Yes, but
Of course there is more to incentive structures than pay. Otherwise, Knox County could only attract blithering idiots to teach in its schools. We have great teachers in Knox County despite the pay.
But let's be real. If you're a good teacher, and you're looking for a job, and (I'm pulling these numbers from the air because I'm too lazy right now to look them up) Knox County offers you $45,000 a year and Maryville offers you $55,000 a year, which job are you going to take? I mean, come on, teachers are teachers because they are true believers in education, but they're not stupid.
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not normal
I don't normally watch videos that people link to me, but I watched this. One point he made is that base salary has to be taken off the table when discussing incentives. Basically, he said that given an adequate base salary, incentives based on autonomy and other principles matter more than monetary incentives. OK. Then lobby the school board to devote the money they want to add to teacher pay to across-the-board increases. You've got a year before the additional pay is going to be distributed, and you can make your case to the powers that be. I just don't see how this is a deal killer.
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I'm not being clear. I think
I'm not being clear. I think that you're kind of trapped within the conventional wisdom of the day. One of the issues that we'll soon be facing is an exodus of experience from the system due to APEX or some other carrot and stick approach. What we need is a comprehensive approach for retaining the talented folks already in the system and attract new ones. I'm short on time, so let's do some back of the napkin figurin'...
I've been advocating using any additional money for lowering class sizes, creating space for professional development and collaboration among teachers, and providing the necessary supports to do so. This would improve working conditions considerably and would increase morale. [see autonomy, purpose, etc.]
Median household income in Tennessee is $41,461. If we're paying $45,000 AND we create an attractive, professional environment in which teachers are empowered and allowed to make the decisions for which they will be held accountable then I think we'd be able to attract the best and the brightest.
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You're being pretty clear. Reducing class sizes means hiring more teachers. I'm not opposed to that at all, but it won't help if we're hiring mediocre teachers to fill those spaces. And when Polk County pays more than Knox, then we don't get the best and brightest. Polk County does.
The increased compensation for teachers - as of now designated for merit pay - is a small part of the entire school system proposal. Without looking back at the numbers, it's something like $27 million over five years as part of a $175 million proposal.
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reading, keeping an open mind
Stick, Barker,
I'm following this thread as my time allows and will read the links. (I thought the article on Ontario's education policies was interesting, though I just skimmed it so far.)
I'm unwavering on the goal of providing highly effective educators to every student in every classroom. I'm open-minded on the hows and means, but know that more resources will help.
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That is why we're all very
That is why we're all very happy that you're here!
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On your website you have a school budget FAQ. It refers to the budget as this year $384.67 million. I have also seen per pupil spending based on that number.
Can you explain this?
"The school system received around $384.67 million from the county last year. Once federal and state dollars are factored in, county finance department records show Knox County Schools spent $518.85 million."
Why are you and the BOE not disclosing the entire budget amount? That is $134.18 million more dollars you have than you have disclosed. It takes the per pupil spending from $6,994 a year to $9,433 a year.
You all have done a poor job disclosing basic information. You have over a half a billion dollar a year budget now. Why can't you get the job done with that much money?
I am very disappointed in the BOE and the school board for the financial lack of disclosure.
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Offer a model. Take that model to school board members.
Scott: That was Jim McIntyre's job. Paid him over a quarter million--annually--to do it.
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Joan said: The problem in TN is poverty, economic segregation
Randy said: Bingo. How do you test teachers for that, much less hold them accountable for it?
After the WUOT taping last week, I walked back to my car with Mike Edwards.
I was talking to him about root causes of poverty here in Knox County and cited the recent system wide rezoning of high schools as an example of our trying to circumvent--rather than address--the root cause of our segregated high schools, namely our segregated neighborhoods.
He asked, "yeah, but what are ya gonna do about that?"
I answered "you're not gonna like it...," and began explaining to him how 32 municipalities nationally have begun segregating their schools AND their neighborhoods since adopting inclusionary housing ordinances that more even distribute affordable housing across the municipality.
He started shaking his head "no" before I finished my explanation.
I finally stopped midsentence and acknowledged that we are all already familiar with his attachment to "personal property rights."
He waved 'bye and rounded the corner...
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hello all - haven`t been on here in a while well i visit but haven`t posted - you might remember me - i`m the one with SALEEN and i was looking for some one to adopt her - that was over a yr. ago - well me and my wife have a new problem - well not really new but here`s my story - we are moving to N.C. next month - and SALEEN`S [ LEAVING ANXIETY ] IS CRAZY - THE OTHER NITE WE WENT OUT TO DINNER FOR 2 HRS. AND WHEN WE CAME HOME WE SAW SHE HAD PEED IN 2 PLACES - THAT CAN HAPPEN but - she didn`t touch her own water - she went to the toilet and drank a gal. out of it [ dry ] it was as my wife say`s - she was mad because i had said something as we left - she is sooo attatched to me - we have to rent a house down there for 2 month`s , imagine we won`t be able to leave her alone and this is a rental - then when we have our new house we again have to hope she does not go crazy - my wife says its because i spoiled her [ baloney ] am i not suppose to love her - it`s almost like we can`t take her with us - DON`T KNOW WHAT TO DO ????
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hi bud i had the same problem i was lucky cos my bud is a vet he told me get her a pal stop making too much fuss over her now that was hard cos i love the dog but ya no what it worked her and her buddy get on great he is a wee jack russell as for the wc put the seat down next time lol best o luck i never crate my dogs why? they can not prtect when there restrained can they ?
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Get a pet for your dog.
You will generally not hear the above mentioned advice much here.
How can she protect if she is restrained?
Well, did you train the dog to protect? Most of us just need a deterrent. Even within a crate, the booming barks of a GSD can send a would-be burglar somewhere else.
Dogs with SA are a danger to themselves. They can eat things that could kill them. They can go through windows to get to their person. They can do enough damage, that people may give up in despair. When, a crate could have kept the dog safe. The crate does not have to be permanent. If the dog becomes less anxious with time, it may be ok to give the dog some more freedom.
I know some places culturally, have a different view of crates. But for dogs with problems, they can be a life saver.
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well we really can`t use a buddy for SALEEN and we use to crate her a few yrs back - she would bend the cage and tear up her mouth getting out - so no solutions yet - i heard there is a liquid you put on her food that calms her down , anyone use this
there may may be over the counter stuff that will calm her, but not in this case. imho, you need to deal with the separation issue and retrain for the crate.
Is this the first time that you left the dog alone for two hours? What did she do in the past.
Peeing in two places and drinking out of a toilet is a small problem. Certainly not something to dump the dog for. Was she maybe upset because of a thunderstorm?
Rescue Remedy is probably what you are thinking of to put in the water. You could try a DAP collar as well.
I'm sure you've left Saleen alone in the time you have had her. Was there ever a problem before? Is this behavior something new that has come about since you started packing and stressing over moving? Can you contain her to a room with tile or linoleum?
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Mumbai: The Bollywood entertainment industry is not only filled with scandals and bad rumors, but it is also the place where we can witness a few close friendships between the super stars of the cinema. For instant this is the case of Asin and Deepika Padukone whom appear to be very close indeed.
In a recent interview, the super star Asin said that "Deepika Padukone and I are good friends. We share an extremely cordial relationship". She wanted to comment about the so called Bollywood myth that actresses from the industry do not get along at all. Asin said that this is not true.
Of course there are cases of disagreements between the stars, but there are also many close relationships. Deepika is not the only close friend of Asin, but also director Farah Khan and Sonam Kapoor are share the same sort of connection with the B-town actress.
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AFRICA'S SHAME: HIV positive teens, children dying due to failure to test them
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
2/20/2014 (3 years ago)
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It's a shameful fact that point to negligence on the part of African health officials. Thousands of teenagers and children in that nation are dying form AIDS as they are unaware of their HIV positive status. As a result, these young people die slow painful deaths that could have been prevented with a timely diagnosis.
While half of HIV positive children die before the age of two without treatment, one-third live to the age of 16.
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2/20/2014 (3 years ago)
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Keywords: Zimbabwe, HIV-AIDS, adolescents, teenagers, children
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - A Zimbabwe-based expert on HIV/AIDS, Rashida Ferrand of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has since called for universal testing of children entering health facilities in countries where the disease is prevalent.
In a 2010 survey, HIV/AIDS was the leading cause of hospitalization and in-hospital death among teenagers in the two public hospitals in the Zimbabwean capital Harare.
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Africa has more than three million children living with HIV/AIDS. Of that number, 1.7 million of them are adolescents aged between 10 and 18. The majority do not know they are infected.
Ferrand cites one especially horrifying case, where a 15-year-old boy suffers from swelling of the brain. "His eyes are protruding from the pressure that's built up in his head. It's as serious as that," she said in a telephone interview.
The boy's grandfather would not give permission for him to undergo the recommended medical procedures. He was discharged, against the doctor's advice. "They have taken the child back home. It's highly likely that this child will die," Ferrand says.
Denying a child the right to life-saving medical care is a human rights abuse, Ferrand said.
"If this was in the United Kingdom, we could bring in social services, we could bring in child protection services, and force the guardian to bring this child for treatment," she said. "It's a very difficult and potentially very complex thing to bring up because you cannot approach a community and accuse them of neglect."
Fifteen million African children have lost a parent to HIV/AIDS, according to the United Nations. Those lucky to have extended families are placed in situations where there is no money or time to care for sick children whom they have inherited from relatives.
In one particularly heartbreaking case, a stepfather sent an HIV positive 11-year-old girl to live in a rural area because he felt he could not support her. After her mother died, he married another woman with whom he has three healthy children.
"These are things that are very uncomfortable for communities to address. Nobody wants to say that 'I discriminate against this child because he or she is not my real child,'" Ferrand says.
Ferrand has found that up to 80 percent of older children in Zimbabwe living with HIV are undiagnosed. "Testing being missed is a huge issue in this age group. The vast majority of older children get tested when they present with an AIDS defining illness," she said. "By which time, they are already very immune suppressed."
While half of HIV positive children die before the age of two without treatment, one-third live to the age of 16.
In many countries, the parent or guardian has to give consent for a child under 18 to be tested. This can prove impossible when the parents are working in another country, as is common in southern Africa.
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Why not enjoy a coffee break at the end of the event or after viewing the various exhibits?
Panasonic Center Tokyo was established in September 2002. From the very earliest stages, we installed a number of what were then the latest technology systems, with the aim of reducing energy consumption significantly below other, similarly-sized display complexes. These included employing natural energy sources, the effective use of rainwater, and the adoption of an energy management system.
We have been continuing our efforts to reduce the entire building's energy consumption ever since by closely controlling energy consumption. Specifically, we have been promoting the use of energy-efficient devices, such as the early introduction of LED down-lighting for the facility's ceilings, the installation of shades on the atrium glass ceiling to reduce the load exerted by sunlight on the cooling systems, the replacement of conventional air conditioning systems with inverter types, and the layering of heat-absorbing film onto the window surfaces.
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Footscray, in Melbourne's inner west, has been slated for mixed-use development with the private and public sectors securing development sites.
Places Victoria, the state's urban infill authority, is considering partnerships with developers and selling sites as it struggles with falling land values.
A spokesman for the authority confirmed the board was reviewing its business plan based on the soft market.
"This review will lead to changes in what and how we do things to ensure we can deliver more efficiently and at a lower cost,'' he said. "As part of the review we are examining our resourcing and some redundancies are likely."
The review and potential job losses come as the authority's chairman, Peter Clarke, remains under investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for his role in the collapse of Prime Investment Trust in 2010. In August, Mr Clarke voluntarily stood aside. He remains on full pay.
The 2011-12 Places Victoria annual report shows an $18.8 million fiscal loss and a $42 million writedown of properties.
The authority has tendered for a developer to partner it in delivering a $100 million project on the Binks Ford site on Cowper Street in Footscray as part of the 15-hectare Joseph Road Precinct.
It is believed the state government paid more than $11 million for the site but its book value is now about $8 million.
Colliers International agent Shane Dargue brokered the deal for the site. He declined to comment on its current status but confirmed he was selling other lots in the Joseph Road Precinct and interest had waned compared with recent years.
An authority spokesman said the Binks Ford project was a chance for a development partner to sign on, in line with Places Victoria's charter to create opportunities for the private sector. He confirmed selling part or all of the site was an option.
Place Victoria paid $21 million for the nearby Le Mans Toyota site on Hopkins Street, which is due to settle next month.
Property sources told the Financial Review that the authority has already shown interest in selling the site, which has a market value of about $15 million.
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Mr Guy has planning control over the Joseph Road Precinct and recently approved a $318 million development by Sailing Free Investments, backed by Austpac Group.
The Joseph Road Precinct is to the east of Footscray train station. Other approved projects include a 25-storey, $90-million residential development.
Grocon is contracted to begin work on stage two of their 1.3 hectare McNab Avenue project in Footscray before March 2014. The $200 million to $250 million project is slated to include between 400 and 500 apartments.
Project manager Michael Hynes said the market was challenging but Grocon was confident that the right product and pricing in the quality location would appeal.
Work began earlier this year on stage one of the McNab site, a 14-- storey office tower which will be anchored by City West Water and the Victorian State Trustees.
About 600 metres west of Grocon's McNab Avenue site, Knight Frank is marketing a 1578-square-metre Buckley Street site. The sale includes approved plans for 91 units after a Puckley Developments project did not proceed.
About 500 metres north of Footscray station, Ferrier Hodgson has appointed receivers to a new 86-unit, 29-retail space development after KT Centre went into administration in March.
About 36 apartments had already been sold and the receivers have since sold another 12.
Local agent James Kitsiou, licensee of LJ Hooker Footscray, compared the area with St Kilda in the 1970s and said it was ripe for apartment development.
While the market has dropped 15 to 20 per cent from its previous peak, Mr Kitsiou said residential sales would improve once broader market sentiment returned.
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Considering that the links outbound from a page affect the page rank of the recipient page - what impact is had on having a link "out" from a page - but back to itself?
Most sites have a generic navigation across the entire site - and that often includes a link to the home page, which would then be replicated on the home page itself as well.
So, for example - we have a home page with 9 links to other pages, and one link to the home page, and each receiving page also has 10 links, with one back to the home page...
Pages 1-9 will get 10% of the PR each, and pass 10% of their own PR back home - but does the home page also gain 10% of its own PR as well from its own "self-link"?
In essence, if I remove the home link from the home page - the recipients then get 11% of the PR and their slightly higher PR then boosts the value of the link back home.
So, if google chops up the PR based on the number of links - but then ignores the PR boost from the "self-link", I would benefit from editing the home page to remove the self-link (and other pages with self-links).
If however, google does pass the PR from the self-link back to the same page - then I should keep the links in place as that would be a higher direct bonus.
All the online tools I have seen seem to ignore self-links - is that because they know they are ignored, or presume that they are ignored?
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I read on a forum that if we use different -2 anchor text , on different-2 page (5-5 pages )for the home page , then in that case google distinguish them , and shows them differnt blinks on link: operation.
Besides this , How the absolute path and relative path of the home page , on differnt pages affect the blinks of the index(home page or the site )page ,
when we use Link:http://homepage
For example, if page A has two links to page B, and one to link to C, and those 3 links are the only outbound links on page A, then which is true:
1) 50% of PR goes to B, and 50% to C
2) 33% of PR goes to B, and 33% to C, and 33% wasted
3) 67% of PR goes to B, and 33% to C
(by "PR goes to", I mean the available PR weight that would be passed to that page)
From the basic theory of PageRank, I would assume #3, but I have never heard of anyone testing this. It would be easy for Google to modify their algorithm, even weighting something between choices #1 and #3, such as 60%/40% in that case.
There should be no penalty for linking a page to itself since many sites use SSI, etc for navigation and this typically leads to such links.
A sensible search engine should treat internal and external links separately for many reasons. However, I am not aware of any evidence that Google is sensible in this regard.
The PR benefit of linking a page to itself is likely to be nil or minimal.
This depends on the linking structure. I have pages where the difference is significant. Of course, for many sites the difference would be almost negligible.
A sensible search engine should treat internal and external links separately for many reasons. However, I am not aware of any evidence that Google is sensible in this regard.
PR calculation is (still) purely structure dependent, i.e. there is no difference between internal and external links. However, this doesn't mean that there is no difference in weighting the anchor text of incoming links.


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Two chefs, nine cooks and two pastry chefs work in the kitchen to offer impeccable quality, while the dining room staff ensures a high level service. The refined spaces, lit by twinkling chandeliers complete the picture.
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Images from all the missions discussed during the Mars Revealed workshop can be found on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Planetary Photojournal website. From the homepage, click on the picture of Mars then use the filters to search for images by mission. The images on this site are mostly press release images so the collection is far from comprehensive, but is a good place to start. Below are links to find more mission imagery and data, though obtaining data is not always practical.
The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC). The NSSDC has various types of data from all missions but data is not readily available on the NSSDC website. The data typically has to be requested from the institution that archives the data and it is typically not in a useful format.
Mariner 9 Images
Other than doing a Google search, images from Mariner 9 are difficult to find in one place. Most data from Mariner 9 is available through the NSSDC. A free software has been created that can be used to view Mariner 9 images. Information on this software, and how to download it, can be found at http://petermasek.tripod.com/mariner9.html.
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Images found on this website were taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC).
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Bayesian spatiotemporal analysis of socio-ecologic drivers of Ross River Virus transmission in Queensland, Australia
Hu, W., Clements, A., Williams, G., Tong, S., & Mengersen, K. (2010) Bayesian spatiotemporal analysis of socio-ecologic drivers of Ross River Virus transmission in Queensland, Australia. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 83(3), p. 722.
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This study aims to examine the impact of socio-ecologic factors on the transmission of Ross River virus (RRV) infection and to identify areas prone to social and ecologic-driven epidemics in Queensland, Australia. We used a Bayesian spatiotemporal conditional autoregressive model to quantify the relationship between monthly variation of RRV incidence and socio-ecologic factors and to determine spatiotemporal patterns. Our results show that the average increase in monthly RRV incidence was 2.4% (95% credible interval (CrI): 0.1–4.5%) and 2.0% (95% CrI: 1.6–2.3%) for a 1°C increase in monthly average maximum temperature and a 10 mm increase in monthly average rainfall, respectively. A significant spatiotemporal variation and interactive effect between temperature and rainfall on RRV incidence were found. No association between Socio-economic Index for Areas (SEIFA) and RRV was observed. The transmission of RRV in Queensland, Australia appeared to be primarily driven by ecologic variables rather than social factors.
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