Re: Data Presentation Last Night
From gordonclay gordonclay@aol.comhide
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To seang seang@brookings.k12.or.us, lisad
lisad@brookings.k12.or.us
Tue, Mar 29, 2016 9:21 pm
Sean:
I just returned from a planning meeting of True North in Crescent City, a project of the Wild Rivers Community Foundation.
In response to your comments, at the last regular school board meeting I stated that "Disruptive Behavior" in the BHSD had increase 67% in the 2014/15 school year as Ms. Dion was shaking her head no. After the meeting she challenged me on the information and I got the official, published report out of my car (see the attached) and gave it to her. She said that I needed to include a lot of other data before making that kind of statement, including explaining the methodology and I simply asked "What else should I be looking at and how can I get access to that information?" She turned it over to you.
In addition, all of the information I presented at that meeting was public information, either from the 2014 Student Wellness survey, the 2015 Healthy Teen survey or the 2014/15 and prior Report Card information.
I understand your response. If there is analysis that is suppressed from public records and that I would not be privy to, I understand so I wouldn't be able to fulfill her suggestion anyway. But I prefer to use data than anecdotal information as much as possible.
I leave by 8am tomorrow for an all-day meeting in the Del Norte School District offices which lasts until at least 4:30p. I'll address any comments when I return.
Gordon
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Gallagher
<seang@brookings.k12.or.us>
To: Lisa Dion <lisad@brookings.k12.or.us>
Cc: gordonclay <gordonclay@aol.com>
Sent: Tue, Mar 29, 2016 4:42 pm
Subject: Re: Data Presentation Last Night
Gordon:
Data is not official until it is released from the state, sources like the annual report card contains official data that has gone through a detailed and extensive review process. If the district tries to release data prematurely to the state releasing the data, it can lead to inaccuracies and ineffective decisions. ODE also places districts on a time schedule where they can't release data prior to a certain date. (This wasn't the question.)
Sean
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Lisa Dion <lisad@brookings.k12.or.us> wrote:
Dear Mr. Clay,
I have struggled with how to respond to you because you degrade professional educators and misrepresent what is happening in our schools every month at every school board meeting.
With that said, I think the best thing for me to do is refer you to Superintendent Gallagher. I will then work with Mr. Gallagher in whatever way he feels is most appropriate when it comes to providing information for you. Please note I have copied Mr. Gallagher on this email for his information.
Sincerely,
Lisa Dion
Principal
Brookings Harbor High School
All of our students can achieve with Bruin
Pride
Perseverance, Respect, Integrity, Diversity, and
Excellence.
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 9:54 AM, <gordonclay@aol.com> wrote:
Lisa:L
I look forward your thoughts. No rush.
Gordon
-----Original Message-----
From: Lisa Dion
<lisad@brookings.k12.or.us>
To: gordonclay <gordonclay@aol.com>
Sent: Thu, Mar 17, 2016 8:17 am
Subject: Re: Data Presentation Last Night
Dear Mr. Clay,
I have read your email. In order for me to respond in a thoughtful and responsible manner I will need some time. I will get back to you in a day or two with a reply to your email.
Lisa
Lisa Dion
Principal
Brookings Harbor High School
All of our students can achieve with Bruin
Pride
Perseverance, Respect, Integrity, Diversity, and
Excellence.
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 6:54 AM, <gordonclay@aol.com> wrote:
Lisa:
My task last night was to hold the board responsible for it's lack of public action around bullying. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to complete my presentation which included what I saw as possible steps to correct the deficiency. Why I am so adamant about this issue is that I am currently working with seven families, two more in the last month, not counting the man who spoke last night. Their kids are getting bullied and they tell me what happens. I inform them of the school procedures and forms yet, as of today, have not been able to get any of the bullied kids to start the process because they see what happens to other kids who "snitch". They just don't feel safe and I'm sure that effects their academic performance.
Granted, I don't know what you have and it would have been very simple to say, we have the individual Healthy Teen and Student Wellness data by county for the rest of Oregon and have analyzed it. I have for three critical areas: bullying, suicide, violence.
I do hope BHSD 6th, 8th and 11th graders show improvement from the programs that have been implemented since March of last year. I'm looking forward to positive improvements. Time will tell.
I also have long-term trend data for the information that is provided in Report Cards Chronic Absenteeism, Disadvantaged Students, Teacher Proficiency, Spending per Student, Disciplinary Trends, Drop Out Rates, Graduation Rates, Educational Testing, Freshmen on Track-4 years, Taking SAT.
Note: I do separate charts for "Graduation Rate", "Completion Rate" and "Dropout Rate" since the latest data on the report cards lag behind a year and "Continuing Ed" lags behind two years.
What else should I be looking at and how can I get access to that information?
Gordon Clay