You're missing a LARGE number of other labor-intensive functions that the County Office of Education should be providing here, most notably the professional development pieces, which include professional development and new teacher/new administrator induction functions.
San Mateo County Office of Education would be a useful model to consider when figuring out the proper proportionality of what SF's numbers should look like to serve our district. The professional development piece really ought to be broken out separately from the district because it is large, complex, and requires better oversight that SFUSD has provided up to now.
My only reason for mentioning COEs was to point out that even if SFUSD is performing functions that are normally the responsibility of the COE, the extent of that cross-subsidy is not sufficient to change the larger staffing story. I didn't intend to give the impression that the teaching responsibilities I listed were the entire function of a COE.
You will be showing data by school? It would be interesting to see the teacher ethnic composition by school compared to the students, and related to outcomes.
I recall seeing data a few years back that showed years of experience, additional credentials, and graduate degrees by school. Taking all those factors together, there did not seem to be a large difference by K-5 school. Teachers in on the southeast schools were not any less qualified than teachers in the west-side schools.
The City's EEO report compares City workers with the Bay Area labor pool. The percent of Black attorneys in the City compared to the percent of Black attorneys in the Bay Area, etc. Blacks are way over represented in management and professional workers.
I'm going to do teacher experience by school because I think the data there is very interesting. I hadn't planned to do teacher ethnic composition by school because the number of teachers in each school (apart from the large high schools) is so small that one teacher more or less will change the composition significantly. And the data will be heavily affected by language programs (presumably most Cantonese teachers are Asian and most Spanish teachers are Latino). Maybe I'll look at the data and see if anything interesting pops out.
Will you also include additional credentials and graduate degrees? It would be interesting to see if these factors are related to performance. I can see the problem with small numbers for teachers and language programs. I assume languages programs would also impact the school's diversity or isolation/segregation. It would be interesting to see the diversity of schools looking only at general education, excluding language programs.
You're missing a LARGE number of other labor-intensive functions that the County Office of Education should be providing here, most notably the professional development pieces, which include professional development and new teacher/new administrator induction functions.
San Mateo County Office of Education would be a useful model to consider when figuring out the proper proportionality of what SF's numbers should look like to serve our district. The professional development piece really ought to be broken out separately from the district because it is large, complex, and requires better oversight that SFUSD has provided up to now.
My only reason for mentioning COEs was to point out that even if SFUSD is performing functions that are normally the responsibility of the COE, the extent of that cross-subsidy is not sufficient to change the larger staffing story. I didn't intend to give the impression that the teaching responsibilities I listed were the entire function of a COE.
You will be showing data by school? It would be interesting to see the teacher ethnic composition by school compared to the students, and related to outcomes.
I recall seeing data a few years back that showed years of experience, additional credentials, and graduate degrees by school. Taking all those factors together, there did not seem to be a large difference by K-5 school. Teachers in on the southeast schools were not any less qualified than teachers in the west-side schools.
The City's EEO report compares City workers with the Bay Area labor pool. The percent of Black attorneys in the City compared to the percent of Black attorneys in the Bay Area, etc. Blacks are way over represented in management and professional workers.
I'm going to do teacher experience by school because I think the data there is very interesting. I hadn't planned to do teacher ethnic composition by school because the number of teachers in each school (apart from the large high schools) is so small that one teacher more or less will change the composition significantly. And the data will be heavily affected by language programs (presumably most Cantonese teachers are Asian and most Spanish teachers are Latino). Maybe I'll look at the data and see if anything interesting pops out.
Will you also include additional credentials and graduate degrees? It would be interesting to see if these factors are related to performance. I can see the problem with small numbers for teachers and language programs. I assume languages programs would also impact the school's diversity or isolation/segregation. It would be interesting to see the diversity of schools looking only at general education, excluding language programs.