This article shows how the Broad Foundation has shifted gears. It used to train school boards to its way of thinking (it trained the Atlanta school board, for example, to believe that metrics and data matter more than anything les).
Now it send school boards on tours to selected sites.
The Syracuse superintendent, a product of the unaccredited Broad Superintendents Academy, leads her school board to meetings around the nation to learn about the Broad style. In this case, they are in New Orleans, the Mecca of privatization. You can be sure that no one will tell them that at least two-thirds of the New Orleans charters are academically unacceptable, even in the reports of their supporters at the Cowen Institute at Tulane.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
…unaccredited Broad Superintendents Academy…
As if to suggest that accreditation is the difference between effective and ineffective professional development for superintendents?
How were Montgomery County, MD superintendents developed? How are teachers’ unions helping to replicate such beneficial training? How are lessons learned from Montgomery County leveraged through the National Policy Board For Educational Administration and Educational Leadership Constituent Council to improve accredited ed leadership programs?
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The Broad Academy bases nothing on educational research nor child development. Purely a business model….it has no credibility.
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No and it is complete stupidity
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Talk about blowing away the district revenue on stupidity, foolishness and false information. The “Broadfather” is bad news and that is all there is to it, along with his cronies in destruction. Amazing how cheaply and easily you can buy off people with no ethics.
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The chef makes more that the teacher and all they can come up with is grilled cheese sandwiches? Are you kidding me? Go read the latest, Sept. 2012, DOE OIG report on the total lack of accountability of charter schools in Florida, Arizona and California. This report is DOE-OIG/A02L0002. I am willing to bet that every state with charter schools mirrors this report. Combine this report with the Stanford Credo report and charter schools are trash especially if you use my “Correction Factor.”
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Michigan should be added to the list.
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A Syracuse high school social studies teacher’s retirement letter hit the internet recently and maybe it should go as viral as Kris Nielsen’s did.
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/04/goodbye_mr_conti_a_westhill_hi.html
How many more great teachers will be lost to Broad “ideals” (and it is REALLY a stretch to use that term – even in quotes – when speaking about Broad)?
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How much more can this nonsense go on? People have to know what is going on by now. Why is Broad’s m.o. always about lies and propaganda?? It is just sick. Why do school boards keep hiring these people? Did no one else want the job??? Any board doing a little bit or research can figure out New Orleans is a mess.
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I work in that district and it is horrible! The board are just a group of lobotomized zombies who approve who think that every syllable from the supt’s mouth is a gem. They never question anything. They have bought into the testing, testing, testing mode, and one of them told me that I have to learn to teach “differently” so the kids could do well on tests. God help us, we’re not supposed to educate children, just test them. This year alone we have had 16 “mandatory” math tests and 10 “mandatory” ELA tests. For none of these have we been provided with material. We can find “suggestions” on the web site, but no help for us. The supt has done away with all AIS and screwed up both Spec Ed and ESL so that everyone is doomed to fail. She allows no questioning, and “off with your head” is the punishment for questions or criticism. Like many others, I’ve had it and I’m gone in June. I feel like a rat abandoning my children whom I love, and I still have a passion for teaching, but I am not teaching anymore. I refuse to participate in this sham any more.
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And mind you this: in the Syracuse district, NO teachers are allowed to attend ANY professional development out of state. Don’t even ask. No matter how central to a teacher’s content area or to professional teaching. Yet the board needs to run around all over the COUNTRY to view other “successful” schools? Successful like Atlanta?
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