This comment was posted by a reader who teaches in Tulsa. It was written in response to a post on the blog that Broadies have now taken charge of all the top positions in the District of Columbia schools. The Broadies use unusual titles because they lack the credentials to hold jobs that require certification. A Broadie, for the uninitiated, is someone “trained” in the top-down management philosophy of Eli Broad at the unaccredited Broad Superintendents Academy. They are known for setting high goals and meeting none of them. They are devotees of high-stakes testing and charter schools. They love to disrupt schools and communities. As you will see, when one Broadie gets in, others swarm.
Washington DC – Welcome to my Hell in Tulsa
Superintendent – Deborah Gist – $241,000 + +
https://www.broadcenter.org/alumni/directory/profile/deborah-gist/
Chief Learning Officer – Devin Fletcher – $155,700
https://www.broadcenter.org/alumni/directory/profile/devin-fletcher/
Chief Financial Officer – Nolberto Delgadillo – $151,300
https://www.broadcenter.org/alumni/directory/profile/nolberto-delgadillo/
Chief Operating Officer – Jorge Robles – $150,000
https://www.broadcenter.org/alumni/directory/profile/jorge-robles/
Design and Innovation Officer – Andrea Castaneda – $136,600
https://www.broadcenter.org/alumni/directory/profile/andrea-castaneda/
Director of School Talent Services – Coy Nesbitt – $95,230
https://www.broadcenter.org/alumni/directory/profile/coy-nesbitt/
Director of Organizational Impact – Martin Green -$95,300
https://www.broadcenter.org/alumni/directory/profile/martin-green/
Talent Management Partner – Carlos Lopez – $95,230
https://www.broadcenter.org/alumni/directory/profile/carlos-lopez/
Design and Innovation Specialist – Joseph Fraier – $93,520
https://www.broadcenter.org/alumni/directory/profile/joseph-fraier/
Manager of District Strategy and Implementation – Vanessa Portillo – $93,200
https://www.broadcenter.org/alumni/directory/profile/vanessa-portillo/
Director – Talent Acquisition, Development and Retention – Quentin Liggins – $105,312
https://www.broadcenter.org/alumni/directory/profile/quentin-liggins/
Director of Strategic School Support – Shannon Doody- $90,000
https://www.broadcenter.org/alumni/directory/profile/shannon-doody/
Director of Portfolio Management – Becky Gligo- $90,000
https://www.broadcenter.org/alumni/directory/profile/becky-gligo/
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I saw this post and am glad that you have brought it forward, with some orientation for people who are unfamiliar with the Broadie method of taking over public schools and corporatizing them. The job titles are alien to education. If you are not familiar with the alumni listings at the website, you may be surprised by who is infecting which states, districts, schools, and organizations and usually failing upward.
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Laura Chapman mention, “…on. If you are not familiar with the alumni listings at the website,..”
What website has this current information?
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You can find Broadie’s here https://www.broadcenter.org/alumni/directory/
You can search by name or city or whatever
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The titles are corporate, unrelated to credentialsrequired for high level jobs in education. It would be interesting to learn how many of these people are both Broadie and TFA.
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This is sad and disgusting! I am a TPS alum and longtime resident, plus retired CA public school teacher. I have followed DR’s blog for years and worried
this would happen when Gist came to town. Tulsa deserves better, wake up, folks! S. Forrest
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Yes. Hechinger Report just ran a very positive article about Gist, and how she’s changed her stripes, but this Broadie invasion is more accurate. Also, the teachers there have to participate in that program, whose name escapes me, where observers stand in the back of the room and feed direct instructions to the teachers (both wear headphones) as they’re teaching that they’re supposed to follow exactly, robbing the teachers of any classroom autonomy they have. It’s a sad situation.
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Hechinger Report, the one funded by Gates that claims its independent?
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Hechinger’s Executive Editor described a Baltimore charter school in glowing terms while calling public schools factories. (4-7-2017).
Her article omitted the per student spending differential. The charter school got $9,387 per pupil and, the public school, $5,300 per pupil according to reporter, Erica Green (Baltimore Sun 9/10/2015).
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The program is No Nonsense Nurture r.
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If anyone wants to know what “No-Nonsense Nurture” is really like, visit rural orphanages in China where infants were and maybe still are often strapped naked into high chairs that also operate as a toilet. Warning, if you make the costly trip to China, you might not be allowed inside one of those oranges to see how horrible it might be.
The staff to child ratio was and maybe still is so out of balance, children often sit for hours screaming their heads off without a hug or any attention, and the infant has to eat in the same chair that has a hole in its seat that drops their waste into a bucket, a method that means no need to change a messed diaper because there was/is no diaper.
I haven’t read that this problem has been corrected in China’s rural orphanages yet.
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At least the Director of Strategic School Support has an appropriate last name (sorry, people who know me well think I never grew up).
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This is also the city where philanthropist George Kaiser has used his influence to staff all the key education positions, as well as build housing for Teach for America recruits. The TFA angle really boils my blood, since I taught students going through the traditional certification program at a state school, and most of those students were poor. Most were borrowing money to pay for their educations, including their student teaching semesters.
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You mean CT3?
Enter in to a contract with the Center for Transformative Teaching (CT3) to provide professional development services to the district during the 2016-2017 school year.
Cost: Not to exceed $922,000
Donor funding and iPD fund, 11-0179-2213-503600-000-000000-000-05-044-0179
Enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Center for Transformative Teaching (CT3) to provide training for principals, Family and Student Services support teams and all educators in the strategies and philosophies of No-Nonsense Nurturer for the 2017-2018 school year. In addition, CT3 will provide specific supports for school improvement for up to six schools to include, but not limited to, culture planning, principal/leadership coaching and training of site-based real time teacher coaches for management
Cost: Not to exceed $1,009,150
Purchase services from the Center for Transformative Teacher Training (CT3) to provide various schools training in the strategies and philosophies of No-Nonsense Nurturer, real-time teacher coaching, school culture planning and transformation, and building culturally relevant classrooms during the 2017-2018 school year.
Cost: Not to exceed $177,630
Fund Name/Account: Title I, Part A site funds
Enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Center of Transformative Teaching (CT3) to provide training for principals, Family and Student Services support teams and all educators in the strategies and philosophies on No-Nonsense Nurturer for the 2018-2019 school year. In addition, CT3 will provide specific supports for school improvement for up to six schools to include, but not limited to, culture planning, principal/leadership coaching and training of site-based real time teacher coaches for management.
Cost: Not to exceed $1,191,150.00
Fund Name/Account: Contingent on grant funding
Purchase site-based, job-embedded coaching support to teachers in the areas of classroom culture, school-wide culture and classroom management from the Center for Transformative Teacher Training (CT3), of San Francisco, California, the most responsive bidder in accordance with the terms and conditions of Request for Proposal #19000.
Cost: Not to exceed $800,000.00
Fund Name/Account: Title I, Part A district or site accounts,
Over $4M wasted in last 3 years and that doesn’t include money for TFA, TNTP, Relay and on and on.
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They are like the most destructive termites in the world. If they are allowed to win, civilizations based on empathy will be replaced by Trump style narcissistic governments that will usher in a dystopian nightmare for everyone but the 0.1 percent at the top of that pyramid, and once 99.9 percent of the people have been crushed and subdued, the autocrats will turn on each other — the wars will never stop.
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The New America Foundation, funded by Google’s Eric Schmidt, has a new President. She’s a Broad resident. She was in New Orleans with the “New Leaders” and in Chicago Public Schools during Rahm’s reign. She was also in top management at the U.S. Dept. of Ed. when Arne Duncan was there. Duncan, of course, is now working for the widow Steve Jobs.
Find the right wealthy patrons and….
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Correction: The President of New America was in Chicago when Arne Duncan was there, not Rahm. Degrees of separation-1
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Oh yes, Laurene Powell Jobs and the Emerson Collective is coming to town too. She likes to keep a low profile, but nonetheless she is going to “Re-Imagine” Tulsa’s High Schools
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she should re=imagine herself
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New one added Cesar Dominguez Strategic Operations and Director of Finances
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