The Knightdale 100 Education Community Forum

K100

The Knightdale 100 Education Community Forum

 Thursday, May 26 7-8:45pm

Knightdale Town Hall, 950 Steeple Square Court

 How do we know Knightdale teachers are effective? Can teacher effectiveness be measured through student performance?

Forum Purpose: To inform Knightdale citizens of the uses of EVAAS data to improve teacher effectiveness and student achievement.

 

 Speakers

Dr. Dudley E. Flood, Associate State Superintendent, Retired

Dr. Sandy Horn, Senior Educator Support Specialist, SAS EVAAS, SAS Institute

Stefani Barbero, Manager, Educator Support and Training, SAS EVAAS, SAS Institute

Mr. Tony Tata, Superintendent, Wake County Public School System

Forum Agenda

7:00-7:05pm Welcome and Agenda Review – Ms. Shannon Hardy
7:05-7:25pm Raising Expectations – Dr. Dudley E. Flood
7:25-8:10pm Making Data Work for Kids: EVAAS and School Improvement –

Dr. Sandy Horn & Stefani Barbero

8:10-8:30pm Teaching Excellence Awards – Ms. Shannon Hardy
8:30-8:45pm Our Core Belief in Our Students – Mr. Tony Tata

Forum Facilitator:  Ms. Shannon Hardy – Teacher and Knightdale Parent

Blog: http://knightdale100.blogspot.com/

Vision:  Knightdale schools will be the first and best choice for our children.

Mission:  The Knightdale 100 will advocate for the policies, resources, and structures necessary to improve student achievement.

Stop School board re-districting for Knightdale, NC

If our town is split among three districts Knightdale will hold little power and be of slight interest to school board members because our vote will be diluted among the three districts (candidates).

Additionally, we will need to turn to three different school board members to gain resolution to issues or problems in our town's schools. One of the School Board's guiding principles in re-districting was to respect municipal boundaries. Fuquay Varina was divided into two, but they are a community of 25,000. Knightdale is only 12,000 and chunked into three. Knightdale citizens will have less than 3% of influence in this newly proposed district alignment.

Citizens of Knightdale would be lobbying to their new school board member, but that member would have no influence involving issues for the citizen's base school of assignment.


Please help out by signing the petition located here: http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/stop-school-board-re-districting-for-knightdale-nc.html

Don't let the Town of Knightdale lose its voice!

Don't let the Town of Knightdale lose its voice! Please email and call our School Board Member TODAY and let him know that we respectfully request the town of Knightdale not be divided among districts as the new re-districting plan indicates. We request that our town be placed in only one district to ensure appropriate representation.


The current plan splits us between (see attached map):

District 1 (Northeast Wake) Chris Malone

District 2 (Southeast Wake) John Tedesco

District 4 (East Raleigh) Keith Sutton

WE believe we have 4 school members that want to stop this plan. We just need one more member to vote against it. We need Chris Malone to represent us on this one!

School Board Member contact:

Chris Malone: cmalone2@wcpss.net, 919-850-8865

To contact other Board Members: http://www.wcpss.net/Board/boeinfo.html


EXPLANATION:

If our town is split among three districts Knightdale will hold little power and be of slight interest to school board members because our vote will be diluted among the three districts (candidates). Additionally, we will need to turn to three different school board members to gain resolution to issues or problems in our town's schools. One of the School Board's guiding principles in re-districting was to respect municipal boundaries. Fuquay Varina was divided into two, but they are a community of 25,000. Knightdale is only 12,000 and chunked into three. Is this an attempt to squelch our K100 momentum? Why would the school board divide the town working so hard to improve its schools?


The re-districting vote will take place on Tuesday and would stay in place for 10 years! Please contact our school board member quickly. Feel free to use the wording above or create your own email.