Dear Greenwich Roundup,I question the mind set of the Board of Education whose budget cuts the elementary-school study coaches. This particular cut will undermine one of the most important initiatives that this board has undertaken, namely that of staffing our schools with highly qualified teachers, which is known to be the single most important classroom resource.
The study coaches enable a school's teachers to develop models of educational delivery that are at once diversified, therefore able to reach students at many levels; comprehensive, thus able to encompass the educational teaching strand from a multi-year perspective; and an aid the teacher in developing introspection and problem-solving skills. This is a professional-development initiative dedicated to effective instructional practices with immediate, school-based feedback, not an assessment of skills such as done by the school principal when evaluating a teacher.
This cut negatively impacts a system already struggling with consistently weak standardized-test scores. As all higher learning is based on the acquisition of a sound base in the "Three R's" during the elementary years, any cuts impacting the delivery of elementary school education would impact yet another generation of Greenwich graduates.
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