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MANOR ISD IN TX, IRRESPONSIBLE

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Manor isd Texas Progressive Curriculum Cscope has been in the news for weeks. The Texas Senate Education committee held a hearing on Cscope January 31st with Senator Patrick stating that if the Texas Education Service Centers Curriculum Collaborative (TESCCC) who own Cscope were an airline it would have to be grounded. News stories have covered the fact that Cscope portrayed the Boston Tea Party  as a Terrorist Act . There was the uncovering of a Cscope lesson calling for students to draw a New Communist Flag. The fact that TESCCC has teachers sign a non-disclosure statement stating they would not release lessons or say anything negative about Cscope would make anyone question the motive of this corporation.

 

There are still numerous unanswered questions as to the formation of TESCCC’s non profit within a state agency. Using Taxpayers money to form a business within a state agency.  We have yest to uncover where all the money is. Over the last year the board of TESCCC has refused to release board minutes from the inception of Cscope or detailed info on their finances.

 

With all that said Manor ISD approved the purchase of Cscope at their board meeting Monday night Feb. 25th with a 7-0 vote. I stand amazed how the Superintendents across the State of Texas are so irresponsible that they would purchase a curriculum sight unseen. Why are they buying it in the first place?  What is the draw? What are they promised?  All I can say Superintendent Kevin Brackmeyer and Manor ISD school board how irresponsible You are. It appears that teaching children are not your major concern …. could it be indoctrination?

Superintendent Kevin Brackmeyer

 

Manor ISD School Board

Desiree Cornelius-Fisher, Board President   

 

Allen Ambuhl, Vice President  

 

 

Matildy V. Samaripa, Jr., Secretary (PHOTO NEEDED)

 

Melinda Fiebig, Board Trustee  

 

Adriana Lapeyra-Gutierrez, Board Trustee   (PHOTO NEEDED)

 

John Jonse, Board Trustee  

 

 

Marlin Thomas, Board Trustee (PHOTO NEEDED)

 

 

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Obama, Texas, K-12 School Transformation.

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On the US Dept of Education you will find a Fact Sheet Titled” Redesigning America’s High Schools.   Through the use of Federal grants (Obama’s stimulus package) a massive progressive/liberal transformation is taking place across America, and Texas is not immune from it. Texas school districts have been working for sometime transforming from a traditional education to a Marxist philosophy based on the collective.  This new philosophy goes by a series of different names, but we know a rose by any other name is still a rose. I have heard this philosophy called by the following: (STEM, Common Core, Cscope, Project Based Learning, CRISS, Student Led Learning, Collaborative, etc). All are based on the collective where Absolute Truth and American Exceptionalism is not taught. Cursive, Multiplication facts are becoming a thing of the past.

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I wrote and earlier article highlighting Texas School district Manor ISD and their implementation of Obama’s agenda with Manor New Tech High . Pleased with their transformation President Obama paid them a visit. Obama and the New Tech Network.

More on the New Tech Network. 

 

 

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Coppell ISD now has a New Tech School. Superintendent of Coppell, Dr. Jeff Turner has been working for years to transform Texas Education. You can read more on Dr. Jeff Turner and his agenda, HERE. 

 

Other Texas New Tech Schools.

 

Belton New Tech

A. Maceo Smith New Tech High

Akins New Tech

Decker Middle School

Legacy Preparatory Charter Academy @ Dallas

Legacy Preparatory Charter Academy @ Mesquite

New Tech Odessa

New Tech SanAntonio

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For information on T-STEM

T-STEM Blueprint

 

Terms you will here in the from educators in this radical transformation:

21st Century Learning

Critical Thinking Skills

Authentic Learning

Project Based Learning

Authentic Assessments (real life test ex: changing a tire).

Student-Driven

 

 

 

Link to Document Below written by radicals, Science Czar John P. Holden & others.

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Texas Taxpayers paying for a Party in Austin Next Week!!!!

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PARTY TIME

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Educators across the state of Texas will be paying their way (tickets, hotels, food, etc)  to Austin for the 2014 TASA Midwinter Conference with taxpayers money. Those attending from school districtS pay huge amounts to attend. Those that work for Texas Education Service Centers go FREE? Wow.. The ESC are making millions off of our local school districts state-wide and then get a free pass to the conference?

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There will be many progressive exhibitors at the conference. I would like to highlight one. That is Globaloria. Globaloria is one of many progressive online educational sources used by Texas educators to promote diversity, equity and globalization based on Constructionist theory of education. THE COLLECTIVE! Manor ISD and their New Tech High School are partners with Globaloria. Obama made a personal visit to Manor New Tech to congratulate them on their progressive education transformation that you can read HERE!

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It will be the activism of moms and dads across the state of Texas that will be able to STOP the radical transformation of Texas Education that is actively in progress. 

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Why There is no Money for Texas Teachers!

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You constantly hear that there isn’t enough funding for education. That is a BIG LIE! There is no problem with funding there is a major problem with with how those funds are spent! Your have Texas ISD spending thousands on a yearly bases leasing the controversial curriculum CSCOPE. Combined Texas school superintendents spend millions funding the  progressive associations Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA) and Texas Association of School Board (TASB), two associations whose agenda is a education reform and implementing radical transformation in Texas Schools! These two groups also have offices a couple of blocks from the Texas Capital and lobby the Texas legislature for more progressive policies and money.  Yes they fund these two groups with TAXPAYER MONEY!!no money

 

We also have school districts hiring an outside company called “Lead Your School” (LYS) for a great cost. LYS comes in to the school and trains administrators and teachers how to change their teaching techniques along with  implementing “Power Walks” aka walkthroughs. These walkthroughs are nothing more than having observers coming into the teachers classroom frequently to assure they are on task of totally transforming the way they teach. Talk about disrupting a classroom!! Teachers HATE IT!!

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Marlin Independent School District teamed up with “Lead Your School”  in 2011 at a cost of between $53,000 -71,000. How is Marlin doing after this so called wonderful professional development? Marlin ISD is the worst school in the state of Texas. Students are bused off to another local school and teachers have left the school in droves.

Waco ISD hired LYS for a cost of $1.6M  Invoices &Checks

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Mesquite ISD hired LYS for a cost of $780,000.

Tidehave ISD hired LYS for a cost of $34,400

Manor ISD hired LYS for a cost of over a Million

 There are many more district in Texas that has paid these astronomical fees and continue to do so. 

 

 

 

Lead Your School owned and operated by Sean Cain .

Lead Your School is the assumed name for “Blue Daisy Consulting” owned by his wife Lesa Cain.

Lead Your School’s official business address is 124365 FM 1960, #124. I drove to see this wonderful office where millions of taxpayer funds are being mailed and found Lead Your School’s official address to be a Postal Center.

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Below is a video of what Texas ISD’s are paying up in the millions for. Wake up Texas!!

 

 

A comment in a local paper regarding Lead Your School.

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Sean Cain is also the author of one of the stupidest propaganda ridden books I have ever read.  “Look At Me”

 

In the book Sean is the “Prince” that has such wonderful news for school districts only if the Ranking Officials (school board) welcomes the Prince.

Below is an excerpt from his book.

Once upon a time a moronic king decided that supporting the schools that educated the children of his subjects would be too much of a burden for himself and his rich friends. And so he closed the royal coffers and school funding slowed down to but a trickle.

Due to the king’s actions, many schools in his land were in despair. The humble teaches and earnest principal’s cried out to the townsfolk and villagers to take up their cause. But the ears of these people were as deaf to the needs of  schools  and school children as the head of the king was empty.

 

Most teachers and principals  resigned themselves to the fact that the promise of success and reward had withered and died. Many left their schools. Those who remained toiled in misery.

All I can say is, Unbelievable!

 

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WARNING: PROJECT BASED LEARNING

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It became apparent to me that CSCOPE was part of a bigger problem and would lay a foundation for Project Based Learning (PBL). PBL is based on the teaching philosphy of Marxist Lev Vygotsky and Progressive educator John Dewey. The Texas Education Service Centers, Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA) and Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) are running full speed ahead to implement PBL  Parents and Taxpayers need to be very concerned about PBL. Here is a comparison between a Traditional Education and Project Based Learning,  The comparison is the same as traditional vs CSCOPE.

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In reading the following statement copied from this webpage, makes you wonder why we have teachers go to school for years if the new goal is to have students teach themselves and teachers job is to become a facilitator.

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May 9th, President Obama visited and praised Manor ISD’s New Tech High School which is has fully implemented Project Based Learning.  (His visit speaks volumes to those who value a traditional education).

 

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UNITED NATIONS, “COMMONCORE/CSCOPE/PROJECT BASED LEARNING” & TEXAS EDUCATION

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It took me almost a year of researching to find out why there was such a veil of secrecy surrounding CSCOPE. I  discovered it has been the implementation of a radical change in the way Texas students will be educated. This radical change is not new though it’s name changes with the times. Presently it is called “Project Based Learning”.  Project Based Learning is built around the collective and not individual achievement. American Sovereignty is not taught. Globalization and Diversity are promoted. The Texas Education Service Centers along with school Superintendents have worked deceptively in implementing this progressive philosophy in the school system since 2006. After much research the implementation of PBL can be traced back to the United Nations.

Texas schools through grant money and state funds have purchased millions of dollars of computers so students can be electronically engaged. Become more a part of the global society.

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IRINA BOKAVA, the Director General of  UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations, (UNESCO) was quoted as saying….

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In 2011 Ms. Bokava at Effat University in Saudia Arabia for the Learning and Technology Conference. In her address she is quoted as saying…..

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Ms. Bokava is the  author of NEW HUMANISM FOR THE 21st CENTURY which promotes diversity, globalization all on the promise of world peace.

UNESCO along with international education bureaucracies goal is to Internet Communication Technology (ICT) coupled with Project Based Learning . That is why we are seeing Texas schools districts spending an enormous amount of money on IPAD’s and laptop for students.

Various publications…..

The Underutilization of Internet and Communication Technology-assisted Collaborative Project-Based Learning Among
International Educators: A Delphi Study

UNESCO ICT TRANSFORMING EDUCATION

 

 

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Bringing PBL Washington

Below is the Alliance For Excellent Education. It is to no surpise that Humanist Linda Darling Hammond sits on the Board of Directors. CSCOPE also credits it’s teaching philosophy to Hammond.

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Bring PBL Home to TEXAS

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Name that project

 

 

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PBL COMPARISON

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OBAMA & TEXAS EDUCATION TRANSFORMATION

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Business woman LYDIA DOBYNS is president of  NEW TECH NETWORK a progressive organization in California working across the country on implementing Project Based Learning (PBL). I am not quite sure if Dobyns has ever taught in the classroom. New Tech Network is working along side others progressive companies and educators in hopes of radically changing our education system as we know it.  Ms. Doybys states the following in her bio  “New Tech is emerging as one of the fastest-growing approaches to transforming high school education in the U.S”. Sound familiar? Sadly So!

 

Manor New Technology High School outside of Austin, Texas welcomed his truly President Obama in early May. Ms. Dobyns must of flown in for this heart felt moment and later wrote about it in the Huffington Post. WAKE UP TEXAS PARENTS, TAXPAYERS!!! Do you want your Texas School System TRANSFORMED?

 

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New Tech Network

No one loves a happy ending more than me. Today was a personal once-in-a-lifetime movie moment: I welcomed President Obama to Manor New Technology High School. Before the president spent 45 minutes with students showing off Project Based Learning, I got to engage in a conversation with him about the kind of innovation taking place in 100+ public school districts across New Tech Network.

 

It was no accident that Manor was selected for its transformative educational methods and focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). The faculty and founding principal Steve Zipkes epitomize the persistence, vision and creativity needed to re-imagine a high school that truly prepares learners to be the innovators of tomorrow. They did not achieve this remarkable success on their own or overnight.

At New Tech schools, we have found a way to close the achievement gap regardless of whether students reside in urban, suburban, rural or underserved areas. Our 2013 Student Outcomes Report offers compelling evidence that the vision we have to transform schools within public school districts is being realized.

The President said about Manor New Tech, “Every day this school is proving that every child has the potential to learn the real-world skills they need to succeed in college and beyond. You’re doing things a little differently around here than a lot of high schools, and it’s working.” He went on to say: “We also have to make sure we help every student get the skills like they do here at Manor New Tech to compete in a high tech economy.”

Back to my fervent hope for a happy ending. The President today called again for support for the $300 Million High School Redesign he proposed in the State of the Union speech. He also reiterated that he wants to see universal access to quality public pre-school and to make college more affordable. For my happy ending to come true, three things have to happen. Congress and the White House have to agree on the best ways to invest in education innovation. State policy-makers and the business communities around this country have to come together to provide financial and material support in K-12 education innovation. And school district leaders need to move from asking, “should we innovate?” to “how do we find the funds to invest in innovation”? Should all three of these things happen, I will get my wish. And children everywhere will be able to experience the kind of education that enables them to thrive in ways we can’t even imagine.

As President Obama said today, “Every young person in America deserves a world-class education.”

I wholeheartedly agree. Let’s do this and do it now.

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The following is an except from the 2012 TASA/TASB Convention program. You will see that TASA and TASB are working along side other progressive organization on implementing their radical progressive Agenda through ‘ Visioning Network”.  I have highlighted some of the “buzz words”. 

 

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The Obama is working deligently to transform the political landscape of America and they are doing it though our Education System as you will see in the Article below

May 9, 2013     Bloomberg

Obama Austin Tech Tour Raises Democrat Profile in Texas

President Barack Obama urged lawmakers to approve more federal spending for technology education, training and jobs, holding up the Austin, Texas, area’s economic boom as an example for the rest of the country.

The Texas visit today was one of a series of events across the country that the administration says are meant to build pressure on Congress to adopt economic ideas laid out in Obama’s State of the Union address this year.

“We’re poised for a time of progress, if we’re willing to seize it,” Obama said in an address to executives and workers at Applied Materials Inc. (AMAT), which makes products for the semiconductor, display panel and solar industries worldwide.

Obama met with students, local residents, investors and entrepreneurs as he made his way across the city. He announced competitions for three manufacturing innovation centers and an executive order requiring government data to be released in a form that entrepreneurs and researchers can use to generate applications and new services.

Obama blamed political posturing in Congress for blocking his proposals, which he said would foster research that benefits technology companies and help train workers for those industries.
Sending Message

Obama told company workers that when they talk to their elected officials, “You’ve got to remind them, we don’t want government to do everything for us but it’s got a role to play” on infrastructure and research funding.

Addressing a group of “angel investors” during an earlier stop at an incubator for technology startups, Obama said government can play a “beneficial” role in helping the private sector spur job creation.

He said he was concerned about the impact of the automatic, across-the-board federal spending cuts known as sequestration. The cuts are “effectively freezing basic research” spending over the next one to two years.

“We could end up losing our edge” to economic competitors in Asia, he said.

Obama said Austin is an example of the kind of cooperation between government and business that can foster innovation.
Austin Economy

The metropolitan area centered by the state capital, which has about 820,600 residents, had a March jobless rate of 5.3 percent, compared with 7.6 percent nationwide. Computer manufacturer Dell Inc. (DELL) is based in nearby Round Rock, and Apple Inc. (AAPL) has announced plans to double the size of its 3,500-employee customer-support center in Austin over the next decade.

“I’ve come to listen and learn and highlight some of the good work that’s being done,” Obama said at Manor New Technology High School in the Austin suburb of East Manor, where he inspected solar and robotic projects developed by students. “Folks around here are doing something right.”

Education Secretary Arne Duncan in 2010 cited the school as boosting opportunities for low-income and minority youth. Of the school’s 341 students last year, 46 percent were economically disadvantaged, 48 percent were Latino, 25 percent were white and 21 percent were black, according to data provided by the school district.

TAXPAYERS & PARENTS WAKE UP AND GET INVOLVED

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