Madison Superintendent Art Rainwater’s Presentation on the Proposed High School Redesign and Small Learning Community Grant

June 11, 2007 35 Minute Video | MP3 Audio Background Links: High School Redesign SIS Search [rss] Learning from Milwaukee, MPS leads the way on Innovation MMSD High School Redesign Committee Selected High School Redesign Notes Public comments and links. Important new information about credit for non-mmsd courses West HS English 9 and 10: Show us the data Evaluation of the SLC project at West High School (the author of this study, Bruce King, is a member of the current High School Redesign committee.

A few general questions about this initiative:

1. Does it make sense to spend any time on this now, given that the MMSD will have a new Superintendent in 2008?
2. If the problem is preparation, then should the focus not be on elementary and middle schools?
3. The committee’s composition (this link includes quite a bit of discussion) does not inspire much confidence with respect to community, teacher and student involvement.

Two page MMSD “feedback worksheet” 259K PDF.