City school official tapped to advise Chicago superintendent
Our flagship paper The Chicago Tribune reported today that Jonathan Brice, who oversees the Office of Student Support and Safety for the Baltimore city school system, has been tapped to advise the Chicago Public School system as it transitions under its new leader, Jean-Claude Brizard.
Brice will be sitting on a panel of educators from across the nation that will advise Brizard and his team on "how best to deploy teachers and resources," the Tribune story said.
While the team, led by a Harvard Graduate School of Education professor, will be particularly focusing on what's happening around instruction in CPS, Brice apparently will be advising on issues related to school climate, student engagement and anti-violence initiatives like Culture of Calm, the story said.
"We'll look at the early results and see if it's working for schools and how we should expand it," Brice told The Tribune. "If it's something that's not working, then what are the tweaks that need to be made."
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Comments
I can't help but wonder if this is the start of a trend as the fed-up begin to seek greener and more productive pastures.
Posted by: Burnt up, Down and Out Teacher | July 11, 2011 3:41 PM
BS Paper @ Brice advising on issues related to school climate initiatives to the Chicago superintendent.
What happened to the district SY 2010-2011 BCPSS teacher/parent/student climate survey it disappeared this year?
Posted by: Interested & Engaged Parent of City Schools | July 11, 2011 4:50 PM
@ Burnt -- no its just inbreeding.
From Chicagomag.com:
" Brizard is an admirer of Michelle Rhee, the controversial former head of the DC schools, and co-authored a Washington Post editorial on school reform along with Joel Klein (Brizard's boss in NYC), Huberman, and others."
From the Sun 2008:
"The board approved Alonso's first Harvard hire last night: Jonathan Brice, who is a doctoral candidate at Harvard's Urban Superintendents Program (where the CEO got his doctorate)"
So Brice was hired by a former professor to work for a former co-worker of his current boss, who may have connection to the professor.
I am in the wrong business!
Posted by: OverTheTop | July 12, 2011 4:21 PM