The document discusses performance standards, developmental standards, and the standards-based movement in education. It proposes strengthening performance standards to better assist student learning through collaboration between teachers. It also examines how the standards-based movement has negatively affected schools by limiting flexibility and prioritizing standardized testing over real learning. The response supports transforming schools through providing counselor support, teacher training, community partnerships, and addressing teacher retention issues. It predicts successful transformations will provide more teacher support and structure as well as opportunities for teacher collaboration and input.

1. "The Implications of Standards"
Please respond to the following:
Evaluate the purpose of student performance standards and
developmental standards. Propose how each performance
standard can be strengthened to assist student learning.
Evaluate the efficacy of the standards-based movement and
examine how it has affected schools in general. Support your
position by providing two examples from personal experience.
Peer Post
Expectations for instruction, assessment, and student work are
called Performance Standards. These incorporate the content
standards and they define the level of work that demonstrates
achievement of the standards. Performance standards isolate and
identify the skills needed to use the knowledge and skills in
problem-solving, reasoning, communicating, and making
connections with other information (Schlechty,
2009).Developmental standards are standards that teachers feel
are important. These standards parents understand and can help
enforce at home. The standard's goal is to ensure students have
the basic knowledge and work habit to pursue different task. For
instance, a student being able to read well enough to
comprehend the material given (Schlechty, 2009). My
suggestion would be to gear all performance standards towards
improving student’s performance. Some standards need to be
reformed to fit the needs of the ever-changing curriculum and
student abilities. Teamwork is the key to transforming issues in
performance standards. For instance, a teacher not being able to

2. reach one student should collaborate with another grade level
teacher for some suggestions for strategies.
The standards-based movement has affected the way educators
present a specific objective. Teachers are expected to teach
according to standards and students are expected to learn these
standards. For instance, a standards-based test is an assessment
based on the outcome-based education or performance-based
education philosophy. Evaluation is a key part of the standards-
based movement. The first part is to set new, higher standards
to be expected of every student. Then the curriculum must be
aligned with the new standards. This has transformed the school
in a negative direction. Teachers have limited flexibility to
teach, and schools are more about passing end of year test
rather than learning the necessary material needed. For
example, standards are so important now that some items have
been eliminated from the curriculum such as cursive writing.
Evaluations have become the norm of the school curriculum. Its
day 23 in the 2018-19 school year for my daughter, she has
complained yesterday how she took a test in each subject.
Which left me a little confused what could she have mastered in
22 days to receive an assessment in all subjects in 5th grade? A
standard-based movement has eliminated real learning in
schools.
Schlechty, P.C. (2009).
Leading for learning: How to transform schools into learning
organizations
. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Discussion 2
"Theoretical Models"
Please respond to the following:

3. If you are currently working in a school district, briefly
describe your school district and its current state in regard to
transformation. Create a theory of action to support and sustain
school transformation. If you are not currently working in a
school district, create a theory of action to support and sustain
school transformation in a school of your choice.
Predict two ways that the transformation model will affect
schools and learning organizations in the future.
Peer Post
Willie L. Brown Middle School was supposed to be school of all
schools, modern and innovative and a haven for many of the
students who come from low-income, high poverty areas. The
school provided Google Chromebooks to students, Apple TVs in
every classroom, and an on-campus wellness center. The
curriculum was going to be STEM-based and the district had
hired a Morehouse, Harvard graduate to be the principal. The
goal was to imitate some of the Bay Area’s top private schools.
Unfortunately, this was not enough to prevent the school from
spiraling out of control before opening day. Two months prior
to the school opening the principal quit, teachers and staff were
not adequately prepared to handle the students, and there was no
clear leadership.
Some of the issues that the school needs to deal with include:
Provide counselors to support students and teachers – teachers
were unprepared to deal with some of the student’s behavioral

4. problems, so it would be beneficial to have a counselor provide
ways to work with them and a counselor can help students as
well.
Training for educators to teach them how to work with at risk
students – teachers who have never worked at schools where
most of the students live in high-poverty areas, which brings its
own set of issues.
Partner with the community – improving schools should be a
shared responsibility between stakeholders.
Review staff/teacher salaries – the school district has the
highest resignation rates in California. The district should look
into not only salaries, but also look at how to increase their
leadership role.
Predict two ways that the transformation model will affect
schools and learning organizations in the future.
An important point to notice from the example above is that it is
not enough to build a school and fill it with modern equipment
because if it lacks internal structure it will fail. In this case the
school district wanted to emulate private schools and create a
thriving school environment. The transformation should provide
give teachers more support and give them the structure they
need to teach and manage their classes. The counselors should
setup weekly class visitations to get a better look at the students
and if possible reach out to parents. The principal should
schedule quarterly teacher parent meetings or conference calls
to provide updates on class and school activities and any
changes to the curriculum. The second way that the
transformation will affect schools should be the role of
teachers. Teachers are often overlooked, even though they are
the backbone of schools. After a transformation teacher should

5. have more autonomy and there should be more collaboration
with the principal and other teachers.