tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691251033406320222.post9110129059329609487..comments2024-03-26T04:19:38.862-07:00Comments on kitchen table math, the sequel: the sorting machineCatherine Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347093496361370174noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691251033406320222.post-85069222511154335392009-09-05T06:20:07.461-07:002009-09-05T06:20:07.461-07:00(Seriously resisting the possibility of seeing a d...(Seriously resisting the possibility of seeing a doctor so I can get antibiotics.)Catherine Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03347093496361370174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691251033406320222.post-6304510689384665852009-09-05T06:19:26.534-07:002009-09-05T06:19:26.534-07:00(Still sick.)(Still sick.)Catherine Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03347093496361370174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691251033406320222.post-38136486931931664662009-09-05T06:19:14.069-07:002009-09-05T06:19:14.069-07:00good culture/bad outcomes
I may have to go back t...good culture/bad outcomes<br /><br />I may have to go back to bed.Catherine Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03347093496361370174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691251033406320222.post-35140767940559720182009-09-05T06:18:46.543-07:002009-09-05T06:18:46.543-07:00Spending those two weeks at Evanston Hospital was ...Spending those two weeks at Evanston Hospital was interesting. My impression was that the hospital is on top of its game; only once was I concerned about my mom's care. (This occurred on a weekend night, exactly the time health care professionals warn you about.)<br /><br />Interestingly, the whole place has a 'hummm' to it. The guards, for instance, are friendly and efficient; so are the people at the front desk. Cafeteria workers were pretty good - efficient and usually friendly, too. (Food wasn't great.)<br /><br />Remember the <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande" rel="nofollow">Gawande article on Mayo</a>?<br /><br /><i>The core tenet of the Mayo Clinic is “The needs of the patient come first”—not the convenience of the doctors, not their revenues. The doctors and nurses, and even the janitors, sat in meetings almost weekly, working on ideas to make the service and the care better, not to get more money out of patients. I asked Cortese how the Mayo Clinic made this possible.</i><br /><br />My doctor says health care needs to be "patient-focused."<br /><br />That's my phrase for good schools: "student-focused."<br /><br />But of course, as you say, "student-focused" could just as easily mean "do what we do & blame the students for the failures" as "do everything we can to ensure the success of all students."Catherine Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03347093496361370174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691251033406320222.post-49684968874963805492009-09-05T06:13:19.368-07:002009-09-05T06:13:19.368-07:00Our K-8 schools have a good culture. Unfortunately...<i>Our K-8 schools have a good culture. Unfortunately, it's just not centered around mastery of skills and knowledge. It's centered around full-inclusion.</i><br /><br />Interesting.<br /><br />So they're all pulling together & mission-oriented --- but it's the wrong mission.<br /><br />I wonder how often that's the case?Catherine Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03347093496361370174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691251033406320222.post-78624889630701762322009-09-04T19:34:17.981-07:002009-09-04T19:34:17.981-07:00Our K-8 schools have a good culture. Unfortunately...Our K-8 schools have a good culture. Unfortunately, it's just not centered around mastery of skills and knowledge. It's centered around full-inclusion. Differentiated instruction is supposed to make it all work, but they have no desire or means to evaluate its effectiveness. If kids don't do well, then it's a developmental issue. How many have heard the nugget: "They will learn when they are ready"?<br /><br />Imagine a health care system that has no way to determine why some patients surive and some don't. They might think that some patients just don't have the will to live. Maybe they could ask them to try harder and set goals. Some patients survive, so they must be doing something right. Right?<br /><br />Our high school tries to help students, but there is no culture for following problems back to their source in K-8. In education, there is no culture for quantifying anything about the process. There is no culture for knowing whether what they do really works or not. Tests are about students and not teachers or curricula.SteveHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956560674752399562noreply@blogger.com