Catherine Pozniak

Career Educator, Lifelong Learner | Officer @USArmyReserve | Former @ToddCounty 👩🏻‍🏫 / Asst Superintendent @La_Believes | I ♥️ ed finance & federal programs

[Catherine Pozniak @C_Pozniak]

@ChadAldeman A good reminder re: DSS but easier said than done 7 yrs into ESSA. Carving out 3% for DSS (which requires a state ESSA plan revision unless LA or NM) wld more likely decrease school improvement funding for bottom 5% than it wld impact district $$$ protected by hold harmless.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Schools for children of military members outperformed all 50 states last year on reading and math scores for eighth and fourth graders. The military achieves those results by running a system that is, in many ways, the opposite of U.S. public education. https://t.co/jZEbZfeuRv

[Catherine Pozniak @C_Pozniak]

@RuralED @ToddCounty Down the road from Klein, I taught grades 4-8 in a two-classroom K-8 school and lived on-site in teacher housing. The school was the community hub. Littleburg School @ToddCounty South Dakota.

[Catherine Pozniak @C_Pozniak]

@RuralED In color: Klein School @ToddCounty on the Rosebud Reservation serves K-8. Small schools play a particularly central role in Indian Country as well.

[Catherine Pozniak @C_Pozniak]

@ChadAldeman @MargueriteRoza @K_M_Silberstein @BrookingsEd Wld be interesting to see savings rates since ESSER. Seeing districts charging routine costs and payroll to ESSER while boosting reserves (inflating the # of ESSER-funded positions). Districts less likely to leave $ behind than to make it disappear. It’s a shell game at this pt.

[Emily Hanford @ehanford]

This is worth watching.
https://t.co/QfSKjvJu7A

[Catherine Pozniak @C_Pozniak]

Lucy’s house of cards has fallen. Now it’s on districts that have continued to cling to Calkins and her literacy empire to make the change. Looking at my own district @CobbSchools, which has resisted calls by parents to abandon TCRWP despite declining 3rd grade reading results.

[Emily Hanford @ehanford]

Teachers College Columbia announced today that TCRWP - founded by Lucy Calkins in 1981 - will be "dissolved." https://t.co/LPkgZwKDPI

[Catherine Pozniak @C_Pozniak]

@MargoRoen @VesiaHawkins Two possibilities.

1. Red Stick Farmers Market (Saturdays Downtown)

2. Fresh Pickens Market on Coursey Blvd. They list turnip roots, so hopefully, they have the greens, too?

And next time someone questions my southern roots, I’m showing them this reply.

[Catherine Pozniak @C_Pozniak]

@Justin_LJFA @CoxCampus @MariettaCitySch Bold, mission-focused leadership + research-informed, capacity-building partners = win for kids 👏👏👏 I hope the state and other districts take note.

[Catherine Pozniak @C_Pozniak]

@missypurcell1 @georgiadeptofed @georgiadeptofed is required to publish subgroup data, it’s just buried on the website (see below for download link but 22-23 data not yet posted).

https://t.co/iy7BTkLYLe

[Catherine Pozniak @C_Pozniak]

@missypurcell1 Yikes. Any state that has made significant progress with literacy has embraced the role as vetter/curator of best-in-class products. This isn’t abt trusting districts, this is abt alleviating the burden of sorting good from bad. It’s on the state to take that on.

[Catherine Pozniak @C_Pozniak]

“The long term goal is to simplify this process, because it is not simple at all,” McConaughey said.

YES. While it’s amazing that @jklivinFNDN is providing resources so districts submit competitive grant applications, the underlying issue is that the whole process needs reform.

[Catherine Pozniak @C_Pozniak]

Congress’ post-Uvalde grant program is floundering. Enter: Matthew McConaughey https://t.co/kyhJl4mimx via @politico

[Catherine Pozniak @C_Pozniak]

Never imagined I wld retweet @McConaughey re: “simplifying the federal grant application process” but here we are. Fascinating strategy to level the playing field among districts when it comes to accessing competitive federal $$$.

[Matthew McConaughey @McConaughey]

Camila & I are launching the #GreenlightsGrantInitiative to simplify the federal grant application process. We want to help connect communities, students & teachers with resources to support mental health programs & safer learning environments. https://t.co/5VjVwGFHHn

[Catherine Pozniak @C_Pozniak]

@SpaceCowboyinSL @L_D_Washington For example, there can be two schools both with 50% poverty in different districts. Depending on how the districts each rank & serve, one school could be a Title I school and the other school not.

[Catherine Pozniak @C_Pozniak]

@SpaceCowboyinSL @L_D_Washington The ranking can be done by grade level. Because of this + other reasons, high schools in particular are underserved by Title I.

Many don’t realize that the Title I designation is not automatic based on poverty. It is only a “Title I school” if it’s actually funded as one.

[Catherine Pozniak @C_Pozniak]

@SpaceCowboyinSL @L_D_Washington The Title I amount to districts is based on the Census. Districts then distribute the funding via prescribed methods. But the district can’t increase Title I by “qualifying” more schools. The district might spread the money to more schools, but the total will remain the same.