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Davis Isn’t Alone in Struggling to Define Giftedness
When the board met on September 17 to discuss a proposed revision of the AIM program, Superintendent Winfred Roberson told the board that there was no consensus on either how to define giftedness or...
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Coverage of AIM Lacking
by Mona Siegel I attended the Davis school board meeting on Sept. 17 hoping to be won over by the plan that district staff was presenting regarding the AIM program and differentiation in Davis schools....
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Will DJUSD Redevelop Their District Headquarters?
Google Map view of the DJUSD District Office A letter from back in August from DJUSD Superintendent Winfred Roberson to the neighbors let them know that the school district is considering the...
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Local Control Funding Formula and the Parcel Tax
Back in 2013, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the funding model for school finances known as Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF). As many know, the idea behind LCFF was to support...
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Harvard Sleep Expert to Speak in Davis
Dr. Charles Czeisler to address teen sleep deficiency and school start times The Davis Joint Unified School District (DJUSD) is very proud to welcome Charles Czeisler, Ph.D., M.D., to Davis for a...
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Change is Good–As Long As the Changes Are Too
By Chuck Rairdan Despite the stream of well-informed, first-hand testimonials of numerous community members — including past and present teachers, former school board trustees, concerned parents and...
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Superintendent Recommends Same AIM Proposal with Phased-in Qualification Scores
Alan Fernandes with Susan Lovenburg looking on during the September AIM Discussion Late on Friday, the DJUSD Superintendent released the new staff report on the proposed AIM program. As the report...
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Sunday Commentary: Did the Superintendent Successfully Thread the Needle on AIM?
There are people who will undoubtedly want an even smaller AIM and there are those who will argue for a larger AIM, but on an issue as divisive as AIM has been for as long as it has been around, the...
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Does Revised Proposal Clarify Differentiated Instruction?
On June 4, the Davis School Board passed a motion 4-1 that, in part, “(directed) the Superintendent to have staff review and recommend assessment protocols to be implemented in screening students...
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Analysis: School District Should Be Wary of Voter Angst
In the months following the volleyball scandal, the community seemed to have lost trust in the school district. For some it was the failure of the school district to recognize the inherent conflict of...
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It’s Time To Slow Down On AIM Changes
By Debbie Nichols Poulos I’m frustrated, disillusioned, and sad. As a parent and teacher experienced with both the regular classroom and self-contained GATE (AIM), and as a citizen who has read and...
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Analysis: Where the Enterprise Editorial Gets It Wrong on AIM
Alan Fernandes listens to public comment at the September meeting From the start, most of the changes to the AIM program which focus on tweaks to the assessment criteria, most people can live with. The...
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Enterprise Allegedly Refuses to Correct Record on AIM Editorial
Heema Govindjee-Merchant reading for Debbie Nichols-Poulos on Thursday night (Editor’s note: this letter was submitted to the Vanguard for publication with the attached note). Heema Govindjee-Merchant...
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Davis School Board Unanimously Approves Revisions to AIM Program
Board Member Tom Adams questions Superintendent Roberson By Nicholas von Wettberg The parents stood in line, groups of four, awaiting the chance to voice their opinions about a hot button educational...
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My View II: Where We Are Left on GATE
Barbara Archer speaks on Thursday The Davis Enterprise this week strangely ignited a side-issue on GATE/AIM – what was the initial purpose of the program? I find it interesting that the returning of...
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In Their Own Words: Madhavi Sunder’s Final Comments on AIM Proposal
by Madhavi Sunder Our goal as trustees of the Davis school district is to give our children the best possible education they can receive given the financial constraints that we face–an education that...
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In Their Own Words – Barbara Archer’s Remarks on AIM
Barbara Archer speaks on Thursday By Barbara Archer I want to clarify my point on the data point, what I was saying is of course we want to collect data over multiple years. I’m positive that it might...
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In their Own Words: Tom Adams’s Remarks on AIM
Tom Adams speaking on Thursday By Tom Adams What is before the board? Before the board is improving the AIM identification process. The previous system was not consistently administered, not equitable,...
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In Their Own Words: Susan Lovenburg’s Comments on AIM
Susan Lovenburg speaks as her colleagues look on By Susan Lovenburg I also had some notes from the schools I visited, I will just say briefly it was Da Vinci, Willet, King High and North Davis. I think...
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Commentary: What Will New AIM Identification Process Mean For Diversity?
Jann Murray-Garcia, who in 2002-03 sounded the alarm on GATE, presses for the revised model Last Thursday, Tom Adams made the observation that the “single point of contention it seems at this point is...
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