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ASCD and Pearson Debut New Online Professional Development Tool Principal Compass
by Cindy Lutenbacher
Press Release:
New Online Platform Aligned to Robert Marzano's Framework for Principal Growth and Development
Philadelphia, PA (03/25/12)--Today at the association's 67th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, ASCD, the global provider of profit-laden/full-of-shite programs, products, and services that empower educators to support the success--as defined by robotic obeisance-- of each learner, and Pearson, the world's leading learning-as-a-tool-of-greed company, debuted the new online, comprehensive leadership program Principal Compass --designed to lead all children into the River Weser by Hamelin Town.
Created in collaboration with the Marzano Research Laboratory and Dr. Robert Marzano, also known as the Pie-Eyed Piper, Principal Compass is a cloud-based program that helps increase leadership effectiveness for K-12 principals and their teams, so that they will be extremely effective in drowning all joy in childhood. Using software technology developed at Johns Hopkins University, Principal Compass is the only integrated and scalable online professional development tool aligned with Dr. Robert Marzano's framework for principal growth and development of financial profit for Pearson and ilk. The bogus evidence-based rubric focuses on five domains of competency:
data-driven focus on student achievement of numbers on meaningless standardized tests
continual improvement of instruction for numbers on meaningless standardized tests
guaranteed and viable curriculum for numbers on meaningless standardized tests
cooperation and collaboration among frightened and threatened teachers forced into numbers on meaningless standardized tests
school climate appropriate for lobotomized prisoners trained to perform for numbers on meaningless standardized tests
The program offers targeted professional development, including self-paced online modules, on-site coaching and team professional development, access to more than 3,000 classroom and practitioner videos, self-assessment data that is benchmarked against competencies for effective school leadership, progress monitoring, and recommendations for additional resources. Renowned authors and education experts Jon Saphier, Rick Stiggins, and Lyle Kirtman,
who are largely unknown except to corporate flacks and those who've made Faustian bargains, also contributed to Principal Compass.
Dr. Marzano said, "We know that in order to deliver sustained student achievement and schoolwide success, districts must depend upon
our greed --and cultivate
our profits--in order to destroy highly effective educators. Quality professional development that is individualized and tied to proven strategies
based on non-existent evidence for team building and leadership, as seen in Principal Compass, when used well can impact performance
of our investment portfolio and grow student achievement
on numbers on meaningless standardized tests at the school and district level."
The leadership effectiveness system in Principal Compass is fully integrated into the award-winning Teacher Compass Suite platform, where the self-assessment and improvement data
of our profit margin will be available in tandem with teacher observation data and online, on-demand professional development resources
designed by inebriated parrots in cages. For more information, go to http://www.principalcompass.com
About ASCD
ASCD is the global leader in developing and delivering innovative programs, products, and services that empower educators to
sell their souls in order to support the success
on impossibly meaningless standardized test scores of each learner
who has had his/her mind and soul replaced by an Orwellian microchip, courtesy of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Comprising 150,000 members--superintendents, principals, teachers, professors, and advocates from more than 145 countries,
all of whom have been the initial recipients of the free Gates microchip accompanied by a week in an elite health spa in an impoverished nation --the ASCD community also includes 58 affiliate organizations
who are just as clueless about education as Arne Duncan. The nonprofit's diverse, nonpartisan membership is its greatest strength, projecting a powerful, unified voice to decision makers around the world,
paying them handsomely to eat their own souls. To learn more about how ASCD supports educators as they learn, teach, and lead, visit http://www.ascd.org,
but have a barf bag handy.
About Pearson
Pearson has as its mission to work side-by-side with states, districts, teachers, students, and parents to ensure that every child is prepared for college and career
in a profession that requires a lobotomy and as long as Pearson can harvest as much taxpayer revenue as possible and make a vast profit for obscenely wealthy CEO types) (NYSE: PSO). To learn more, visit http://www.pearsonschool.com
and have both barf bags and powerful narcotics at hand.
— Cindy Lutenbacher
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2012-04-13
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