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Phil Quon, Superintendent, Cupertino Union School District
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http://www.cupertino.k12.ca.us
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Phil Quon is a UCLA Graduate in Mathematics, M.A. in Educational Administration
from CSU Los Angeles. He has 36 years in public education, worked in large urban and
mid-size suburban districts, 16 years as superintendent. He is president of state-wide ACSA Superintendents Council, AASA Governing Board Member.
Recent Responses
November 2, 2009 06:24 PM
Any fund used for the improvement of our schools is money well spent. My hope is that the RTTP funds have a significant impact on persistently low performing schools and succeed beyond our wildest of dreams. Will we then have the courage and the political will to admit that public education needs more money to get the job done nationwide and replicate these successful models IN ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS?…
Read moreSeptember 21, 2009 02:18 PM
Banning the hiring of high school dropouts is much too simplistic. Looking at our education system from bottom to top and addressing those issues which require the public will to change is what’s needed. High schools should not be blamed for the dropouts we as adults have created. High school students who drop out and end up working in low paying jobs will soon figure out the need for a decent education in order to improve their economic situation. Keeping them from this experience is asking for more trouble. This issue is so huge; it’s hard to write a brief blog here. We need to…
Read moreSeptember 8, 2009 01:05 PM
21st century skills can mean different things to different people depending on your educational background, your work with young people, and your ability to look forward into the endless possibilities of what education can become. How often have we sat in classrooms today and realized that we could just as well be sitting in a classroom 50 years ago? What happened in those 50 years? Or the larger question might be what didn’t happen? Today’s young people enter our schools as “digital natives” - - - students who embrace technology and can do so much more with it than…
Read moreAugust 31, 2009 01:27 PM
We know what works in schools that are achieving. All we need now is the will and the way to make that happen. Funding is certainly a huge factor. A change in the way we do business and focus on student achievement without the “handcuffs” of archaic contract language and dysfunctional bureaucracies. We have to make changes in our education systems in order to reach the goal of achievement for all students. Here are just a few “ideas” of what works in our current system that should be the underpinnings for the 5,000 lowest performing schools. Professional Staff Development…
Read moreAugust 10, 2009 12:31 PM
I love Mike's comment! Why do we have to resort to gimmicks to improve student achievement? Let's put those dollars into professional development and improving what goes on in our classrooms. Pay for learning is a very bad policy statement. …
Read moreAugust 3, 2009 01:49 PM
“He who has the gold, makes the rules.” Most school districts in California are using assessment data for information to improve instruction in the classrooms. To be honest, it’s not a data point for the evaluation of its teachers or principals. Yet many would agree that good and great teachers/principals achieve results far beyond a single test measure. The care and nurturing, the emotional support, the development of the whole child cannot be measured with assessment data. So is it fair? Fair is where one goes to see prize winning livestock and enjoy a day of rides and cotton candy. The high stakes of testing should…
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