Comments on: SLC: A Sloppy Experiment http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2006/02/slc-a-sloppy-experiment/ Challenge The Status Quo Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:57:06 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Tappet http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2006/02/slc-a-sloppy-experiment/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Tappet Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:00:00 +0000 http://www.toddseal.com/teaching/?p=10#comment-90 It sounds like you're in the same place as my school. I don't know how exactly it was presented to your faculty, but we were originally given the impression that this was an "easy money" grant - we'd take the money, and do paperwork to make what we were already doing look like SLC.<br /> <br /> Boy, were we wrong.<br /> <br /> Putting in an SLC is a lot of work, and requires huge buy-in from the entire faculty. Unfortunately, because of the way in which it was initially sold to us (and because we have a much-older faculty, with almost 50% within 5 years of retirement), we have experienced considerable push-back from our faculty. It's a mess. I believe in the idea of SLC; those benefits that you listed are in desperate need on our campus, as well. But it's like anything else: if you do it wrong, the the best you can hope for is to not make things worse. >sigh< Good luck to you, and if you find anything that really works in implementing your 10th Grade SLC, please let us know. It sounds like you’re in the same place as my school. I don’t know how exactly it was presented to your faculty, but we were originally given the impression that this was an “easy money” grant – we’d take the money, and do paperwork to make what we were already doing look like SLC.

Boy, were we wrong.

Putting in an SLC is a lot of work, and requires huge buy-in from the entire faculty. Unfortunately, because of the way in which it was initially sold to us (and because we have a much-older faculty, with almost 50% within 5 years of retirement), we have experienced considerable push-back from our faculty. It’s a mess. I believe in the idea of SLC; those benefits that you listed are in desperate need on our campus, as well. But it’s like anything else: if you do it wrong, the the best you can hope for is to not make things worse. >sigh< Good luck to you, and if you find anything that really works in implementing your 10th Grade SLC, please let us know.

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