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The three Hartford Board of Education members who attended the November 1st Teaching & Learning Committee meeting, where no teaching type persons are ever invited to attend, will have to inform the other members of the board on what served as justification, or what the Board calls “vetting,” at this meeting for blindly following Superintendent Torres-Rodriguez’s lead and approving another contract for the group, ReVision Learning (RL).
ReVision Learning, a Massachusetts company spawned from the Tepper & Flynn company of Windsor Locks, provides “leadership coaching services” to school districts resulting in “increased levels of student achievement through improved systems and structures.” They have been providing these services to Hartford High over the last 4 years, and this is the second year for their providing services to McDonough Middle School.
RL states on its website that they provide the district with an “Annual Review of Practice” with “Comprehensive Data Collection.” But, of course, as is practiced around these parts, none of that has ever been presented to the Board when RL has come knocking for another contract extension, including this most recent meeting.
So, let’s just cut to the chase and look at what the RL work has created at HPS in the context of “student achievement.”
RL started services at HPHS in 2020. The year before they arrived, the 3 Pathway Academies at HPHS averaged a 37.1 score on the state’s ELA Performance Index (a 75 score is the state’s “ultimate target”). Last year, HPHS scored a 35.3 on the ELA index, almost a point higher than the 34.2 from the year prior but nearly 2 points lower than before ReVision Learning appeared in the school.
The average of the math Performance Index scores for the 3 pathway schools in 2018-19 was 33.1. Last year, HPHS scored a 33.7 on the math index, a slight drop from the year before but just over a half-point rise from the year prior to ReVision’s arrival.
The news is not better at McDonough as the table shows year-over-year decreases in ELA and Math Performance Index scores while under the services of ReVision Learning.
Based on the renewal of ReVision’s contract for another year, the Superintendent’s presentation at the meeting states that HPHS’ math Performance Index score will rise from last year’s 33.7 to 55.0 by the end of this year! HPS predicts Hartford High’s score on the ELA index will rise from last year’s 35.3 to 54.8 by the end of this school year! HPS also predicts that HPHS 2021-22 graduation rate of 55.6% (incorrectly stated on presentation documents as 62.8%) will balloon to 83.1% in June of 2024!
Based on all this, ReVision Learning is asking for $297,000. Life is great if you are a total failure at what you profess you can do yet you keep getting rewarded for doing it based on…I have no idea.
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