Writing a Magnet School Grant A grant-writer for a school system told me she was supposed to report what the demographic makeup of a school would be if the magnet school recruited and enrolled specific numbers of minority students. She told me that she thought the kids would have to be there before she could compute the ratios. She was telling someone else that this cannot be known, yet she was supposed to give the ratios in a proposal she was writing. The person she was talking to told her that there may be a way to know what the demographic makeup ratios would be given specific changes in the number of minority students, and that I would not only know if there was a way to compute this, I might even be able to do it. Sure enough, I not only knew this could be known, but I was able to put formulas in a spreadsheet so they could play around with different numbers and get the ratios.Which beliefs are influencing her Equity Lens? Click to check your answer B.1 Cause and Effect B.2 Expert vs. Evidence B.3 What At-Risk Means B.4 Desired Outcomes and Goals B.5 What is STEM and Why We Need to Fill STEM Pipeline Which skills are influencing her Equity Lens? Click to check your answer. S.1 Knowing What Can Be Known S.2 How to Identify Kids to Align Services S.3 How to Classify Things S.4 Working With Data S.5 Understanding Data Details S.6 Understanding Federal Data-Handling Laws BeliefsB.1 Cause and Effect NA B.2 Expert vs. Evidence NA B3. What At-Risk Means NA B.4 Desired Outcomes and Goals NA B.5 What is STEM and why we need to fill STEM Pipeline NA SkillsS.1 Knowing What Can be Known She didn't know if it would be possible to know what the ratio of demographic characteristics would be, but she knew to ask someone who was known to have better math skills. I first encountered this "Not knowing what can be known," when I was 18 years old working at KFC, and my manager did not know it would be possible to know how many pieces of chicken to cook to fill a pre-ordered set of boxes. I computed the exact number of each type of chicken and he was stunned that this was even possible to do. I, too, was stunned. I have since seen this "not knowing what can be known" characteristic frequently. S.2 How to Identify Kids to Align Services NA S.3 How to Classify Things NA S.4 Working With Data She did not have any quantitative reasoning skills. But, she knew to ask someone. S.5 Understanding Data Details NA S.6 Understanding Federal Data-Handling Laws NA
