Kim Marshall on Teacher Accountability
In this op-ed in EdWeek, Kim Marshall advocates for team-based accountability for student growth as a part of teacher evaluations: So why are folks still talking about individual merit pay when it’s...
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WSJ: Where Teacher Report Cards Fall Short
In this Wall Street Journal piece on teacher accountability for student growth, Carl Bialik gives a concise round-up of the current debate on tying teacher evaluations to test scores: One perplexing...
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How to Set Meaningful Professional Growth Goals
In many districts, the annual evaluation process for teachers involves setting both student growth goals and professional growth goals. I’ve found that professional growth goals are often fuzzier, and...
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When You Don’t Have Enough Evidence
Over the past few years, many states have adopted much more stringent teacher evaluation requirements. We have new rubrics, more required observations, and more complex criteria on which to rate...
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“For all those idiot principals, this is just another way to play ‘gotcha.’”
A while back, while blogging for Education Week, I ripped into the over-hyped marketing for Robert Marzano’s teacher evaluation system. That system is now in use in districts around the country, and...
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