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From The Editor
Teachers are in the spotlight. More than ever, people know how important teaching quality is to a student’s learning experience. Not surprisingly, the conversation about teachers isn’t all nece..
Policy Meets Practice
Stewart Thorson, principal of New Century Technology High School in Huntsville, Alabama, develops plans for his school’s professional learning in an environment restricted by state regulations. I..
Partners With A Purpose
What is — or should be — the purpose of a teacher evaluation system? To compare teachers? To inform the public? To help teachers improve? Legislators might say that a teacher evaluation systemâ..
Inspire Learning, Not Dread
Policymakers have turned to teacher evaluation as one way to ensure accountability for school reform. In most evaluation systems, the emphasis focuses on the external: test scores, observations of ..
Turn On The Light
Tiffany Baldwin, 1st-grade teacher in the Alhambra Elementary School District in Phoenix, Arizona, stood in front of her class ready to begin a language arts lesson that would assist her students in u..
Two Sides Of A Coin
On your first day of teaching, did each student listen to your every word? Did their work show mastery of the learning goals you’d set? Or did you, like me, glance through papers thinking, How c..
Tell Me So I Can Hear
Feedback plays an important role in education. New teacher and principal evaluation systems, the Common Core State Standards, and Race to the Top initiatives, among others, underscore the critical imp..
From 'Gotcha' to Growth
Implementing teacher evaluation systems across the United States has created both challenges and opportunities to improving teacher quality. Lessons learned at the state level illustrate a wide ran..
Up Close
In My View: This Is Our Educator Evaluation System Today For each statement below, mark how you would assess your school, district, or organization’s educator evaluation s..
