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Carrot for changing teacher evaluations
- 12-17-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Last month, State Board of Education President Ted Mitchell couldn’t get any votes for his plan to encourage districts to change the way they evaluate teachers and administrators. Education groups didn’t like the proposal any better. But this week, with the California School Boards Association and the Association of California School Administrators now praising it, the Board unanimously adopted a new version that offers an incentive to districts willing to link evaluations with student achievement and good classroom practices. The State Board’s role in what has become a national debate on evaluations is limited by state statutes and local bargaining. But there is one modest area — the authority to grant waivers from the onerous Ed Code – in which the State Board can offer a carrot. Under the new policy, schools or districts that create annual principal and teacher evaluations that meet a dozen broad criteria will be on a fast track to get waivers tied to improving student achievement. The policy coincides with the efforts in some districts to adopt new evaluations. (more…)
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