Next steps for LAUSD teacher evaluations: You, me, and AGT

10-27-2011

Guest blog by Lisa Alva Wood/InterACT

An interesting thing happened at a Teach Plus event in Los Angeles last month. LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy engaged in a “conversation” with about 100 public and charter school teachers and teacher-leaders on the district’s new Teacher Evaluation System (TES). After Deasy’s opening remarks, moderator Celine Coggins, CEO of Teach Plus, asked the assembly how we felt about evaluation and what constituted an “effective teacher.” Three disparate comments followed: One teacher declared that it is high time that variations in students’ school experiences and subsequent performance were reduced. The woman stated that teachers needed to “get over” their reluctance to identify what they were striving for in the classroom and for individual students, and then actually measure it. This, she said, would make teachers more effective by revealing what actually worked. (more...)

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