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Teacher: How to improve D.C.’s IMPACT evaluation system
- 09-01-2011
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Guest blog by Stephanie Black/Washington Post
I came to D.C. Public Schools in 2007, a time when ineffective teachers were essentially free to spend their days doing whatever nonsense they so wished to do. During my second year of teaching, the teacher next door to me often had her students practice cursive for a majority of their school day, and another teacher down the hall spent much of his teaching time in the hallway talking on his cell phone. It horrified me to see it going on then, and I would never want such teachers to be able to find a place in D.C. Public Schools now. After Michelle Rhee was appointed chancellor in 2007, the IMPACT teacher evaluation was created so that DCPS and principals could have a solid way of dealing with educators who were doing less than acceptable work in their positions. Rhee quit last October and Henderson, her deputy, succeeded her. (more...)
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