The Washoe County School District searched for a solution that could serve as a true professional growth system for District employees, a common platform for conducting and tracking evaluations that aligned professional development to evaluation results and compliance needs. (performancematters.com)
But while the system was being designed, anti-public education legislation was passed in Pennsylvania that hijacked a promising professional growth system by making it a numbers game fixated on ranking, sorting and firing teachers. (huffingtonpost.com)
The District partnered with Performance Matters to develop MyPGS, the District's comprehensive professional growth system. (performancematters.com)