With today's
PEAC improvements, parents and communities can be confident that teachers will be able to enhance their impact on students — a focus put at risk this school year as teachers, administrators, and school districts were forced to put enormous time and resources into compliance and paperwork required by the Connecticut State Department of Education.
According to
PEAC members, some of the issues that
PEAC and state officials should look at include the requirement that statewide test data be included in evaluations, the strict formulaic approach of the system that limits judgment and takes an inordinate amount of time away from teaching and learning, specified teacher rating categories that interfere with
improvement, and evaluator training that may not ensure calibration.