Principals report exercising more power over
matters like teacher evaluation, but they remain equally responsible for traditional activities, like setting school discipline.
And parents don't know that our district will be the model for all others — because we do it best — we will collect SSP data in the form of social and emotional surveys, we will change our curriculum to socially engineer our children with social and emotional instruction without parents suspecting a thing, we will assess and survey up the wazoo about academics, school climate, cyberbullying, etc. while willing parents stand by, we will enhance our
teacher evaluation program and refine it into a well - oiled
teacher manipulation machine, and since our kids would do well no
matter what because we have uber - involved parents, it will look
like everything the Administrators are doing at the State's recommendation causes the success.
New
evaluation systems coming on line across the country which prioritize effectiveness and evidence of student learning (see Goal 3 - B) offer an opportunity to bypass counterproductive efforts
like transcript review and get to the heart of the
matter: is the out of state
teacher seeking licensure in a new state an effective
teacher?