To promote cultures of
continuous growth, schools and school districts should encourage and support feedback loops, honest coaching
conversations, and collaboration toward improved student outcomes.59 A recent report found that when teachers are
more open to feedback, their evaluation scores are
more likely to increase over time.60 Furthermore, the introduction of new teacher evaluation systems in recent years has created an opportunity to provide teachers with much
more effective feedback and to
more intentionally target professional learning to individual teachers» needs.61 When professional learning is rooted in collaboration and meaningful opportunities to apply new skills, these systems can become essential components of evaluation systems that support teacher growth.62
But clearly, the group's consensus, based on
conversations with
more senior non-partner colleagues, indicated
continuous progress being made to accommodate this reality.
What I see here is its function as an occasion for talk about how we should conduct ourselves, its function as a
more - or-less
continuous, thoughtful
conversation about boundaries and aspirations.