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In this episode of the EdNext podcast, Marty West talks with Chad Aldeman, a principal at Bellwether Education Partners who worked as a policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Education, about what went right and what went wrong with teacher evaluation reform.

Not exact matches

Cuomo has had an at - times truculent relationship with teachers unions, especially when it comes to support for charter schools and other concerns of the education reform movement, such as stronger teacher evaluations.

«The key education reforms are dealing with the epidemic of failing schools, improvement to the teacher evaluation system, tenure reform, teacher performance bonuses and scholarships to attract new teachers.

But Mr. Malatras has been particularly visible in pushing Mr. Cuomo's education reform agenda, authoring a long and public letter to the state's Board of Regents and liaising with various interests in Albany as all sides gear up for a post-budget fight over the specifics of teacher evaluations.

On Thursday, with the New York State Board of Regents hearing testimony regarding the newly approved teacher evaluation system, leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and public school parents offered recommendations and sent letters calling for a system that ensures all public school students have access to high - quality teachers.

Nationally, Natale's words struck a chord as teachers everywhere are dealing with reforms similar to those implemented in Connecticut this year — a new teacher evaluation system, new academic standards known as the Common Core State Standards, and the trial of a new computerized testing system.

Cuomo's ambitious education reform proposals include raising the charter cap by 100 slots, weighing standardized tests more heavily in teacher evaluations and linking evaluations with tenure awards, among other reforms.

Plattsburgh City School District Superintendent Jay LeBrun attributes the overall decrease to the link between student scores and teacher evaluations — a major sticking point last year as educators battled with the state Department of Education and the governor over reforms that would have wedded the two.

Commissioner Elia and the Board of Regents are revising the teacher and principal evaluations for the fifth time since 2010, and Pallotta, with NYSUT, says there's a lot riding on the reforms, including whether the test boycott movement will continue.

What if the reason that teacher evaluation reform was so disappointing — with 98 percent of teachers still rated effective — was because we misdiagnosed the problem?

The worst thing we could do at this time with teacher and principal evaluations related to student achievement, even though I think it is the Holy Grail of school reform, is to impose any version from Washington.

Just as Delaware was releasing its report, Fordham's hosted a panel discussion, Traversing the Teacher - Evaluation Terrain, with four experts to discuss developments in the world of educator - evaluation reform: Sandi Jacobs of NCTQ, Alice Johnson Cain of Teach Plus, Chet Linton of the School Improvement Network, and Rob Weil oEvaluation Terrain, with four experts to discuss developments in the world of educator - evaluation reform: Sandi Jacobs of NCTQ, Alice Johnson Cain of Teach Plus, Chet Linton of the School Improvement Network, and Rob Weil oevaluation reform: Sandi Jacobs of NCTQ, Alice Johnson Cain of Teach Plus, Chet Linton of the School Improvement Network, and Rob Weil of the AFT.

The AFT's Weil expressed strong concern that the goals of evaluation reform — improving teacher practice and student learning — have gotten lost in the technicalities of developing algorithms and rubrics and the speed with which these systems are being implemented.

Digital learning is more than the latest addition to education reformers» to - do lists, filed along with teacher evaluations, charter schools, tenure reform, academic standards, and all the rest.

Someday, when they write the history of the education - reform movement, future scholars will tug their chins in puzzlement as they ponder today's obsession with high - stakes teacher evaluations.

Mostly this new ESEA is a rollback of No Child Left Behind, with a few reform - minded elements (on teacher evaluations, charter schools) thrown in for good measure.

It's how you end up with exciting victories like the federal School Improvement Grant program, the Common Core, or teacher evaluation reform, that look a lot less victorious in hindsight.

According to Duncan, «Over 40 states are developing next - generation accountability and support systems,» guided by the CSSOs, and «many states are moving forward with reforms in teacher and principal evaluation and support, turning around low - performing schools, and expanding access to high - quality schools.»

Also in this issue: A look back at what the Obama administration's signature education reform got wrong, with lessons learned to guide states and districts in refining their teacher evaluation systems, and a warning on the limits of federally - led school reform; a proposal for how to redesign education research under the Every Student Succeeds Act; and a debate on whether there is a federal constitutional right to education.

Similar benefits were not observed in schools implementing the same program the following year with less support from the central office, suggesting the importance of sustained support for teacher evaluation reform to translate into improved student performance.

In the fall of 2012, CPS launched a new teacher - evaluation program in order to comply with the Illinois Performance Evaluation Reform Act, which requires that indicators of student growth be a «significant factor» in teacher eevaluation program in order to comply with the Illinois Performance Evaluation Reform Act, which requires that indicators of student growth be a «significant factor» in teacher eEvaluation Reform Act, which requires that indicators of student growth be a «significant factor» in teacher evaluationevaluation.

It's a good point, and highlights the problems with a reform strategy that is dismissive of suburban concerns and proudly unconcerned with how preferred policy solutions (accountability, teacher evaluation) play out in upper - income precincts.

Teachers felt that reforms like the Common Core and the incorporation of student test scores in teacher evaluations were being done to them, rather than with them, said Rich Ognibene, a former New York State Teacher of the Year who signed onto an open letter to Cuomo earlier this year protesting his leadership on eduteacher evaluations were being done to them, rather than with them, said Rich Ognibene, a former New York State Teacher of the Year who signed onto an open letter to Cuomo earlier this year protesting his leadership on eduTeacher of the Year who signed onto an open letter to Cuomo earlier this year protesting his leadership on education.

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As with most reforms — think charter schools, or teacher evaluations — this strategy is only worth doing if done well.

With Abbott's election as governor, the proposal headed toward legislation as part of a larger reform package, including an A — F grade for individual school campuses and a new teacher evaluation system.

These approaches also provide an opportunity to refocus on the original intent of the educator evaluation movement ─ to provide teachers and principals with meaningful, differentiated professional support and growth opportunities that enable them to grab the reform reins.

After speaking to more than a dozen observers of the teacher evaluation legislation from various points of view, the answer is a more complex layer of personality rubs, distrust and skepticism, mixed in with the state's longstanding feud between the state's conservative school reform community and teacher unions.

Accordingly, even though their data for this part of this study come from one district, their findings are similar to others evidenced in the «Widget Effect» report; hence, there are still likely educational measurement (and validity) issues on both ends (i.e., with using such observational rubrics as part of America's reformed teacher evaluation systems and using survey methods to put into check these systems, overall).

As part of Michigan's teacher tenure reform law, the Michigan Council of Educator Effectiveness was established by the Legislature in June 2011 with the charge of creating a «fair, transparent and feasible evaluation system for teachers and administrators.»

The organization works with ALEC to write and promote education reform policies such as school grades, mandatory grad retention, high stakes testing, unmitigated charter growth, corporate tax scholarships, competency based education, personal learning accounts, virtual learning, tying student test scores to teacher evaluations, weakening teachers unions and attacking the constitutional authority of school boards.

As I wrote into a recent post: ``... it seems that the residual effects of the federal governments» former [teacher evaluation reform policies and] efforts are still dominating states» actions with regards to educational accountability.»

That is, many reform efforts tend to assume that principals are overly generous with their evaluations because they lack either the motivation or the information to demand better performance from their teachers.

CHICAGO — Considering how reluctant our public education system is to change, the swiftness with which reform has spread in teacher evaluations is nothing short of breathtaking.

With new Common Core initiatives, impending new tests, controversies surrounding teacher evaluation, tightening financial realities, and a plethora of competing reform agendas devised without input from those who actually work in schools, we were not sure how educators would respond.

Yet as seen with the battles over implementing Common Core reading and math standards, as well as the fights over implementing test score growth - based teacher evaluations, these reforms will be even more difficult to implement than the first round.

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During the two - and - a-half hour session, «Teacher Evaluation In the Classroom,» attended by about 200 people, stakeholders affected by the ongoing reform effort shared their perspectives with the audience while answering questions from both moderator John Mooney, education writer and co-founder of New Jersey Spotlight magazine, and audience members comprised largely of concerned parents and educators.

New Jersey was awarded $ 38 million in late 2011 on the third try in a competition that cost one state education commissioner his job and ultimately gave the state a late start in several federally funded programs dealing with teacher evaluations, curriculum and testing reforms, and school choice.

This alignment of goals contributed to the rash of statehouses that reformed teacher tenure and evaluation laws from 2010 to 2014, with prominent Democrats such as New Jersey Sen. Corey Booker, Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo championing the cause.

The new law (E2SSB 6696 - Regarding Education Reform (2010)-RRB-, enacted in support of the state's efforts to participate in Race to the Top, requires Washington's Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) to partner with the Washington Education Association, Washington Association of School Administrators, the Association of Washington School Principals, and the Washington State Parent Teacher Association to design a process for improving the state's principal and teacher evaluation sTeacher Association to design a process for improving the state's principal and teacher evaluation steacher evaluation systems.

Cuomo will step in with his own plan for teacher evaluation reform if the city can't get its own in place by Jan. 17, 2013.

This, along with the related overhaul of teacher performance and preparation program evaluation, remains the last frontier of reform.

The Corporate Education Reform Industry, with the help of elected officials likes of Dannel Malloy, Andrew Cuomo, Jeb Bush and others, have used the problems facing public schools in poorer communities to institute an agenda of more standardized testing, inappropriate teacher evaluation programs and the privatization of public education through the creation of privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools.

Sure, Supt. John Deasy has managed to at least talk the talk on systemically reforming the district (even as he makes rather weak moves as striking a deal with the AFT's City of Angels local on a teacher evaluation plan that does little to actually measure the performance of teachers based on their success with the students they instruct in classrooms) and has even allowed for families at 24th Street Elementary to exercise the district's own Parent Trigger policy and take over the school.

And collaborative teacher evaluation reform like LAUSD's Frameworks for Teaching and Learning must be implemented with urgency and investment.

Florida's revamped teacher - evaluation system is all part of the education reform agenda pushed by the Obama Administration, which is giving states $ 4.3 billion in its Race to the Top grant program to come up with new ways to grade teachers and tie student performance to their paychecks.

«I have a lot of agreement with the president and Arne Duncan on these education issues, and I've said that publicly many times,» Christie said in March at a televised forum on education.Christie has said that he and the president often see eye to eye on charter schools, teacher evaluation, and tenure reform among other topics.

While I disagree with its spot atop the Education Reform «To Do» List, I'd still like to share a logical teacher's perspective on teacher evaluations that focuses on teacher improvement and professional development, not firing teachers.

And because the Obama Administration has followed up on its waiver gambit with other senseless decisions — including Duncan's move this past June to allow waiver states a one - year moratorium from fully implementing teacher evaluation systems they promised to put into place in order to allay opposition from teachers» unions and others to the use of exams aligned with Common Core reading and math standards — the waiver gambit has also made it harder for reform - minded politicians to push ahead on transforming education for kids.