If enough educators -- and noneducators -- realize there are serious flaws in how we evaluate our schools, maybe we can stop this absurdity.
BY W. JAMES POPHAM
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A Significant Error That Policymakers Commit
by Larry Cuban
As a result of inhabiting a different world than teachers, policymakers make a consequential error. They and a cadre of influentials confuse teacher quality with teaching quality, that is, the personal traits of teachers—dedicated, caring, gregarious, intellectually curious—produce student learning rather than the classroom and…
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3 Teacher Evaluation Mistakes to Avoid
by Robyn Jackson
School districts across the US are creating new teacher evaluation systems that are supposed to better identify ineffective teaching and, in some cases, tie a teacher’s rating to student performance. My quarrel is not with the evaluation systems themselves however. My quarrel is with how they are being implemented. Here are three of the most common mistakes I’ve seen:
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Pathways to Hope
From the Marshall Memo #436
“Many young people dream the American dream, believe it can be achieved, and haven’t a clue how to make it a reality,” says Shane Lopez, who runs the Gallup Student Poll, in this Kappan article. “Students generally are confident. They think ‘I can do anything!’… But, where there is a will, there is not always a way. Students often lack strategies to…
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Carolyn Abbott, a 7th and 8th grade math teacher…
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Making Schools Work
By DAVID L. KIRP
NY Times
Published: May 19, 2012
AMID the ceaseless and cacophonous debates about how to close the achievement gap, we’ve turned away from one tool that has been shown to work: school desegregation. That strategy, ushered in by the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, has been unceremoniously ushered…
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With Teacher Evaluation Rubrics, Less Is More, Says Mike Schmoker
From the Marshall Memo #436
In this punchy Kappan article, writer/consultant Mike Schmoker criticizes some widely used teacher-evaluation rubrics/frameworks as unwieldy, time-consuming, and anxiety-producing. “No one has asked the obvious questions,” he says: “Does this innovation have a track record? Could it have unintended…
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Phil D'Elia.
Phil successful guessed that the school pictured below was the famous English private school Eton.
Phil also knew that the famous fictional villain who was said to graduate from Eton was Captain Hook!
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For the “Connected Educator” Twitter can be a mainstay for information and sources. In order to build up a steady flow of information and sources, one need only to establish a list of people to follow on Twitter who put out the tweets, or messages, that contain links, URL’s, to that information or source. In Twitter terms these people are called “Follows”. They are the people one follows. An educator using Twitter for professional reasons would follow educators, since they put out education…
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Getting teacher evaluation right
Hechinger Report
In Los Angeles, where I teach seventh-grade math, our current teacher evaluation system is undeniably broken. Initially designed to be a robust…
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Suzanne Parker Hall who correctly determined the school below was Whittier Union High School in Whittier, CA. It was used as the school (Hill Valley HS) in Back to the Future. By the way, this was also Richard Nixon's high school.
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Jessica Hagy, Contributor
Nine Dangerous Things You Were Taught In School
Be aware of the insidious and unspoken lessons you learned as a child. To thrive in the world outside the classroom, you’re going to have…
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Harvard Education Newsletter
Volume 28, Number 3
May/June 2012
Bully, the Documentary
Painful film is a must-see for teachers and students alike
By COLLEEN GILLARD
Schools and bullies are so closely linked that even young kids who feel threatened know…
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If You Teach or Write 5-Paragraph Essays--Stop It!
By Ray Salazar, May 10, 2012 at 8:55 pm
Part I: Introduction
For decades, too many high-school teachers have been instilling persuasive writing skills by teaching students the five-paragraph…
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