November is parent/teacher conference month in many school districts across the United States. Conferences give teachers the opportunity to have a face-to-face meeting with parents and discuss student progress from the first quarter of the school year. What should teachers remember as they prepare for conferences? What should parents expect to learn from their conference? I asked several principal colleagues to share their sage advice.



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I wrote the following which appears in today’s edition of the Baltimore Sun in the Readers Respond section.

Liz Bowie’s recent reporting on Maryland’s teacher evaluation system (Where ineffective teachers are found, November 2, 2014) raises many questions.  Bowie’s investigative report contains several quotes from Sandi Jacobs, the vice president of the National Council on Teacher Quality.  The NCTQ is a Washington think tank with a clear political agenda that is…

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