ACT Report: Improve Teacher Evaluation
Accomplished California Teachers (the organization that sponsors this blog), has released its debut policy report, “A Quality Teacher in Every Classroom: Creating a Teacher Evaluation System that Works for California.” Watch for an official press release coming very soon.
This report was produced through a long collaboration involving thirteen California public school teachers (including me) whose teaching and leadership experience, research, discussions, and writing provide the substance of the report, and whose consensus yielded the policy recommendations in the report. Our group included teachers from up and down the state, with experience teaching from kindergarten to twelfth grade, in a variety of subject areas, in small schools and large, traditional schools and charters. We had union members and non-members, several National Board Certified Teachers, and winners of all sorts of awards for teaching. What we all had in common was a certainty that teacher evaluations can be done more effectively – and must be done more effectively, especially if other education reforms are to go forward with any chance of success. Our hope is that policy-makers at every level in California will find it helpful to review the available research and
This report was produced through a long collaboration involving thirteen California public school teachers (including me) whose teaching and leadership experience, research, discussions, and writing provide the substance of the report, and whose consensus yielded the policy recommendations in the report. Our group included teachers from up and down the state, with experience teaching from kindergarten to twelfth grade, in a variety of subject areas, in small schools and large, traditional schools and charters. We had union members and non-members, several National Board Certified Teachers, and winners of all sorts of awards for teaching. What we all had in common was a certainty that teacher evaluations can be done more effectively – and must be done more effectively, especially if other education reforms are to go forward with any chance of success. Our hope is that policy-makers at every level in California will find it helpful to review the available research and