Reinventing the Wheel (at a Goodyear Plant)
OCTOBER 7, 2010
Yesterday, Amy Slowthower shared her well-earned frustrations about the expensive, tiresome process of developing a new teacher evaluation system for DPS. I feel her pain; there’s nary an aspect of school reform where there aren’t people taking forever and a day to come up with some new plan, and squandering millions of dollars as they dither.
What I don’t understand is why we feel it’s necessary for DPS to come up with a new teacher evaluation system in the first place.
When I first learned about Denver’s teacher evaluation system, I was actually very impressed. The current system identifies five performance standards on which teachers are assessed (instruction, assessment, curriculum & planning, learning environment, and