City unveils new steps designed to make path to tenure tougher
For more than 6,000 teachers, the path to tenure this year will be different and, the city hopes, tougher.
City education officials announced a new rubric today that will guide principals as they make tenure decisions this year. The “effectiveness framework” places teachers in one of four categories: highly effective, effective, developing, and ineffective, based on students’ tests scores, classroom observations, parent feedback, and other factors.
In years past, principals completed a brief online form and did not have to explain their reasoning for giving a teacher tenure. Now, school leaders will now be required to fill out a form giving their rationale.
The city is also trying to make tenure harder to earn by giving principals hiring incentives if they deny it. Principals looking to fill a position vacated by a teacher who has been denied tenure will be freed from the city’s