Next Steps for LAUSD Teacher Evaluations: You, Me, and AGT
Lisa Alva Wood
Today’s InterACT guest blogger is Lisa Alva Wood, a National Board Certified high school English teacher from Los Angeles. Her prior guest blog posts include Is the Mayor Listening? and Education Nation – “Job One” Panel Reviewed.
An interesting thing happened at a Teach Plus event in Los Angeles last month. LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy engaged in a “conversation” with about 100 public and charter school teachers and teacher-leaders on the district’s new Teacher Evaluation System (TES). After Deasy’s opening remarks, moderator Celine Coggins, CEO of Teach Plus, asked the assembly how we felt about evaluation and what constituted an “effective
