You can see the future for teacher evaluations and it is Tennessee.
NY Times photo: Emily Mitchell, a first-grade teacher at David Youree Elementary, will be evaluated in part on her school’s fifth-grade writing scores.
When IEA Executive Director Audrey Soglin headed the Governor’s committee to draft teacher evaluation legislation, it was done to qualify the state for Race to the Top funding.
Illinois never received the funding even though the legislature passed the bill that tied teacher evaluation to individual student performance.
Tennessee also changed their evaluation rules.
The Tennessee rules change got Arne Duncan’s approval. They got their Race to the Top grant.
Too bad for them.
Michael Winerip in the New York Times:
The new rules, enacted at the start of the school year, require Mr. Shelton (the