New teacher evaluation systems in Tennessee have rough road ahead
Lester School 8th grade teacher Rebecca Sellers watches on as students in her language arts class work on an assignment. Sellers has spent 17 years as an educator, including the last two at Lester. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)
Rebecca Sellers, an eighth-grade English teacher at the Lester Pre-K-8 school in Memphis, looked wary as she walked into the teachers’ lounge on a Monday afternoon last fall. The previous week, the school’s assistant