Hechinger Report | Using teachers to evaluate teachers

Hechinger Report | Using teachers to evaluate teachers:

Using teachers to evaluate teachers

by Scott Elliott

INDIANAPOLIS — Any number of educators—principals, personnel directors, superintendents—can be called upon to evaluate teachers.
But one school district in Indiana, Anderson, has decided that another group has perhaps the best expertise to judge quality teaching: other teachers.
This type of peer review is catching on nationally but is rare in Indiana.
That might soon change.
The Indiana Department of Education’s push to overhaul teacher performance reviews has specifically made room for districts that want to use teachers as evaluators.
But it wasn’t without a fight. The “Toledo” peer review model, used in Anderson, was invented by a teachers