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I was saying yesterday, I was talking to outgoing Dallas ISD trustee Edwin Flores earlier this week about the ongoing teacher-evaluation revamp, which he's been working on for, oh, two years now. Reason it came up: The board received yet another update on the redo at its briefing today, and this will be the last time Flores gets to weigh in on the subject. "But if I can stay involved," he says, "I'd be glad to -- to the extent it's possible." The district's looking at gathering data from myriad sources in order to grade the graders: "content experts" (which is to say, outsiders brought in to peek inside classrooms), principals, fellow teacher and even the teachers themselves via portfolios. (And: "self-reflection and video," look out.) But it's the students who probably ought to have the most say, at least when Flores explains it. "This is amazing, man," he says, his voice rising. "Of all the things they measured, what most closely correlated with effective teaching was when the student was asked what they thought of the teacher. It correlated the most with
