LAUSD moving to better review teachers
Posted: 07/12/2012 09:17:02 PM PDT
Updated: 07/12/2012 09:25:54 PM PDT
Limerick Avenue Elementary School Principal Betsy Garvin, left, and Chatsworth Park Elementary Principal Esther Leon attend a training boot camp Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at Mulholland Middle School in Lake Balboa on a new teacher performance evaluation system planned for LAUSD. (Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer)
It's got more depth, more breadth and, certainly, more heft.
At 30 pages, the performance evaluation that Los Angeles Unified wants to use to rate its teachers is 27 pages longer than the one that's been in place for years.
Instead of the cursory review that now nets nearly every teacher a satisfactory rating - despite the district's dismal 56 percent graduation rate - the new Teaching and Learning Framework plots a teacher's knowledge