TURNING THE TABLES
from United Teacher: MR. DEASY’S POST-STULL CONFERENCE MEMO
BY WARREN FLETCHER IN THE PRESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVE COLUMN OF UNITED TEACHER, THE NEWSPAPER OF UTLA |HTTP://BIT.LY/1BF5VSU
Note to UNITED TEACHER readers: As this issue goes to press, the results of the recent membership-wide “Stull of the Superintendent” had just been tabulated and released by UTLA. Unlike the 36,000 working educators of Los Angeles, Mr. Deasy will not have to endure a post-Stull conference. The following is an approximation of what his post-Stull memo could have looked like.
July 19, 2013
From: The Teachers and Health and Human Services Professionals of LAUSD
To: John Deasy, Superintendent
Re: A Data-Driven Review of Your Performance
Mr. Deasy, the purpose of this memo, and of UTLA’s recent superintendent survey, is to give you usable and timely information about your job performance and to help you to improve. As educators, we understand that an effective evaluation is not a “gotcha” activity. So, let’s take a look at what the data tell us about your performance on some of the key objectives of your job:
Objective 1: Ensuring that teachers have a central role in curriculum, instruction, and assessment
In this area, 81 percent of educators who responded gave you a rating of below average or poor, and your average score (on a scale of 1 to 5) was 1.40. These numbers are troubling. Every day, LAUSD teachers must do our jobs in an instructional environment that is