John King Says NYSED Won't Help Teachers Who Were Rated Using Faulty Data
Jessica Bakeman at Capital NY reports that NYSED Commissioner King says SED will do nothing to help teachers who were rated using erroneous data:ALBANY—The state Education Department is telling teachers whose evaluations were based on faulty data they will have to deal with their local school districts to make corrections. Some teachers, including many in Syracuse, are appealing their evaluations
Speakers At Commissioner King's Common Core Forum Overwhelmingly Negative Over Common Core, NYSED Agenda
The NYSED is trying to spin yesterday's Commissioner King public forum on Common Core and the SED reform agenda as a victory because King didn't do or say anything stupid and there were no major "ferret moments."Nonetheless Capital Confidential reports that there were 67 speakers at last night's forum and the overwhelming majority of those were not King- or SED-supporters:The good news f
Commissioner King "Listens" To The Public, But Was Persuaded By Nothing They Said
Again, I was at parent teacher conferences yesterday, so I was unable to watch the live stream of Commissioner King's Albany town hall meeting with parents over Common Core.But here's the takeaway I got from Jessica Bakeman's reporting on the meeting at Capital NY.500 parents, teachers and administrators showed up to talk to the King.The crowd was "rambunctious" but "ultimately resp
Parents Let Commissioner King, Know, Common Core Is Dying, It's Time To Take Our Schools Back!
I was doing the usual twelve hour work day for parent teacher conferences, so I missed the first John King parent forum on Common Core, but there's a trail of tweets that indicates Commissioner King said something stupid and lots of parents gave King the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth:King concludes that teachers need more professional development http://t.co/myjEK0Hapd— leonie h
I'm Getting Old
Friday morning after Thursday night parent conferences kicks my ass more and more every year.But of course I'd better not tell anybody.Someone told me "Bouncing back quickly after parent conference night" is competency 5c on the Danielson rubric.Wouldn't want to get dinged "ineffective" on that, would I?
10-24-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: UFT Spins The Evaluation System As A WinNYC Educator has a post up this morning noting that Peter Goodman, retired Unity hack extraordinaire, left a comment at Gotham Charter Schools on their post about the just released teacher evaluation results.Goodman wrote the following:On the just released state teacher evaluation 50% of teachers were "highly effective" and