The Utility of Student Perception Surveys to Give Teachers Feedback : An Introduction to the My Teacher Questionnaire | VAMboozled!

The Utility of Student Perception Surveys to Give Teachers Feedback : An Introduction to the My Teacher Questionnaire | VAMboozled!

The Utility of Student Perception Surveys to Give Teachers Feedback : An Introduction to the My Teacher Questionnaire

This is another guest post for the followers of this blog.

In short, Rikkert van der Lans of the University of Groningen’s Department of Teacher Education, emailed me a few months ago about an article I published with one of my PhD students titled “Student perception surveys for K-12 teacher evaluation in the United States: A survey of surveys.” In this piece, he was interested in our review of the “many untested [student] questionnaires that are applied by schools [to evaluate teachers],” and “thought [I] might also be interested [in his and his colleagues’] work around the ‘My Teacher’ questionnaire.” Apparently, it has been applied globally across 15 different countries and, importantly, not only given it is research-based but also researched with psychometric characteristics actually warranting its use. Hence, I asked him to write a guest post, particularly for those of you who, post the U.S.’s passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA; see prior posts about ESSA here and here), are looking to implement a researched/validated instrument for student evaluation purposes. Below is his post.

Thank you Audrey Amrein-Beardsley for inviting me to write this blog post. I live in the Netherlands and despite living across the Atlantic, I recognize many of the issues identified by you and your coauthor with student surveys, including their increased use, their novelty, and the small knowledge base about how to use them (reliably and validly). In my writing, I mentioned our own validated survey: the “My Teacher” questionnaire (MTQ) which currently is in use in 15 countries,1 with English and Spanish2 versions also having been developed.

In many ways, the MTQ is similar to other survey instruments, which is a good thing but not much of a selling point. So, let me introduce some evidence of validity unique to the MTQ and related to the topics (1) formative feedback and (2) use of multiple measures. Unique to the MTQ is the evidence in support of an interpretation of scores in terms of teachers’ stage of development (for details see these publications 3, 4, 5). I have myself used the MTQ to give feedback (face-to-face) with over 200 teachers, and what they CONTINUE READING: The Utility of Student Perception Surveys to Give Teachers Feedback : An Introduction to the My Teacher Questionnaire | VAMboozled!

KIPP charter school co-founder sues after being fired for alleged sexual misconduct - The Washington Post

KIPP charter school co-founder sues after being fired for alleged sexual misconduct - The Washington Post

KIPP charter school co-founder sues after being fired for alleged sexual misconduct

A founder of the KIPP charter school network who was fired in 2018 after being accused of sexual misconduct is suing the organization, saying the allegations were false and that his career and reputation have been destroyed by the actions of KIPP.

KIPP executives called the lawsuit filed by Mike Feinberg “baseless and frivolous,” and said they “regret” that he is putting his accusers and the “entire KIPP community through further distress.”

Feinberg, who in 1994 co-founded a Texas school that grew into the nation’s largest charter network, filed the lawsuit Thursday and is seeking a jury trial and punitive and other damages. He has consistently denied an allegation that he sexually abused a student in the late 1990s. The allegation triggered two investigations.

A letter issued by KIPP on Feb. 22, 2018, announcing Feinberg’s firing said an independent probe had found that an allegation of sexual abuse from two decades earlier had “credibility.” It said Feinberg denied misconduct

The letter also cited an allegation of sexual harassment against Feinberg involving an adult employed by KIPP Houston; that case involved a financial settlement, the letter said. And it said there was another “credible” but uncorroborated allegation of sexual harassment of an adult employed by KIPP Houston. Both women were KIPP graduates.

Feinberg’s lawsuit says that he was never given “detailed information about the allegations” against him and that if he had, he could have “provided facts that would have disproved them.”

“KIPP’s public statements following Mike’s termination were false and inflammatory,” the lawsuit says. “KIPP knew that such a serious allegation would destroy Mike’s career in education and be personally devastating to him, his family and friends. But KIPP didn’t care. What mattered most to KIPP was that Mike be removed and CONTINUE READING: KIPP charter school co-founder sues after being fired for alleged sexual misconduct - The Washington Post

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The answers for schools aren’t just in Finland or Singapore. | Cloaking Inequity

The answers for schools aren’t just in Finland or Singapore. | Cloaking Inequity

THE ANSWERS FOR SCHOOLS AREN’T JUST IN FINLAND OR SINGAPORE.

I spent some time talking with Linda Blackford, the local column writer for the Lexington Herald Leader. She wrote a piece based on our conversation entitled The answers for Kentucky schools aren’t in Finland or Singapore. ‘You just have to go to Beaumont.’

Last year, University of Kentucky professor Wayne Lewis took an unpaid leave of absence from the College of Education to become state education commissioner, hired by Gov. Matt Bevin’s charter school-loving board to finally enact a Koch-fueled dream of publicly funded private schools throughout throughout the Commonwealth.

 

This summer, Lewis got a new boss at UK, who arrived just as he happened to publish a research paper that found segregation is more intense in charter schools than public schools in general. Julian Vasquez Heilig, 44, the new dean of the UK College of Education, said the timing was coincidental, but the research is clear and compelling.

 

“We know from the research that diversity and integration is good for all kids,” Vasquez Heilig said in an interview a few days before classes start at UK. “We have to decide for ourselves whether we prefer a Balkanized society or a diverse society. That’s a decision we’re going to have to make.”

 

Vasquez isn’t afraid of talking about provocative subjects; in the past seven years, his blog, Cloaking Inequity has taken on numerous controversial topics, such as why pro-charter school research frequently comes from organizations that already support them.

 

He’s a bold, interesting choice for UK, an institution that has traditionally preferred not to tangle with the legislative and executive branches that used to fund it. Certainly, his credentials are impressive: the University of Michigan for undergraduate and Stanford University for his masters and Ph.D., then a stint at the University of Texas before becoming a professor of educational leadership and policy studies and director of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership program at California State University, Sacramento.

 

He’s not a total stranger to Lexington; he’s been coming here since 1993 when his uncle moved here to work for IBM. He sees Kentucky as a challenge to himself and the College of Education, which he says must make itself more visible and available in important policy discussions around the state.

 

“We want to make sure we’re not the ivory tower where Rapunzel rarely lets down her hair,” he said. “We want to be community engaged and community relevant … UK as one of the lead institutions has an important CONTINUE READING:

The answers for schools aren’t just in Finland or Singapore. | Cloaking Inequity

Badass Teachers Association Blog: TFA is Bad for America by Thomas Ultican

Badass Teachers Association Blog: TFA is Bad for America by Thomas Ultican

TFA is Bad for America by Thomas Ultican

Originally posted at: TFA is Bad for America | tultican - https://wp.me/p2txw0-QE 

By T. Ultican 8/19/2019

Teach For America (TFA) has become the billionaire financed army for privatizing public education. It is the number one source of charter school teachers and its alumni are carrying a neoliberal ideology into education leadership at all levels. TFA undermines education professionalism and exacerbates teacher turnover. Its teachers are totally unqualified to run a classroom yet their political support caused the US Congress to label them as highly qualified teachers. Big money and its political power have elevated TFA to being the nation’s most effective force driving the privatization of public education.

Defining  TFA Neoliberalism

This April, Angela M. Kraemer-Holland of DePaul University submitted her doctoral thesis in which she observed:

“TFA’s primary conception of itself is not as a teacher training organization, nor a non-university-based early entry recruitment program, but rather as a “movement” against a pressing and untenable social problem. Conclusions illuminate TFA’s efforts to shape participants’ understanding of teaching and learning—framing teaching as a temporary career—in order to create and sustain a broader movement in education and beyond that is reflective of neoliberal ideas.”

Kraemer-Holland’s conclusions echoes those of two TFA alumni working on their doctorates at Boston College, Randall Lahann and Emilie Mitescu Reagan. They co-wrote “Teach for America and the Politics of Progressive Neoliberalism” published by the Teacher Education Quarterly winter 2011. The classification of TFA as a progressive neoliberal organization is based on their definitions of these combined terms:

“Neoliberalism: Political ideology which calls for state policies that better enable CONTINUE READING:Badass Teachers Association Blog: TFA is Bad for America by Thomas Ultican

CURMUDGUCATION: EnrichED, the National Charter Substitute (Sort Of) Service

CURMUDGUCATION: EnrichED, the National Charter Substitute (Sort Of) Service

EnrichED, the National Charter Substitute (Sort Of) Service

You've had to miss a day of school, so you cross your fingers and put in for a sub. You prepare a whole lesson, run off materials, tag everything, put them in neat piles and arrange them on your desk. The day after your absence, you walk through your door and get a sinking feeling--the stacks of planned materials have been pushed to one side on your desk, but are otherwise untouched. "Oh, yeah," says a student in your first period class. "He said he didn't really get what you wanted us to do, so he just spent the period talking about his samurai sword replica collection instead."

Now. Imagine that someone built an entire business using that as a model. Not a but, not even a feature, but the feature.

Meet EnrichED.

Founded in 2012 as one teacher’s day dream, Enriched has grown to become a national movement of educators, creatives and community leaders united on a mission to reimagine substitute teaching.

We believe that every day matters for kids and our communities are full of amazing people with skills and talents to share.

We’re on a mission to enrich lives, one classroom at a time.

She seems nice. I'll bet she dances well.

The founder is Andre Feigler, who began the company as a start-up in New Orleans, sharing office space with Uber and mSchool, teaming up with the 4.0 Schools group. The company puts its "guest teachers" through a "multi-step vetting process" (more about that in a bit) then gives them some "personalized CONTINUE READING: CURMUDGUCATION: EnrichED, the National Charter Substitute (Sort Of) Service

The Technology Cheating Problem Is Still a Problem

The Technology Cheating Problem Is Still a Problem

The Technology Cheating Problem Is Still a Problem

While many were appalled at the celebrity college entrance scandal, there’s another scandal that gets minimal attention. Students cheat with technology! Cheating has always been a problem in school but with technology it runs rampant.

In the classroom, teachers curtail cheating by supervising students in person. They learn about students and become familiar with their daily work. Teachers try to avoid circumstances where students feel tempted to cheat, but cheating with technology can still be a problem.

Cheating became more of a problem with standards and high-stakes testing.

In 2011, an NEPC report about virtual learning described concerns about the authenticity of student work online. They said, in a virtual classroom, how does one—the teacher, the superintendent, the college admissions officer, the employer—know that the student who signed up for the course actually did the assignments and took the tests?

In 2019, there are still few solutions to cheating. Technology has made cheating easier. It seems almost expected that students will CONTINUE READING: The Technology Cheating Problem Is Still a Problem

Teaching in the Age of Trump (Andrea Rinard) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Teaching in the Age of Trump (Andrea Rinard) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Teaching in the Age of Trump (Andrea Rinard)

ANDREA RINARD: “I’M A WIFE, MOTHER OF THREE, HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TEACHER, WRITER OF

THINGS, AND NATIVE FLORIDIAN.” THIS ARTICLE APPEARED IN MEDIUM, JULY 13, 2018.

Full disclosure: I’m not a Trump fan. I woke up on Wednesday, November 9, 2016 with a sense of dread and foreboding. I wondered how I was going to get up, go to school, and be a responsible high school English teacher in this brave new world of Trump.

Like many, I figured I would ride it out. My previous job, at a very conservative school, taught me to keep my head down when President Obama was elected and both colleagues and school families responded as if it were the end times. It was my turn now, I reasoned. Sure, Trump had admitted to groping women, he’d mocked a disabled journalist, done myriad things I found repugnant, but there were checks and balances. How bad could it be?

Well, I’ve now taught one school year that spanned the election and inauguration, and I’ve taught one school year under the Trump presidency. In my perspective, it’s been so much worse than I could have ever imagined — but I have a job to do. It’s a job that I take seriously, and I’ve tried my best to be a responsible educator in the age of Trump. As I prepare for the 2018–2019 school, I wanted to share the five tenets I now cling to.

1. Kids need to learn how to be more responsible and canny media consumers

Alternative facts and fake news have become the modern version of “nuh-uh.” If you don’t like what I’m saying, call it fake news. If you can’t refute my assertion CONTINUE READING: Teaching in the Age of Trump (Andrea Rinard) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

The One Thing School Leaders Must Do During Their Welcome Back Presentation - Teacher Habits

The One Thing School Leaders Must Do During Their Welcome Back Presentation - Teacher Habits

The One Thing School Leaders Must Do During Their Welcome Back Presentation

One of my favorite education writers, Peter Greene, recently wrote two articles about back to school PD presentations. One, titled Six Unforgivable Sins of Teacher Professional Development, describes the missteps too many speakers take, including my personal pet peeve, the reading aloud of slides to people who are going to find every grammatical error before it’s spoken. The other, a deeply satisfying romp identifying The Thirteen Presenters Who Will Ruin Your First Day Back imagines what some of the worst welcome back speakers would say if they were 100% honest.

Both articles, which have resonated with teachers to such a degree that the ubiquity of such talks are in little doubt, demonstrate the many pitfalls presenters face when welcoming the return of teachers from their summer vacations. Teachers are a tough crowd on a good day. Teachers who are forced to listen to a welcome back speech when they have a thousand other things they need to do to get ready for the school year can be especially critical.

The Worst Speech I’ve Ever Heard

The worst welcome back presentation I ever sat through occurred seven years ago. After some initial pleasantries, the thanking of the kitchen staff for the breakfast that 70% of the staff had skipped in favor of more sleep, and the annual request for teacher contributions CONTINUE READING: The One Thing School Leaders Must Do During Their Welcome Back Presentation - Teacher Habits

OSBI conducts second search in Epic investigation

OSBI conducts second search in Epic investigation

OSBI conducts second search in Epic investigation

The OSBI has seized new evidence in an embezzlement investigation into Epic Charter Schools.

In a search warrant affidavit filed Wednesday, agents raised new allegations of forgery and willful neglect against Epic, the state’s largest virtual charter school system.

The OSBI searched the home of Kurt Talbott, of OKC Storm Athletics, an Epic vendor. Investigators alleged the home-school athletics organization unlawfully received state funds from Epic.

“Kurt Talbott employed over a dozen coaches who were not certified teachers and provided direct instruction to players,” OSBI agent Tommy Johnson reported in the search warrant. “Kurt Talbott admitted that state appropriated funds were used to buy uniforms for Epic students, cover some of the costs of paying the coaches, and other expenses of the OKC Storm.”

Talbott told Johnson that he directly invoiced Epic for players’ fees, uniforms and training. OKC Storm coaches home-school students in basketball, swimming, tennis, cross country, track, golf, pom and volleyball.

When reached by phone, Talbott said he would speak with a reporter later, but he did not CONTINUE READING: OSBI conducts second search in Epic investigation

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Brookings Institution: Tracking turnover in the Trump administration

Tracking turnover in the Trump administration

Tracking turnover in the Trump administration

The rate of turnover among senior level advisers to President Trump has generated a great deal of attention. Below, we offer four resources to help measure and contextualize this turnover. The first set of resources tracks turnover among senior-ranking advisers in the executive office of the president (which does not include Cabinet secretaries), whereas the second set of resources tracks turnover in the Cabinet.

TURNOVER ON THE PRESIDENT’S “A TEAM”

President Trump’s “A Team” turnover is 75% as of August 2, 2019

The following chart and table reflect turnover among the most influential positions within the executive office of the president. This data is compiled and tracked by Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellow Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, who refers to this group of advisers as the president’s “A Team.” The list of positions that make up the “A Team” is based on National Journal “Decision Makers” editions, and Dunn Tenpas’s methodology is described in detail in a report she published in January 2018. The chart and table below will be updated as additional members of the “A Team” depart their positions. It is important to note the following:

• Because the “A Team” is made up of members of the executive office of the president, it does not include Cabinet secretaries.
• The count for Donald Trump’s “Year 3” is ongoing.
• Each position on the “A Team” is only counted once. If multiple people hold and depart from the same position (e.g., communications director), only the initial departure is tracked/affects the turnover rate.

Sources: National

Summary and analysis of “A Team” turnover in the Trump administration

Set out below is a list of the senior level departures from the executive office of the president since the beginning of the Trump administration (each of the 65 “A Team” positions is only counted once toward the turnover rate, thus, this chart only includes the first person to hold/depart a given CONTINUE READING: Tracking turnover in the Trump administration

NYC Educator: What Should We Do About Cell Phones?

NYC Educator: What Should We Do About Cell Phones?

What Should We Do About Cell Phones?

It's happening in some schools, and I know a lot of my colleagues will love the idea. I've got mixed feelings. Certainly I spend more time than I'd like to looking out for cell phone use, and certainly I also have more phones confiscated than I'd like to. (Ideally, it would be zero).

For me at least, most cell phone use is stopped with a word or a look. Students know I'm a pain in the ass and generally put them away when signaled. Of course, there are those who take extreme measures, like challenging me, and that doesn't end well for them.

Once, in fact, after I called the dean on a repeat offender, he announced, "I put the fucking phone away." I'm not sure how that was supposed to improve the situation. After that, when the dean came, he punched the wall outside with his fist and was removed from my class permanently.

More frequently it's about me bending over in some odd position to see the phone underneath the table or desk. Now here's the thing--I've got varying degrees of patience, and the phone is not the only thing that tries my patience. Sometimes students come in late every single day, and I hate that. I will call home, and I will speak to the student, and I will do whatever I can think of to alter that behavior. But by the time that student uses a phone in my class, my patience may be exhausted, and mom or dad could have to come in and pick up the phone.

This may discourage a student from lateness, or whatever habit I'd like to see discouraged, or it may not. But it couldn't hurt to try after everything else has failed. I've seen teachers get bad write-ups on rating sheets because too many students came late, or because they failed to challenge them. I've also seen teachers get letters in file for the way they spoke to them when they arrived, Why did you challenge the student? Why didn't you wait until you could speak privately? So that's a lose-lose when you're dealing with some supervisors.

Maybe the phones discourage things students used to do back when I was in high school. Maybe there are fewer notes being passed. I don't have a statistical study. However, as long as there have been classrooms, there have been students who didn't want to be in them, students who watched the clock and searched for something, anything other than CONTINUE READING: NYC Educator: What Should We Do About Cell Phones?

5 Ways to Avoid Burning Out As a Teacher - Teacher Habits

5 Ways to Avoid Burning Out As a Teacher - Teacher Habits

5 Ways to Avoid Burning Out As a Teacher

Burnout is a real threat, not just for high-profile businessmen but for teachers, parents, schoolchildren and more. In fact, burnout can affect anyone from any walk of life, and we all need to be aware of our feelings and to be able to spot the warning signs before burnout becomes a problem.


For teachers, it’s particularly important to avoid burnout because they have a responsibility to the next generation. If our teachers start to suffer from burnout, they’ll be unable to deliver the quality of education that today’s youth deserves. That’s bad news, because the youth is always the future.


And so with that in mind, in today’s article we’re going to spend a little time looking at five of the ways you can spot and avoid burnout as a teacher. Let’s get started.


5 Ways to Avoid Burning Out as a Teacher


Learn to meditate Burnout is a real threat, not just for high-profile businessmen but for teachers, parents, schoolchildren and more. In fact, burnout can affect anyone from any walk of life, and we all need to be aware of our feelings and to be able to spot the warning signs before burnout becomes a problem.

For teachers, it’s particularly important to avoid burnout because they have a responsibility to the next generation. If our teachers start to suffer from burnout, they’ll be unable to deliver the quality of education that today’s youth deserves. That’s bad news, because the youth is always the future.


And so with that in mind, in today’s article we’re going to spend a little time looking at five of the ways you can spot and avoid burnout as a teacher. Let’s get started.


5 Ways to Avoid Burning Out as a Teacher


Learn to meditate


There’s a reason why so many high-profile figures, from athletes to CONTINUE READING: 5 Ways to Avoid Burning Out As a Teacher - Teacher Habits

Harrisburg schools leader makes it clear she has no time for charter schools - pennlive.com

Harrisburg schools leader makes it clear she has no time for charter schools - pennlive.com

Harrisburg schools leader makes it clear she has no time for charter schools

At 3:30 p.m. Monday afternoon, a line of parents stood outside of Premier Arts and Science Charter School waiting to pick up their children after their first day of classes in the 2019-20 school year.

A little less than three hours later, the district’s new receiver Janet Samuels held a public meeting, where she announced that a process intended to shut down the charter school at the corner of State and North 17th streets will continue.

At that same meeting, Samuels announced plans to block another charter school, Pennsylvania STEAM Academy, from opening. And that’s all while criticizing the performance of cyber charter schools.

“Students who attend cyber charter schools struggle mightily,” Samuels said, before pitting the Harrisburg School District against local charters.

“Here in the Harrisburg School District, we are ready to compete with any and all charter schools in this region, in this area,” she said.

With that said, Samuels presented and approved a resolution that allows Harrisburg School District officials to move forward with proceedings to close Premier Charter School, which is currently operating without an approved agreement.

That’s the case after the district’s elected school board members moved last year to begin a process that would revoke Premier’s charter, citing charter leadership’s failure to report accurate enrollment numbers as well as lower-than-expected attendance rates and underperformance on standardized tests.

Premier officials appealed.

As part of that appeal, a series of public hearings about the revocation were expected to take place, but they were postponed multiple times for CONTINUE READING: Harrisburg schools leader makes it clear she has no time for charter schools - pennlive.com

Educators Actually Do “Work” in the Summer - LA Progressive

Educators Actually Do “Work” in the Summer - LA Progressive

Educators Actually Do “Work” in the Summer

I  love what I do. Being an educator is interesting, creative, and rewarding. And it is also hard work. That’s why it is offensive as we head back to school to hear people say “must have been nice to have the summer off to do nothing.” Surely most do not intend to offend. I get that. But comments such as that are indicative of the low status educators hold in the U.S. and are a dramatic misunderstanding of what educators “do” in the summer.

K-12 teachers do not simply do nothing all summer. Rather, they spend time thinking about their upcoming year, creating new lesson plans and projects, going to school to make sure their classrooms are visually appealing and stimulating, and more. Many use this time for continued education so that they can remain credentialed. Further, many K-12 teachers incur not unsubstantial costs to ready their classrooms. A study published in the New York Times in May 2018 found that 94 percent of K-12 teachers spend their own money on their classroom, with the average amount at $479. Meanwhile, a growing percentage of teachers cannot even afford to live where they teach, owing to low salaries and a lack of affordable housing. I know a lot of educators and none of them spend the summer loafing. Many work extra jobs just to survive.

In higher education, the summer can be a really busy time. We are required to publish in academic journals, write other scholarly pieces, and present at academic conferences. There is little time to do this during the academic year, so most college professors use their summer, if they are actually off, to write and prepare presentations. As an example, I have completed writing and editing three CONTINUE READING: Educators Actually Do “Work” in the Summer - LA Progressive

Republicans Are Dismantling Public Education in Alaska | Bitch Media

Republicans Are Dismantling Public Education in Alaska | Bitch Media

Alaska’s Public-Education Crisis Sets a Dangerous Precedent

On June 28, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy vetoed the budget passed by the state’s legislature and announced a staggering $444 million in cuts to social-service programs and public education, including $135 million from the University of Alaska system. The legislature could have overridden the veto in Juneau, but failed, as far-right Republican legislators abandoned their more moderate brethren to hold legislative session in a middle-school classroom in Wasilla simply because the governor ordered it. As the most successful attack on public higher ed and all it offers regionally and internationally, Alaska’s nightmare sets an ominous precedent for other red states.

Soon after the budget cuts were announced, the credit-rating agency Moody’s downgraded the University of Alaska’s credit rating three degrees, which, as university President James Johnsen explained, “makes bonding or borrowing money substantially more expensive.” The only path left for the university system was financial exigency, which is like bankruptcy—but worse, because it does not discharge debts. Financial exigency means any campus, department, program, and position in the university system can be axed with little to no notice. This means that more than 1,300 jobs will likely be lost. The measure also nulls all previous contracts, jeopardizes the union’s collective-bargaining agreement, and permits massive and rapid restructuring of the university. The Board of Regents is considering a multi-university lead campus model or a single-accreditation model, the latter of which appears the frontrunner, despite student and staff concerns, as well as the chancellor’s championing of the consortium model. The single-accreditation model restructures the multi-campus system into one university, with each department “housed” at a designated campus, and all in-person offerings in that field at other campuses CONTINUE READING: Republicans Are Dismantling Public Education in Alaska | Bitch Media