Teacher Evaluation
December 2014
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ARTICLES
Meet The Promise Of Content Standards
Introduce stakeholders at any level to the concept of a comprehensive professional learning system with Learning Forward’s latest brief, created with the support of the Sandler Foundation in collaboration with […]
Abstracts
From ‘gotcha’ to growth: How principals promote learning in the context of teacher evaluation. By Janice Bradley The author examines the actions of principals who structured schools to create supportive conditions for […]
When Is Professional Learning The Answer?
Educators face a range of challenges but often don’t see them as professional learning issues. Consider how professional learning might be a solution when the questions are framed in new ways.
Learning To Lead
A member of Learning Forward Academy’s Class of 2014 reflects on her experience.
Top 10 Learning Needs For Teacher Leaders
Teacher leaders reveal their top 10 areas of professional learning needs, including interpersonal skills, knowledge of curriculum and instructional innovations, mentoring, leading reflective inquiry, and addressing diversity.
From The Director
Teachers and students benefit when evaluation focuses on learning and growth. (Available to the public.)
Hord Award Winners
Hord award winners
New Vision And Mission
New vision and mission
On Board
On Board
Book Club
Book Club
2 New Board Members Elected
Board members elected
Lessons From Research
Research offers little guidance on professional learning for inclusive education. (Available to the public.)
Tool
How to create SMART goals using a tree diagram.
Essentials
Classroom-focused conversations, Tools for practitioners, Reaching underserved students, Systemwide reform, Urban schools, Preparing for Common Core, Teacher leaders, Evaluation reform
From The Editor
Here’s another opportunity to talk about teaching. (Available to the public.)
Policy Meets Practice
As states connect results of teacher evaluation to professional learning, they have required more of practitioners in local school districts. Consider strategies district leaders can use to improve professional learning.
Partners With A Purpose
As part of Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ teacher evaluation system, peer reviewers work with teachers to align their practice using coaching, professional learning communities, lesson study, workshops, and observations. (Available to the public.)
Inspire Learning, Not Dread
To foster positive relationships that increase the possibility that feedback will be accepted and acted upon, evaluators need to understand the obstacles to receiving feedback and learn ways to overcome them.
Turn On The Light
In Arizona’s Maricopa County, 12 districts have forged an alliance to implement a performance-based evaluation system using a teacher observation tool that supports teachers as they work to understand and articulate lesson content and select formative assessments for monitoring student progress.
Two Sides Of A Coin
Stakeholders need to recognize that teacher evaluation and support for teacher growth are two distinct value sets that together form an interdependent pair where each set holds a portion of the truth. (Available to the public.)
Tell Me So I Can Hear
A new approach to feedback, called feedback for growth, intentionally differentiates feedback so that adults, who make meaning in qualitatively different ways, can best hear it, learn from it, take it in, and improve their instructional and leadership practice.
From 'Gotcha' to Growth
Take a close look at the actions of principals who structured schools to create supportive conditions for teacher growth aligned to the evaluation system and empowered teachers to make decisions about selecting learning designs.
Up Close
Assess your evaluation system, Take your system to the next level, Engaging teachers, What’s inside
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