Houston ISD overhauled the rubric used to evaluate how well teachers perform during spot evaluations of their classrooms, one of the major factors in teacher evaluations that determine salaries under ...

Stakeholders’ favorable views of a new teacher-evaluation program thus far suggest that the reform may be gaining traction in the district and that it could improve key outcomes for students.

Houston ISD's proposed evaluation system is largely in line with current research and practices, according to some experts, who raised some concerns about frequent classroom spot observations and ...

Formal Evaluation by the Site director: Site directors serve as the main liaison between Drexel University and the school where the teacher candidate is placed. The site director is expected to visit ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Houston ISD board managers approved a new, locally designed teacher evaluation system that will be used, in part, to determine teacher salaries. Board managers approved the new ...

Small-scale study seeks to provide evidence to inform the debate among policymakers on how teacher evaluation should be changed to yield the greatest impact. Holding teachers accountable for growth in ...

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This story was updated on April 30 to include the status of the Republican-sponsored bills. The Legislature’s top Democrats have made a comprehensive rewrite of the law on teacher evaluations a ...

Four years after a major lawsuit in California brought attention to districts ignoring a teacher-evaluation statute, many districts continue not to include student achievement as a measure of teacher ...

Picture our public schools in the year 2018. What follows is an attempt to see a few short years into the future, to understand how current reform proposals may develop. I have been highly skeptical ...

New data and analysis released by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds ample opportunities for improvement in states’ teacher and principal evaluation policies. With educator quality ...

Ceresta Smith sits in her language arts classroom at John A. Ferguson Senior High School on Thursday, April 21, 2016. MARSHA HALPER [email protected] When Mayade Ersoff got her annual evaluation ...