When done right, yearly performance evaluations can be a powerful tool for professional growth. Reviews are a time when staff members can celebrate their achievements, identify and develop their key ...

Real leadership means moving past outdated educator evaluation processes and redesigning it around evidence, clarity, and ...

Louisiana wants to give high-performing teachers more freedom and struggling teachers more support. Under a new teacher-evaluation system that schools have the option of piloting this year, teachers ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A new teacher evaluation system will lessen the burden on teachers who score well the first time, but some teacher federations see problems with the rubric. The Louisiana ...

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 ...

Effective teaching requires teacher confidence. It impacts teachers' performance and students’ reactions and learning outcomes. However, as we expected, there are major differences between male and ...

Cambridge Public Schools has doubled its staff since 1998, while the district’s student population — and their test scores — remain largely unchanged. “All of our educators are great, and yet there’s ...

A study of teacher evaluation in five charter schools from Morgaen L. Donaldson with Heather G. Peske. Teacher evaluation and charter schools feature prominently in President Barack Obama’s proposals ...

Linda Darling-Hammond, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, Edward Haertel, Jesse Rothstein, Phi Delta Kappan Practitioners, researchers, and policy makers agree that most current teacher evaluation systems do ...

Billions have been spent on linking teacher evaluations to student test scores. But a new study finds the practice has had no overall effect on student achievement. We’ve spent billions trying to ...

I caught Secretary Duncan on NPR this week talking about teacher evaluations and other key issues surrounding education reform. Secretary Duncan talked about several studies that were recently ...