- RT @TammieJones: RT @dropoutnation: At Dropout Nation: Better Teaching Solves Achievement Gaps #edreform #TQReform #
- RT @talktherapyla: RT @dropoutnation: This is Dropout Nation: The High Cost of Juvenile Justice http://t.co/40oKwOE #CivilRights #edreform #
- The Dropout Nation Podcast: Building a Nation of Reading Men #edreform #literacy #edgaps #BlackEdu #
- RT @CoryBooker: "Failure should b our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is ?delay, not defeat. Its a temporary detour…" D. Waitley #
- Fort Wayne (Ind.) editorial board again shows that it lacks sense when it comes to #edreform accountability. #
- At EducationNews.org, Shaughnessy interviews Michigan school reformer (and former state supt) Tom Watkins #edreform #
- RT @annaheffernan: The anna grove heffernan Daily is out! ? Top stories today by @dropoutnation @EDUBEAT #edreform #
- Rewind: The Dropout Nation Podcast: Get Rid of Poor-Performing Teachers (and the System that Protects Them) #edreform #
- In #headshaker Pa.'s Auditor General argues for banning #charterschool expansion #edreform #SchoolChoice #dudestop #
- Off-edu RT @urbanophile: Joel Kotkin: The Rise of the Efficient City – http://is.gd/hShvx #
- @edtech_maven You argue as if the current system of teacher compensation and tenure actually works for kids. This isn't so. in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven There are plenty of poor-performing teachers in classrooms protected by tenure and the due process you so defend. in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven These teachers shouldn't be in classrooms based on their poor performance. Yet they are "qualified" to teach b/c of the system in reply to edtech_maven #
- @DianeRavitch And once again, Diane, you keep defending a status quo that fails 1.3 million kids (and millions more) every year. Just stop. #
- RT @College_Success: RT @EdEquality @dropoutnation Podcast: Building a Nation of Reading Men #edreform #literacy #edgap #
- RT @misternaite @HueyBoonDocks: Even if you know their past, the present is a chance and "gift" to (cont) http://tl.gd/76gbba #
- RT @misternaite: Maybe the world breaks on purpose, so we can have work to do. #
- Off-edu RT @kausmickey: If mindless contrarianism is wrong, I don't want to be right. #
- At Dropout Nation: Better Teaching Solves Achievement Gaps #edreform #TQReform #
- @edtech_maven Actually, the processes, as developed, make it far too difficult and expensive to fire poor-performing teachers #edreform in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven Consider, that, to start off with, a principal or administrator must conduct a series of observations (pre-arranged) in order in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven to determine that the teacher is poor-performing. Never mind the fact that those observations don't provide the objecive data in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven needed. The observations essentially give poor-performing teachers the ability to game the system by performing their best in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven (or, more accurately, performing kabuki) when someone is watching instead of an emphasis on results. in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven Now, let's say the laggard teacher doesn't even do well at the play-acting: In most states, administrators must provide a in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven period of corrective action, which sounds fine, except that even that can be disputed by the teacher and her union. in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven Once that corrective action is done, if the teacher doesn't improve the observed performance, the administrator must run it in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven up the flagpole to the school board and central office administrators, who must then consider the cost of firing (which can in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven be as much as $500,000 in some states and in the millions in California and New York), because the process will then involve in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven at least eight or nine steps, including court appeals and appeals to state teacher licensing boards. Essentially, this process in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven means that a laggard teacher who shouldn't be in the classroom can be in that classroom for years after she should have been in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven sent to pasture. Now, adminstrators should do the work of evaluating teachers. But at the same time, the evaluation processes in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven do little to either identify poor performing teachers, correct performance or lead to the removal of poor-performing teachers. in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven This is because evaluations don't use any student performance data, especially objective data such as test score growth in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven to objectively evaluate teacher performance. Teachers deserve objective performance evaluation. So do the students that are in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven subjected to poor instruction (or get high-quality instructiohn). in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven That isn't exactly so. You can observe anything, but that doesn't tell you the most-important thing: Does the teacher in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven improve student achievement. You can observe whether a teacher cares for students — but only if those observations happen in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven over time and not in pre-arranged situations (which are required in collective bargaining agreements and state laws). in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven Sorry, but your argument doesn't square with the evidence. in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven This isn't about labor. This is about our kids. Sorry, but when millions of young black men are dropping out into in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven prison and poverty, I'm going to fight for those kids. I'm not going to defend adults who support a status quo that leads to in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven the destruction of these precious lives. Perhaps you can live with that. But I cannot. I will not. Nor should you. in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven If all you care about is preserving the jobs of poor-performing teachers who commit ed malpractice, then that is a problem. in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven Thanks for your thoughts. in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven Running a school district is different than teaching in a classroom. A superintendent must be able to manage, develop strategy in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven oversee budget development, essentially serve as the CEO of a district (including managing politics). None of the job in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven involves instructional leadership since contracts, state laws, limits that roll. in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven more importantly, the career path in ed doesn't lend itself to the actual work of running a district. Principals, for example, in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven only manage miniscule portions of school budgets; the vast majority of ind. school budgets — teachers and their compensation in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven is managed by contracts, state laws and district cental offices. What is means to be a supt. today is in many ways, different in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven from what the role was 40 years ago. in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven As for certification. Given that certification isn't correlated to student achievenent, it can be said that teacher cert (and in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven asndin certification) is completely broken, useless. Which is why #TQReform including reform of how teachers are compensated in reply to edtech_maven #
- @edtech_maven -is the single most-critical issue in the reform of American public education. in reply to edtech_maven #
- RT @BE_PURE: RT @tcash: Some parents are marked by bad experiences in school as children – need to be cognizant (cont) http://tl.gd/76hsp2 #
- Off-edu: At Chipotle two days after Thanksgiving. The line goes 3/4 around the store. #FolksTiredofTurkey http://plixi.com/p/59600089 #
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