Teachers leading the way in shaping evaluation system
A proposed evaluation system focuses on helping teachers improve so they can better educate students.
Teacher-, principal-effectiveness system beginning to take shape
Kentucky’s Professional Growth and Evaluation System will use multiple measures to rate teacher and principal effectiveness.
Revisiting guidelines on evaluations, performance
Education Commissioner Terry Holliday Having been a teacher, principal, superintendent and commissioner, I have experienced the evaluation process at every level. My two key principles for evaluation are that all instruments should be aligned and that all instruments should be growth instruments. I realize that employment decisions must eventually be made; however, I have always adhered to W. Edwards [...]
State following Kenton’s collaboration lead on teacher evaluations
By Matthew Tungate matthew.tungate@education.ky.gov Kentucky Department of Education officials are using the Kenton County school district as a model in developing a statewide teacher-evaluation system. Since the 2009-10 school year, Kenton County has been using a rubric-based performance-evaluation model that teachers, school administrators and district officials collaboratively researched, designed and implemented, according to Michael Dailey, director of the Department of [...]