Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Educational Consulting Services Selected by the Florida Department of Education to Implement a Statewide Teacher and Leader Evaluation System. BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s (HMH) Educational Consulting Services group will draw on the experiences and targeted resources of The Leadership and Learning Center and Learning Sciences International to provide Florida educators with full access to Dr.
Robert Marzano’s Art and Science of Teaching Causal Teacher Evaluation system and Dr. Doug Reeves’ Leadership Performance Matrix as they review, develop and implement new evaluation systems. The Leadership and Learning Center and Learning Sciences International have worked extensively to articulate the Marzano teacher evaluation model and Reeves’ principal evaluation model for aligned focus on raising student achievement and teacher effectiveness. The Leadership Performance Matrix was developed by The Leadership and Learning Center’s founder Dr.
Douglass B. Said Dr. “Florida’s teachers are absolutely vital in ensuring our students are well prepared for their futures,” said Florida Education Commissioner Dr. Rtt_states. Palmbeachcta. Sabrina Stevens: When Ed 'Research' Makes You LOL. ... the resulting policies won't be nearly as funny.
Bad education policy doesn't generally arise from good research. Instead, this task falls on a separate body of research -- often planned and executed by advocacy think tanks. Last week, the National Education Policy Center "honored" the worst of these think tank reports as part of their annual "Bunkum Awards. " Florida Backtracks on Standardized State Tests. Toronto News: Toronto teachers stage protest to answer the public’s questions about education cuts. Test Expert: State Exam Problem Is Worse than Reported – SchoolBook. When State Education Commissioner John B.
King Jr. made a presentation to legislators in Albany earlier this month, he outlined a few expectations for Pearson, the test maker, to meet following its turbulent statewide debut in April. Dr. King listed a handful of steps to improve item writing and test production. FCAT Writing Scores: Hand-Wringing Over a Lame Duck Test. In a great Calvin and Hobbes cartoon (they were pretty nearly all great), Calvin asks his dad where the wind comes from.
His dad replies, "It comes from the trees sneezing. " Calvin replies, "Really? " The Busy Intersection of Test-Based Accountability and Public Perception. Last year, the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) rolled out its annual testing results for the city’s students in a rather misleading manner.
The press release touted the “significant progress” between 2010 and 2011 among city students, while, at a press conference, Mayor Michael Bloomberg called the results “dramatic.” In reality, however, the increase in proficiency rates (1-3 percentage points) was very modest, and, more importantly, the focus on the rates hid the fact that actual scale scores were either flat or decreased in most grades. Addiction to High Stakes Testing is Killing US Education. Diane Ravitch, for whom I have a great deal of respect for leading the charge against the Billionaire Boys’ Club in recent years, has written on her blog that she is agnostic on the national curriculum standards project known as the Common Core.
Ravitch reasons that I have neither endorsed nor rejected the Common Core national standards, for one simple reason: They are being rolled out in 45 states without a field trial anywhere. How can I say that I love them or like them or hate them when I don’t know how they will work when they reach the nation’s classrooms? Since it is common knowledge that Diane is a former Trustee of the Common Core organization, we must assume that, at one time not so long ago, she found reasons to support Common Core in 2008-2009, even before any field trial was ever possible. A ‘value-added’ travesty for an award-winning teacher.
Marzano's Instructional Strategies. A Florida Teacher Explains Why She Thinks VAM is a Scam - Living in Dialogue. Originally posted at her blog here . In my previous post about VAM , I chose to discredit value added models on a purely humanistic level and to leave the attacks on the validity and reliability of the algorithm to the mathematicians. In the past week, I have learned so much about how VAMs will now be used in annual teacher evaluations in Florida that I can completely leave the pseudo science behind the algorithm out of the equation. I do not even need to prove that value added models are merely overpriced tarot card readings to demonstrate the truly malicious nature of how these models will be used to evaluate teachers. The master plan to use value added models to dismantle the teaching profession and anyone's chance of ever collecting a pension again is truly brilliant in design.
Marzano - Technology that works Wiki. Eve Samples: Teacher morale plummets, thanks to new evaluations » TCPalm Mobile. Never in Missi Campbell's 27 years as a teacher has she seen morale sink this low.
It has nothing to do with recurring spats between the Martin County School Board and superintendent, so don't jump to that conclusion. This malaise stems from something board members and Superintendent Nancy Kline actually agree on: the rigid new teacher evaluations that state lawmakers have thrust upon public schools. "The new evaluation process is completely overwhelming the education system in Martin County," Campbell, a kindergarten teacher at Crystal Lake Elementary, said at last week's school board meeting.