Regarding the IMPACT program of Michelle Rhee, teachers object to that program which uses Master Teacher evaluation to determine teacher performance – teachers object to that as well as they do “Value Added” evaluation.
And, they object to Michelle Rhee herself, saying that she never had run a school district before.
Well, I am not certain that Demming knew anything about building cars, but he understood management for quality. I didn’t know a thing about TV when I was CEO of an LA TV station, and when asked what I knew about TV stations, I replied I didn’t manage TV stations — I manage people!
Management of PEOPLE is a transferable skill: Military people (in my case,) civilian people, TV people, teacher people, car mechanic people…we now have a community organizer who never managed 5 people in his life “managing” 340 million people…
The Washington D.C. school system is only MARGINALLY worse than the California school system. We rank about 47, D.C. ranks 51. The Washington system decided that even after Rhee left that they would continue her teacher evaluation policy.
I understand that teachers don’t like ANY evaluation system that might identify ANY teacher as unsatisfactory and that is why the unions have never identified or proposed a single system that THEY find acceptable — but that is not the real world. Teachers trash “value added” and “IMPACT” and…
Teachers: How about putting your proposal for weeding out unsatisfactory teachers on the table?
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