Teachers Tweet #esteach on Linking Evaluations & PD
Good evaluations let you know what you're doing well and where you need more support. Likewise, good professional development responds to areas of need and strengthens your teaching practice.
But it doesn't always work that way.
Tomorrow, June 30, from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. ET, Education Sector (@educationsector) is hosting two simultaneous panel discussions on ways to better connect evaluations and professional development. The first panel of policy folks will hash the issues face-to-face at the live event.
The first panel includes
- Jamie Fasteau, K–12 education policy team lead for the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.
- Scott Thompson, IMPACT, the new teacher evaluation system for the Washington, D.C., public schools.
- Brad Jupp, senior program advisor for teacher quality initiatives, U.S. Department of Education, and also one of the key negotiators behind Denver's ProComp.
- Jen Mulhern, The New Teacher Project, who worked with New Haven, Conn., on their new evaluation system.
The second panel is all teacher-bloggers (including our very own Marzano-series blogger, Dina Strasser!), and they'll hashtag and blog the discussion.
- Wookie Kim, a first-year TFA DC corps member, who was recently excessed from the rolls of a DCPS high school. He blogs at ABCDE (@ironwookster).
- Ann-Bailey Lipsett teaches K–1 special education at a diverse, full-inclusion elementary school outside of D.C. She blogs at Organized Chaos.
- Dina Strasser is a former Fulbright scholar who teaches 7th grade English in upstate New York, after 8 years of teaching English as a second language at all levels of education. She blogs at The Line (@dinastrasser).
- Tom White has taught 3rd grade in suburban Seattle, Wash., for 26 years. He is a National Board-certified teacher and blogs at Stories from School (@stories_school).
(Even if you miss the live discussion, these blogs, plus Ed Sector's blog, The Quick and the Ed, will provide archived coverage.)
Start your own third panel of experts by following and joining the discussion on Twitter (search the #esteach hashtag) and these blogs. Put teacher voices back in the evaluation and PD conversation!
