Linda Darling-Hammond, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, Edward Haertel, Jesse Rothstein, Phi Delta Kappan Practitioners, researchers, and policy makers agree that most current teacher evaluation systems do ...

Evaluating teaching effectively requires thoughtful alignment with evidence-based practices and the inclusion of diverse perspectives. The Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) supports departments and ...

As the quarter rolls to a close, it’s time to distribute teacher evaluation sheets. Students and teachers alike have questioned the effectiveness of Student Evaluation of Instruction forms, which give ...

Fifty years since the first teacher evaluation system was introduced, Cyprus is bound by the EU to modernise it. As civil servants and modernisation always make for uneasy bedfellows, it should come ...

Billions have been spent on linking teacher evaluations to student test scores. But a new study finds the practice has had no overall effect on student achievement. We’ve spent billions trying to ...

K–12 school software provider PowerSchool today announced its employee management tool Unified Talent now includes the Danielson Group’s Framework for Teaching to further streamline and simplify ...

Cambridge Public Schools has doubled its staff since 1998, while the district’s student population — and their test scores — remain largely unchanged. “All of our educators are great, and yet there’s ...

This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “Building a Faculty that Flourishes,” available in the Chronicle Store. Mention peer review of teaching in a faculty meeting, and you’re ...

Congress is debating what's next for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and No Child Left Behind. Minnesota was privileged to receive a waiver from No Child Left Behind, granting us ...

LANSING, Mich. — Teachers in Michigan will soon be evaluated under a different system, thanks to new legislation passed in Lansing last month. The two-bill package was signed into law by Governor ...

The Utah State Board of Education is looking to change the way the state’s public school teachers are evaluated after an audit last year found the current system to be ineffective. However, after much ...