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The Best Kind of Teacher Evaluation

Washington Post

What is the best way for teachers to be evaluated? A "loaded" question, indeed. As an alternative to evaluation plans that would be done "to" teachers, let me share the ways evaluations are being done "with" me. The components of this positive approach to evaluation have dramatically improved my professional practice at Luther Burbank High School where I teach. LBHS is the largest inner-city high school in Sacramento CA, and over half of our students are English Language Learners.


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