Video footage of students sight-reading a musical score, or reciting a speech from Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.” Digital photos of students’ self-portraits. Samples of student-penned research papers ...

Houston ISD is collecting feedback on a new teacher evaluation system it aims to launch next academic year. Eighteen campuses, called "Trailblazers" by the district, are testing the system, and ...

The state in 2024 signed a two-year contract with online teacher evaluation platform 2gnoMe — pronounced “to know me.” Founder and CEO Ilya Zeldin said the idea began with a simple ...

Houston ISD's proposed evaluation system is largely in line with current research and practices, according to some experts, who raised some concerns about frequent classroom spot observations and ...

Houston ISD made yet another change to the rubric used to evaluate how well teachers perform in their classrooms, one of the major components of teacher evaluations that ultimately determine salaries ...

HOUSTON (CN) – A proprietary system that measures teacher performance based on student test scores may violate teachers’ civil rights because they can’t verify the results are accurate, a federal ...

Here at Teacher Beat, we’ve written ad nauseum about the challenge of integrating test scores or achievement data into teacher evaluations. But there are some equally big challenges to improving ...

Houston ISD's Board of Managers greenlit a new teacher evaluation system Thursday ahead of the district's expected upcoming shift to pay for performance. Trista Bishop-Watt, from Houstonians for Great ...

Among so many duties school administrators must balance, instructional leadership and teacher coaching are some of the most important, but also among the most difficult to automate. Without ...

A new statewide formula will be used to crunch student data on state tests and then evaluate teachers’ classroom performance, the State Board of Education agreed today. The board adopted a new rule ...