{"id":516,"date":"2012-04-25T06:03:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T13:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/?p=516"},"modified":"2012-04-25T06:03:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T13:03:08","slug":"teacher-town-hall-panelist-dave-orphal-on-the-oakland-education-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2012\/04\/25\/teacher-town-hall-panelist-dave-orphal-on-the-oakland-education-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Town Hall Panelist Dave Orphal on The Oakland Education Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

A New Teacher Evaluation System Being Tested at Two OUSD Schools
\nThe Education Blog
\nApril 23, 2012
\nWritten By Dave Orphal<\/p>\n

Dave Orphal<\/strong>, a teacher at Skyline High School in Oakland, will write a series of blog posts for The Education Report about teacher evaluations \u2014 including a pilot program that two middle schools are using this year. He serves as a veteran teacher leader for the Bay Area New Millennium Initiative<\/a> and works with the California Teachers Association\u2019s Institute for Teaching. You can read more of Dave\u2019s thoughts on teaching and educational reform at TransformED<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In the last session of the OEA\/OUSD teacher conference<\/a> last Saturday, I sat in a session about a new teacher-evaluation system piloted by two Oakland schools. Like my own school, these two are under interdict from the state and federal education authorities to dramatically remodel themselves because their test scores remain unsatisfactory.<\/p>\n

The schools applied for, and received, a federal grant to help them with their remodeling. One of the conditions for the money is to revamp their teacher evaluation system so that student achievement data is included. Additionally, the new system will have to include provisions for teacher improvement, reward, and removal.<\/p>\n

The panel talking about the evaluation system included teachers, principals, and district personnel in charge of school transformation. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n


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