HOUSTON, Texas -- Houston ISD board managers approved a new, locally designed teacher evaluation system that will be used, in part, to determine teacher salaries. Board managers approved the new ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A new teacher evaluation system will lessen the burden on teachers who score well the first time, but some teacher federations see problems with the rubric. The Louisiana ...

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, Texas (KTRK) -- Houston ISD leaders will decide how the district should grade its teachers at a school board meeting on Thursday night. The district appears to be backtracking. According to ...

Houston ISD plans to use the state-approved teacher appraisal system to evaluate teachers this year after a judge blocked the initial system from going into effect. The appointed HISD Board of ...

HISD takeover: Public meeting on HISD's annual academic performance report HOUSTON – During a Houston Independent School District board meeting last week, Superintendent Mike Miles said the district ...

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 ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Many changes are underway in Louisiana schools, one of those is impacting teacher performance scores. Modifications to the state educator evaluation rubric have some ...

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