There’s been so much talk recently about “the effective teacher” that those of us out here in the schools are a head-spinning mess of contemplation and reflection. Am I this kind of teacher or that?

WILL enough Democratic lawmakers stand up to the powerful state teachers union to ensure teacher-effectiveness bills survive Thursday’s deadline for moving out of House committees? A similar deadline ...

Across the nation, policymakers and education leaders share growing agreement that we must do a better job in measuring effective teaching and identifying effective teachers. And increasingly, there ...

A New buzzword in education is value-added analysis, an unwieldy term masking a startlingly simple concept of measuring student progress and using it as one way to gauge teacher effectiveness. The ...

Successful co-teachers build their partnership on trust by establishing clear roles and making time to plan together.

While the latest focus on education transformation seems to be teacher professional development and evaluation systems, a new study has suggested that the teaching environment is just as important. A ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It’s time to pass Senate Bill 191, Sen. Michael Johnston’s teacher effectiveness measure. We are proud to join other parents and civic leaders in supporting ...

Teachers play a crucial role in fostering children’s success in school. Policymakers must consider ways to support and prepare high-quality teachers while aligning expectation and opportunities for ...

How good is your child's teacher? For years, principals answered that question by visiting a classroom, taking down observations and handing the teacher an annual review. Now with millions in federal ...

Teacher effectiveness in the Carson City School District in instruction and leadership has improved to 98.4%, up from 97% from last year, associate superintendent of human resources Dan Sadler shared ...

“This suggests that focusing on [teacher effectiveness] alone is not likely to be the potent sort of intervention that really moves the needle on student outcomes,” he said, adding that maybe factors ...

A study to be released Monday confirms the broad conclusions of a Times’ analysis of teacher effectiveness in the Los Angeles Unified School District while raising concerns about the precision of the ...