Finally, The Event I’ve Been Waiting For

From the Grassroots Education Movement blog:

Teacher Evaluation Nightmare !
          a forum on testing, teacher evaluations and our schools Tuesday, April 17 at 5:30 PM
Murry Bergtaum High School Auditorium
411 Pearl Street, Manhattan
(Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall Station 4,5,6 -Fulton Street Station 2,3 – Chambers Street Station J)

Come to a Meeting to Discuss:

Why are the new teacher evaluations bad for teachers, students, and families?

How can we organize to change them?

Speakers: Carol Burris: L.I. Principal, one of the co-authors of the principals’ letter against evaluating teachers by       student test scores, which has been signed by nearly 1,400 New York principals. Leonie Haimson: parent activist and  Exec. Director of Class Size Matters Gary Rubinstein: Math teacher at Stuyvesant High School and critical analyst of the Teacher Data Reports Arthur Goldstein: E.S.L. teacher and  chapter leader at Francis Lewis High School in Queens

Come hear speakers  explain how the new evaluations will work and the implications for students, teachers, families, and education.  Join the discussion of how we can organize to change the final outcome.

On February 16^th an agreement was reached on a new teacher evaluation system.
A teacher’s rating with be based upon:

• 40% student learning (state and local test results)
• 60% teacher performance (administration evaluation)
• The NYC DOE and UFT must still negotiate a local assessment piece (half of the “student learning” component) with the state education department giving final approval.

I would love to be here for this one and will make every effort to go, although it has been impossible for me to tell what my schedule will be from week to week.

This will go in the sidebar soon.