http://www.educators4excellence.org/news News Blog 111 Tori Truscheit blogarticle ST-National ST-NY Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:58:39 -0500 <p>Just weeks before the E4E Principal Evaluation Policy Team launches its paper on March 7, Bronx kindergarten teacher Katherine Genao describes how empowering it has been to share her voice and connect with other teachers who care about changing education.</p> 110 Tori Truscheit newsarticle ST-CA ST-National Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:03:00 -0500 <p>Education Week reports that a California organization has found that most states have unclear policies around new teacher mentoring.</p> 112 Tori Truscheit e4earticle ST-National ST-NY Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:56:00 -0500 <p>E4E co-founder Evan Stone described his disappointment with a court decision to release teacher data reports in New York, a stance E4E shares with the UFT. E4E supports student growth data as feedback for teachers, but making scores public is not helpful.</p> 109 Tori Truscheit newsarticle ST-National ST-NY Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:39:00 -0500 <p>New York's new agreement on teacher evaluations incorporates a new role that E4E's policy team recommended last year: independent validators, who will observe teachers rated ineffective, similar to a system in New Haven, CT.</p> 106 Tori Truscheit newsarticle ST-National ST-NY Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:14:00 -0500 <p>The New York Times praises the agreement on teacher evaluations that Governor Cuomo brokered, hailing the deal as an improvement over the "terrible" traditional evaluation system.</p> 107 Justin Lam e4earticle ST-National ST-NY Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:45:00 -0500 <p>Sydney Morris, the co-founder and co-chief executive officer of Educators 4 Excellence, discusses the teacher evaluation deal.</p> 108 Justin Lam blogarticle ST-National ST-NY Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:30:00 -0500 <p>Educators 4 Excellence Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer Evan Stone discusses how the evaluation deal happened, what it says, and why it's the result of the work of E4E members.</p> 104 Tori Truscheit blogarticle ST-National ST-NY Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:11:03 -0500 <p>New York's historic agreement will for the first time give classroom teachers the meaningful feedback they need to improve their performance and help their students achieve. This solution is very much in line with what E4E members proposed nearly a year ago.</p> 103 Tori Truscheit newsarticle ST-National ST-NY Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:37:00 -0500 <p>As New York's deadline to agree on teacher evaluations looms, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof examines a model of union-district collaboration on evaluations that seems to be working for everyone in New Haven, CT.</p> 113 Evan Stone blogarticle ST-National ST-NY Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:01:00 -0500 <p>"....Publicizing these results on the front page of newspapers will not help improve teacher effectiveness."</p>