Teachers can significantly improve if their preparation programs invest marginally more effort into preparing field supervisors. Field supervision is ubiquitous throughout teacher preparation ...

Houston ISD is collecting feedback on a new teacher evaluation system it aims to launch next academic year. Eighteen campuses, called "Trailblazers" by the district, are testing the system, and ...

Houston ISD will allow teacher to use their December classroom walkthrough spot observation score to replace a lower monthly average spot score from September, October or November, according to the ...

Are principals the best people to do teacher evaluations? Not necessarily, a study published in this month’s Educational Policy journal suggests. The study found that peer-led evaluations left ...

Cambridge Public Schools has doubled its staff since 1998, while the district’s student population — and their test scores — remain largely unchanged. “All of our educators are great, and yet there’s ...

Fifty years since the first teacher evaluation system was introduced, Cyprus is bound by the EU to modernise it. As civil servants and modernisation always make for uneasy bedfellows, it should come ...

New data and analysis released by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds ample opportunities for improvement in states’ teacher and principal evaluation policies. With educator quality ...