Eight New Orleans schools are told to start a new teacher evaluation system. Three schools grumble about having another bureaucratic chore and do the minimum needed to comply. Two schools game the system, sending the problem kids out of the room when it’s time for a classroom observation.
The remaining three? They actually take it seriously. And the results show a lot about how what kind of leadership style supports serious reflection and collaboration in a school system.
Those eight schools are real, and they were the subject of a case study from Tulane’s Education Research Alliance (ERA), released this Thursday.
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