Making better teachers: the fight over "value-added" evaluations

KPCC's Airtalk program devoted an hour to this topic. Check it out.

Making better teachers: the fight over "value-added" evaluations

LA Times Articles

During the week off, please read the following articles: Who's Teaching LA's Kids?, Leaders in Learning and No Gold Stars.
They can be found in the class assignments folder above.
Write a reflection on your thoughts on how the Times covered the story. Was it fair? Was it responsible? Should the rating system be expanded to cover middle school and high school teachers?
Share your reflection with me in Google Docs. My address is kcusolit@lausd.net

Google Docs

Hopefully, everyone is able to log on to their MyMail.lausd account (see link at right) and explore Google Docs. I know it was frustrating not being able to log on in the library and start using it. Thanks for your patience. Don't lose your password because I don't have it. Also, don't change your password because apparently that causes problems in logging on. Write it in your reporter's notebook or on a scrap of paper in your wallet.

I asked Sam to update the computers in Room 125 and he said he would do so today. The update may erase whatever is on them, but I told him it was OK because anything that was on those computers has been published already. Hopefully, if you had anything you wanted to save, you have saved it on a flash drive.

He will not update the G5 (the one Breigh uses) because that has to be treated separately. Mr. Morales has given him the OK to order more memory.

Friday meet in Room 125 to discuss story ideas for the next issue.

Congratulations on the First Issue

I received lots of compliments on the paper on Thursday. We still have a lot to learn, but I think the first issue looks interesting and is fun to read. Please bring an annotated copy of the paper to class on Monday for a critique. Then we will begin planning our December issue. Start thinking of story ideas.