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Posted inElementary to High School, Opinion, Teacher Effectiveness

Multiple measures matter—for teachers, too

In the Boston Public Schools, there’s exactly one teacher of Spanish as a foreign language with students from kindergarten right through eighth grade. I am she. As is true for other teachers of non-tested grades and subjects, there’s not yet a satisfactory solution for how I might be evaluated, beyond the observations currently in use. […]