Posts By: Daniel Woodring

Teacher quality, as measured by the ability to move students from wherever they start to a higher level, hopefully proficiency and above, continues to be of upmost importance. This is even more true in Florida, now that we have a majority of students in the state, not attending the public school that they are zoned… Read more »

Good afternoon all, wanted to let everyone know that the 2017-18 data is posted and has been live on the website for the past month. Sorry for delay in announcing, just ended up having a very busy October

Well, good news, we finally received from the Florida DOE the 2017 list of High Impact Teachers. There are some teachers who are high impact and whose names were redacted by the DOE before we were given the list, so you might not find yourself on the list even if you received a letter. We… Read more »

Hello, we are receiving a number of requests related to the high impact teacher notification letters sent to teachers around the state. Based on the questions we are receiving, we thought it might be helpful to put up a blog post to answer some frequently asked questions. First, the selection criteria for Florida’s best teachers,… Read more »

The website has now been updated with the new Florida teacher data from the 2016-17 school year. I think that this is the earliest we have ever updated. Enjoy, and support excellent teachers!

Source: The Little-Known Statistician Who Taught Us to Measure Teachers – The New York Times Very Interesting article on the man who created the Value Added Model for evaluating teachers. To fairly evaluate teachers, Mr. Sanders argued, the state needed to calculate an expected growth trajectory for each student in each subject, based on past… Read more »

As promised, the ranking of 8th Grade Algebra teachers in the top 30% statewide is at http://myflteacher.com/2015-16-8th-grade-algebra-teacher-rankings/ The ranking of 9th Grade Algebra Teachers in the top 30% statewide is at http://myflteacher.com/9th-grade-algebra-teacher-vam-ranking/

Good morning, I wanted to let all the faithful users of the site know that the database has now been updated to reflect the 2015 – 2016 school year data and teachers in the top 30% statewide in Math or ELA. New this year  are separate  calculations for eighth grade algebra and ninth grade algebra… Read more »

A very interesting study supporting the not surprising anywhere but in education, concept that the ability to pay better teachers more can improve student results.  Quote from the WSJ article is below, and the full study can be found at Unions, Salaries, and The Market for Teachers: Evidence from Wisconsin. Ms. Biasi found that better… Read more »

Interesting article about a fight in Virginia to make teacher data available to the public. Brian Davison had to go to court to pry loose state data about student performance in the public schools. Now teachers are going to court to keep him from sharing it.Davison, a Loudoun County, Virginia resident, sought data on student… Read more »