Monthly Archives:: May 2017

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 »