Charter schools, VAM data could create a new market for top teachers

We were asked to post this to get the information out to teachers, this sounds like a fun opportunity.   Dairy Council of Florida Announces Third Annual Gridiron Cooking Challenge   The Dairy Council of Florida is hosting its third annual Gridiron Cooking Challenge, a fun-filled food competition for elementary and middle school students throughout…

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!

Teacher tenure: End of the age of dinosaurs | The Economist.   Good article about the importance of measuring and rewarding effective teachers.

Paul E. Peterson: The Public Turns Against Teacher Tenure – WSJ.   Article worth reading, again focusing on the importance of teacher quality. You can’t have good schools without good teachers, but improving the lowest-performing segment of teachers would go a long way. Good teachers are so important to student learning that if roughly the…

And, even the New York Times weighs in on the importance of teacher quality. Mike Johnston’s mother was a public-school teacher. So were her mother and father. And his godfather taught in both public and private schools. So when he expresses the concern that we’re not getting the best teachers into classrooms or weeding out…

Today, this article talks about putting the best teachers in the schools dubbed failure factories in Pinellas. If they go about this the right way, this is exactly what the district has to do. The headline of the article is sadly wrong though, Pinellas agreed to do this about 4 years ago in a school…