Comment on Why We Still Can’t Understand Value-Added by Jackie Skapik
Great point! So much of the conversation around value-added models is focused trying to explain/ understand the complex data models that the critical exercise of framing the number within a meaningful...
View ArticleComment on Why We Still Can’t Understand Value-Added by updconsulting
I like the quarterback rating from football as a metaphor. A quarterback rating is basically a formula that tries to distill the results we want to see from a quarterback (complete passes, yards,...
View ArticleComment on CitiStat and Law and Order by Daniel
It looks like the video isn’t showing up here anymore. Could you repost it? Thanks!
View ArticleComment on Why Naysayers on Teacher Pay for Performance are Missing the Mark...
I agree that the studies cited were aiming to ask a question that the pay for perfomance strategists are not trying to answer, and in essense prove a null-hypothesis, your quick analysis didn’t cover...
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If higher pay doesn’t seem to make a significant difference then the question needs to shift to asking how schools can maximize teacher’s “sense of achievement” and “recognition” as well as the “work...
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Derek, as usual, you cut right to the heart of the issue. I think the recent <a...
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I think you are right, Judy. It would also seem to put more focus on central office strategies that emphasize school autonomy in recruiting and dismissing teachers, curriculum, school schedules...
View ArticleComment on Why Naysayers on Teacher Pay for Performance are Missing the Mark...
Your reference to the McKinsey study in response to the first comment raises an issue that, in my opinion, has had a mysteriously low profile on the current national reform agenda. While pay for...
View ArticleComment on Why Naysayers on Teacher Pay for Performance are Missing the Mark...
I agree that we pay teachers a lot less than their work deserves and the crazy narrative coming out of Wisconsin and fox news about teachers leading Lavish lifestyles is just plain stupid. The Daily...
View ArticleComment on UPD Consulting’s Douglass Austin at Ignite Baltimore by John Bahouth
Doug is spot on. There was so much packed into his 5+ minutes that I might comment upon yet in sum? The field has never been level. Wasn’t then. Isn’t now. Perhaps exaggerated now by the...
View ArticleComment on For Whom the Bell Curves by Critical thinking in the curriculum ::...
[...] Image from an interesting post on rating teaching by UPD Consulting: For whom the bell curves [...]
View ArticleComment on Do States Lack the Capacity for Reform? by Robert Cane
Sorry, there’s no evidence that bureaucracies, state or otherwise, can “complete and sustain education reform.” That’s because education–what used to be called “schooling”–takes place in individual...
View ArticleComment on Do States Lack the Capacity for Reform? by updconsulting
Thanks for your comment, Bob. You are erudite as always. No doubt that success of failure ultimately happens in the school room. But it is hard to ignore the high instructional value of collaboration...
View ArticleComment on Improving the Ground Game in Education by Tara B
I LOVE the comparisons you draw between these two worlds! It’s such a relevant example that I would never have thought of, but after reading your entry–I can see it makes perfect sense. This is one of...
View ArticleComment on The Follower’s Manifesto by EH II
This is a great article Tim. I like the idea that continuous learning, something that we can all benefit from requires the ability to accept outside advice. I remember reading an article (sorry my...
View ArticleComment on The Follower’s Manifesto by elaine
Tim, I couldn’t agree more about the importance of being a good follower–we all play different roles depending on the circumstance and the oft-ignored role of the follower can make or break the success...
View ArticleComment on Leading Change in Education Reform Efforts by EH II
This is a great article Elaine. Thanks for sharing. I see a lot of relevance with the roll-out of the many systems RI has developed as a part of their RTT.
View ArticleComment on How to Run a Computer Based Training Session: Three Indispensible...
Love the note about policy middle man. One thing that I have always found in my experience is that developing / implementing new software forces management to actually make a slew of policy decisions...
View ArticleComment on For Whom the Bell Curves by torrents Wise Registry Cleaner
I read this paragraph fully about the comparison of latest and preceding technologies, it’s amazing article.
View ArticleComment on inBloom, Train Wrecks, and Ed-Fi by Ellyn Cochran
I think this is a great example of how “failure” can actually result in better, if not breakthrough, outcomes. In the public sector, with public dollars, we are so hesitant to invest in innovation. A...
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