I thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here.

 

I’m beginning to republish posts that made it onto my A LOOK BACK: 2019’S BEST POSTS FROM THIS BLOG – PART TWO list.

 

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A new study in secondary schools found that teachers observing their colleagues two-or-three times and providing feedback using one-half of what lots of educators tell me is a ridiculously complex Danielson rubric resulted in improved academic results for students of both (a little more for students of the observers). It was not part of any formal evaluation process.

You can read the report here (it’s not behind a paywall) and see the rubric they used (you can find it in the last two pages).

I learned about it through this tweet:

I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Doing Classroom Observations.

You might be interested in a somewhat similar process we used at our schools a few years ago: Videotaping teachers the right way (not the Gates way)