Lesa Worthington, a third-grade teacher at Greensburg Elementary School, keeps a green folder on her desk for paperwork from her evaluation. It holds student data, information about the student learning objectives she had to set and painstakingly detailed notes from the five observations by her principal this year. By late April, the folder was stuffed. In 2011, the Indiana General Assembly passed a law requiring all districts to overhaul their teacher evaluation systems by this fall. Before the bills passage, most teachers with tenure would be observed once every three years in the classroom. Unsatisfactory ratings were rare. But now, amid a national push to improve teacher quality and...
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