Supporting Effective Teaching in Tennessee:
Listening and Gathering Feedback on Tennessee’s Teacher Evaluations
Educator Work Team
Date
Location
Number of participants
Input collected
March 16
Nashville
• 1 attendees of 22 confirmed invitations, representing
2
the 3 Grand Divisions
• Work team discussions
April 5
Nashville
• attendees of 22 confirmed invitations, representing
9
the 3 Grand Divisions
• Work team discussions
In-depth interviews with leaders on teacher evaluation systems in Tennessee
and across the nation
Date
Participants
Input collected
TEAM:
Feb 8,
March 8,
April 4
• Kevin Huffman, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Education
• Emily Barton, Assistant Commissioner, Curriculum and Instruction,
Tennessee Department of Education
• Sara Heyburn, Assistant Commissioner, Teachers and Leaders, Tennessee Department of Education
• Aneesh Sohoni, Director of Policy and Communications for Teacher and Principal Evaluations,
Tennessee Department of Education
• Interviews
Project
COACH:
Feb 13
• Stacy Stewart, Assistant Superintendent, Hamilton County Schools
• John Stewart, Program Manager, Project COACH
• John Kim, CEO, District Management Council (DMC)
• Garret Smith and Amy Sutherland, District Management Council (DMC)
• Interview
• “Hamilton County Department
of Education, Project COACH
Evaluation Model 2011-2012 Fall
Survey,” 107 administrators,
1,317 teachers , Fall ‘11
TIGER:
Feb 27
• Wayne Miller, Superintendent, Lenoir City Schools
• Interview
TEM:
Feb 28
• Tequilla Banks, Executive Director, Department of Teacher Talent and Effectiveness,
Memphis City Schools
• Ken Foster, Executive Director, Memphis Education Association
• Interview
• February 2012, Memphis
“
City Schools Teacher Survey
Results,” 4,246 teachers
• TEM: Key Messages and FAQs
Interviews with national teacher evaluation leaders
March 13
• Interview
March 13
• Dan Weisberg, The New Teacher Project
• Interview
April 4
• Steve Cantrell, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Measures of Effective Teaching Project
• Interview
April 10
• Charlotte Danielson, Danielson Group
• Interview
May 1
40
• Amy Briggs and Katya Levitan-Reiner, Student Achievement Partners
• Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford’s Center on School Redesign
• Interview
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