Supporting Effective Teaching in Tennessee:
Listening and Gathering Feedback on Tennessee’s Teacher Evaluations
Feedback from existing groups, networks, and experts in Tennessee
Date
Participants
Input collected
• Superintendent Study Council and TOSS
• acilitated group discussion, TOSS Board (Jan 18);
F
12 participants
• Facilitated discussions, Superintendent Study
Council (Feb 22), Mid-Cumberland and Southwest
Regional Superintendent Study Councils (Feb 1); 35
total participants
Jan 11
• Principal/Supervisor’s Study Council
• Facilitated group discussion; 19 participants
Feb 12
and 28
• Tennessee Principal Association Board of Directors
• Facilitated group discussions; 9 participants
March 9,
April 20
• South Central Supervisor Study Council, Southwest Supervisor Study Council
• Facilitated group discussions; 41 total participants
April 19
• SCORE Rural Education Network
• Facilitated group discussion; 11 participants
April 24
• Rutherford County outreach / educator work team
• Facilitated group discussion; 26 participants
February
2012
• Williamson County TEAM Teacher Feedback Committee
• Recommendations from WCS TEAM Teacher
Feedback Committee
• 18 participants (teachers, librarian, counselor,
and administrators)
Fall ’11 –
Winter
‘12
• Tennessee Education Association
• Agenda to Address the Annual Evaluation System
• TEA Surveys, 656 administrators, 3,953 teachers
in Phase I, and 3,474 teachers in Phase II, Fall ’11 to
Winter ‘12
Jan 18,
Feb 1 and
22
Other feedback inputs submitted to SCORE
• Emails and phone calls from educators and citizens to SCORE directly
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