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Steinberg, Matthew P.; Sartain, Lauren – Education Finance and Policy, 2015
Chicago Public Schools initiated the Excellence in Teaching Project, a teacher evaluation program designed to increase student learning by improving classroom instruction through structured principal-teacher dialogue. The pilot began in forty-four elementary schools in 2008-09 (cohort 1) and scaled up to include an additional forty-eight…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Urban Schools, Teacher Evaluation, Elementary Schools
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Steinberg, Matthew P.; Sartain, Lauren – Education Next, 2015
This article examines a unique intervention in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to uncover the causal impact on school performance of an evaluation system based on highly structured classroom observations of teacher practice. An iterative process of observation and conferencing focused on improving lesson planning and preparation, the classroom…
Descriptors: Observation, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Improvement, Feedback (Response)
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Jiang, Jennie Y.; Sartain, Lauren; Sporte, Susan E.; Steinberg, Matthew P. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
One of the most persistent and urgent problems facing education policymakers is the provision of highly effective teachers in all of the nation's classrooms. Of all school-level factors related to student learning and achievement, the student's teacher is consistently the most important (Goldhaber 2002; Rockoff 2004; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Educational Change, Academic Achievement, Correlation