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School Principals Acting as Middle Leaders Implementing New Teacher Evaluation Systems
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Reid, David B. – School Leadership & Management, 2020
Beginning in 2009, the United States (US) federal government spearheaded a nationwide teacher evaluation reform effort, encouraging states to change their process of evaluating teachers. School principals, the primary evaluators of teacher performance, act as middle leaders in the sense they must attempt to balance messages from federal, state,…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Teacher Evaluation, Program Implementation
Shared Leadership: A Comparative Case Study of Two First Year US Principals' Socialization around Teacher Evaluation Policy
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Reid, David B. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2019
New career principals are tasked with many sensemaking opportunities and often rely on their peers to assist with these sensemaking processes, engaging in a form of newcomer socialization. This study investigates how two first year elementary school principals in the US state of Michigan become socialized to their new roles as school leaders by…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Beginning Principals, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Administrator Relationship
Making Sense of Teacher Evaluation Policies and Systems Based on Principals' Experience
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Reid, David B. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2020
This qualitative study investigates how different types of work experience shape principal sense-making of new teacher evaluation policies and systems. The U.S. state of Michigan is a timely state to study this phenomenon as Michigan has experienced significant changes to its teacher evaluation policy and system, tasking principals with making…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Principals, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
Teachers' Perceptions of How Principals Use New Teacher Evaluation Systems
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Reid, David B. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2020
In 2009, the United States Department of Education (USDOE) incentivised states to create more rigorous teacher evaluation systems that better differentiated teacher performance as well as provided more information on what makes a high-quality teacher. One result of these revised teacher evaluation systems was principals, in most cases the primary…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Principals
What Information Do Principals Consider When Evaluating Teachers?
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Reid, David B. – School Leadership & Management, 2019
This exploratory multi-case study investigates the types of teacher performance data principals consider and collect when evaluating teachers. Data come from public school principals (N = 10) in the U.S. state of Michigan and includes: interviews (n = 30), observations (n = 20), and artifacts collected in 2016 and 2017. Additionally, specific…
Descriptors: Principals, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Administrator Relationship, School Effectiveness
How Schools Train Principals to Use New Teacher Evaluation Systems: A Comparative Case Study of Charter School and Traditional Public School Principals
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Reid, David B. – Journal of School Choice, 2018
Over the past decade U.S. policymakers, practitioners, and researchers have sought to examine if changing teacher evaluation policies and systems have resulted in changes in identifying quality teachers and/or increased student achievement. This research generally shows most states have experienced little change in how teachers are rated.…
Descriptors: Principals, Management Development, Teacher Evaluation, Comparative Analysis