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Morgaen L. Donaldson; Madeline Mavrogordato; Peter Youngs; Shaun M. Dougherty – Educational Researcher, 2024
Instructional leadership has become the dominant paradigm in principal preparation and professional learning. In parallel, teacher evaluation has risen in prominence. Using interviews from 84 principals in 23 districts and three states, we asked how teacher evaluation influenced principals' reported priorities and conceptions of instructional…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Evaluation, Instructional Leadership
Amy Sue Kochendoerfer – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Although researchers have studied the impact of teacher evaluation laws on teachers and administrators, we know very little about how administrators, who assume most of the responsibility for implementing the state-mandated teacher evaluation system, proceed in making use of the evaluation tool their district uses for its performance evaluation…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, Administrator Responsibility, Ethnography
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Danielle Sanderson Edwards; Kaitlin P. Anderson – Journal of Education Finance, 2023
In the past decade, education reforms implemented high-stakes teacher evaluation, limited tenure protections, and restricted collective bargaining. Large increases in compensation may be needed to offset these losses in employment protections to attract and retain teachers. We test this hypothesis by examining the impact of a set of policy changes…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Compensation (Remuneration), Educational Policy, Teacher Evaluation
Bell, Courtney; Phelps, Geoffrey; McCaffrey, Dan; Liu, Shuangshuang; Weren, Barbara; Glazer, Nancy; Forzani, Francesca – Wisconsin Center for Education Research, 2022
The recent turn toward core practices and practice-based teacher education has been accompanied by a growing literature on the definitions, pedagogies to teach, and assessments of core practices. Despite these developments, the field lacks core practices performance assessments designed to be used across course sections, courses, and subjects.…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Educational Practices, Teaching Skills, Performance Based Assessment
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Anderson, Kaitlin P.; Cowen, Joshua M.; Strunk, Katharine O. – Education Finance and Policy, 2022
Over the past decade, many states enacted substantial reforms to teacher-related laws and policies. In Michigan, the state legislature implemented requirements for teacher evaluation based partly on student achievement, reduced tenure protections, and restricted the scope of teacher collective bargaining. Some teacher advocates view such reform as…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Labor Market, Educational Change, Academic Achievement
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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
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Lane, John L. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2023
Based extensive fieldwork and interviews, this study explains teacher evaluation policy enactment as shaped by three conditions: (1) a principal's backgrounds, role perceptions, knowledge of instruction, and interactions with teachers; (2) teachers' perspectives; and (3) environmental demands. Notably, principals may lack the backgrounds,…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Educational Policy, Principals, Administrator Characteristics
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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
Saenz-Armstrong, Patricia – National Council on Teacher Quality, 2022
Salaries are one of the most powerful policy levers states and school districts can use to attract qualified, effective, and diverse teachers. What role do states play in supporting strategic use of salaries? This report examines the state teacher compensation policies that influence districts' potential strategic use of teacher pay. It analyzes…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, State Policy, Teacher Salaries, Compensation (Remuneration)
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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
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Weaver, Gabriela C.; Austin, Ann E.; Greenhoot, Andrea Follmer; Finkelstein, Noah D. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2020
Effective teaching practice focused on encouraging deep engagement helps all students learn and succeed. Considerable work by researchers and change agents, encouraged by national organizations such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Research Council, has promoted greater use of evidence-based educational practices, such as…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Institutional Cooperation
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Brunner, Eric; Cowen, Joshua M.; Strunk, Katharine O.; Drake, Steven – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2019
We examine the effect of Michigan's 2011 reforms to teacher evaluation and tenure policies on teacher retention. Our data are drawn from administrative records containing the population of public school employees from 2005-2006 through 2014-2015. To identify the causal effects of these reforms on teacher attrition, we utilize a…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, State Policy, Teacher Evaluation
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Matthews, Wendy K.; Koner, Karen – Arts Education Policy Review, 2022
Public debate surrounds the success of charter schools in serving students and providing a generative environment for teacher innovation. Through semi-structured interviews with eleven (N = 11) K-12 charter school music teachers, this study aims to contribute to the understanding of charter school music teachers' perceptions of their setting in…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Attitudes, Music Teachers
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Lane, John L. – American Educational Research Journal, 2020
While researchers have shown great interest in understanding teacher evaluation, little is known about how teachers' actions and interactions surrounding evaluation affect the dual goals of evaluation--accountability and development. Using data collected during a yearlong ethnographic study at three schools (combined with follow-up interviews four…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Accountability, Teacher Attitudes, Evaluation Methods
Steve Delie – Mackinac Center for Public Policy, 2024
The tables have turned on Michigan's public school boards and other school officials. As a result of changes to the state's labor law in 2023, school districts face the risk of losing some authority to determine who should be teaching in their classrooms. Teachers unions are empowered once again to demand districts treat teachers as if they are…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, School Districts, Public School Teachers, Teacher Placement
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