We hope you have had a relaxing break. Lots of new to catch up on.
Contract Negotiations Resume: Performance Evaluations a Focus
Negotiations with the city and school department resume. Progress has been slow. Key items being discussed are performance evaluation (both process and instrument), professional development, peer assistance and review, and some other related topics.
While we negotiate over performance evaluation, the MA DESE is poised to release its default guidelines for marrying student test data to teacher evaluation sometime in February. We will keep you posted.