Friday, October 3, 2014
Informal Evaluation
It has been brought up in the comments that staff was never asked to participate in the evaluation of the new superintendent. If you are brave enough, please let us know what you would have said, positive or negative, as an evaluation. Will you comment? Anonymity is guaranteed by this site. We will never disclose your identity. We don't even know who you are unless you identify yourself.
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Do the rank and file at city hall evaluate the mayor? Do the nurses, docs, and technicians at the hospital contribute to the president's review? Why, then, do you feel that staff should be asked to review Rivera?
ReplyDeleteActually, the Norwalk residents evaluate the mayor when election time rolls around. There is no way for the people who work for the superintendent, the people who really know what is going on, to evaluate him. What are you afraid of? The public needs to know if there is adequate training for the Common Core Curriculum. The public deserves to know if the superintendent is backing his administrators. The public should know these things as well as what staff is thinking. If he is doing a great job, then why not prove it by asking those in the rank and file? I support the person who brought up this idea. What is there to hide?
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ReplyDeletelook at it this way!
what has really been done????
Money was brought in to refill the vacancies left at central office.
funds brought in to open a technology academy which is beginning to have its own set of challenges.
too early to tell the impact of the supt., however, what has changed with administration. the same names that keep coming up as negative impact to the district are still there, no movement.
yet central olffice has new faces most from outside. and the two inside are displaced and why, what, and how?
seems like much of the same politics.
Finally, a place where the public can learn about what is behind the politicians. I hope administrators and staff will let us know if what we hear is really the truth.
ReplyDelete1. NO training and support for teachers who are stuck trying to get new tech to work. It's a mess. It all looks great in The Hour.
ReplyDelete2. Jobs promised before ad hits the internet. Where's the money coming from? We need more teachers not more admins downtown.
3. Why a tech director on top of Ralph's big salary? I thought he got the big bucks to do tech director job with new admin job.
4. When's he going to show teachers he has their backs and get rid of bad admins instead of hiding them downtown?
6. Extra points for creating his own pr machine.
7. Budget surplus? Yea right. Budget shell game. Freeze the budget put it in a new pile give it new name and make new plan how to spend it. what didn't get funded in classrooms when budget got frozen?
8. Extra points for charm and personality.
Evaluate that!!
In an ideal world staff would evaluate the superintendent, parents would evaluate administrators and students would evaluate teachers.
ReplyDeleteSo what's wrong with that model? What is there to hide? College students do evaluate their teachers. Teachers evaluate workshop presenters. Not a bad idea to have parents as part of the evaluation team for principals. I don't think elementary or middle school kids should evaluate teachers, unless they are trained With a rubric. Not going to happen with that age group.
DeleteZero training for common core literacy. Every time I read that Norwalk has '....fully implemented ...' It, I want to scream. Two quick sales overviews from a publisher just don't cut it.
ReplyDeleteSo many assessments that there is literally no time to teach. If parents saw what six and seven year olds will be required to do for testing, they would revolt.
This superintendent? True politician! Curriculum directors? Ha! The truth is being hidden. Board of Education members, don't be so stupid and believe what you hear.
ReplyDeletePower School is a mess! H.R. Is a mess! Relocated teachers to central office is a mess!
ReplyDeleteQuestions all over: is Valencizi still working for Rivera's private company? Are all the consultants from Rivera's private company? What is going on in Norwalk?
Interesting that Rivera's bonus requirements have now been tied to student progress. It has also been changed to 6% of his salary. What does this mean? Your thoughts?
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