On Performance
Justin Baeder is a public school principal in Seattle and a doctoral student studying principal performance and productivity at the University of Washington. In this blog he examined issues of performance, improvement, and the changing nature of the education profession. This blog is no longer being updated.
Education
Opinion
Why We Hate Talking About Performance
The reaction to my first few posts has confirmed my impression that performance is a difficult issue to talk about in education.
Recruitment & Retention
Opinion
Career Ladders for Educators
In a comment on my recent post on merit pay at LeaderTalk, reader Tgoble outlined a system for paying and promoting teachers based on their performance that I think deserves more attention. I will draw heavily on this description to make, for the sake of discussion, a proposal of my own:
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Economic Incentives in Education
How might new economic incentives impact educator performance? There are plenty of plans afoot to restructure teacher and principal compensation (many of which are some version of merit pay), but what economic role might these plans actually play?
Recruitment & Retention
Opinion
Welcome to On Performance
Welcome to On Performance. The purpose of this blog is to discuss issues of performance in public education, from teacher evaluation to principal accountability to the changing shape of compensation and the education labor market.