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Huberman to issue performance management booklet
By: Rebecca Harris / February 04, 2010
Ron Huberman opened the 53rd Annual Principals and Administrators Association Conference Thursday with a preview of his upcoming Friday address, saying that he plans to outline how to implement performance management.
Ron Huberman opened the 53rd Annual Principals and Administrators
Association Conference Thursday with a preview of his upcoming Friday
address, saying that he plans to outline how to implement performance
management.
He also admitted that his year-long quest to get principals and
teachers to use data as a tool for school improvement has hit road
bumps. “One of the things we have struggled with in the last year is
how we translate (performance management) into teaching and learning,”
Huberman said.
“In some places it is working really well. In some places it is not working very well,” he said.
On Friday, Huberman will issue a booklet with specific strategies for using data to drive improved instruction.
Overall, principals at Thursday’s event seemed open to hearing
Huberman’s message. Pam Layne, acting principal at Ashburn Elementary,
said she was excited about the prospect of using data better and hopes
the booklet will help principal’s improve their interaction with
teachers on performance management.
“A lot of teachers are afraid of data. But once they grasp how it can
be a tool for them, you can see the transformation that takes place, so
that (there) is not a fear factor” Layne said. “It is to help you be
better, to know what your weaknesses are.”
Read our post on performance management from earlier this week.
Huberman to issue performance management booklet
Image of (younger) Howard Beale al la Ron Huberman, at UBS/CPS. Mayor Eternal Daley plays Arthur Jensen. Kremsner plays sexy Christensen. Schumacher is played by retiring princpals: "All of life is reduced to the common rubble" (performance management, reckless assessments, etc.,) "of banality." We all then tune in to the Mao Tse-Tung Hour.
When will we stop accepting this bs and get mad as hell and not take it anymore?!
Huberman to issue performance management booklet
The problem is that the way school is structured. Huberman and the CAO's know that a longer instructional day is needed. They have known that for some time. Duncan didn't do anything about it. Instead they chose to buy expensive programs like Princeton and Cambridge, to give the impression that the board is doing something. There is something wrong with the way school is organized. Schools should be about building professional communities. It is about collaboration on the essentials. Any successful business person understands that quality time necessary to collaborate, plan, strategize, evaluate performance, do peer reviews, etc. Huberman should take money away from his gimmicks and move them over to where it is necessary, in the schools and classrooms! We don't need gimmicks!
Huberman to issue performance management booklet
What teachers fear is how data are used against them. Data are easily manipulated as we can see by the so-called school closing hearings. Teachers use data to inform their teaching. How do we know what our students do and don't know unless we analyze the available info. Unfortunately, the people in charge now are not educators and don't realize the data are children. I guess, I'll clean up my resume and send it to the suburban districts. Thank God they need and appreciate their teachers.
Huberman to issue performance management booklet
I know that teachers are feeling the pressure of getting scores up. When my school closed I made a promise to myself that never again would test scores be used against our people, our students and parents at any school I worked at.
I developed a program within my classroom to address the social-emotional needs of the students which drove the capacity for them to receive instruction in a manner that benefited all. The result of that was on a annual basis I was getting 2-3 years growth. The final
year, my scores rose from in reading and math 30-40 points.
I then went to become a Lead teacher. I wanted to work with children in the most "at risk" communities to see if I could do it school- wide. It worked like a charm in one year we moved the entire school 22 points and got off probation. My position was closed
and I was black balled by the new administration that came in.
They actually did not want that school to come off probation because the AIO hated the principal and wanted her to fail . Also they wanted the land and wanted to turn the school around. Their plans were foiled.
The message is this. Enjoy working with the children. Don't buy into the test score hype. It's a scam and even if you get the scores uo they will close the school for under-utilization or some other reason.
When it's all said and done I am so happy that for over twenty years I was able to work with the most wonderful group of little people I have ever known. I was able to help mold them and had a ball doing it. That, Huberman , Duncan or Daley cannot take away from me. He cannot take the wonderful years of teaching I had teaching on the South before all African American teachers were demonized and attacked by REN 2010 hate filled policies.
Teachers Teach and fight for the right to do so. Find any opportunity you can to reach out and deal with the needs of your students. Try to give them what they want but not at the expense of the children.
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