teacher evals

The discussion we had on teacher evaluation was quite interesting to me. In 17 years, I can only remember being evaluated three or four times. Then today I was reading Rick DuFour's article in Eduactional Leadership on High-Leverage Strategies for Principal Leadership. He began the article by saying "By promoting teacher learning in collaborative teams, a principal is far more likely to improve student ahievement than by focusing on formal teacher evaluation". As part of our Reading First grant, principals are expected to be in classroms doing walk throughs and they complete administrator academies that also stress the importance of walk throughs rather than evaluations. We talk about holding teachers accountable but maybe administrators should be as well.