Episode notes
FocusED Show Notes with Guest Kim Marshall
Kim’s book, Rethinking Teacher Supervision and Evaluation, came from work that he was doing as a school leader where teachers wanted more frequent and meaningful feedback.
He updated the book twice because of changes to evaluation systems around the country, some of which he used as examples in the book.
The third edition of the book has a huge focus on bringing student learning into the conversation.
Kim advocates for short, frequent, unannounced teacher observations at about 10 minutes each that are always followed up with face-to-face meetings.
Kim tells leaders to focus on one “leverage point” with teachers--one thing that the teacher either does well or should change.
He talks about time management for school leaders so that instructional leadership, incl ...
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