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Peer Review and Teacher Leadership

Linking Professionalism and Accountability

Jennifer Goldstein

Publication Date: March 26, 2010

Pages: 240

Series: series on school reform

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ISBN: 9780807750490
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Description+

This book examines a policy that is one of the most powerful levers to improve teaching quality and advance teaching as a profession. Jennifer Goldstein presents the story of Rosemont, an urban district in California that created “professional accountability” with peer assistance and review (PAR), an alternative approach to teacher evaluation in which expert teachers evaluate their teacher peers. It challenges a number of long-held beliefs and practices in education—adversarial labor relations, “being nice,” hierarchy, isolation, and negligence—to achieve very different teacher evaluation outcomes. This timely and accessible volume:

  • Chronicles a rare case of a teacher union and school district partnering to improve teacher quality and teacher evaluation.
  • Presents the most detailed study of PAR implementation, including its processes, challenges, and outcomes.
  • Summarizes the state of PAR implementation across the country in an afterword by Susan Moore Johnson.

Author+

Jennifer Goldstein is an associate professor in the Baruch College School of Public Affairs of the City University of New York

Reviews+

"An important guide for doing peer review right."
—Adam Urbanski, American Federation of Teachers

"A great roadmap for PAR implementation.”
—Jean-Claude Brizard, Superintendent, Rochester City Public Schools

“Finally, a book-length treatment of one of the most important innovations in
teaching practice in the last half century. Peer review works and those
who are skeptical about the capacity of unionized teachers to hold
themselves accountable should open their minds to the evidence presented
here.”
—Charles Taylor Kerchner, Research Professor, Claremont Graduate University

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Leading Educational Change
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The Power of Protocols
The Power of Protocols
What Should I Do? Confronting Dilemmas of Teaching in Urban Schools
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