In an article in the Times Union about the CAST system, the district’s evaluation tool, W.C. Gentry said, "This needs to be and must be viewed as a professional development tool, and not as a punitive tool. What I'm hearing from many, many teachers is they do not view it as a professional development tool."
“If we do not market it as a professional development tool, deliver it as a professional development tool and make it into a professional development tool, this will be the final straw to morale in this district. It already is becoming that,” Gentry said. “It’s not perceived as a professional development plan.”
Mr. Gentry gets it. Many teachers already at the end of their ropes, tired of being treated like second class citizens aren’t seeing the carrot part of the CAST just the stick.
In the same article the super says, the system is "generally so much farther ahead than where we were before."
That however not the point, the point is is the tool isn’t being used like it was designed to be; instead it is being used in many cases punitively. At this point it is hard to believe the super was ever a teacher.
Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2012-05-09/story/duval-teachers-skeptical-about-new-evaluations-system#ixzz1uNqHgu4L
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