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- Ball at Governor’s Education Summit: Evaluations Should Help Teachers Sharpen Skills
Deborah Loewenberg Ball emphasized that teacher evaluations should be used to improve teaching in the keynote address she delivered at the Governor's Education Summit in East Lansing on April 23. The event featured more than two dozen sessions and speeches from state officials and education experts. Ball chairs the Michigan Council for Educator Effectiveness (MCEE), a group that has been tasked with creating tools to evaluate K-12 educator performance. The MCEE delivered an interim progress report to the Governor, the legislature, the Michigan Department of Education, and the State Board of Education on Friday, April 27. The summit was covered on MLive.com and in The Detroit Free Press.
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- Detroit News: Ball Reports on Council's Progress
An April 3 Detroit News article reports on the public meeting the Michigan Council for Educator Effectiveness (MCEE) held in Detroit on Monday, April 2. The council described the research they've done since December to develop a state evaluation tool for teachers and school administrators and instruments to measure student learning. Ball, who chairs the MCEE, led the meeting, reporting that the council has made progress and that "building a strong evaluation system is key to improving schools."
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- Council's Goal is for "Every Kid in Michigan to Have Skilled Teaching All of the Time"
Deborah Ball leads the Michigan Council for Educator Effectiveness (formerly the Governor's Council on Educator Effectiveness), a temporary advisory committee that will make recommendations to the Michigan Legislature, the governor, and the State Board of Education in response to last year's sweeping changes to teacher tenure law. The committee is charged with developing an evaluation process for teachers and administrators, along with a student growth and assessment tool, by April 30, 2012. However, Ball asserts that this is not enough time. According to Ball, the Council's goal is for “every kid in Michigan to have skilled teaching all of the time.” Its work, done correctly, will make Michigan "a total leader in the country." The Council's work and approaching deadline were covered in the Detroit Free Press on March 18 and in a March 22 Detroit News editorial.
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- Michigan Governor Appoints Deborah Ball to Educator Effectiveness Council
On September 22, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder appointed Deborah Ball to the Governor's Council on Educator Effectiveness. The council was created to provide the state with tools to improve teacher effectiveness. It will report to the Michigan Legislature, the governor, and the State Board of Education with recommendations for student growth, assessment programs for evaluations of teachers and administrators, and requirements for professional teacher certificates by April 30, 2012.
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