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APPENDIX F
78 Central Falls High School FIRST YEAR TRANSFORMATION REPORT
Complete Listing of Open-Ended Responses on
Performance Management
Staff Survey Question: Do you feel performance management activities have been beneficial to teachers
this year? Why or why not? Please provide examples of the ways performance
activities have or have not been beneficial.
Teachers (n=36 teachers: 35 responses*; 1 blank)
1. Absolutely not! It is still not clear what their role is & how teaching practice will be better
2. I believe my experience was extremely beneficial because I was observed by my director and a
second time by my director and a teacher leader.
3. I do not feel that performance management activities have been as beneficial to teachers this
year. I think the teachers were given all the hope in the beginning of the year and things didn’t
follow through.
4. I feel this year all parties tried to stay afloat. We really had very little training in the different
domains.
5. If you mean the efforts of the leadership to work through the complex issues of transformation,
the management activities have been successful. Empowering students through student centered
focus is a powerful way to create student investment in the process. Effort to develop
accountability strategies on the part of family, and students in the process would benefit from
further examination.
6. In open discussions about performance, I feel teachers gained experience and insight to other
teachers’ expertise. I learned a lot about how journals impact a classroom environment and
how they can be used to enhance learning/check for understanding in a non-intrusive manner. I
hope others were able to grow from my experience and input.
7. looking at data is extremely beneficial to design future practice
8. Need more PD on performance management and active feedback from classroom observations.
9. No
10. No because for new teachers it was never explained and for most teachers that have been here
for years never got the proper training except for a book.
11. No I do not. Performance management is supposed to help students to do better. We have
been directed to lower standards to assist students grades therefore we are supposed to make
them pass rather we try to help the student to do better.
12. No ongoing support for teachers who were deemed low scoring. No modeling of lessons. PM
did not ask for much teacher input in class selection. Turnaround time was short for setting up
class observation which we were told would be a longer period than thurs you will be observed
on Mon. Evaluators from outside content areas made assumptions regarding rigor Several
informal observations with no feedback.
13. No- Process is not fair to all teachers
14. No- too focused on negative feedback with no reinforcement of what is going well. little support
to correct deficiencies