Hawaii Adopting the Danielson Model for Teacher Accountability?

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I received an anonymous email last night saying it looks like the Hawaii Department of Education is adopting the Charlotte Danielson model for teacher accountability. 

A quick skim of some of the overviews reveals that it depends on research-based classroom observation.

An informal poll of some of my education reporter colleagues around the country shows it’s in use in Maryland and Cincinnati, being piloted in New York City, and similar models have been implemented in Rhode Island.

The Gates Foundation seems to endorse it, and it looks like it’s being implemented in a lot of schools that have received federal School Improvement Grants (Hawaii has a few of those).

Here’s a good place for us to start getting familiar with the Danielson Model.

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