New Teacher Tenure Law in Colorado
Colorado teachers now will have to receive three consecutive “effective” ratings on their evaluation before receiving tenure, and two consecutive “ineffective” ratings before losing it.
Full story from the Associated Press.
Requiring two years of “ineffective” ratings could assuage some teachers’ fears about one bad classroom observation sinking their careers. But what matters more than tenure law is the evaluation system used to determine how effective teachers are at instructing their students and helping them to grow.
