tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post6633428748976238880..comments2024-03-28T08:55:53.818-04:00Comments on Perdido Street School: The Cuomo Matrix Messreality-based educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-19657388165691911812015-06-16T10:18:07.131-04:002015-06-16T10:18:07.131-04:00The matrix is actually one of the more easily unde...The matrix is actually one of the more easily understandable parts. Think of it as two systems; one for observation and one for testing. Each is complicated but manageable and each leads to a number which aligns with a HEDI score. After each is tallied and a HEDI is developed, the matrix just is used figure out what the final score is. That's the only function of the matrix. <br />The more complicated stuff comes in understanding each side (observation and testing) and how each side pertains to the different groups of teachers under the system (I put a chart up on doenuts showing what this system will probably be for 80% of city teachers but it's different for other teachers and for teachers in other districts). <br />Beyond the matrix, and beneath the process of compiling results for each side, lies the real diabolics of the system: An opaque growth model taking into account such socio-economic factors as it sees fit (and not sharing those factors with anyone); the prospect of a second major standardized test for city students; independent, and soon (if they can pull it off), peer evaluators who know NONE of the context of what they will be observing; the prospect of skyping in observations; stakeholders and a public who cannot understand the system; and a union who, obsessed with too much principal power, wants this all and calls it a win under the 'multiple measures' banner. That's the evil of it all. <br />I assure you, this matrix regent Cashin discussed is the absolute positive least of our worries. NYCDOEnutshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10692665524124012171noreply@blogger.com