The news arrived in an impersonal boilerplate email. One teacher, who didn’t check his inbox all the time, received it a week late in March and only thanks to a colleague asking him if he’d gotten his letter from the HISD Human Resources Office yet.
But this doesn’t seem to be the case of someone skating by. After more than 20 years of teaching in HISD, serving under five superintendents in the years before this one, this teacher who’d previously been rated mostly at a 4 or 5 on a 5-point scale and never been lower than a 3 under a number of different principals at different schools in the district — a one-time Teacher of the Year – was told he wasn’t hitting his marks.
He would have to re-confirm that he wanted to work at an NES school. He must be in good standing with the district . The question, of course, is whether this is a bad teacher or just someone who hasn’t adapted to the new way of doing things in HISD, not just at the NES schools with their emphasis on timed testing and a rigidly prescribed curriculum, but on all campuses.
Superintendent Miles has a plan to radically improve the academic outcomes for HISD students – a worthy goal. His chosen method is to upend the status quo and centralize instruction. To do that, critics say he has run roughshod over the people who have, up till now, made the district work. In this topsy-turvy world students feel sorry for their teachers and principals. This is not the natural order of things.
The board went into executive session with the superintendent and four hours later he emerged to issue a statement saying that the principal screenings “will not be used in the evaluation of principals or other campus administrators in any adverse employment decisions for 2023-2024.”
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