At DESE’s Spring Convening last week, I heard a comment from a district leader that has stuck with me.  In order to back up the belief that conversations between evaluators and educators are a crucial component in the evaluation process, they directed TeachPoint to add a check box in the online tool through which teachers can indicate whether or not their evaluator involved them in a conversation .

As the data flowed in, it was easy to see that some evaluators were conducting many more conversations with teachers than others. And this realization has led all district evaluators to engage in more conversations.