Princeton-based consultant’s model is choice of 60 percent of districts as they prepare for tenure law’s new mandate
By John Mooney
Charlotte Danielson, creator of the teacher evaluation scripts used by more than half of New Jersey’s school districts.
As New Jersey public schools get ready for next school year’s newly mandated teacher-evaluation system, a majority of them are opting to use a system created by a Princeton-based firm.
Close to 60 percent of nearly 500 school districts have chosen models scripted by the Danielson Group of Princeton, according to preliminary results reported yesterday by the state Department of Education.
The picks were hardly surprising, as the group’s namesake, Charlotte Danielson, has dominated the teacher-evaluation arena for the last several years in New Jersey, if not nationwide.
Still, it speaks to the power and popularity of the Princeton-based consultant’s way of measuring teacher effectiveness, an approach split into different “domains” pertaining to teacher planning, pedagogy and leadership.
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