Some numbers from ABQ Journal April 14, 2013 editorial on teacher evaluation:

• Teachers rated “satisfactory”                 99%
  
• Students reading at grade level          48%
• Students proficient in math                   43%
• High School graduation                        63%
• Need remedial help for college           45%I

 While the editorial didn’t state which school year was being reported or what the sources of the numbers were, the pattern does seem to argue for a re-thought, teacher evaluation system. Perhaps the proposed one is at least a step in that direction.

In another article titled, “The Disney Way,” by Claudia Buck from the Sacramento Bee, one bullet point seems to be a supportive general reminder:

“KEEP IT HUMAN:  Customers aren’t “attendance numbers” or “per capita units.” (Doug) Lipp (former Walt Disney exec) says he makes the same point, whether he’s talking with McDonald’s franchise owners of doctors’ groups. ‘We get so focused on processing hamburgers or processing patients (or students, teachers, principals) … we forget we’re dealing with humans. They’re not just numbers on a spreadsheet.’ “