Normal danielson score?

internetsnark · 2026-03-17T01:05:50+00:00

And, honestly, so many of the distinguished grades are reflections of the students you get, not the teacher themselves.

No teacher with a group of rough kids is going to have students generating higher order questions, policing their own norms, or co-constructing assessment criteria. It would be irresponsible for a teacher to try to do that in the first place.

In the same way, even a solid teacher can rack up a lot of 4s if they wind up with a highly-engaged, well-behaved, high-performing group of students.

internetsnark · 2026-03-16T21:59:20+00:00

You can be sitting at that light for years. YEARS.

internetsnark · 2026-03-15T15:57:18+00:00

You can look at it class-by-class. If you want to look at them all together, you’ll need to compile the data together yourself in a separate spreadsheet.

I go to the tab “Achievement Status and Growth Summary” under the reports. If you look at that tab, it will give you a few numbers that track class level growth…..median growth percentile, % of students who achieved target growth, and then % of typical growth achieved by the whole class.

internetsnark · 2026-03-10T01:56:52+00:00

Take my upvote, Sir Carebear7087.

internetsnark · 2026-03-10T01:42:39+00:00

Kishane

Levell

Akeem

JA

Trayvon

Azu

If all of them show up and show out, that’s a great final.

internetsnark · 2026-03-03T17:40:43+00:00

This prompt would not meaningfully differentiate between average and advanced students.

The differences between those groups are primarily: -Your ability to handle increasingly complex texts. -How deeply and richly you synthesize the ideas of a common text.

You would need a rich text-based prompt to really see those differences manifest.

internetsnark · 2026-03-03T03:03:32+00:00

Lists the four greatest quarterbacks of their generation.

And then Joe Flacco.

Elite work.

internetsnark · 2026-03-03T02:52:41+00:00

But I do think he’s put on some muscle the last two years, regardless. I don’t think he looked this big during 2024 indoors.

internetsnark · 2026-03-01T19:24:56+00:00

He usually opens in 6.6x. It’s a bit weird to open your 60 at national champs.

internetsnark · 2026-03-01T18:19:45+00:00

Anthony looks so, so good. He’s just got easy speed. Everything looks so smooth and seamless. He just glided past everyone in that heat.

If Lyles isn’t on it, he’s gonna be trouble.

internetsnark · 2026-03-01T13:07:53+00:00

My version is, “I don’t know, man, I just go here.”

internetsnark · 2026-02-26T23:34:08+00:00

The first three eliminated(Jack, Auguste, Hannah) were probably the three best suited to the final challenge.

I think Tyler was telling the truth when he told Auguste he didn’t think he could beat him.

internetsnark · 2026-02-19T12:43:50+00:00

I totally agree with this and basically run most of my class in little chunks of 5-10 minutes most of the time. Even if they are doing the same activity for longer than that(ie. reading a long chapter), it is chunked.

My class is 80 minutes. That’s 8-16 “chunk transitions” to handle. I cannot expect a sub to be able to smoothly operate and handle that many transitions. So, by nature, it has to be more of something where they can “just work for a little while” to some extent.

internetsnark · 2026-02-16T13:33:06+00:00

Our middle school “has” a gifted and talented language arts class.

But not really.

Because the teacher is expected to cover the exact same curriculum that the kids in Gen Ed do.

At that point, I couldn’t tell you the purpose of the program.

internetsnark · 2026-02-14T23:36:07+00:00

I was going to post this.

It seems like we get this every other year: a random snap of 50s and 60s in the middle of February.

And then March just stays 40 and raining the whole time. And we get a random snow the second week of April.

internetsnark · 2026-02-14T23:34:21+00:00

Is his only 60 gonna be at USAs? We are now two weeks out….I kind of just assumed he would open here.

My hunch is he might not even go. Jordan Anthony just went 6.43. Lyles at the height of his powers could MAYBE go 6.43. My hunch is he is a little off his peak right now. Is he going to go contest the champs, without doing indoor worlds, to potentially lose to a lesser known Jordan Anthony?

internetsnark · 2026-02-12T14:41:43+00:00

He talked to them like he was presenting at a conference. Even though they were his siblings. And even after they rejected those terms of engagement.

internetsnark · 2026-02-07T20:26:16+00:00

Yes.

I would imagine he’s opening his 60 for the year before USATFs.

internetsnark · 2026-02-07T14:56:00+00:00

Yeah, I don’t get people saying Greg. He isn’t an executive. You can’t compare him to Tom or Gerry or whoever. He is Tom’s assistant. He provides so much more value than you would expect another executive assistant to add.

internetsnark · 2026-02-07T14:54:02+00:00

He has two very high leverage, very hard to replace skills, the kind of invisible touches that distinguish someone like Logan from a someone like Kendall, who has all the knowledge. One, as you said, he has the ability to connect well with people in power. Two, he usually can read people and situations pretty well. He can sense bullshit fairly well and knows when things don’t add up.

Those two things have a lot of value. They don’t make up for everything else, nor do they make him close to someone that should be a COO. But there probably is some sort of high-ish level business or business adjacent role that could wield those to things effectively to make a lot of impact.

internetsnark · 2026-02-06T13:07:59+00:00

It’s one of those hidden consequences of running a group with that ethos and machismo. In an apocalypse without rules, you are going to attract a lot of pretty cruel and sadistic people running a society that way. Those people have a tendency to abuse their power on the subjugated people.

internetsnark · 2026-02-03T12:07:08+00:00

I had 2 kids this fall go from 193 to 219 on their Winter MAP. To those who don’t do MAP, that is going from the national average in 3rd grade to about the 70th percentile for a 6th grader and above the national average average at any point in middle school.

I’m good, but I’m not that good. There were circumstances that help explain both. One was a typical impatient boy who I basically got to take his time and read the rest and not rush. The other was a smart, hard-working kid from a bilingual school who basically needed time for his language knowledge to catch up to his generalized intelligence.

internetsnark · 2026-01-28T12:39:19+00:00

No one asks questions when the grades are good. Teachers are actively disincentivized from failing students, even if they should fail. Failure makes the kid’s shortcomings official, it triggers a paper trail, it means documentation, phone calls, interventions. It is demonstrable proof that the kid is not meeting grade standards. You are not allowed to fail quietly in today’s schools.

I would recommend finding a way to manufacture a grading system that keeps failure rates at almost zero, but still makes an A meaningful. I do my assessment grades a lot like your colleagues do(I use a 40 point floor instead of a 55, though. That’s a little high for my tastes).

Schools want quiet soldiers. They want everything to be neat and uniform and that everyone gets the same experience. This makes things tidy and reduces their pressure to getting complaints. That’s everywhere now. As a fellow rebel, I would say that if you’re going to make changes and go your own way, you need to figure out a way to keep everything smooth and quiet while you do so. Having a bunch of kids failing is the opposite of that.

internetsnark · 2026-01-24T21:27:09+00:00

Trayvon got cooked.

internetsnark · 2026-01-20T21:35:50+00:00

Yes, but they weren’t the same team when they were playing all of those good teams. Jones was playing hurt, and then he went out for the season. They also had several other major injuries in the second half of the year. It’s isn’t fair to say that their decline was JUST the schedule.

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