Michelle Rhee's Superstar Teacher [View All]

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Jason Kamras is now a special assistant to Rhee, in charge of implementing the evaluation system used to fire the 200+ teachers in DC this last week. This blogger wondered just how effective Kamras was when he was in the classroom.

What is the value of having a *SUPERSTAR* teacher?

That’s a very good question. How much is an individual superstar teacher worth, as opposed to systematic reform?

Let’s look at DC’s own superstar teacher, Jason Kamras. Or, former teacher. (He’s an administrator now.)

Mr. Kamras apparently worked such miracles at Sousa JHS/MS that he was named United States Teacher of the Year (USTOTY) in 2005. After that he was given a year off with pay to tour the country and disseminate his wisdom. After that, he went into the DC public school system’s central office for instructional support, and is now special assistant to Chancellor Michelle Rhee. There he has been trying to enact and implement IMPACT, the policy of micro-managing all of us other lazy, ignorant teachers who didn’t go to Princeton, Harvard, or Cornell and don’t know how to teach.

So what impact did Mr. Kamras have at Sousa MS? His USTOTY bio claims that all of *his* students always met AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) under No Child Left Behind (NCLB). I looked up got the AYP data for his school, Sousa, from the website http://www.nclb.osse.dc.gov.



more . . . http://gfbrandenburg.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/what-is-the-value-of-having-a-superstar-teacher/