Department of Educational Administration
ORCID IDs
Taeyeon Kim https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2020-9851
Charles Lowery https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6291-7533
Date of this Version
12-2020
Citation
Published in Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2020
DOI: 10.1177/1555458920976718
Abstract
School principals play a critical role in evaluating teachers and providing feedback, but high-stakes evaluation policies at the local and state levels can create ethical dilemmas for principals. In this case, an underresourced rural school principal has to report a certain number of “ineffective” teachers to meet a requirement from the district teacher evaluation, even though the principal does not think any teacher in his school deserves to receive an “ineffective” rating. This study can be used to help students unpack issues of dilemmas coming from consequential accountability policies that overlook the relational ethos of educators and leaders in school practice.
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