Posts by Angel Cintron — Contributor

Angel Cintron Jr., is a public middle school teacher at Jefferson Academy in Washington, D.C. In addition to teaching, he also serves as a 2014 CityBridge Foundation Education Innovation Fellow. Angel has a Global MA in International Relations from Webster University.

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  Want to know how the proposed DCPS feeder patterns line up with school quality? Check out this graphic.

  EducationBy Angel Cintron (Contributor) July 11, 2014 11

  This map matches the DCPS feeder patterns proposed by the advisory committee on student assignment with school performance categories. Red schools are in the lowest category and dark green are in the highest, with others falling in between.   Keep reading…

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  Teacher evaluations, part 2: In high-poverty schools, classroom observations miss the mark

  EducationBy Angel Cintron (Contributor) February 19, 2014 4

  DCPS evaluates its teachers in a way that penalizes and discourages those who work in its lowest-performing schools. Its IMPACT system has been tweaked in the past, but as a teacher in a high-poverty school I hope that negotiations on a new teachers’ union contract result in an IMPACT 3.0. In part 1 of this post I discussed how the IMPACT system evaluates some teachers in high-poverty…  Keep reading…

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  Teacher evaluations, part 1: To keep teachers in low-performing schools, DCPS needs to change how it evaluates them

  EducationBy Angel Cintron (Contributor) February 18, 2014 2

  DCPS has said it wants to invest in its 40 lowest-performing schools. If that’s the case, the school district needs to change its teacher evaluation system, which penalizes and discourages the teachers who work in them. DCPS and the Washington Teachers Union will soon begin negotiating a new contract. As a teacher at a high-poverty DCPS school in Ward 8, I hope that one issue…  Keep reading…