To truly benefit teachers, evaluations need to involve more than checklists. In "Evaluations That Help Teachers Learn" (pp. 35–39), Charlotte Danielson describes a five-step evaluation process (p. 38) that promotes self-reflection and professional conversation. How does this process compare to the process in place at your school? At our school we currently use iObservation. We do a lot of pre and post refection on assignments. Our Principal does come around and observe us, takes notes, talks to the kids, gives us a post observation and meeting. We then reflect on the lesson as well. We have different domains that need to be covered. Right now we are only focusing on 2 different domains. The other part of our evaluations is that the teachers will go and observe each other and have discussions about it. How would a system like Danielson's work at your school? I fee the teachers doing the observations, in our case would be all teachers, would need the training to really understand the expectations and coaching expectations. What adjustments might you make to your evaluation system to foster teacher improvement? Adding coaching training and I liked the rubric that was clear and transparent about what "good teaching" looks like.