Hi Measures Team,

We've had a great week reading all through the different discussion threads and are happy to see the progress being made as far as research and discussion.

We are scheduled for our weekly team leader conference call with Hope Street tomorrow, Friday  and would love to have your summary, even a quick one at that.

Our goal for this week was to discuss the questions, conduct research and begin to come to some consensus about the issues related to measures.

What are some general thoughts and feedback that you would like us to share with the team?

As we read your findings and discussion threads, one theme that keeps reoccuring is that there needs to be multiple and varied measures as part of our recommendations and that standardized test scores alone are not sufficient.

We are posting a new discussion thread called "Summaries."  Please use that thread to post your summaries, key points and thoughts that you would like us to share.

Next week, our goal is to continue our discussions and take these key points that you have summarized and start thinking about them in a more formal way.  We will begin to draft our recommendations at the end of next week.  Please refer to the template that was posted last week for guidance.  As a team, we are going to make several recommendations, and have a separte template for each recommendations.  So don't hold back... let us know what your goals would be for measures.  We have the ability to make a great change in the future of education, and the more input we have, the stronger our recommendations can be. What would you like to see included in a new and improved teacher evaluation system?  Our recommendations are key to making a change.

Thank you once again, for all of your work and we are excited to take the next steps in this process!

Dina and Darcy