If, like me, you’re a public school teacher then measuring your effectiveness as an educator is most likely tied to your ability to maintain employment. In some districts, perhaps it’s even tied to your pay. It matters because our jobs are quite literally dependent on our understanding of how it our teacher evaluation framework…works. You don’t need to adopt it as the ultimate teaching philosophy, but a basic understanding of its principles and how it is being used to assess your competency as an educator is necessary.