The experimental visuals are brought to life with choreography from modern dance legend Lucinda Childs, who danced as a principal performer in the original performance.
The General Assembly implemented a new principal performance pay system, which will result in some school leaders suffering pay reductions of more than $20,000, leading to early retirements.
"That was our goal all along, to make the whole issue of principal performance a professional issue, not a political issue," he said.
As UC Berkeley's principal performance outlet for performers and composers of new music, the Eco Ensemble commissions and premieres works from Berkeley's composers.
As UC Berkeleys principal performance outlet for performers and composers of new music, the Eco Ensemble commissions and premieres works from Berkeleys composers.
Local political favoritism, bureaucratic inertia and a lack of clear standards for a principal's performance can thwart any such effort -- and the new dismissal process alone is unlikely to change any of that.
While school progress reports should not be the sole measure of a principal's performance, that Leadership Academy graduates are less than half as likely to get A's as other principals and almost twice as likely to get C's or worse indicates that the academy is failing to meet the Department of Education's own standards of success.
However, until standardized student-growth measures are found to be valid and reliable sources of information on teacher or principal performance, they should in no way play a role, or should play a very limited role, in summative ratings.
He was a cofounder of the Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ), which was his principal performance vehicle during 1952 74, and he subsequently played in numerous MJQ reunion tours.
The evidence linking improved teacher or principal performance with merit pay is murky, concedes Tim Knowles, an Emanuel education adviser who runs the estimable Urban Education Institute.
