Willie Fox

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It’s Time to Do Away with Standardized Teacher Evaluations Teacher evaluations are starting to look a lot like standardized testing for students. We built both for accountability. We were told both would improve outcomes. They didn’t. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation MET study showed we got better at identifying differences between teachers. That’s it. It didn’t lead to widespread improvement in teaching. It just gave us a more organized way to sort people. Same thing happened with testing. It didn’t suddenly make kids better learners. It changed behavior. Schools adjusted to the system. More focus on what’s measured. Less on what’s not. Teacher evaluation follows that same path. Put a rubric in place, and people start thinking about the rubric. What gets checked gets attention. Everything else fades. Charlotte Danielson built her framework for reflection and professional conversation. We turned it into scoring, which it was never designed to do. Now it’s less about getting better and more about where you land. And here is part of the problem, in education, when something doesn’t work, our instinct is to add more. More walkthroughs. More categories. More data. More forms. We keep stacking layers on top of a system without ever stopping to ask a simple question: Is this even the right approach? Not “How do we improve it?” But “Should we be doing this at all?” Because if the foundation is off, adding more just makes it more complicated. Not better. Now we’re talking about running that same system through AI. Faster write-ups. Automated feedback. Cleaner reports. Still the same system. We built it for efficiency, not for people. So it does what it was designed to do. It standardizes. It documents. It creates consistency. It doesn’t develop professionals. After years of refining this—more structure, more detail, more time—we’re still not seeing the kind of improvement that justifies it. At some point, you stop tweaking and admit the idea itself might be off. And here’s the reality—many of the highest-performing systems in the world don’t even use a standardized teacher evaluation model like we do. It’s time to do away with it. Keep feedback. Keep accountability. Lose the system built on rubrics, checklists, and scores. Replace it with leadership that actually helps people get better. Aspirational Conversations. Coaching. Knowing your teachers well enough to support them. If teachers are professionals, they shouldn’t be evaluated like this. And most people in schools already know that.

If I could go back to Year 1 as a head coach… I would do these 8 things differently. 20 years. A lot of wins. Plenty of mistakes. Here’s what I know now: [THREAD]🧵

We need some help from the Lord…

End Of Jr Year Highlights co/27 OL ⁦@swanseatigersfb⁩ ⁦@Coachfox50⁩ ⁦@LouatTheState⁩ ⁦@PrepRedzoneSC⁩

@CoachYoungblood Morning duty and lunch duty every day

I have had cafeteria duty every day of my teaching career.

Congratulations to the following @swanseatigersfb players for being selected to the Carolinas Coaches Combines at Fort D S3! See you March 29 @ 4PM! Check email to register/more info! @JohnsonLambe @Coachfox50 @Jamarieyej64 @Kevinsightler58

Congratulations to the following @swanseatigersfb players for being selected to the Carolinas Coaches Combines at Fort D S2! See you March 29 @ 11:45AM! Check email to register/more info! @JohnsonLambe @Coachfox50 @DavisLivingst0 @Gavyn_G2 @Selfridge_TRACE

100% COMMITTED! @Coachfox50 @swanseatigersfb @icoachfb

We are proud of William Geddis for signing with Erskine College today! We know he will do big things there! Congratulations Will! @WilliamGeddis00

Go Tigers!

Here’s a link to the statistics for the 2025 Swansea Tiger football team that went 8-3 under @Coachfox50 @CNR_Sports @HighSchoolBlitz @LouatTheState @swanseatigersfb @STSNtigers swanseatigersportsnetwork.org/football-stats…

WK got a good one!

‼️UNCOMMITTED 2026‼️ 2x All-State 2x All-Region 3A 5’11 215 Inside Linebacker @LouatTheState @coachbush15 @Coachfox50

@iguerin Spaceship Earth?

Real ones know

Thank you @Coachfox50 of @swanseatigersfb for nominating your players for the 2026 Carolina Coaches Combines! We appreciate your continued support and providing opportunities for your players. Invitations will be sent March 4–6 via email and X. #CCC2026

Southeast Wing T, Spread and Defensive Clinic is excited to have Coach Willie Fox @Coachfox50 as a Speakers in our Gun Hybrid Run. Check out this amazing schedule at: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…. Register today: southeastwingtclinic.com

Atheist scientist Bill Bryson concluded that there’s no rational explanation for the existence of the protein collagen which requires 1055 amino acids in a specific sequence. So what are the odds it forms? Take 10 to the 230th power of grains of sand. That’s the amount of grains of sand on 1 billion earth’s. Then paint 1 grain of sand red. Put it all into a pile a light year high. You pick the single red grain of sand on the first try. God is the Creator.

Well said…