Angela Christin College

A 4th grade teacher at Arminta Street Elementary in 2006

These graphs show a teacher's "value-added" rating based on his or her students' progress on the California Standards Tests in math and English. The Times’ analysis used all valid student scores available for this teacher from the 2002-03 through 2008-09 academic years. The value-added scores reflect a teacher's effectiveness at raising standardized test scores and, as such, capture only one aspect of a teacher's work.

Overall value-added effectiveness

Math effectiveness

English effectiveness

Compared with other Los Angeles Unified teachers on the value-added measure of test score improvement, College ranked:

  • Least effective overall.
  • Least effective in math. Students of teachers in this category, on average, lost about 10 percentile points on the California Standards Test compared with other students at their grade level.
  • Average in English. Students of teachers in this category, on average, did not gain or lose significantly on the California Standards Test compared with other students at their grade level.

College's LAUSD teaching history

2002-03 through 2008-09 academic years

Angela College's Response:

This is very unproductive to be releasing this information, which is outdated and irrelevant. These scores are based on my first four years of teaching. My first year I was, without time to prep, placed in a 2nd grade classroom to substitute for a teacher during her maternity leave. I ended up teaching this class for the entire year. I was still working on my credential and had not even student taught yet. The following year I was placed in a 3rd grade classroom.
The year after that, I was placed back into a 2nd grade classroom then halfway through the year my class was disbanded and I was sent to take over the 3rd grade class of a teacher who had been displaced. At the time I began, that class had already been through 3 other substitute teachers. That same year, I was displaced, due to a dwindling student population and placed in a new school in a 4th grade classroom. It is completely unfair to base my performance on test scores when my influence on those test scores during one of those years was, at best, partial.
For the last four years I have been teaching Kindergarten, for which you have no scores because students at the Kindergarten level are not tested. Prior to teaching Kindergarten, I had been bounced around from grade to grade; before I was finished with my credential, without ever going through a student teaching program with a mentor teacher, and without ever having the chance to stay in one grade level long enough to really learn the curriculum and improve myself in that same grade level. In spite of all this I taught to the very best of my ability. I am now going on my 5th year of teaching Kinder and feel that I have grown tremendously and know the curriculum well enough to say that I am a great teacher!. I am a teacher who loves what she does and loves to watch her students grow and learn. And, I know they love their teacher.
Angela College
Kindergarten Teacher
Arminta Street Elementary

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Los Angeles Teacher Ratings, the Los Angeles Times' database of value-added scores for Los Angeles Unified elementary schools and teachers.
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