Andrea M. Johnson

A 5th grade teacher at Westminster Avenue Elementary in 2009

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

This chart shows where teachers in this effectiveness category fall on a distribution of all teachers’ scores.

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

Least effective overall.
Less effective than average in math. Students of teachers in this category, on average, lost about 4 percentile points on the California Standards Test compared with other students at their grade level.
Least effective in English. Students of teachers in this category, on average, lost about 7 percentile points on the California Standards Test compared with other students at their grade level.

Johnson's LAUSD teaching history

2002-03 through 2008-09 academic years

Westminster Avenue Elementary, 2009 - 2008
Tom Bradley Environmental Science and Humanities Magnet, 2007 - 2005

Andrea Johnson's Response:

In my 4th grade 2009-2010 class CST scores for English Language Arts increased considerably.
18 out of 24 students increased a level while only 1 out of 24 dropped a level. The remainder of students stayed at the same level.In math 6 increased while 7 decreased. The balance of students remained the same in math. So if you want to evaluate scores these are unusually good especially in Language Arts. Unfortunately they are not reflected in the data presented.

I am very proud this accomplishment however it is only one aspect of my overall abilities as a teacher for which I am also confident. I will be entering my seventh year as a teacher for LAUSD and I will continue to do the best job I can utilizing the best resources I can to assure effective teaching practices. I would like to assure any parents who might be reading this of my professional commitment.

I can't close this comment without stating how horribly stressful and unfair I feel this experience has been for me.

Sincerely,
Andrea Johnson

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