Bertha F. Salcedo

A 5th grade teacher at Humphreys 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, Salcedo ranked:

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

Salcedo's LAUSD teaching history

2002-03 through 2008-09 academic years

Humphreys Avenue Elementary, 2009 - 2006

Bertha Salcedo's Response:

As teachers we are faced with many challenges, and our goal is to surpass those challenges and offer optimal education to our students. My mission is for my children to become critical thinkers, independent and active learners. Thus, my goal is for them to be knowledgeable and not be taught by the test. It is so discouraging and I take personal offense from the L.A Times to score us, I feel no respect and am saddened. Attacking the teachers is not going to solve the problem.

The Times gave LAUSD elementary school teachers rated in this database the opportunity to preview their value-added evaluations and publicly respond. Some issues raised by teachers may be addressed in the FAQ. Teachers who have not commented may do so by contacting The Times.