Leslye Marthe Howell

A 3rd grade teacher at Alexandria 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, Howell ranked:

Most effective overall.
Most effective in math. Students of teachers in this category, on average, gained about 11 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.

Howell's LAUSD teaching history

2002-03 through 2008-09 academic years

Alexandria Avenue Elementary, 2009 - 2003

Leslye Howell's Response:

Wow. It was surprising to see where I stand in the district. Being at a school in the bottom 200 and always hearing we are doing enough . Even though state print outs showed my students being pretty good it is a surprise to be most effective. Little quiet brief off the record feed back was occassionally whispered by previous administrators and coaches. One year I excelled at some distincton but details were never elaborated other than the local district director of instruction was very pleased. Excellent to challenged effective practices are keep hushed. However, I don't support merit pay because saw the avalanch of competivemess run out of control in Leeburg and Marion County Fla in 2007. Thank you for info

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