Lily Ann Reeves

A 3rd grade teacher at Marquez 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, Reeves ranked:

More effective than average overall.
Average in math. 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.
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.

Reeves' LAUSD teaching history

2002-03 through 2008-09 academic years

Marquez Avenue Elementary, 2009 - 2003

Lily Reeves's Response:

As I'm sure many people have already commented, one test is not a valid measurement of a child's potential or how much they learned during the school year. All of the outside influences such as did the child go to sleep late the night before, not have breakfast, is abused at home, parents are having problems and on and on also effect how well they do on tests. A child might just be having a bad day. It also kills me when I see the careless mistakes kids make on tests. It doesn't mean that the concept wasn't mastered it just means they made a silly mistake. I have 2 daughters who were never great test takers but they were very hard workers. They both went to college and graduated from USC and UCLA. There are too many outside factors that play into test taking and I resent having my name posted. At least I know that the parents whose children I've taught know what a great teacher I am and constantly tell me and that's what counts.

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