Pamela Francisc Wendt

A 5th grade teacher at Saticoy Elementary in 2008

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, Wendt 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.

Wendt's LAUSD teaching history

2002-03 through 2008-09 academic years

Saticoy Elementary, 2008 - 2005

Pamela Wendt's Response:

Educating a student is a partnership between the student, parents, and teacher. When working together well, the student becomes a successful learner. I work diligently to get parents involved in their child’s school work, and to hold the child responsible for doing her/his best work. I spend untold hours preparing learning activities to actively engage my students in the process of learning. Sadly, every year I have some parents who don’t want to be that involved and don’t want their student to be challenged to achieve, and they remove their student from my classroom. Teachers are critical. Parents trump teachers.

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