Robert A. Warsaw

A 2nd grade teacher at Florence Griffith Joyner 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, Warsaw 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.

Warsaw's LAUSD teaching history

2002-03 through 2008-09 academic years

Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary, 2009 - 2003

Robert Warsaw's Response:

It is nice to see validation for the dedication it takes. It would even be nicer to afford to live in los angeles and get paid according to what I accomplish like the real world. I know way to many teachers who accept failure as something out of their control but never the less are making the same if not more than those that connect, care and nuture the kids not only to produce test scores but more importantly good productive citizens.

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