Whether this year has seemed to drag on and on, or flown by faster than ever, performance evaluations are quickly approaching. You have all your goals in the back (or front) of your mind while you also juggle all the balls of the second half of the year. How can we effectively get all this in? In this episode we are chatting about maximizing these formal (and informal) classroom observations and all other aspects that make up the performance review process. Let’s not get surprised this year by an evaluation that doesn’t seem to completely match up to all the amazing strides we’ve experienced  this year. Instead, let us become experts in our own evaluations, just as we are each the expert in our classrooms.