paul, and senator isackson. we can probably sit here for the next two hours and discuss performance targets and evaluations there are other aspects of the bill we would like to get to. so we can perhaps, and maybe you're going bring up some other things, i don't know. but perhaps we could have each of them quickly mention what they think is good on the bill and what they think needs improvement on the bill. and then go back to this kind of a format so that nobody gets left out on making their comments. >> all right. let's go to ms. danks then first here. ms. danks. >> good morning. >> do you want to address the performance? >> i just want to respond to your question about how the rubric was created. in baltimore city, we recently passed a contract where the teachers are paid for performance. and we also went through that process creating a rubric. and it took about a year. and we had all our administrators, teacher, some family members working together through many drafts to create a rubric that truly defined wh