#david prottas

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with love to lead the way i found more skies of gray than any russian play could guarantee

but not for me performed by david prottas (u/s adam hochberg) and emily ferranti (milo davenport) from the first national tour of an american in paris. please do no share outside of tumblr. full audio available for trade.

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David Prottas, Sarah Villwock, Devin Alberda, and Ashly Isaacs dancing the Pastorale Divertissement in La Sonnambula (NYCB)

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David Prottas and Taylor Stanley in Justin Peck’s New Blood (NYCB, 2015)

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Ana Sophia Scheller and David Prottas Photos by Kokyat

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NYCB's Ana Sophia Scheller and David Prottas in rehearsal Photos by Kokyat

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Ana Sophia Scheller and David Prottas of the New York City Ballet

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Deciding Which Teachers to Lay Off

David Prottas' letter on performance-based systems and teachers featured in New York Times

To the Editor:

Seniority-based systems for promotion and dismissal have numerous virtues. Their application is simple, low-cost and transparent, with little potential for illegal discrimination. They reward employee loyalty and encourage work force stability and retention.

While I believe that performance-based systems are potentially superior, the critics of seniority systems should accept that it is difficult, time-consuming and very expensive to develop and implement valid measures of performance in many types of jobs, particularly teaching. A poorly designed system can be more costly, cumbersome and discriminatory without being more accurate in its ability to differentiate good teachers from bad.

Performance-based evaluation systems are common in the private sector. I would ask any employee who is clamoring for them to be applied immediately to teachers to answer a simple question: How fair and accurate do you think your annual performance appraisal was?

David J. Prottas Garden City, N.Y., March 6, 2011

The writer is an assistant professor at the Adelphi University School of Business.