what does educator effectiveness (aka sb 191) mean for us?
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What does Educator Effectiveness (aka SB
191) mean for us?
Senate Bill 10-191
• A system to evaluate the effectiveness of licensed personnel to improve the quality of education.
• Improve instruction.
• Serve as a measurement of professional growth and continuous improvement.
• Provide a basis for making decisions in the areas of hiring, compensation, promotion, assignment, professional development, earning and retaining non probationary status, dismissal, and nonrenewal of contract.
Guiding Principles of State Evaluation System
1. Data should inform decisions, but human judgment will always be an essential component of evaluations.
2. The implementation and evaluation of the system must embody continuous improvement.
3. The purpose of the system is to provide meaningful and credible feedback that improves performance.
4. The development and implementation of educator evaluation systems must continue to involve all stakeholders in a collaborative process.
5. Educator evaluations must take place within a larger system that is aligned and supportive.
Continuous Student and Teacher Improvement
Key Elements
• All licensed educators are evaluated every year
• Evaluation is a process not an event
• Consists of multiple points of data
• Includes both professional practices and measures of student learning
Evaluation Process, CDE overview
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8TiUBs7joo
Principal Quality Standards
I: Principals demonstrate
strategic leadership.
II: Principals demonstrate instructional leadership.
III: Principals demonstrate
school culture and equity leadership.
IV: Principals demonstrate
human resource leadership.
V: Principals demonstrate managerial leadership.
VI: Principals demonstrate
external development leadership.
VII: Principals demonstrate
leadership around student academic
growth.
Principal Evaluations
50% Professional Practice
50% Measures of
Student Learning
Teacher Quality Standards
I: Teachers demonstrate mastery
of and pedagogical expertise in the
content they teach.
The elementary teacher is an expert in literacy and mathematics and is knowledgeable in all other content that he or she teaches. The secondary teacher has knowledge of literacy and mathematics and is an expert in his or her content endorsement area(s).
II: Teachers establish a safe, inclusive, and respectful learning environment for a
diverse population of students.
III: Teachers plan and deliver effective
instruction and create an environment that
facilitates learning for their students.
IV: Teachers reflect on their practice.
V:Teachers demonstrate leadership.
VI: Teachers take responsibility for student academic
growth.
Teacher Evaluations
50% Professional Practice
50% Measures of Student Learning
Elements of the SSSD System
• Evaluation Committee
• Matrices for teachers, counselors, educators in unique roles, principals (handout for teachers)
• RANDA performance management system (e-mail)
• One stop shopping on district web page: http://www.steamboatschools.net/ under employees only
Yearly TimelineAugust
New Teacher Orientation Training for all new licensed staff: Evaluation system
(August 18,19, 2014)
First three staff days: Orientation: Update provided to all staff on system for
(August 21-25, 2014) review highlighting changes from previous year.
September
September 5 Self-Assessment, All licensed staff have completed
October
October 17 Review/Setting of Annual Goals (September 26, 2014)(Professional Practices and MSL’s), Conference with evaluator
Yearly Timeline (Cont.)
January
Before end of Semester 1 Probationary Teacher 1st Formal Observation completed
(January 16, 2015)
February
Before the start of Blues Break *Mid-Year Review/Evaluator Assessment, Strongly (February 13, 2015) suggested that all staff have had one formal observation: May not be
possible in all buildings.
May
1 All formal observations completed for both Non-probationary (1) and
probationary teachers (2)
Two weeks before last student+Final Ratings assigned and written report given to teachers
Day (May 27, 2015)
Evaluation Committee
Meghan Alexander
Dierdre Boyd
Heidi Chapman-Hoy
Lara Craig
Carol Harris
Katie Jacobs
Dan Juba
Marty Lamansky
Kristi Lear
Mindy Mulliken
Brande O’Hare
Niki Struble
Tracy Stoddard
Measures of Student Learning
• Multiple Measures (State, Growth, District)
• Has both collective (e.g. whole school) and individual (class) data
• Reinforces the core belief that we share responsibility for all students in the district.
• Is a work in progress
Principal and Teacher Performance Evaluation Ratings
Highly Effective
Effective
Partially Effective
Ineffective
Teachers Rubric
• Available on the district website under employees only, Educator Effectiveness: http://www.steamboatschools.net/
• Rubrics also available for many of the “Educators in Unique Roles”