what does educator effectiveness (aka sb 191) mean for us?

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”