Standard VI: Teachers Contribute to the Academic Success of Students: The work of the

teacher results in acceptable, measurable progress for students based on established perform-

ance expectations using appropriate data to demonstrate growth; was adopted by the State

Board of Education in July. The new standard will not have negative consequences as a stand-

alone component of the NC Educator Evaluation System as each standard carries the same

“weight”. Over the course of the next three to four years standard VI will not truly be a valid

standard/measurement for 66% of the teaching force based on the work that must be done to

create multiple measures allowing teachers to demonstrate their contribution to student growth

and collecting the data for three years. Teachers will not be rated using only Standard VI.

Teachers must have at least three years of student data for Standard VI to be considered valid

for the evaluation process. For the 2011-12 school year there will be teachers who have three

or more years of data (EOG and EOC tested subjects) that connect to Standard VI. There will

not be negative consequences solely on this one standard for these teachers at the end of 2012,

unless there are other areas of weakness connected to the other five standards.

The SBE realizes that the NC EES is a timely process where conversations must take place dur-

ing all aspects of the process and that principals will not have the time needed to properly

evaluate every teacher every year using the full evaluation cycle mandated by the USDE. The

SBE adopted a new policy in July for Local School Boards to consider. The new evaluation

policy language is underlined: GS 115C-333 Each local board shall adopt a policy requiring

career teachers to be evaluated annually. The annual evaluation requirements shall be met by

either: (1) Using the Teacher Evaluation Process as set forth in 16 NCAC 6C.0503; or (2) Using

an abbreviated evaluation consisting of Standards One, Four, and Six of the Teacher Evalua-

tion Process. The abbreviated evaluation process means, if a Local Board adopts the abbrevi-

ated policy for career status teachers not renewing their license , teachers will complete a self

assessment ,a growth plan, be observed formally at least once and have two snap shots and a

summative at the end of the year based on Standards I, IV, and VI.

Over 1,280 teachers have expressed an interest in assisting with the 60 content work groups

focusing on multiple measures for non-tested subjects.

Clarification Information Regarding Clarification Information Regarding

Evaluation Standard Policies Evaluation Standard Policies

NCAE SBE Review NCAE SBE Review

A U G U S T 2 0 1 1A U G U S T 2 0 1 1 N C A E S B E N C A E S B E

This is the link to check out

ABCs and AYP data for

LEAs and schools. http://

abcs.ncpublicschools.org/

abcs/

This is the 15th year NC

has released ABC Report

data. Graduation rates

moved from 74% to 77.7%

for 2010-11. Of the 2,495

schools with an ABC

Status, 81.4% exceeded or

met growth goals. There

are 13 low-performing

schools based on the ABC

data.

Mitchell County is the only

LEA that met AYP as a

District.

All teachers who worked

in a LPS last year that

exceeded ABC growth

goals will receive $1,500

as part of Race to the

Top. Funds will be

distributed this fall.

NCAE will share list

when received.

NCAE Center for Teaching and Learning NCAE Center for Teaching and Learning NCAE SBE Review August 2011 NCAE SBE Review August 2011

P A G E 2

Governor’s School

Renewal Credits Required for SP2L

The General Assembly reduced the

number of renewal credits required

for a teacher to renew a Standard

Professional 2 License from 15 CEUs

to 7.5 CEUs. The SBE discussed

possible policy changes and decided

not to make any changes without

fully discussing and evaluating possi-

bilities and opportunities to ensure

professional development was rele-

vant and beneficial to teachers and

administrators. A SBE Task Force

will work on new policy language and

recommend changes to the SBE this

fall or winter.

Teachers renewing their license this

2011-12 school year will only need 7.5

to renew their license. The majority

of teachers will have more than the

new required amount to renew their

license this year; which is why the

SBE did not rush to make policy

changes.

Possible changes include not grant-

ing CEU credit for teaching experi-

ence and only granting 5 CEUs for

completing the NBCT process

instead of the current 15 CEUs.

NCAE will keep you posted as we

have been asked to serve on this

Task Force.

mendations to the

Board in September.

The plan must be strate-

gic and cover more than

one year. Possibilities

discussed by the Board

included scaling back to

one campus or cutting a

few of the programs of-

fered and connecting to

business for scholar-

ships.

The SBE is committed

to continuing some

structure of the

Governor’s School that

was created by

Governor Terry

Sanford. The SBE dele-

gated that the SBE

Chair establish a task

force to include mem-

bers of the SBE and

other informed stake-

holders to bring recom-

A former NCGS Alumni

spoke to the SBE and

shared the significance

the experience made in

their academic and

social life. He is cur-

rently pursuing Educa-

tion Law/Policy as a

major at UNC-CH.

N C A E S B E R E V I E W A U G U S T 2 0 1 1

185 Instructional Day Calendar Waivers

P A G E 3 N C A E S B E R E V I E W

Session Law 2011-145 required LEAs and Public Charter Schools to increase

the number of instructional days from 180 to 185. The bill allowed the SBE

to grant waivers and replace the instructional days with teacher work days.

The SBE has granted all 115 LEAs a waiver for up to five days and the days

will be used for professional development on the new Essential Standards

and the Common Core standards for math and English. Seventy-five public

charter schools have been granted waivers as well. How does the calendar

issue impact types of leave staff can take on a teacher work day? Here is a chart from NC DPI explaining

the use of leave.

The days that have been waived by the SBE for this 2011-12 school year do not all have to be mandatory

teacher work days.

the all or nothing of the cur-

rent AYP formula, NCDPI/

SBE want to use a combina-

tion model of our ABCs

growth and proficiency and

report by sub-groups. (2) Pro-

pose the use of ACT in place of

other assessments (Grade 10

Writing), use the 5-year

graduation cohort rates, and

use the Future Core indica-

tors. (3) Change from the

highly qualified teacher com-

1. Approved the DHHS

Residential School Stu-

dent Discipline Appeals

process. The process is

similar to the protocol

used prior to the schools

being under the SBE.

2. Approved the DHHS

school calendars.

3. Shared the ESEA Waivers

being submitted to the

USDOE: (1) instead of

ponents of NCLB to data

collected from the NC EES

for both principals and

teachers.

4. Reminded everyone that the

pre-paid policy is in place for

one more year. Next year

teachers will not be paid

until September.

5. Provided an up date on RT3

work as well as the Transfor-

mation Team work and new

assignments.

Other SBE Actions

Calendar Days Teacher Workdays Can Use Personal

Leave without a

deduction?

Can Use Personal

Leave with a

deduction?

Can Use Annual

Vacation Leave

Instructional Days 185 No Yes No

Non-Protected

Workdays

2 Yes Yes Yes

LEA Mandatory

Workdays

8 No No No

The 2011 General Assembly decreased funding for state assessments and eliminating some end-of-

course assessments, the following state standardized tests will be administered this school year for

Growth, Performance and AYP as noted in the chart.

ABCs Program for 2011-12

P A G E 4 N C A E S B E R E V I E W N C A E S B E R E V I E W

Components ABC Growth Performance Composite AYP

Reading and Math Gd3 * *

Reading and Math 4-8 * * *

Science 5 & 8 *

Algebra I * * *

Biology * *

English I * * *

10th Grade Writing

Could be eliminated if

USDE approves the use of

ACT b/c writing is a com-

ponent of ACT

* *

NC EXTEND1 & 2 for

grades 3-8 Math and

Reading and for Science 5

& 8

*

*

*

High School EXTEND1

for Reading, Math, Writ-

ing and Science grade 10

* * (not science)

Graduation Rate

‘08-09 4 year cohort

and ’07-08 5 year co-

hort

* 5 year

* 4 year

Attendance Rate for

Grades 3-8

*

College University

Prep/College Tech

Prep Grade 12

*