Leveraging Educator Evaluation

to Support Improvement Planning

Reading Public SchoolsCraig Martin

craig.martin@reading.k12.ma.us

Beyond Compliance• Connect Common Core and Assessment Development

to the Educator Evaluation System• Focus on a system to promote professional

collaboration, peer observations, examination of student work, and ongoing conversations

• Build a culture of trust and empowerment of teachers• Use teacher representatives as district steering

committee• Create alignment of district, school, and educator goals• Accountability: to be moving in this direction

Goal AlignmentDistrict – School - Educator

School Improvement Goal: The Behavioral Health of All StudentsTo explore and implement strategies to more effectively address the social, emotional, and behavioral health of young adolescents and to promote a safe and healthy environment for all students.

Aligning SMART Goals

Learning and Teaching: Through collaboration and innovation, we will advance learning for all students by teaching and integrating 21st Century

skills within a challenging standards-based curriculum . . .

Educator Goal

Middle School Improvement Goal

Over the next two years, improve instructional and assessment strategies in Mathematics so that all students demonstrate increased growth in their

understanding of Math standards, as measured by the state Student Growth Percentiles and by school pre/post assessment data.

 To design instructional and assessment strategies which will provide students the opportunities and support in all curricular areas to further develop and

apply skills such as critical thinking, in-depth problem solving, literacy, collaboration, communication, creativity, and innovation.

District Goal

Example #1

Learning and Teaching: Through collaboration and innovation, we will advance learning for all students by teaching and integrating 21st Century

skills within a challenging standards-based curriculum . . .

Educator Goal

Elementary School Improvement Goal

Fifth graders will identify and produce a coherent writing piece in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience

as measured by the district writing rubric

To advance the learning of ALL students so that they can achieve at their fullest individual level of performance by implementing high-quality,

evidence-based instructional practices in a socially, emotionally, healthy and safe school environment.

District Goal

Example #2

Learning and Teaching: Through collaboration and innovation, we will advance learning for all students by teaching and integrating 21st Century

skills within a challenging standards-based curriculum . . .

Educator Goal

Elementary School Improvement Goal

To develop and implement plans in the area of reading to meet the individual needs of Tier 1 and Tier 3 students, as measured by weekly data meetings, teacher

feedback, successfully managed data system, and student achievement in the area of reading (particularly Grade 2 phonics skills)

To foster a cycle of continuous improvement by using both formative and benchmark assessment data to monitor individual student progress, to plan for tiered instruction and adequate learning time, and to develop professional development and structures for collaboration for their effect on raising student achievement. (2012-2013 TELLS

RESULTS)

District Goal

Example #3

TAP CommitteeA Key to the Process-Established 2003

• Committee of Teachers, Building Administrators, Central Office Administrators

• Representation from every school• Compared current rubric with model rubric

system• Reviewed model contract language• Involved in development of forms for September,

2012 implementation

Some Thoughts as an Early Adopter

• Our existing Teacher Assessment Process (TAP) and TAP Committee provided a smooth transition

• Concept of aligning goals already in place• Process and documents should be continuously

examined and improved• Principal’s role / desired school culture• Evidence and any collection of evidence should

occur organically through the process

Lessons Learned• Educator Evaluation should not be THE initiative

itself• Connect to authentic goals, to which teachers can

connect and feel passion for• Don’t let the SMART goal setting become too much• Make the goal about the work or learning objective

(not the measure)• Admit mistakes and improve

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