Increasing Teacher Effectiveness: Streamlined and Customizable Software Solution

1. Set a course for teacher effectiveness.

2. Administrators perform as many as… 100 observations per year * 2 hours = 200 hours 200 hours / 40 hour week = 5 work weeks Mostly on paper and stored in filing cabinets

3. Despite this time and effort… The Widget Effect, Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Differences in Teacher EffectivenessThe New Teacher Project, 2009

4. Improving quality of instruction Saving time and effort

5. Extensive, customizable and usable software to improve teacher effectiveness.

6. Teacher Reflection and Evaluation Summative Assessment Teacher Goals Evidence of StudentLearning Formative Assessment Peer Reviews

7. Teacher Reflection and Evaluation Summative Assessment Teacher Goals Evidence of StudentLearning Formative Assessment Streamlined technology which is: Accessible – Reliable 24x7 Integrated – All data in one place Analytical – Easy Data Analysis Flexible – System changes with Practice Peer Reviews

8. Using the Right Data -- Rightly Inter-rater Reliability Teacher Reflection and Evaluation Summative Assessment Teacher Goals Effectively Evaluating Teachers Evidence of Student Learning Formative Assessment Peer Reviews Research-based administrator training for effective implementation

9. Using the Right Data -- Rightly Effectively Evaluating Teachers Inter-rater Reliability Teacher Reflection and Evaluation Summative Assessment Teacher Goals Evidence of Student Learning Formative Assessment Peer Reviews Integrated, assignable, collaborative library for on-demand, continuous training

10. Teacher Compass Observe Teacher Compass was originally designed by Johns Hopkins University. The platform has been in use for more than 10 yearsand is in its third major version. STREAMLINED CLASSROOM OBSERVATION

11. Teacher Compass Observe Features Include: Support for walk-throughs, classroom observations and formal evaluations Traditional, self, peer and 360° observations and evaluations Customizable rubrics, protocols, templates and exemplars Rich reports to view evaluation and professional development activity at the district, school and teacher/leader view. A library of “best-practice suggested comments” for evaluators to add with a click Ability to upload vidoes and artefacts for consideration and comment Full iPad support

12. Teacher Compass PD • Rich library of over 2000 PD videos and documents • Add your own content collections • Assign PD as part of observations and evaluations • Automatic content suggestions for district, school and individual PD goals • Social networking for teacher-to-teacher collaboration • Rich reporting on district, school and teacher PD activity ON-DEMAND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

13. Teacher Compass PD Thousands of research-driven videos and documents for differentiated PD, including:

14. Teacher Compass PD Professional development goals provide the foundation for the user experience. Districts, schools and teachers can identify goals and associate those goals to content areas, pedagogical topics, grade levels and Pearson programs. All content within the library is also associated with this metatdata.

15. Teacher Compass PD Goals can be created at the district, school and teacher levels. PD content is automatically suggested for each goal. Teachers can add self-reflections to these goals. All activity against all pd goals is tracked.

16. Teacher Compass PD The home page is a teacher-to-teacher social networking wall, where any activity related to district, school or teacher goals, by any teacher in the district, is presented. This provides a “friendly reminder” of content related to goals and prompts teachers to explore and participate in PD. It also provides evidence of peer collaboration; professional development; and contributions to the school community.

17. Teacher Compass PD Teacher Compass PD tracks many types of interactions – Views, Comments, Favorites, and whether an idea has been implemented in the classroom.

18. Teacher Compass PD The library is fully searchable. Relevance is determined by teacher interactions – views, implementations, comments, favorites and assignments – related to content items. Teachers can quickly and easily filter searches by grade level, content area, strategy, program, etc.

19. Teacher Compass PD Teachers and school leaders can also browse the library of content,which can contain locally developed collections of PD. Districts and schools can build their own content collections.

20. Teacher Compass PD PD reports are driven by teacher interactions. This report presents interactions across the district. Interactions are then aggregated by school.

21. Teacher Compass PD Clicking a specific school provides a detailed view of interactions for that school Interactions for each teacher in a school are itemized.

22. Teacher Compass PD Clicking a specific teacher provides a detailed view of interactions for that teacher.

23. Pricing • Teacher Compass Suite ($85 / teacher / year) • One year access to Teacher Compass Observe and Teacher Compass PD from first day of implementation • 24x7, fully-redundant hosting services • Regular maintenance & upgrades during subscription • Teacher Compass Observe ($45 / teacher / year) • One year subscription from first day of implementation • 24x7, fully-redundant hosting services • Regular maintenance & upgrades during subscription • Teacher Compass PD ($50 / teacher / year) • One year subscription from first day of implementation • 24x7, fully-redundant hosting services • Regular maintenance & upgrades during subscription • One time set up ($2,500)* • Configuration of unique Teacher Compass instance. • Development and implementation of two (2) customized rubrics. • Uploading of roles and rosters * Set up fee waived for orders of 150 subscriptions or more.

24. Teacher Compass Suite ($68 / teacher / year) One year access to Teacher Compass Observe and Teacher Compass PD from first day of implementation 24x7, fully-redundant hosting services Regular maintenance & upgrades during subscription Teacher Compass Observe ($36 / teacher / year) One year subscription from first day of implementation 24x7, fully-redundant hosting services Regular maintenance & upgrades during subscription Teacher Compass PD ($40 / teacher / year) One year subscription from first day of implementation 24x7, fully-redundant hosting services Regular maintenance & upgrades during subscription One time set up ($2,500)* Configuration of unique Teacher Compass instance. Development and implementation of two (2) customized rubrics. Uploading of roles and rosters * Set up fee waived for orders of 150 subscriptions or more. Bundle Pricing for New and Existing Pearson Customers

25. Training • “Train-the-trainer” model. Topics include: • Customizing Settings, User and Groups • Building Custom Rubrics • Performing Evaluations and Building Reports • Training is offered in two formats: • Webinar ($1,500) • Three (3) separate webinars are provided for up-to 10 participants. Each webinar lasts approximately 1 hour. • Face-to-face ($3,500) • A one (1) day seminar is provided for up-to 10 participants.