Materials for today’s session

1. Materials for today’s session • Shared website – Wiki • http://pugetsoundesdtpep-rig.wikispaces.com/ • Wireless Access • Open Air • password: summer10

2. PSESD Teacher Principal Evaluation Project Regional Implementation Grants January 12, 2012 8:30 am – 2:30 pm

3. AGENDA • Welcome and Updates • Professional Development • BREAK • Rubric Examination • Team Planning • LUNCH • Eval Demonstration • Continue Team Planning • Debrief and Next Steps

4. Group Norms and Agreements • Be present • Participate actively: • Ask questions • Share connections • Listen • Work together as a community • Invite and welcome contributions of every member

5. Learning Targets • Learn from each other • Explore professional development needs • Examine rubrics with a cultural lens • Learn about Eval tool • Plan the next steps for your district

6. Updates • District Sharing • Update since last session • Advice for districts who are beginning this work? • Legislative Action • Preliminary Pilot Data • Next TPEP Steering Committee, 1/24 • Principal Evaluation Committee • PSESD RIG Steering Committee

7. Grant Timeline

8. Piloting with 20% of Certified Staff • Certificated staff includes provisional status • Excludes ESAs (Counselors, OT, PT, etc.,) • MINUS those on a plan of improvement • PLUS principals and assistant principals who complete evaluations *Consider random selection for pilot participation and representation from each school

9. Professional Development • OSPI’s Plan • Support all principals in RIGs • Regional capacity building for 3 Frameworks • Plan for other districts • CEL Summer Institute • SEE Facilitators

10. Cross-District PD Discussion • Join the group that most closely matches your job role • Form a group with two or three other people • Have a discussion using the following handouts: • Learning Forward Standards Summary • Professional Development Reflection & Planning Tool • Gather ideas to share with your district team

11. Questions to Guide Conversations • What has your district done to lay a strong foundation for implementing a new teacher and principal evaluation system? • How have you attended to, or plan to attend to, professional learning around TPEP implementation related to the following(include successes and lessons learned): Learning Communities, Leadership, Resources, Data Learning Designs, Implementation, Outcomes

12. BREAK

13. Article The Teaching Evaluation Gap: Why students’ cultural identities hold the key Willis D. Hawley professor emeritus of education and public policy at the University of Maryland and the director of the Teaching Diverse Students Initiative of the Southern Poverty Law Center, in Montgomery, Ala. Jacqueline Jordan Irvine is the Charles Howard Candler professor emerita of urban education at Emory University, in Atlanta. Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

14. Teaching Evaluation Gap • Read the article using “Four As” protocol questions: • What assumptions does the author hold? • What do you agree with in the text? • What do you want to argue with in the text? • What in the text do you want to aspire to? • In groups of three, share and discuss what you marked in the text. • Discuss what implications the ideas in the article have for your work to implement changes to teacher and principal evaluation.

15. Rubrics • Danielson and Marzano rubrics now organized by state criteria • 5D rubric include additional criteria (5D+) • Rubrics based on research-based frameworks. wiki

16. Team Planning… • Fill out PD needs assessment • Examine rubrics • What are your next steps? • What support do you need? • What are the key messages from today? • What is your communication plan?

17. Lunch

18. EvalWashington • Go to: http://sandbox.eval-wa.org/

19. Forms of Evidence and Data Collection February 17th: cancel workgroup session Next Steps: 1/27/12