1 / 17

Pursuing Excellence in DCPS

Pursuing Excellence in DCPS. Columbia Graduate School of Business February 21, 2009. Agenda. Overall Goals Recruitment Retention, Selection, and Placement Evaluation Criteria and Professional Development Additional Considerations: Union Contract, Next Steps. Overall Goals.

gizi
Download Presentation

Pursuing Excellence in DCPS

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Pursuing Excellence in DCPS Columbia Graduate School of Business February 21, 2009

  2. Agenda • Overall Goals • Recruitment • Retention, Selection, and Placement • Evaluation Criteria and Professional Development • Additional Considerations: Union Contract, Next Steps

  3. Overall Goals • Mission: improve teacher quality through recruitment • Message: looking for teachers who believe in… • Student potential Active role in reform movement • Student achievement data Performance-pay Experienced Hires: 90 teachers (31%) Pipeline of New Teachers: 200 teachers (69%) Impact on DC Students: Achievement Gap Closed with Quality Education

  4. Strategy: Poaching Implementation: Target high performers One on one meetings Track and Measure Budget: $8,400 Strategy: Referral System Implementation: Market research and regression analysis Talking points Track and Measure Budget: $20,800 Recruitment 20 Experienced Hires 20 Experienced Hires Impact on DC Students: Learning from Proven Teachers

  5. Recruitment Strategy: TFA Alums Implementation: Regional blasts & TFAnet.org Kamras country tour Budget: $22,500 Strategy: Partnerships with Universities Implementation: Professionalize recruiting relationship and process Student teaching as feeder Budget: $9,600 50 Experienced Hires Better Prepared New Hires Impact on DC Students: Learning from Proven Teachers 5

  6. Recruitment with a million bucks • Reality shorts of DC school teachers • TV • Before movies • DCPS website • Teachdc.org website

  7. Retaining Event with Chancellor Rhee and DC Region’s 2nd year TFA teachers Public Recognition Budget: $10,800 Lead Teachers 15/5 Teachers Retained 10 Teachers Retained 5 Teachers Retained Impact on DC Students: Learn from teachers with DCPS experience

  8. Human Capital ValueSelection • 3 part process • Online application at teachdc.org • Student achievement data • Interview with lead teacher • Rubrics: district-wide and school-specific • Interview with principal Impact on DC Students: Perfect fit teachers

  9. Human Value Chain Placement • Frame Reform • Chancellor’s public statements to encourage participation • Influence • Lead teachers discuss placement priorities with Chancellor

  10. Human Value Chain Placement • Dissemination • Applicants grouped by cluster of schools with openings • Human Capital Personnel will monitor needs of schools • Pay grade shift • “Mutual consent” based on principal’s vision • Seniority = years teaching, not years teaching in DCPS Impact on DC Schoolchildren: Consistent teachers

  11. Evaluation • Solutions: • 360° Feedback • Parents • Teachers Union • Incentive Program • Challenges: • Metrics • Subjectivity • Trust • Positive Impact: • Self-Awareness • Accountable • Recruiting/Sorting Effective and Accurate Assessment Impact on DC Students: Continuously improving instruction

  12. Professional Development • Current State of PD: • Quality of Development • Lost Instruction Time • Seen as Punishment Reduction of Tunnel Vision Impact on DC Students: Consistently energetic teaching

  13. Union Contract • If contract is signed: • Retain suggested strategy • If contract is not signed: • Retain suggested strategy • Training on test preparation to measure student progress

  14. External Factors • Student enrollment and attrition • Metric for progress • Certification progress • Public opinion • Market research and public relations

  15. Next Priorities • Professionalization of DCPS • School based PD staff feedback to district • Teacher partnering • Principals to use school business managers, human resource training Impact on DC Students: Increased Pride in School Environment

  16. Missing Information • Channels providing high quality teachers • Proven instructional strategies • Student experience surveys

  17. “Grown-ups who stick with dogma even though it condemns children to second-class lives should be put on buses and sent to North Dakota to hoe wheat for a year.” -Garrison Keillor Impact on DC Students: Better Schools, Better Times

More Related