Summer 2014 Evaluation Training Day Two

1. Summer 2014 Evaluation TrainingDay Two The contents of this training were developed under a Race to the Top grant from the Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.

2. Agenda

3. RIDE website: http://www.ride.ri.gov/ Evaluation email: EdEval@ride.ri.gov

5. Warm-Up • Child-centered • Engaged Instruction • Lifelong learning • Collaborative projects • Technology • Emergent Literacy • Critical thinking • Higher-order thinking • Brain-based learning • Authentic assessment • Multiple Intelligences • Photo by Alan Cleaver – Creative Commons Attribution License https://www.flickr.com/photos/alancleaver/4293345631/

6. Session One

8. RIDE’S DATA SYSTEMS InfoWorks The portal for accessing RIDE’s Data Systems EPSS RIDEmap GMV InstructionalSupportSystem

9. Session Objectives After completing this session, you should be able to:

12. EPSS • EPSS Roles • Adding forms • EPSS Reports • Growth Rating Information

13. EPSS Roles

14. Adding Forms EPSS

15. System Reports EPSS District Configuration Administrator can run district-level reports.

16. EPSS Rubric Explorer 1. Set the date span. 2. Choose the evaluation type. 3. Choose the rubric. *2013-Rubrics are for the current year. 4. Click View.

17. EPSS Reports

18. Growth Summary Information EPSS

19. Administration View EPSS

20. Teacher View EPSS

21. Interactive Activity Using the directions given to you:

22. EPSS Resources on RIDE Website

24. Interactive GMVT Activity

25. Every time you hover over an item on the screen and you see a hand or the word More you can dig deeper into the report!

26. Instructional Support System Return to the dashboard. Go back to previous page. Save reports as: Find feature for specific text.

27. Instructional Support System Search by SASID or search by Year, System, School, Grade and Student.

28. Interactive Instructional Support System Activity

29. TEN-MINUTE BREAK

30. Checking for Understanding After completing this session, can you:

31. Session Two

32. Session Objectives After completing this session, you should be able to:

33. Activity #3 What opportunities does your district provide to help your educators to grow professionally? • As a group, brainstorm a list of types of professional learning opportunities your district provides to its educators. • You may start with the big picture opportunities and add move specific examples as well. • Write these types on the chart paper provided.

34. Why are we talking about data, resources, and professional learning? An educator’s effectiveness is the most important factor for schools in improving student achievement.

35. Increasing the effectiveness of professional learning is the leverage point with the greatest potential for strengthening and refining the day-to-day performance of educators. • Stephanie Hirsh, learningforward.org

36. What Is Effective Professional Learning? Ongoing, Embedded, and Differentiated Adapted from High-Quality Professional Development for All Teachers: Effectively Allocating Resources

37. What Is Effective Professional Learning? • Aligning professional learning activities with data analysis, goal setting, implementation strategies, and monitoring and evaluating improvement can be highly beneficial to administrators, teachers, and students. • Connecting content to practice: sustained, and content-focused professional development is more effective. • Align professional learning with the needs of educators. • To support educators, professional learning must simultaneously cultivate deep content knowledge and build understanding of effective instruction.

38. What Is Effective Professional Learning? • Research has shown that teachers report greater changes in their instructional practice as a result of professional learning activities that involve their active participation and engagement with the work of their peers.

39. What Is Effective Professional Learning? • Collaborative professional learning involves teachers working together to improve teaching and learning. • Collaborative professional learning engages teachers in teams that work together on a shared learning outcome to learn from and share with each other.

40. Activity #3 Revisited Using the generated list of professional learning activities, identify whether the activities are one of the following: Focused (on content and on teaching the content) Active Collaborative Bonus: Draw a circle around activities that are differentiated; underline any activity that is ongoing throughout the year; and star any activity that is job embedded.

41. Effective Professional Learning is: • Aligned with school goals, state and district standards and assessments, and other professional learning activities including formative teacher evaluation. • Data-driven, focused, and specific to educator strengths and needs. • Focused on core content and modeling of teaching strategies for the content. • Includes opportunities for active learning of new teaching strategies. • Provides opportunities for collaboration among teachers. • Includes embedded follow-up and continuous feedback.

42. One of the most important goals of every professional learning opportunity should be for all teachers to walk out more excited about teaching and more effective tomorrow than they were today. How do we get there?

43. Practice Scenario Goals Summarize evaluation data for individual teachers. Identify patterns in teacher and student performance across the school to inform the allocation of resources. Identify professional learning opportunities.

44. Activity #4 Using Summative Evaluation Data for Individual and School-wide Planning • Read the “Ms. Blue, 8th Grade Mathematics Teacher” handout, focusing on the scenario with Ms. Blue and her summative evaluation plan. • Answer the guiding questions on the handout. • With your partners discuss and outline a professional learning plan for Ms. Blue on your handout. • Include the following elements in your plan: • Professional learning goals • Professional learning activities • Success metrics • Chart your plan and be ready to share your great ideas! TriadActivity

45. Using Data to Plan for School-wide Professional Learning Goals Identify patterns in educator evaluation data. Discuss possible professional learning opportunities for educators with diverse strengths and needs.

46. Activity #5 Using Data to Plan for School-wide Professional Learning • Read the sample School’s Evaluation Data Report. • As a table group discuss and share: • What patterns do you see in the data? • Please share how you plan for Professional Learning Opportunities in your schools when the data points are mixed. GroupActivity

47. Session Objectives After completing this session, are you able to?....

48. Checking for Understanding

49. Lunch - 30 minutes-

50. “Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but even higher expectations for themselves.” ― Todd Whitaker • Taylor Mali:What Do Teachers Make? I'm a Teacher: An Educator's Anthem