Championing Excellence:
New Mexico’s Teacher and School
Leader Evaluation Pilot Training
Observations, Walkthroughs, and
Feedback
August 29, 2012
• What Effective Instructional Leaders Do
• More Than A Check List
• Checking Your Current Status
• 12-24 Walkthroughs
– Classroom artifacts
– Student behaviors
– Teacher behaviors
Observations, Walkthroughs, and
Feedback
• Actions of Effective Instructional Leaders
– Interim Assessments with Follow-Up
• We taught this material, but did the kids get it? Some of
them didn’t- why not? How can we get our students invested
in their own improvement?
– Unit Planning
• Working backward from state standards (CCSS), big ideas,
and unit assessments
• Thoughtful instruction, deeper understanding, and overall
better outcomes
– Mini Observations (Walkthroughs)
• Are teachers on track with curriculum? Do students seem to
be learning? Special “attention”? PRAISE?
New Mexico’s Observation Protocol
• September 12, 2012
– Understanding the NM Observation Protocol
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Planning and Preparation (walkthroughs)
Creating an Environment for Learning
Teaching for Learning
Professionalism (walkthroughs/other evidence)
– 12-24 Walkthroughs
New Mexico’s Observation Protocol
• September 26, 2012
– Perfecting the Use of the Observation Protocol
• Analysis of 3 minute videos
• Documentation of evidence
• Feedback
– Providing Teacher Team and Whole Faculty Feedback
• Review of Homework
• Using collective feedback to determine school improvement
priorities
– Using Observation Data to Drive Short-Term and LongTerm Goals
• Communicating progress and expectations
• State of Instruction Address
New Mexico’s Observation Protocol
• Site Visits
• Inter-rater reliability
• Emphasize School Leader Learning
– Pecos Middle and High Schools
• 4 administrators
– Lybrook Elementary
• 3 administrators
• 2 interns
Getting Feedback
• 1. The training stated it was about the teacher evaluation and all it
was about was classroom observations. 2. There was not one
chance for questions/discussion prior to my leaving at 3:30pm. 3.
The statement was made about our teachers NOT being the sage on
the stage; however, the delivery of this training was ALL sage on the
stage. 4. The Gates Foundation paid for the MET study which found
that principals' observing was important; however, the IREPP out of
Stanford consistently finds that it does not improve teaching. The
Gates Foundation is struggling with the confliciting research data.
Why would I want to spend 2 hours per day doing observations if
there is NOT a significant research base supporting the practice
AND the results are only worth at most 25% of the new pilot
teacher evaluation model?
Getting Feedback
• The content was relevant to what we need to
be doing in the schools to elicit a high level of
teacher and student achievement.
• Very positive focus on student outcomes. I
appreciated the discussion of the power of
evaluations, as well as practical suggestions of
what to look for.
Getting Feedback
• Opportunity to use the forms with videos
• Getting us prepared for the new evaluation
system
• Very relevant information
• No connections are being made to what we
are being asked to do; Basically we are being
asked to do their work
Getting Feedback
• Good information and examples. Face to face
is much more effective than webinar(s)
• Teams had time to articulate where teachers
fall within the rubric and give examples of
what we might see and how to move a
teacher to the next level
• Commitment to the individual domain and the
rubric being the norm for findings
Getting Feedback
• Some confusion on assignments during the
sessions; A common complaint overheard is
the length of the day; there is so much
information that it becomes difficult to
maintain concentration
• Sit down for too long…the webinars are not
effective; Lots of technical difficulties and very
poor reception
New Mexico’s Observation Protocol
• Next steps
– Site Visits
• 23 Fall/25 Spring
• Combine districts
• Work regionally
– November 30
• Complete first formal observations
• PED collects data
NMTEACH/EFFECTIVE EDUCATORS PILOT Fall/Spring
Schedule
Date
October 17th
Time
9:00 am –
1:00 pm
November 30December 1
TBD
March 30
9:00 am –
1:00 pm
Location
Mabry Hall
300 Don Gaspar Avenue
Santa Fe, NM, 87501
Albuquerque
Albuquerque
Topic
MET Study and
APS Pilot Review
Speaker(s)
Steve Cantrell
Richard Bowman
Other measures,
Lessons learned
from other states
Fall semester
data review
Felipe Martinez*
TNTP*
Pete Goldschmidt
Matt Montaño
Steve Broome
Ivy Alford