AEA 267 Practitioner Collaboration and Peer Review Log
All staff eligible for educator quality funds (all licensed staff) must complete Practitioner Collaboration and Peer Review Log to be shared with administrator during
professional development review conference. Collaboration time should focus on improving teaching and learning. Examples of collaboration include but are not
limited to: PLC meetings, discipline meetings that include collaboration opportunities, resource team meetings (autism team, brain injury team, behavior team,
etc…), IEP compliance review meetings with teachers, mentor/mentee meetings. Peer review involves feedback between one or more peers regarding
professional practice and is intended for purposes of coaching and professional growth.
Date
Time
Collaboration/ Peer
Review Activity
Peer(s) Involved
Example
8/14/13
Brief Reflection
Identified of 19 goals reviewed, 14 with positive trendlines, 1 with flatline, and 4
2 hr. 15 min.
Review of progress monitoring
Elementary special education
with negative trendlines. Review of goals for 14 with positive trendlines indicates
data and instructional goals
team (special ed. teachers, team
5 goals not written to close gap (low rigor). Next meeting will further review
rep, instructional coach)
instructional strategies used with 4 showing negative trendlines and discuss
possible instructional changes.
AEA 267 Practitioner Collaboration and Peer Review Log
Date
Time
Collaboration/ Peer
Review Activity
Peer(s) Involved
Brief Reflection
Total hours:
*Iowa Code sections 284.6(8) and 284.8(1) call for all educators to work collectively at improving the teaching and leadership practice by requiring educators to
engage in practitioner collaboration and peer reviews. Iowa Code section 284.6(8) requires that at least 36 hours annually “outside of the minimum school
day,” during “non-preparation time or designated professional development time,” must be used by “practitioners to collaborate with each other” or “to engage in
peer review” activities. The collaboration or review time is not to be confused with individual educator preparation time, and schools should not count individual
preparation time as collaboration time. Under Iowa Code section 284.8(1), school districts are required to conduct annual, rather than every third year, reviews of
non-probationary teacher performance. The first and second years of such reviews will be “conducted by a peer group of teachers.” The Iowa General Assembly
specifically prohibited peer reviews from being used as the basis for recommending that a teacher be placed in an intensive assistance program. As such, the peer
review is intended for the purposes of coaching and improvement.