EDUCATOR EVALUATION
August 25, 2014

5-Step Cycle
OVERVIEW

Continuous
Learning
Collaboration and Continuous Learning are the focus

Analysis of Student Learning, Growth, and Achievement
 Students’ strengths and areas of concerns
 Using assessment data
Assessment of Practice Against Performance Standards
 Your strengths and areas for growth
 using the standards on the performance rubric
 specific standards, indicators, or elements

WHAT WILL I NEED TO DO MY SELF-
ASSESSMENT?
*District-Determined
Measures (DDM)
*Other local data

RUBRIC: STANDARDS OF EFFECTIVE PRACTICE
Teachers & SISPs
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I. Curriculum, Planning, & Assessment
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II. Teaching All Students
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III. Family & Community Engagement
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IV. Professional Culture

SELF-ASSESSMENT
• If you are a 1 st year educator, your evaluator will help you with the self-assessment and goalsetting
• PTS educators who just completed a 1-Year
Educator Plan and Non-PTS educators complete the self-assessment and share with the evaluator by October 1, 2014
• The Self-Assessment Form is located in Aspen.

Continuous
Learning
Collaboration and Continuous Learning are the focus

 Professional
Practice Goals
 Student Learning
Goals
Your goals will be:
 Outcome Oriented
 SMART
• *PTS educators who just completed a 1-
Year Educator Plan and Non-PTS educators complete proposed goals and share with the evaluator by October 1, 2014
 The Goal-Setting Form is located in Aspen

SMART GOALS
 S pecific/Strategic: Targets student population
 M easurable: Identifies evidence/data
 A ction Oriented: Identifies outcomes, “who” is doing “what”
 R igorous, Realistic, and Results-Focused: students will increase scores by 10%
 T i med and Tracked: Timelines clearly defined

IS YOUR GOAL SMART?
S
Specific
Strategic
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IS YOUR GOAL SMART?
M
Measurable
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IS YOUR GOAL SMART?
A
Attainable &
Action-oriented
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IS YOUR GOAL SMART?
R
Rigorous
Realistic
Results-oriented
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IS YOUR GOAL SMART?
T
Timed
Tracked
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STEP 2B: DEVELOP THE PLAN
4 Types of
Educator Plans
 Self-Directed Growth Plan
 1-Year or 2-Year
 Directed Growth Plan
 1-Year
 Improvement Plan
 Less than 1 year
 Developing Educator Plan
 1-Year (for all Non-PST)

STEP 2B: DEVELOP THE PLAN
The Educator Plan will include:
 1 professional practice goal
 1 student learning goal
 Team goals must be considered and are recommended
The plan should be drafted by the educator or in collaboration with the evaluator
Evaluator meets with educator (or teams) to discuss the Educator Plan by October 16, 2014
Educator Plans must be completed by October 30, 2014

Continuous
Learning
Collaboration and Continuous Learning are the focus

STEP 3: IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN
• Educators and their evaluator collect evidence
(artifacts) and assess progress on goals
• Evaluators conduct announced and unannounced observations, and provide written feedback
• Educators on a 1-Year plan will submit evidence on Standard 3 and 4 by
January 5, 2015
• -It is recommended that all educators share evidence with evaluators by January 5, 2015

Announced
OBSERVATIONS
• Unannounced
 Pre-conference
 30 minute observation
 Post-conference
 Written feedback
 -At least 10 minutes
 -Written feedback

ARTIFACTS
“Products of an educator’s work that demonstrate knowledge and skills of the educator .”
Artifacts should never be documents manufactured for the evaluation.
 This definition of artifact comes from state regulations, 603 CMR 35.02.

IMPORTANCE OF STRATEGICALLY
COLLECTING ARTIFACTS
-Artifacts should be a sample that demonstrates educator performance and impact:
 Evidence should be clearly tied to:
 Goals
 Standards/Indicators
-Artifacts can provide evidence of more than one Standard or Indicator
-Number of artifacts for each educator will vary
**Focus your artifact gathering on Standard III and Standard
IV and on indicators you identified as areas for growth in your
Self-Assessment

ARTIFACT COVERSHEET
Don’t forget to complete an
Artifact Coversheet for each artifact.

RUNNING RECORD OF EVIDENCE FORM
Using a running record helps you keep track of your evidence collection (optional)

Continuous
Learning
Collaboration and Continuous Learning are the focus

FORMATIVE REPORTS
Every educator has a mid-cycle review
1-Year Educator Plans
• Formative Assessment Reports will be completed by February 3, 2015
• Formative Assessment meetings (if requested) will be held by February
24, 2015
2-Year Educator Plans
• Formative Evaluation Reports and meetings (if requested) will be completed by June 1, 2015

FORMATIVE REPORTS
Formative Assessment Report
 Mid-cycle in a 1-Year Plan (February)
 No ratings
Formative Evaluation Report
 Mid-cycle in a 2-Year Plan (June of Year 1)
 Ratings on goals and standards

Continuous
Learning
Collaboration and Continuous Learning are the focus

REPORTS
 End of cycle –both 1-Year and 2-Year
Plans (April)
 Ratings on goals and standards
 Summative Evaluation Reports will be completed by April 29, 2015

RATINGS
• Every educator earns one of four ratings of performance every year
• Every educator earns one of three ratings of impact on student learning each year
(after three years of DDM data are available)

PERFORMANCE RATINGS
Performance Ratings
 Exemplary
 Proficient
 Needs Improvement
 Unsatisfactory
Performance ratings are part of the
Formative Evaluation Report (end of
Year 1 of a 2-Year Plan) and the
Summative Evaluation Report
-Given for performance in each standard and overall performance
-Cannot receive an overall rating of
Proficient or Exemplary if rating for
Standard I or II is Needs
Improvement or Unsatisfactory

IMPACT RATINGS
Impact Rating
 High
 Moderate
 Low
-Based on 3 years of DDM data (2 DDMs annually)
-Low impact rating only influences the Educator
Plan to be written