Honestly I hadn't planned to report much on the Teacher Evaluations aspect of CC, but since the teachers are clearly stepping up and making a difference here in CT, it's time to follow their story too:
In June of 2012 the CT State Department of Education issued a press release:
The Connecticut State Board of Education Wednesday approved action items designed to elevate teaching and learning, improve educator effectiveness, and help develop comparable data on student absences from school.
In a unanimous vote, the Board approved consensus guidelines developed by the Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC). The guidelines will inform implementation of model teacher and administrator evaluation and support systems in pilot districts throughout the state during the 2012-2013 school year...
Public Act 12-116, An Act Concerning Education Reform, requires annual performance evaluations of principals, administrators, and teachers, based upon a new standard of “effective practice” and a consensus framework developed by PEAC. The University of Connecticut‟s Neag School of Education will analyze administration and results in the ten pilots and report back to the General Assembly by October 1, 2013. Statewide implementation of the new evaluation and support system will begin in the 2013-2014 school year...
Jump to the 2013-2014 School year. On January 29th the State Department of Education issued a press release:
...the state Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) today took action to provide significant relief to educators whose schools and classrooms are currently undergoing multiple and simultaneous changes... the council agreed to provide educators with additional flexibility in implementing new educator evaluation and support systems...
The recommendations agreed on today will enable districts to decouple state standardized test data in educator evaluations for the 2014-15 school year (extended from this academic year), pending federal approval. They also provide districts the option to reduce the number of time-consuming formal observations and further clarify that the minimum number of required student learning objectives for each educator can be one. PEAC also agreed to streamline the data management requirements at the classroom level while ensuring the protection of data from unauthorized users.
It's noteworthy that the words "pending federal approval" are included since in accepting money under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for for NCLB (No Child Left Behind) waivers, we agreed to set up Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems and "Fully implement Educator Evaluation" by 2013-2014.
Here is a chart that PEAC released showing the Teacher Evaluation Issue, Current Requirement, and Flexibility Options; how life will be easier now. After we get federal approval.
This blog is a place to keep current with news regarding Common Core and SBAC without having to wade through the editorials inherent in Facebook groups. I try my best to do the wading for you; all links are actually relevant to parents in Connecticut. I also belong to a closed Facebook group of Connecticut teachers, and sometimes share things I read there. Once in a while I share my own experiences, and occasionally I do manage to connect some dots, or at least raise some pertinent questions.
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