Welcome Before we get started please place a

Welcome! Before we get started, please place a post-it note under the statement on each poster to represent your level of confidence on the 4 -point scale 1 – not confident 2 – somewhat confident 3 – mostly confident 4 – very confident 1

The Professional Learning Link: Improved Adult Learning Leads to Improved Student Learning ORTIi Conference April 2017

How confident are you? 1. Educators in our district have a solid understanding of the state and district requirements and processes (e. g. , measures, timelines, documentation) for educator evaluation. 2. Educators in our district have access to strong professional learning opportunities about the evaluation system and can implement their role successfully. 3. Evaluation data collected in the system are reliable, accurate, and useful for providing highquality feedback. 3

Outcomes for Today • Discuss the characteristics and benefits of effective professional learning • Identify data from educator evaluation and support systems that can inform professional learning needs • Understand how district resources can support improved adult learning PL EE FS 4

Activity 1: Warm-Up • In groups of 3, brainstorm professional learning opportunities (activities, designs, venues, modes of delivery) currently used in your district, and write each one on a separate post-it note. Effective Professional Learning 5

Activity 2: Warm-Up Continued • Using the generated post-it notes of professional learning opportunities, identify whether the activities are one of the following: – Ongoing – Job-embedded – Differentiated Ongoing Differentiated Job. Embedded • Use the 3 circle Venn Diagram that has been provided and place the activity post-its in the appropriate space on the Venn Diagram 6

What is Effective Professional Learning? Focused Active Collaborative Ongoing, Embedded, and Differentiated Adapted from High-Quality Professional Development for All Teachers: Effectively Allocating Resources (http: //www. gtlcenter. org/sites/default/files/docs/High. Quality. Professional. Development. pdf)

Activity 3: Focusing on Effectiveness • Using the Venn Diagram of professional learning opportunities: – Draw a circle around opportunities that are focused; – underline opportunities that are active; and – star (*) opportunities that are collaborative. 8

Effective Professional Learning Evaluation & Support Systems

Integrating Evaluation and Professional Learning Where are the professional learning opportunities in your implementation cycle? Phase 1. Preparing for Evaluation • Practice Frameworks • Instructional/Lead ership Coaching • Using Data Phase 2. Evaluation • Collecting and Analyzing Data • Reflecting • Giving and Receiving Feedback • Goal Setting Phase 3. Using Evaluation Results • Informing Individual PD • Informing school or district-wide PD • Making human resource decisions 10

Integrating Evaluation and Professional Learning • Evaluation “training” as a one-shot, one-time event is insufficient, unsustainable, and a poor investment. • Consider: What do you gain by investing in preparing educators for evaluation as part of your broader state or district professional learning system? 11

More Trust, More Buy-in Relevant, job-embedded professional learning opportunities can increase teachers’ and leaders’ trust in and support for the evaluation system. 12

Better Data Comprehensive, highquality professional learning for evaluators helps ensure the data collected are § Fair § Defensible § Accurate § Useful 13

Better Feedback, Better Outcomes Relevant, hands-on learning opportunities § Improve the usefulness and accuracy of feedback. § Ensure that coaching and supports are offered. § Prepare and support teachers and leaders to take the lead in their own professional growth.

Supports Continuous Improvement Professional learning opportunities related to performance evaluation are integral to the long-term improvement and sustainability of the evaluation system itself. 15

Better Leadership and Instruction Most important! Educators’ capacity to deliver high-quality leadership and instruction is reinforced when educator preparation for evaluation is integrated with professional learning systems. 16

The Professional Learning Link Improved Student Learning Improved Adult Learning Phase 1. Preparing for Evaluation Phase 2. Evaluation Phase 3. Using Evaluation Results Learning Effects District Leaders, Central Office Staff Evaluators (Superintendents, Principals, Educators (Teachers and Principals) Trust and Buy-in • Better Data • Integrated, Comprehensive Professional Learning for… • Better Feedback Education Outcomes • Continuous Improvement Better Leadership Improved Student Learning Better Instruction 17

Shared Definitions: Evaluation Data • Evaluation data provide evidence of individual educator practice and performance collected throughout the evaluation cycle. • Characteristics of evaluation data are as follows: – May be quantitative (numbers) or qualitative (narrative statements). – May include inputs (actions and behaviors) and outcomes (student learning). – Can be aggregated to the school, district, and state levels for further analysis. 18

How Evaluation Data Inform Learning Educator Evaluation Data Self-Reflection Professional Learning Educator Evaluation Data Formative Feedback Professional Learning Strategic Planning Professional Learning Educator Evaluation Data 19

Activity 4: Human Continuum • One side of the room is designated “Strongly Agree, ” and the other side of the room is designed “Strongly Disagree. ” • As the statement is read, determine where your district falls on the continuum. Vote with your feet. • Turn to someone next to you. Share your rationale for why you chose this place on the continuum. 20

Effective Professional Learning Evaluation & Support Systems Funding Sources

Identifying Needs § What does evaluation data tell you about: • Teacher/Principal needs related to professional practice? • Strengths in practice that can be used as “capital”? § What is the connection between improvements in practice and areas where students are struggling?

Funding can support… § Professional learning (to support awareness and implementation) on the LEA evaluation system including the tools and processes to be utilized (Phase 1) § Professional learning for evaluators on the evaluation system (tools and processes) to ensure fidelity of implementation and inter-rater reliability. (Phase 2)

Funding can support… § Content or instructionally focused professional learning to improve areas of need identified by the LEA’s educator evaluation system (Phases 2 & 3) § Professional learning to assist teachers and administrators in using data to improve instruction and student achievement (Phases 2 & 3)

Improved educator practice and student outcomes Effective Professional Learning Evaluation & Support Systems Funding Sources

Center on Great Teachers and Leaders’ Mission The mission of the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders (GTL Center) is to foster the capacity of vibrant networks of practitioners, researchers, innovators, and experts to build and sustain a seamless system of support for great teachers and leaders for every school in every state in the nation. http: //www. gtlcenter. org/technicalassistance/professional-learningmodules/using-teacher-evaluation-datainform-professional-learning 26

Feedback Please! §Use an index card to identify: • 2 new learnings / “a-has” • 1 recommendation/suggestion you will take back to your district