Professional Learning – October 12, 2015 BWSD Stands #withMalala Reflections Educator Effectiveness ESEA Waiver Differentiated Supervision Action Plans Student Learning Objectives PA-ETEP

COMPREHENSIVE PLAN GOALS Goal: 1 - Create a culture and environment built on trust and relationships that demand a concerted focus on the children to ensure that they realize their full potential. Goal 2: - Create a system within the school that fully ensures school-wide use of data that is focused on school improvement and the academic growth of all students. Goal 3: - Implement scientifically research-based interventions for English Language Arts, mathematics and science to address the diverse needs of ALL students. Goal 4: Ensure that there is a system within the school that fully supports consistent implementation of effective instructional practices that meet the needs of all students across all classrooms and aligns with the Pennsylvania Framework for Teaching

Strategic Vision Pillars Objective 1.1 – Increase academic rigor through continuous improvement of instruction Objective 1.2 – Create school level intervention teams to address diverse needs of all learners Objective 1.3 – Improve student achievement by 5% in all schools based on Keystones, PSSA, PVAAS, as well as other indicators Objective 3.5 – Improve school security and safety of students and staff Objective 4.2 – Improve internal and external communication about BWSD Objective 4.3 – Create a culture and environment in the district of high performance and focus of student achievement

Educator Effectiveness

ESEA Waiver Pennsylvania’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) waiver which allows for a one-year pause in the use of the state’s School Performance Profile (SPP). Governor Wolf and Education Secretary Pedro A. Rivera had requested the waiver in using the 2015 PSSA scores to calculate SPP and teacher effectiveness ratings due to sweeping changes to the assessment that took effect in the 2014-15 school year. The Keystone Exams will be the only test used to help establish the SPP scores.

Pennsylvania’s ESEA Waiver PDE is required to demonstrate that Pennsylvania’s teacher and principal evaluation systems differentiate among teachers and principals who make significantly different contributions to growth in student learning and that 1) “the rating  systems consider prior student performance by classroom in setting targets; and (2) include safeguards to ensure that teachers are not disadvantaged based on students’ prior academic performance”

ESEA Waiver Using 2014-2015 data… SPP Score - Baldwin High School (only schools that have a grade 11) NO SPP Scores for Harrison, McAnnulty, Paynter, and Whitehall The 15% Building Level SPP score will be replaced with Observation and Practice - now 65% of Educator Effectiveness

ESEA Facts This past spring a new PSSA was administered in Pennsylvania’s classrooms, grades 3 through 8, in English Language Arts and Mathematics. This assessment was the first PSSA to be fully-aligned to the more rigorous PA Core Standards, which the State Board of Education adopted in fall 2013.

ESEA Facts On July 9, 2015, at a public meeting in Harrisburg, the State Board of Education approved “cut scores” for determining student performance levels on the 2015 PSSAs.

ESEA Facts The heightened difficulty of the PA Core and the limited time between final adoption and implementation of the new PSSA have resulted in fewer students scoring proficient or advanced. A thorough transition to the new standards requires time to develop new curriculum, train teachers, and provide resources to support the new curriculum.

ESEA Facts In regards to PVAAS, based on what has happened in other states during their transition to more rigorous standards, it is unlikely that there will be a substantial decrease in PVAAS growth measures statewide, even if there is a substantial decrease in the percentage of students testing in the Proficient range or higher

Keystone Data

Baldwin High School Keystone Data Algebra I 28.75% Proficient and Advanced 71.25% Basic and Below Basic Biology 40.94% Proficient and Advanced 59.06% Basic and Below Basic Literature 62.62% Proficient and Advanced 37.38% Basic and Below Basic

PSSA DATA

English Language Arts

ELA Cut Scores

Math Impacts

Math Cut Scores

Harrison Middle School

Paynter Elementary School

Whitehall Elementary School

Student Learning Objectives

SLO – Performance Measure PDE has modified the respective templates to emphasize the need for a growth SLO  PDE would encourage LEAs to reconsider these mastery goals and revise the SLO to demonstrate growth.

SLO – Growth Measure For example: 1) What data was used to inform the mastery based SLO? 2) Was the SLO calculated to take into account students' prior academic performance? If so, reflect the baseline data in your SLO. In the near future, PDE will conduct a statewide webinar regarding all of the ESEA waiver requirements. However, given the time sensitive nature of SLO development for the 2015-2016 school year, IUs have been asked to disseminate the revised templates to the field now.

SLO – Performance Measure MUST INCLUDE GROWTH

Differentiated Supervision Action Plans

Differentiated Supervision Action Plan - Documentation Each individual is responsible for his/her own paperwork and artifacts, which must be kept in a paper or electronic portfolio. The artifacts, paperwork, and narrative summaries, which include a mid-point and final reflection on professional growth and application aligned to the Danielson Framework, must be included in the portfolio. The project and accompanying portfolio will be reviewed twice. A mid-year and final review will be conducted between the professional employee and supervising administrator and will be used as evidence for supervision and evaluation.

Danielson Self Reflection PA-ETEP Mid-Year Progress Self-Assessment Rubric

Self-Assessment Be honest, but not self destructive. Rely on your evidence, no matter when you gathered it. Always add comments, and when you haven’t provided evidence, add more comments. (Download “Types of Evidence” PDF on PA-ETEP)

Resources bwschools.net Curriculum Writing Resources http://bwsdcurriculum.weebly.com/ Differentiated Supervision Action Plans, Educator Effectiveness, PA-ETEP, SLOs and so much more…