Looking into the relationship between teacher and principal evaluation

TEACHER EVALUATION CRITERIA Centering instruction on high expectations Demonstrating effective teaching practices Individualizing instruction Subject matter knowledge Fostering a safe, positive learning environment. Use student data to modify instruction Communicating with parents and school community. Exhibiting collaborative and collegial practices TEACHER EVALUATION CRITERIA

PRINCIPAL EVALUATION CRITERIA Creating a Culture Ensuring School Safety Planning with Data Aligning Curriculum Improving Instruction Managing Resources Engaging Communities Closing the Gap PRINCIPAL EVALUATION CRITERIA

Responsibilities Qualities Create and support a learning culture Develop and monitor a Safe Schools Plan Analyze and use data to improve student learning Assist teachers in aligning curriculum to instruction and assessment Develop and evaluate teaching and support staff Manage Resources Engage the community in students’ learning Speak and write with clarity Act in an ethical manner Be organized and forward thinking Build relationships with staff and students Follow through Judgment Sensitivity Teamwork Understanding own strengths and weaknesses Situational Awareness

Creating and sustaining a learning culture Responsibility 1 Creating and sustaining a learning culture Skills and Knowledge Evidence and Measures Support Authority

learning through teaching Work on problems of practice Focus on learning through teaching Build clear and collaborative relationships Goal: Improved learning for all students Lead coherent system-wide support for learning Enhance personal leadership skills Why Change?

learning through teaching Centering instruction on high expectations Demonstrating effective teaching practices Individualizing instruction Subject matter knowledge Fostering a safe, positive learning environment. Use student data to modify instruction Communicating with parents and school community. Exhibiting collaborative and collegial practices Work on problems of practice Focus on learning through teaching Build clear and collaborative relationships Goal: Improved learning for all students Lead coherent system-wide support for learning Enhance personal leadership skills Creating a Culture Ensuring School Safety Planning with Data Aligning Curriculum Improving Instruction Managing Resources Engaging Communities Closing the Gap

Ensuring School Safety Centering instruction on high expectations Demonstrating effective teaching practices Individualizing instruction Subject matter knowledge Fostering a safe, positive learning environment. Use student data to modify instruction Communicating with parents and school community. Exhibiting collaborative and collegial practices Creating a Culture Ensuring School Safety Planning with Data Aligning Curriculum Improving Instruction Managing Resources Engaging Communities Closing the Gap

Teachers Principals District Subject matter knowledge Use student data to modify instruction Use data for school improvement Construct and monitor a safe-school plan

Teachers Principals District Subject matter knowledge Use student data to modify instruction Use data for school improvement Construct and monitor a safe-school plan

Culture Creating a Culture Closing the Gap Ensuring School Safety Centering instruction on high expectations Demonstrating effective teaching practices Individualizing instruction Subject matter knowledge Fostering a safe, positive learning environment. Use student data to modify instruction Communicating with parents and school community. Exhibiting collaborative and collegial practices Culture Creating a Culture Ensuring School Safety Planning with Data Aligning Curriculum Improving Instruction Managing Resources Engaging Communities Closing the Gap

Culture Isn’t the culture of the school, in large part, the collection of cultures of the classrooms? For the non-classroom parts of the school, what role does the teacher play in contributing to the culture of the school? What kind of district support is needed to successfully establish and sustain a school-wide learning culture? What policies and practices might be contributing to or impeding the improvement of classroom and school cultures?

Data Creating a Culture Closing the Gap Ensuring School Safety Centering instruction on high expectations Demonstrating effective teaching practices Individualizing instruction Subject matter knowledge Fostering a safe, positive learning environment. Use student data to modify instruction Communicating with parents and school community. Exhibiting collaborative and collegial practices Data Creating a Culture Ensuring School Safety Planning with Data Aligning Curriculum Improving Instruction Managing Resources Engaging Communities Closing the Gap

Data What are the similarities and differences between the data we expect teachers to analyze to design instructional activities and the data we expect principals to analyze to design school improvement initiatives? What kinds of district support is needed to ensure that both principals and teachers develop their skills in the analyzing and utilizing data to help students? How can a district create data in areas it values, but finds it difficult to define and quantify?

Content Creating a Culture Closing the Gap Ensuring School Safety Centering instruction on high expectations Demonstrating effective teaching practices Individualizing instruction Subject matter knowledge Fostering a safe, positive learning environment. Use student data to modify instruction Communicating with parents and school community. Exhibiting collaborative and collegial practices Content Creating a Culture Ensuring School Safety Planning with Data Aligning Curriculum Improving Instruction Managing Resources Engaging Communities Closing the Gap

Content What are the content alignment issues that should be decided in the classroom, in the school and in the district? How much knowledge of content does one need to assist another in aligning content, instruction and assessment? Are some content areas valued more by a district, and are those values clear to all? What is the role of content specialists, or coaches, in assisting both teachers and principals in making good decisions about content?

Instruction Creating a Culture Closing the Gap Ensuring School Safety Centering instruction on high expectations Demonstrating effective teaching practices Individualizing instruction Subject matter knowledge Fostering a safe, positive learning environment. Use student data to modify instruction Communicating with parents and school community. Exhibiting collaborative and collegial practices Instruction Creating a Culture Ensuring School Safety Planning with Data Aligning Curriculum Improving Instruction Managing Resources Engaging Communities Closing the Gap

What is our instructional framework? How does that framework apply to the principal’s job of hiring teachers? What kind of district support does the principal need to support teachers’ efforts to become more effective teachers? Who, besides the teachers and principals, need to be well versed in the instructional framework of the district?

Community Creating a Culture Closing the Gap Ensuring School Safety Centering instruction on high expectations Demonstrating effective teaching practices Individualizing instruction Subject matter knowledge Fostering a safe, positive learning environment. Use student data to modify instruction Communicating with parents and school community. Exhibiting collaborative and collegial practices Community Creating a Culture Ensuring School Safety Planning with Data Aligning Curriculum Improving Instruction Managing Resources Engaging Communities Closing the Gap

Community What kind of training is offered by the district to teachers and principals to increase their skills in connecting with the community? Are there differences between elementary and secondary levels regarding either the teachers’ or principals’ expectations to engage the community? Does the principal get credit or blame for the collective connection his/her teachers’ have made with their parents? Are there policies, practices, or agreements that support or inhibit the engagement of communities outside the school?

Culture Data Content Instruction Community Centering instruction on high expectations Demonstrating effective teaching practices Individualizing instruction Subject matter knowledge Fostering a safe, positive learning environment. Use student data to modify instruction Communicating with parents and school community. Exhibiting collaborative and collegial practices Data Content Creating a Culture Ensuring School Safety Planning with Data Aligning Curriculum Improving Instruction Managing Resources Engaging Communities Closing the Gap Instruction Community

Resources

Track your students’ engagement, hope and well being Gallupstudentpoll.com Track your students’ engagement, hope and well being

Success at the Core http://successatthecore.com Videos and facilitators’ guides designed to develop schools’ leadership teams and individual teachers’ skills in the classroom.

(Great Principals’ Strategies) AWSP’s Online GPS (Great Principals’ Strategies)

Ensuring School Safety Closing the Gap Creating a Culture Ensuring School Safety Planning with Data Aligning Curriculum Improving Instruction Managing Resources Engaging the Community Closing the Gap PRINCIPAL EVALUATION CRITERIA

School Culture Classroom Expectations High School-wide Field Trips Hall Decorations Personalizing Learning Roll Call Adult Activities Student Alumni Faculty Meetings Transitions Fresh Start

College Entrance Requirements At Stewart Elementary School, we want students to begin thinking about college early, so we display the college entrance requirements in our hallway. This helps to set the tone that this is a place to learn, and if students work hard, they will all be prepared for learning after high school.

School Culture Classroom Expectations High School-wide Field Trips Hall Decorations Personalizing Learning Roll Call Adult Activities Student Alumni Faculty Meetings Transitions Fresh Start

Alumni Faculty Meeting The Alumni Faculty Meeting has been a very successful strategy at Pacific Middle School. Each year we invite 7 or 8 of our graduates (present 9th graders) to come back from high school and tell us how their experiences at Pacific helped them be successful at high school, and share with us any experiences that weren’t helpful. Our graduates have been very honest with our teachers and the meetings have brought about changes in teacher behavior that I have been unable to accomplish on my own. Sometimes our teachers are reduced to tears, but more often they howl with laughter at the funny things the kids say. I will take this strategy to every school I go to, regardless of the grade level.

Thanks to all of you for getting on board and making this work.