TEACHER EVALUATION IMPLEMENTATION DAY: STUDENT GROWTH AND GOAL SETTING September 25, 2015 Shorewood High School 9/25/15 1

Entry Task – Give One, Get One As you enter, write your response to the following questions on note cards or stickies: Given your current practice, in what ways do you determine whether students in your class have grown in their learning? How do you distinguish between “student growth” and “student achievement?” Shorewood High School 9/25/15 Sit with your PLC ! 2

PURPOSE for Today: Purpose: Staff will collaborate to produce “nested” PLC and individual student learning and growth goals. Staff will have information to complete the initial steps required for teacher evaluations. Consider collaborating with your PLC on an area of focus. All Teachers: Do the complete self assessment and 2 goal prompts. People on Focused: selecting focus and student growth by Sept 30 th. Draft Student Growth Goals, due by November 1. Working smarter not harder: I am hoping that our work together will yield PLC and individual goals that bring everything together efficiently for you, rather than creating three different “silos” of work that make your 1st semester more difficult to manage. I also believe we have greater capacity to help more students succeed and achieve through meaningful collaboration. School Improvement Planning: over the next 6 weeks or so we need to complete our annual school improvement plan. After the BLT on Wednesday, I hope to have a little more definition on our SIP for the year, but it is slow in forming and we still have the month of October to formulate a plan. In the preliminary work with the BLT, it looks like our SIP work will focus on: Continuing development of PLC’s that focus on student learning. Required goals for math and literacy. Department goals in support of common core and NGSS standards. Improving our work with failing students. Equity and achievement gaps. Staff goals need to be related to the direction of the building and the district. See the following graphic for a representation of the conceptual framework for goals setting Shorewood High School 9/25/15 3

Defining Key Terms Student Achievement: The student’s level of subject- matter knowledge, understandings, and skills at one point in time. Student Growth (Learning): The growth in subject- matter knowledge, understandings, and skill over time. Shorewood High School 9/25/15 For the purpose of evaluation, it is student growth, not student achievement, that is relevant in demonstrating impacts teachers and principals have on students. Ultimately the representation of student achievement, a measure of those students meeting or exceeding defined standards, is relevant for overall school improvement over time. 4

“Nested” Goals District and School Goals -are related to- Department Goals -are related to- PLC Team Goals (8.1) 2-4 times per year, aligned with SIP -are related to- Individual Teacher Student Growth Goals (6.1, 3.1) Shorewood High School 9/25/15 5

Source for goal language…students learn your content through the lens of the CCSS and NGSS Shorewood High School 9/25/15 English, Social Studies, Math and Science can link easily to standards: COMMON CORE NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS Other disciplines may find the “common practices” easier to use… 6

Why Student Growth for teacher evaluation? State Law Requires Student Growth in 3 of the 8 State Evaluation Criteria Criterion 8: Exhibiting collaborative and collegial practices focused on improving instructional practice and student learning. (PLC) Criteria 6: Using multiple student data elements to modify instruction and improve student learning. (large group, may be the same as PLC) Criteria 3: Recognizing individual student learning needs and developing strategies to address those needs. (small group) Shorewood High School 9/25/15 7

Student Growth is only ONE Piece! Student Growth Student work Goal Planning and Setting Conversations Conferences Observations Artifacts Shorewood High School 9/25/15 Of Evaluation = 8

How often do teachers and PLC’s use assessment? Shorewood High School 9/25/15 Formative classroom assessments Formative common assessments- agreed at the PLC Interim common assessments- agreed at the PLC District benchmark assessments State-based assessments Adapted from N. Love, K. E. Stiles, S. Mundry, and K. DiRanna, The Data Coach’s Guide to Improving Learning for All Students: Unleashing the Power of Collaborative Inquiry, Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, All rights reserved. Daily 1-4 times a month Quarterly or end of the unit 2-4 times a year Annually 9

To Review – Goal Process Current data – what do our students need? As a PLC, focus on a big standard for the trimester/quarter/semester Do a baseline assessment (early, low stakes for students) Develop a specific, measureable goal (CCSS, NGSS) Talk about teaching - share strategies, teach, provide help to struggling students Monitor growth through formative assessment Administer a common assessment when ready Discuss student achievement data Provide additional interventions as needed As a PLC team – dig in on one or more meaningful standard Shorewood High School 9/25/15 10

EVALUATION OF GOALS Shorewood High School 9/25/15 11

Student Growth Rubric Language- for establishing the goal. Shorewood High School 9/25/15 12

Administrators Evaluating Goals (3.1, 6.1 and 8.1) Shorewood High School 9/25/15 13

Demonstrating Evidence of Student Growth- Reminders Generally, these types of artifacts are good examples of what to use to demonstrate student growth: Sample assessment/rubric Student work (keep some!) Summary of student data from Point A to Point B How do you demonstrate student growth for your evaluation? Shorewood High School 9/25/15 14

Rubric Language to Consider When Establishing Goals- This language used to measure growth once your data is in… Shorewood High School 9/25/15 UnsatisfactoryBasicProficientDistinguished Growth or achievement data from at least two points in time shows no evidence of growth for most students. Multiple sources of growth or achievement data from at least two points in time show some evidence of growth for some students. Multiple sources of growth or achievement data from at least two points in time show clear evidence of growth for most students. Multiple sources of growth or achievement data from at least two points in time show evidence of high growth for all or nearly all students. 15

What goals do I have to do for evaluation? COMPREHENSIVE – 8.1, 6.1, 3.1 Team based shared growth goal. (8.1) PLC Whole class goal (6.1). May be the same as your PLC shared growth goal Small group goal (3.1) A sub set of students who are not reaching full learning potential. (Individual teacher) Likely to be a sub set of the class in your whole class or team goal. FOCUSED – 8.1 or 6.1 or 3.1 If you choose C8 (collaborative and collegial practices), C6 (use of data to modify instruction) or C3 (recognizing individual needs), use the growth goal embedded in the criterion; 8.1, 6.1, 3.1. If you choose any other criterion, you must choose either 3.1 or 6.1 as your growth goal. Shorewood High School 9/25/15 16

Process during the year-3 Student Growth Conferences Student Growth Conference – Fall Be prepared to answer the following:  What instructional strategies will you use to enable all students to meet the standard?  What will you do to assist students who haven’t met standard? Progress Review– Winter (or earlier)  What does your formative data tell you about student progress toward goal?  What engagement strategies could you explore that could yield formative data? Student Growth Conference– Spring (or earlier)  What do your multiple data points tell you about student growth for both your average and high growth targets? Shorewood High School 9/25/15 17

Questions? Shorewood High School 9/25/15 Work time. 18

Work Time: (Today and Monday PM) Purpose: Staff will collaborate to produce “nested” PLC and individual student learning and growth goals. Staff will have information to complete the initial steps required for teacher evaluations. Consider collaborating with your PLC on an area of focus. All Teachers: Do the complete self assessment and 2 goal prompts. People on Focused: selecting focus and student growth by Sept 30 th. Draft Student Growth Goals, due by November 1. Working smarter not harder: I am hoping that our work together will yield PLC and individual goals that bring everything together efficiently for you, rather than creating three different “silos” of work that make your 1st semester more difficult to manage. I also believe we have greater capacity to help more students succeed and achieve through meaningful collaboration. School Improvement Planning: over the next 6 weeks or so we need to complete our annual school improvement plan. After the BLT on Wednesday, I hope to have a little more definition on our SIP for the year, but it is slow in forming and we still have the month of October to formulate a plan. In the preliminary work with the BLT, it looks like our SIP work will focus on: Continuing development of PLC’s that focus on student learning. Required goals for math and literacy. Department goals in support of common core and NGSS standards. Improving our work with failing students. Equity and achievement gaps. Staff goals need to be related to the direction of the building and the district. See the following graphic for a representation of the conceptual framework for goals setting Shorewood High School 9/25/15 19