1. Educator Effectiveness Liaison Network
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Educator Effectiveness Liaison Network
3rd Convening – Denver, Colorado
March 2nd and 3rd, 2016

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Welcome Back!
Please:
Find your name badge
Grab convening’s Power Point
Copy March Thumb Drive folder to your computer
Reconnect with your colleagues as you enjoy lunch!
After lunch:
Re-Introduce Joslyn
Materials (PP & thumb drive)

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Reconnecting
Fill in an index card with an answer to one of the following sentence stems:
One success I’ve experienced with increasing IRA in my district is…
One assumption I have while I work to increase IRA in my district is…
One challenge I am facing while working to increase IRA in my district is…
Independent think time…then walk around the room reading card, discussing, give partner card and move on.
Reconnect them to Walk-through Process – District Implementation Level from last convening 3

4. Outcomes Outcomes for our two days together are to:
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Outcomes
Outcomes for our two days together are to:
Deepen the impact feedback has on teacher effectiveness
Reflect on the impact of the tools and processes that Liaisons have introduced or supported to build capacity of your evaluators in your district/BOCES
Increase your toolkit to support inter-rater agreement in your districts
Refine each district’s Action Plan to ensure
evaluators are supported
Independently read the provided text highlighting words or short phrases that capture important or interesting ideas. 4

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“Tell Me So I Can Hear”
With a partner, share and discuss the individually highlighted items from the article
Think about a few of the evaluators you work side by side with.
What are your hunches about their specific “Ways of Knowing?”
How has this article influenced the way you will work with them?
In pairs take turns talking about a highlighted thought and the questions provided.
As a table…talk about how this new learning fits into your work as a liaison. Small group reflect (now that you know it how will you use it) 5

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Take a break 6

7. CDE Update Hot Topics CDE Leadership Educator Effectiveness Leadership
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CDE Update
Hot Topics
ESSA
Legislation Session
Teacher Status
Appeal’s Process
CDE Leadership
Rich Crandall, Commissioner of Education
Katy Anthes, Chief of Staff
Educator Effectiveness Leadership
Toby King, Deputy Director Exceptional Student Services
Colleen O’Neil, Executive Director-Educator Preparation, Licensing and Educator Effectiveness
Handouts for NP status and appeal’s process (on thumb drive) 7

8. Teacher and Principal Feedback Surveys
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Teacher and Principal Feedback Surveys
Post Feedback Survey Data
Reports for June Convening
Spring Window
2 weeks from April 18th – May 13th
Agreed upon 2 weeks for entire EELN
Considerations:
How can we increase participation? (remember N=5 for reports)
When will your final evaluation meetings be complete?
How can you/have you communicated purpose of the feedback to help increase participation and understanding?
Pick window through consensus/table talk 8

9. Colorado Evaluation Process
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Colorado Evaluation Process 9

10. Final Evaluation Best Practices
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Final Evaluation Best Practices
During the final review conference, the principal and teacher draft PGPs for next year.
Evaluator shares the final rubric with the educator prior to the conference with the expectation for them to come to discuss areas that need clarification.
Finalize any group MSLs with full staff or teams prior to final conferences.
Finalize all conferences by May 1st (dependent on your end-of-year calendar, but ensuring that is at least 2 weeks prior to the end of school year.)
Ensure that you have a body of evidence that supports the summative comments written in the final evaluation.
Here is a sample of best practices from your December thinking…as you consider these and others you remember…
What have you done to support evaluators and educators in being prepared for the final conferences?
What are areas you need to focus on in the coming months?
Stir room to gain 5 new strategies, then table groups to share the one they are going to implement. Jot down ideas for Action Plan 10

11. End-of-Year Activities COPMS (RANDA)
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End-of-Year Activities COPMS (RANDA)
Steps 7, 8, 9
End-of-Year Review
Final Evaluation Rating
Goal-Setting and Performance Planning
What needs to be completed first?
Mid-Year
Evaluator Assessment
MSL Worksheet
Best Practices
Resources
Joslyn’s slide…into COPMS training demo site 11

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Reflection
As you reflect on what has moved evaluators in your district(s) to believe that observation and feedback will increase the effectiveness of teachers, what levers have you implemented that have had the greatest impact?
Individual reflection time, then whole group share out.
Capture share out on chart paper to create our 5 topics for tomorrow’s table conversations. 12

13. Welcome – Day 2 Welcome Back!
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Welcome – Day 2
Welcome Back!
Enjoy some breakfast while reconnecting with the other Liaisons!
Connect with 5 Liaisons who can speak to selected topics from yesterday’s brainstorm 13

14. Outcomes Outcomes for our two days together are to:
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Outcomes
Outcomes for our two days together are to:
Deepen the impact feedback has on teacher effectiveness
Reflect on the impact of the tools and processes that Liaisons have introduced or supported to build capacity of your evaluators in your district/BOCES
Increase your toolkit to support inter-rater agreement in your districts
Refine each district’s Action Plan to ensure
evaluators are supported 14

15. Evaluation Levers Identified Levers:
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Evaluation Levers
Identified Levers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Sign up on charts to rotate to three of the five topics
Share 5 identified levers and allow identified Liaison to speak to each. Then have everyone sign up for 3 rotations. 15

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Group Discussions
What are the components that lead to this lever being effective?
Why are these strategies important within this lever?
How are the strategies used?
What implications does this lever have for my work as a liaison? 16

17. Take a break Before we break, stack and pack
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Take a break
Before we break, stack and pack
Set up table tents for afternoon next conversations 17

18. Reflection and Planning
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Reflection and Planning
What can you do in the next few months to leverage your work to impact beliefs, knowledge and implementation of observation and feedback?
After table conversations: thinking about yesterday, this morning, and this conversations…jot down ideas in your Action Plan. 18

19. Developing Inter-rater Agreement
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Evaluators understand:
Outcome
Evaluation process
Perceptions of system fairness and credibility
Inter–rater Agreement (Consistent/Dependable Ratings)
Student and educator standards
Increased Educator Effectiveness
Feedback that is:
Actionable
Clear
Growth-producing
Timely
Quality adherence to the evaluation process
Positive Impact on Student Outcomes
Art and skill of evaluating

20. Inter-rater Agreement Protocol
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Inter-rater Agreement Protocol
With a partner talk about:
Any ah-has you may have had about IRA
This protocol to work on increasing inter-rater agreement
How might you use all or part of this process in your district(s)? 20

21. June and Beyond… As you think about what has been
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June and Beyond…
As you think about what has been
valuable in our year and a half together,
what would it be?
June Convening:
As you think about those areas, who would need to be at the June convening to move items into implementation?
What activities or conversations would you like to see facilitated for your district teams? 21

22. Closure Plusses and Wishes
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Closure
Schedule next site visit with Sue or Mary before you leave today
Plusses and Wishes 22