1. Evaluating Teachers Across Content Areas

2. School Accountability Growth

3. Better Evaluation of Teachers
In order to improve practice, teachers need feedback that is accurate, authentic, and actionable.
Accurate: Feedback precisely reflects the teacher’s practice in the classroom (not just during observation).
Authentic: Feedback recommends action that is consistent with established best practice.
Actionable: Feedback provides concrete examples of what teachers can do to improve.
The feedback that teachers receive should be specific to the content that the teacher delivers.

4. Standards 3 and 4
Standard 3 (Content Knowledge) and Standard 4 (Facilitate Learning) should be strongly related to student achievement and growth.
Standard 3 is the “what” and Standard 4 is the “how” of student learning.
While teacher behavior measured by Standard 4 could be uniform across subject areas, Standard 3 is highly variable across content domains.
How well do higher ratings on Standard 3 relate to student growth (as compared to ratings on Standard 4)?

5. Standards 3 and 4 (Math)
Value-Added Index Grades 6 and up

6. Standards 3 and 4 (ELA)
Value-Added Index Grades 6 and up

7. Principal Content Expertise
Value-Added Index Grades 6 and up

8. Conclusions
Differences in Standard 4 ratings (the how) in math are more predictive of student growth than differences in Standard 3 ratings (the what).
This doesn’t mean that content knowledge doesn’t matter, but that, on average, we aren’t measuring this aspect of teaching as well the facilitation of learning.
We cannot determine from these data whether the issue of evaluating math content knowledge is “skill” or “will.”
Our READY Principals meetings will focus on improving the observation and evaluation of mathematics instruction.

9. Questions and Comments
Thomas Tomberlin

10. Analysis of Student Work Principal Updates

11. ASW - Principal Role Approve the Teacher’s Schedule
Principal receives notification from TNL
Signature step in TNL looks exactly like signature steps in the evaluation platform.
Practice Schedule Validation
Approval window in January 2015
Final Schedule Validation
Late January - Early February 2015

12. ASW - Principal Role Approve Chosen Objectives
Approve objectives chosen by Teacher
Approval window opens in early February
No final deadline – can be done in the system at any time.
Guidance
Review objectives with the Teacher, and then approve in TNL system.
Strands and Standards Guidance Charts available on the ASW Wiki for each content area.

13. ASW - Resources ASW Wiki: ncasw.ncdpi.wikispaces.net
Implementation Timeline
Strands and Standards Guidance Charts
ASW Memos from NCDPI
Participation Requirements for ASW
List of Courses included in the ASW Process
Information on Standard 6 Waivers
Teacher Resources
FAQ

14. Questions and Comments
Jennifer DeNeal