1. Student Growth for Teacher Evaluation
South Redford School District

2. Introduction
Jason Bobrovetski - Assistant Superintendent for HR & Operations
313/ , ext. 1013
Mary Ruth Bird - District Data Coordinator
313/ , ext. 1014

3. Consider Your District Landscape
Enrollment/demographics
SES
ELL
Number of buildings
Number of staff
Culture
History

4. The Law and Our Response
Moving from 25% to 40% for student growth in teacher evaluation
Grades 4-8 math and ELA teachers - 20% state assessments and 20% local assessments
All other teachers, 40% local assessments
At the time, no direction from MDE
Attended RESA training on student growth
RESA developed Guidance Document
Curriculum and HR collaborated to develop district plan

5. Starting Our Process Met with RESA consultants to brainstorm a process
Brought to administrative team - fine-tuned the process
Principals selected committees
Elementary Schools
Middle School
High School
Special Ed/Specials
Set meeting schedule - full-day/half-day/after school
Meetings followed RESA Guidance Document

6. Timeline/Focus October, 2017 December, 2017 January, 2018
February, 2018
March, 2018
May, 2018
Initial planning meeting with administration
Teacher teams studied the “Why” and Section 1 (Growth Models) of Wayne RESA Guidance Document
Teacher teams studied Section 2
(Developing and Selecting Assessments) of Wayne RESA Guidance Document
Teacher teams studied Section 3 (Measuring Student Growth) of Wayne RESA Guidance Document
Teacher teams studied Section 4 (Standard Setting) and Section 5 (SLO’s) of Wayne RESA Guidance Document
Teacher teams created a District Guidance Document for teachers

7. Agendas Created agendas in advance and shared with principals
Sample Agenda links
1st agenda
2nd agenda

8. Student Growth Models by Level
Elementary
Middle School
High School
Specials/ Special Ed
Language Arts/Math
Science/ Social Studies
Local Data
Student Learning Objective (SLO)
Student Growth Percentile (SGP)
with NWEA CGP
with NWEA Reading CGP
Growth to Proficiency
with High Leverage, High Transferable Skill
State Data
M-STEP
SGP
3-yr. avg. NA

9. District Guidance Document
Used District common vocabulary of PDSA
Sample Guidance Document link

10. Survey Teacher Perceptions
Want this to be a positive process, not punitive
Collecting teacher perceptions:
Pre-survey at end of last year
Post-survey at end of this year

11. Questions?
Contact Information:
Jason Bobrovetski - Assistant Superintendent for HR & Operations
313/ , ext. 1013
Mary Ruth Bird - District Data Coordinator
313/ , ext. 1014