1. The Educator’s Professional Inventory The Game-Changing, Actionable Lessons Learned From Hiring for School Improvement

2. Agenda 1.Brief Intro to Don 2.Video: Moneyball for teachers?!? 3.Basic Introduction to Research 4.Resume Roulette Activity 5.Going Deeper on the Research and Using it to Inform Hiring and Increase Student Achievement 6.Taking the Next Step

3. Moneyball as an Analogy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiAHlZVgXjk

4. Recent research has made it possible to create a tool that predicts the impact that a teacher candidate will have on student achievement.

5. Teachers Are the Most Important Factor Yet very little effort has been placed into making sure they are hired with scientific precision. Can you predict teacher candidate performance? Yes! EPI is the first and only comprehensive tool that predicts the impact that teachers will have on student achievement. And, because of advanced machine learning capabilities, it gets better and better the longer it is in use.

6. Resume Roulette 1.Break into Small Groups 2.Review your stack of resumes and quickly identify 2 people to bring in for an interview. 3.Then, create a list with the top 3 criterion that the group agrees are the most important for making these decisions. 4.Select a speaker who will quickly share the 2 people and the criterion.

7. Resume Roulette NameVotesNameVotes Isabel AbreuVictor LaporteXX Angelito BalboaCarlos OconXX Conor LefereSandra BogaczyjXX EJ KilfoyXMary Berblinger Linnea GarrettXXSerene Vethanayagamony Mary RogersXSophia JonesX Phoenix PearsonXTchaka TA Rachelle AshfordTarun Kumar Sunil SwamiOlla Kazoun Nilda BarrazaXRebecca Legenski Courtney TomainoXErika SandersX Jennifer MorrisEdnina Welters

8. It’s Time for a Change

9. Linking the Human Capital Chain

10. Meta-Analysis of Hundreds of Studies An in-depth review of the literature yields four areas that matter most.

11. Our Research Consortium

12. TeacherMatch Nationwide Research Sample deliberately varied by location, school type, size, and demographics.

13. Automating Sophisticated Analytics Hierarchical Linear Modeling: Indicates which items on the EPI are most predictive of student growth. Technology Platform: Uses HLM and VAM results to deliver the EPI to assess candidates and report on their results. Value-Add Modeling: Used as a Dependent Variable in our HLM model; our operational definition of “teacher effectiveness.” EPI is truly an inter- disciplinary undertaking. We bring together specialists from multiple fields who normally do not dialogue.

14. The System Learns Over Time The addition of SEM along with R on the technology side will enable a Computer Adaptive Test (CAT) that will allow for a real-time EPI that is context specific right down to the school and classroom level. Hierarchical Linear Modeling Technology Platform Value-Add Modeling Adaptive EPI Sequential Equation Modeling

15. EPI Is Artificially Intelligent Research in Action

16. Candidate Grid = Actionable & Fast Now you can interview only the candidates most likely to be an effective teacher.

17. Translating Score to Likelihood of Student Growth Value-Add Modeling (VAM) removes factors that are not under the teacher’s control.

18. VAM Distribution Think of this as a distribution of teachers’ ability to deliver student growth.

19. Professional Development Profile (PDP) Uses evidence-based EPI results to customize a PD report.

20. Baseline Teaching Force

21. One Year of Scientifically Based Hiring

22. Two Years of Scientifically Based Hiring

23. Three Years of Scientifically Based Hiring

24. Normal Student Growth

25. Impact of Scientifically Based Hiring Over Time

27. Contact Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions, thoughts, or ways that we can assist you. Don Fraynd, PhD CEO of TeacherMatch dfraynd@teachermatch.org 773.655.8806