Prince George ’ s County Public Schools

1. Prince George’s County Public Schools Principal Evaluation System Reform CCSSO Conference, June 27, 2012 Dr. Michael Brooks, Office of Talent Development Specialist

2. Agenda • Setting the Stage • PGCPS Human Capital Work • State Education Reform /RTTP • Maryland Educator Effectiveness Committee: States Default Tool • Strategic Importance of Principal Evaluation Reform for PGCPS • Phase 1 • PGCPS Leadership Standards • PGCPS Evaluation Reform Steering Committee • Union Perspective • Next Steps • PGCPS Evaluation Reform Timeline

3. Setting the Stage • PGCPS Human Capital Work • Superintendent’s Vision • Lever of Change #1 Teacher- Student Interaction/Relationship • Lever of Change #2 Building Leadership • State Evaluation Reform (RTTP) • MCEE Steering Committee • States Default Tool • 50% Professional Practice: ISLLC Standards/Maryland Standards • Evaluator and Principal choose percentage rating for each indicator • 50% Student Growth Measures • State Tests and Student Learning Objectives

4. Strategic Importance of Principal Evaluation Reform for PGCPS • PGCPS Received RTTP Funds • Principal & Teacher Evaluation Reform • Correlation • Wallace 12 million dollar Grant: Principal Pipeline • Improve Principal Leadership Capacity • Improve Aspiring Principal Leadership Capacity • Linked to New PGCPS Leadership Standards

5. Highly Effective Leadership • Principals must demonstrate Highly Effective Leadership by the following standards: • Six Leadership Standards that Principals in Prince George’s County Public Schools are expected to know and do: • Set high expectations for achievement based on tailoring of instruction, rigorous data analysis, and evaluation of effective instructional practices • Build a shared vision, foster shared goals, and communicate high performance expectations • Demonstrate a commitment to excellence, equity and innovation • Demonstrate human resource leadership • Demonstrate managerial leadership • Demonstrate strong community and external leadership

6. Collaboration on PGCPS Evaluation: Principal Evaluation Work Group • Stakeholder Involvement: Principal PD Work Group • Executive Leadership (Supt, Deputy, Assoc. Supt s, Chief HR, Dir. Human Capital) • Unions: PGCEA & ASASP • Principals • HR Staff • PGCPS Principal Evaluation Steering Committee Results • 50% Professional Practice: • PGCPS Leadership Standards/ISLLC Standards/Aligns with Teacher Evaluation Tool • 50% Student Growth Measures • Reviewed various district models • SLOs

7. Principal Evaluation-Student Growth

8. Union Perspective • Member of Principal Evaluation Work Group • Advocates Teacher Voice • Ensure that we choose student growth measures that principals can control • Support Tool: Ensure growth for all county employees

9. Next Steps: Time Line

10. Next Steps