Connecticut PEAC meeting 2.6.2012

1. Connecticut PEAC meeting 2.6.2012

3. Discussion of draft principal evaluation guidelines

4. Recommended Principal Evaluation Guidelines for CT February 6, 2012

5. Overview of Proposed Guidelines

6. Weights in Evaluation Models

7. CT Leadership Standards – 10-5-11 Draft • 1: Vision, Mission, and Goals: Education leaders ensure the success and achievement of all students by guiding the development and implementation of a shared vision of learning, a strong organizational mission, and high expectations for student performance. • 2: Teaching and Learning: Education leaders ensure the success and achievement of all students by monitoring and continuously improving teaching and learning. • 3: Organizational Systems and Safety: Education leaders ensure the success and achievement of all students by managing organizational systems and resources for a safe, high-performing learning environment. • 4: Families and Stakeholders: Education leaders ensure the success and achievement of all students by collaborating with families and stakeholders to respond to diverse community interests and needs and to mobilize community resources. • 5: Ethics and Integrity: Education leaders ensure the success and achievement of all students by being ethical and acting with integrity. • 6: The Education System:Education leaders ensure the success and achievement of all students and advocate for their students, faculty and staff needs by influencing systems of political, social, economic, legal, and cultural contexts affecting education.

8. Centrality of Standards in Evaluation System 1: Vision, Mission, and Goals  3: Organizational Systems and Safety  4: Families and Stakeholders  5: Ethics and Integrity 6: The Education System Standard 2: Teaching and Learning

9. Elements of Evaluation

10. Student Learning (45%) Half of the student learning element based on the state test Recommended Additional Guidelines: For state test portion of student learning, weight growth measures more heavily than attainment For locally developed measures, establish approved set of options for districts to choose Recommended Guidance from State: Provide guidance to districts to include non-test measures of student graduation or grade progression for secondary schools not demonstrating high graduation rates Provide guidance around using local measures to extend grade levels and subjects covered as possible

11. Examples of Approved Measures

12. Teacher Effectiveness (5%) • Opportunity for district innovation • Possible Measures: • Growth in the percentage of teachers making adequate growth in student achievement • Differing strategies for teachers at differing levels of effectiveness OR increased retention of effective and highly effective teachers • Principal success in improving teachers effectiveness (though this can be challenging to operationalize)

13. Principal Practice (40%) & Survey Feedback (10%) • Based on the six performance expectations in CT Leadership Standards • Include a focus on all practices around teacher quality and teacher evaluation 1: Vision, Mission, and Goals 2: Teaching and Learning 3: Organizational Systems and Safety 4: Families and Stakeholders 5: Ethics and Integrity 6: The Education System

14. Tools for Principal Practice Evaluation Connecticut Leadership Standards Including clear examples of evidence Principal Practice Rubric Staff, Community, Student Surveys School Observation Tools Non-Achievement School Data 10% 40%

15. Other Guidelines

16. Other Guidelines • State model developed as default, with rigorous process for local opt-out • 4 rating levels • Annual reviews for all principals • Evaluations that provide principals with useful feedback and results linked to professional development • Strong training for evaluators • A statewide committee (like PEAC) that meets regularly to provide implementation guidance • Pilot process or staggered implementation

17. Evaluation and support system document

18. Evaluation and support system requirements • 4-level rating system • High quality observations of performance and practice • Multiple student learning indicators • Other evaluation components • Training for all evaluators • Evaluation-based professional development

19. Implementation timeline and working groups

20. Draft Timeline: Winter-Summer 2012 State model adopted by state board Working groups begin developing state models and implementation plans   Districts apply for voluntary pilot program Training for all evaluators State board adopts coreguidelines for district systems

21. Draft Timeline: Fall 2012-Fall 2013 February - Working groups convene and begin developing state models & implementation plans through June Districts not participating in pilot plan and develop local systems Additional state training for evaluators Districts plans are submitted to CSDE for review/approval Voluntarypilot program begins Full-scale statewide implementation starts

22. Working groups • Four working groups to be formed in February: • Implementation working group to start discussions of voluntary pilot program, evaluator training, state reviews of district applications, etc. • Teacher evaluation state model working group • Principal evaluation state model working group • Pupil services state model working group • Please e-mail John to let him know which group you’d like to be on

23. Next steps

24. Next steps • Goals for February: • Finalize teacher and principal evaluation core guidelines • Launch implementation working group to start discussions of voluntary pilot program, evaluator training, state reviews of district applications, etc. • Launch state model working groups • Potential dates for next PEAC meeting: February 27 or 28?

25. Contact Information • John Luczak • john@educationfirstconsulting.com • 847-769-3290 • Adam Petkun • adam@educationfirstconsulting.com • 541-513-4195