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RECENT BLOG POSTS

  • CCSSO Releases INTASC LumiBook

    Written by Kathleen / 5 days ago / 0 Comments

    Categories: Growth/Professional Development, Preparation, Standards, Teacher Evaluation, Developmental Continuums

    Intro

    The InTASC LumiBook is finally here!  Today in collaboration with the School Improvement Network, CCSSO officially released the new online highly interactive free resource informally called the InTASC LumiBook.  The official title is InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards: An Interactive Guide to Understanding and Applying the InTASC Standards to Teacher Effectiveness and Student Success.

    We are excited because of the potential of the book to model the new kind of learning that we are promoting with the Common Core. The InTASC LumiBook is an interactive cloud-based e-reading platform developed by the School Improvement Network that allows readers to collaborate in ..

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  • Three Reasons to Join Us on our June 20 Webinar

    Written by Mary / 5 days ago / 0 Comments

    Categories: Growth/Professional Development, Leader Evaluation, Webinars

    CCSSO and Learning Forward will follow-up on the conversation started at the February Topical Meeting through a webinar, "Continuing the Conversation: Leveraging Professional Learning to Increase Principal Effectiveness" on Thursday, June 20 from 2:00 - 3:00 PM EDT.  The purpose of the webinar is to provide states the opportunity to share their implementation plans/early wins with using professional learning to increase principal effectiveness developed at February's Topical Meeting. 

    We encourage you to gather the team that attended our February Meeting in Baltimore and participate in this webinar for the following three reasons:

    1)     You told us at the February ..

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  • Principal Shares His Views on How Competency-based Grading & Reporting Can Enhance Teacher Evaluation

    Written by Site / 7 days ago / 0 Comments

    Categories: Standards, Teacher Evaluation, Change, Institutional/Systemic, Leader Evaluation

    As practitioners and policy makers seek ways to improve instruction and assessment, interest in competency-based instruction has grown over the past few years.  To further explore the relationship between competency-based practices and educator evaluation, SCEE is offering a two-part blog series.  Particularly, as schools, districts, and states begin to integrate the Common Core State Standards, competency-based instruction offers a different means of using standards to drive student learning on an individualized basis, allowing for "all students to [attain] the highest levels, empowers them to own and lead the learning process,...and equips them with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to succeed..." (Delorenzo, ..

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  • The Spirit of Teacher Evaluation

    Written by Valerie / 11 days ago / 0 Comments

    Categories: Videos, Growth/Professional Development, Teacher Evaluation

    The month's SCEE featured video highlights some of the conversations from the June 2010 Education Sector event, "Finding the Link: Teacher Evaluation and Professional Development." 

    In this three minute segment, Brad Jupp states that the policy changes in teacher evaluation are grounded in the spirit of continuous improvement.  He argues that rather than focus on merit pay or firing teachers, the intent of including student performance as a significant element of teacher evaluation is to provide the more than 3 million practitioners across the country with the data that will help them move student achievement forward.  With student performance data ..

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Check out the May 14 SCEE Webinar HERE.

We will have a special webinar on June 20, 2 - 3:00 EDT: Leveraging Professional Learning Systems to Increase Principal Effectiveness

Our next monthly SCEE Webinar is July 9, 2 - 3:30 pm EDT.

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InTASC LumiBook

Today in collaboration with the School Improvement Network, CCSSO officially released the InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards: An Interactive Guide to Understanding and Applying the InTASC Standards to Teacher Effectiveness and Student Success LumiBook.  You can find a link to the video HERE.

You can read about the LumiBook HERE.  This online resource is packed with video links and resources, all designed to help teachers utilize the InTASC standards and progressions in their professional learning by doing the following:

  • Observing video clips of teacher performance linked to the standards
  • Using the LumiBook's Learning Progressions Tool to assess where current practice lands on the skills spectrum and to define steps for continuous improvement
  • Uploading and sharing strategies for addressing problems of practice tied to each standard

To access the free InTASC LumiBook, please go to www.lumi-book.com/intasc (simple registration required).

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ED WEEK SPOTLIGHT

The Education Week Spotlight on Teacher Evaluation is a collection of articles hand-picked by our editors for their insights on:

  • Understanding how teacher evaluation models are changing
  • Using combined measures to evaluate teacher performance
  • Considering value added and growth index models carefully
  • Boosting staff growth and development with teacher evaluation
  • How to best evaluate special education teachers

You get the six articles below in a downloadable PDF.

Teachers' Ratings Still High Despite New Measures
Even with changes to evaluation systems, only subtle differences emerge between the best and the weakest teachers-as well as all those in the middle.
February 5, 2013 - Education Week

Combined Measures Better at Gauging Teacher Effectiveness, Study Finds
Basing more than half a teacher's evaluation on student test scores seemed to compromise it, researchers also found.
Updated: January 18, 2013 - Education Week

Caution Urged in Using 'Value Added' Evaluations
A who's who of researchers studying the use of student scores in staff reviews agrees on one point: Tread carefully.
Updated: November 19, 2012 - Education Week

Commentary
Probing the Science of Value-Added Evaluation
Value-added evaluation does not meet scientific standards, when looked at from a medical vantage, R. Barker Bausell writes.
January 15, 2013 - Education Week

Commentary
Making Teacher Evaluation a Launch Pad for Growth
Done right, evaluation policy can help teachers learn and improve, Angela Minnici and Ellen Behrstock-Sherratt write.
March 5, 2013 - Education Week

Teaching Now
Tackling Special Education Teacher Evaluation
For several years now, teacher evaluation has dominated education-policy discussions in statehouses and otherwise. But for the most part, the country's 430,000 special education teachers have been left out of the discussion.
December 13, 2012 - Teaching Now

 

IN THE NEWS

Recent Education Workforce-related News:

(6/18/2013) Common Core: Setting the Record Straight, Richard Laine and Chris Minnich, Education Week

(6/18/2013) Disputed Review Finds Disparities in Teacher Prep, Stephen Sawchuk, Education Week

(6/15/2013) Can School Reform Hurt Communities?, Sarah Carr, The New York Times, Opinion

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RECENT REPORTS

SCEE offers timely access to current reports on educator effectiveness. Please note that neither CCSSO nor SCEE endorses the reports posted within this module. 

June 2013

Teacher Prep Review, National Council on Teacher Quality

The New State Achievement Gap: How Federal Waivers Could Make It Worse--Or Better, Education Sector

Remedial Education: Federal Education Policy, Council on Foreign Relations' Renewing America initiative

Are Schools Getting a Big Enough Bang for Their Education Technology Buck, Center for American Progress

Out of Sync: Many Common Core States Have Yet to Define a Common Core-worthy Diploma, Change the Equation and the National School Board Association's Center for Public Education

The Condition of Education, The National Center for Education Statistics

Teacher Quality: The 2013 International Summit on the Teaching Profession, The Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning

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