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Regular SCEE monthly webinars occur the second Tuesday of each month from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EDT, which typically includes a 30-minute Live Chat from 3:00 - 3:30 EDT.

June 20, 2:00-3:00 pm EDT: Leveraging Professional Learning Systems to Increase Principal Effectiveness

SCEE will host a special webinar following up from the February Topical Meeting.  This webinar "Continuing the Conversation: Leveraging Professional Learning Systems to Increase Principal Effectiveness" will recap a few salient points from the Topical Meeting, then invite the representative from New Hampshire to share how they have begun implementing their professional learning systems for principals so far.  In addition, the New Hampshire representative will also pose a problem of practice.  SCEE members are highly encouraged to share your insights and feedback to their question.

Webinar discussants will include:

Mary Canole, Webinar Moderator, Consultant Education Workforce, CCSSO
Fred Brown, Director of Strategy and Development, Learning Forward
Karen Soule, Lead for the Educator Effectiveness, New Hampshire Department of Education

To prepare for this webinar, we encourage participants to gather the team that attended the Topical Meeting and prepare talking points to share how you've implemented your plan.

The power point for this webinar is available HERE. 

SCEE hosted a webinar discussing how states can integrate their efforts to implement the Common Core and educator evaluation systems.  We convened a thought leader who provided recommendations for this work, as well as featured others thought leaders who shared a tool states can use to help guide their efforts.  To provide more context for this work, this webinar featured two SEA representatives who shared their work and context, then posed a problems of practice.

Webinar discussants included:

• Ross Wiener
• Dan Cruce
• Tabitha Grossman

We also had two state representatives:

• Karen Butterfield, AZ SEA
• David Volrath, MD SEA
  

To prepare for this webinar, we encouraged participants to read Teaching to the Core: Integrating Implementation of Common Core and Teacher Effectiveness Policies and become familiar with the Teacher Evaluation Playbook.

The power point for this webinar is available HERE.  The live chat transcript is available HERE.

SCEE Members may watch the webinar be clicking below. (The recording is password protected; see the module to the right if you have forgotten the password.)

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Additional Resources:

Maryland shared a few resources regarding their teacher and principal evaluation systems.

• State and Local Teacher and Principal Evaluation Frameworks
• Communication Newsletter #16
• Communication Newsletter #17
  

May is "implementation month" at CCSSO.  SCEE hosted a monthly webinar where we featured representatives from the Minnesota Department of Education who discussed how they used implementation science to support and roll-out of their teacher and principal evaluation systems. In addition, we had a thought-leader on implementation science to answer additional questions. 

The webinar participants included:

• Barbara Sims
• Deborah Luedtke
• Gregory Keith
• Tyler Livingston

Participants were encouraged to check out the Educator Evaluation page on the Minnesota Department of Education website.  

You may find the power point presentation slides for this webinar HERE.

You can find the Live Chat for this webinar HERE.

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Additional Resources:

• Stages of Implementation
• Active Implementation Drivers
• Principal Evaluation Model Comparison
• District Action Plan
• Practice Profile
  

SCEE members were invited to join the NGA Center for Best Practices Education Division, in collaboration with the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) and SCEE, for a special webinar focused on how laws and regulations influence and support the development of strong leadership development systems.

This webinar was supported by The Wallace Foundation.

Webinar Presenters:

• Carl-Anthony Watson
• Rashidah Morgan, CMS, North Carolina
  
• John Youngquist,DPS, Colorado
  
• Cortney Rowland
• Sara Shelton

The following reading was suggested as preparation for this webinar: Districts Matter: Cultivating the Principals Urban Schools Need

You can find the power point presentation for this webinar HERE.

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The Summit will feature concurrent breakout sessions organized by theme.  One strand is the Continuous Improvement of Support and Evaluation Systems.  The content for this strand will be organized around real "problems of practice" that state teams are facing.  

On March 26, we presented an optional webinar for participants preparing a problem of practice.  Click HERE to download the webinar PPT. SCEE Members may watch the webinar be clicking below. (The recording is password protected; see the module to the right if you have forgotten the password. If you have trouble with sound, try using headphones or adjusting those settings.) 

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Click HERE for tips about how to define a problem of practice for this purpose.  (You may also wish to review the SCEE webinar on developing your Theory of Action.)

SCEE hosted a monthly webinar digging deeper into topics related to implementing quality student learning objectives (SLOs).  Leaders in the work of student learning objective development and implementation as well as practitioners shared resources and key questions around the state's role in supporting the use of SLOs in instruction and evaluation systems.

The webinar discussants included:

• Phil Gonring
  
• Pam Paek
  
• Julia Rafal-Baer
• Margaret Heritage
  

You can find the PowerPoint Presentation for this webinar HERE.

You can find the Live Chat for this webinar HERE.

SCEE members may watch this webinar via the links below; the recording requires a password to access. See the module to the right if you have forgotten the password.

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We suggested members become familiar with the Reform Support Network, "A Quality Control Toolkit for Student Learning Objectives" prior to joining the webinar.  In addition, there are more resources available in the subfolder called SLO in the Evaluation folder in the file cabinet.

SCEE hosted a monthly webinar exploring questions regarding  leading issues of legal defensibility in evaluation reform efforts.  This webinar focused on a number of current issues and provided some perspectives for states to consider as they engage in this work.

Members are encouraged to invite your legal counsel to re-watch this webinar with you.

The webinar discussants included:

• Robin Gelinas Berkley
• Kate Lipper
• Terri Taylor
• Laura Goe
• Paul Katnik, Missouri DESE
  
• Karen Butterfield, Arizona DOE

You can find the power point presentation for this webinar HERE.

The following were suggested as preparation for this webinar:

• Read EdCounsel's memo, Legal Implications of Next-Generation Teacher and Leader Evaluations;
• Scan the PPT slides they prepared as an overview of this document; 
  
• Scan the legal considerations from the TLE Roadmap; and/or
  
• Consider viewing the SCEE webinar on Legal Defensibility, from December 2011 and scan the Live Chat that followed that webinar in our SCEE Overall Discussion Group.

SCEE members may watch this webinar via the links below; the recording requires a password to access. See the module to the right if you have forgotten the password.

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There are more resources in our Legal Defensibility file folder on the SCEE site. 

Ensuring Fair and Reliable Measures of Effective Teaching:

Culminating Findings from the MET Project's Three-Year Study

Researchers from the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project joined us live via a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation convening in Phoenix, Arizona, on the day of the release of their third and final report.

You can find the power point presentations for this webinar HERE and HERE. 

The current MET reports are available:

Ensuring Fair and Reliable Measures of Effective Teaching 

Feedback for Better Teaching 

For technical reports, reports from previous years, and other resources, we encourage you to visit the MET project website.  

All chief state school officers and SCEE members are invited to view the recording of this special webinar:

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The Observation Engine was mentioned during the webinar as a potential resource to states.

SCEE members also may wish to view the SCEE webinar from last January, during which results from the previous MET study were discussed. (If you have forgotten the password for SCEE members, there is a module on the right-hand side of this page with a link to the password reminder.)

This webinar featured a conversation about  state teacher evaluation system messaging, assembling the wisdom from the field to share specific lessons learned, tips, and strategies for communicating about evaluation system redesign.

The webinar presenters included:

• Amy Skinner, Colorado Department of Education
• Susan Kahn, Louisiana Believes Teacher Advisory Committee
• Mary-Dean Barringer, Eastern Region SCEE Educator-in-Residence
  
• Holly Boffy, Central Region SCEE Educator-in-Residence

The power point presentation for this webinar is HERE.

SCEE members may watch this webinar via the links below; the recording requires a password to access.  See the module to the right if you have forgotten the password.  

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View the transcript from the live chat that took place following the webinar presentations.

Visit our Evaluation Messaging page for additional resources.

SCEE members were invited to join the NGA Center for Best Practices Education Division, in collaboration with the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) and SCEE, for a special webinar focused on using policy to improve principal preparation.

This webinar was supported by The Wallace Foundation.

Background Materials

These materials and resources discussed and highlighted during the webinar included:

• The Making of the Principal: Five Lessons in Leadership Training
• Preparing a Pipeline of Effective Principals: A Legislative Approach
• Illinois School Leader Taskforce: Report to the Illinois General Assembly
• Preparing Illinois School Leaders website

Moderator and Speakers

• Cortney Rowland (Moderator), Senior Policy Analyst, NGA Center for Best Practices
• Sara Shelton, Program Principal, NCSL
• Erika Hunt, Research Associate, Center for the Study of Education Policy at Illinois State University and Project Director for the Illinois State Action for Education Leadership Project (IL-SAELP)
• Tricia McManus, Director of Leadership Development Administration, Hillsborough County Public Schools

SCEE hosted a webinar discussing the outcome from the 2012 Election including shifts in Chiefs, Governors, State Legislatures, and ballot initiative results as well as analyzing the implications of Federal changes and actions and impact of shifts in the House and Senate. The focus of this webinar was on state-level educator effectiveness.

Powerpoint slides for the webinar available below:

• SCEE Introduction Slides
• New Chief Slides
• NCSL Slides

Those interested in re-watching this webinar can do so via the links below. This webinar was open to SCEE members only and does require an a password to access.

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Check out our pre-webinar blog posts:  Post-Election Analysis and Policy Update-The November 13 SCEE Webinar (which includes pre-election speculations) and Election Analysis and Policy Updates (which includes a link to the NCSL StateVote page).

You may also be interested in the website StateVote, which NCSL maintains to follow elections results for state legislatures and ballot measures across the nation. 

SCEE hosted a webinar on the complexity of teaching and leading: observing teacher practice.

Prereadings:

• An Overview of IMPACT 2012-2013
  

The PowerPoint slides for the webinar are available HERE.

Those interested in re-watching this webinar can do so via the links below. This webinar was open to SCEE members only and does require an a password to access.

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Check out our pre-webinar blog post, Observing Teacher Practice: Preparing for the October 9 SCEE Webinar.

SCEE hosted a webinar on the principal's role in evaluating teachers.

Prereadings:

• Preparing Principals to Evaluate Teachers
  

Powerpoint slides for the webinar are available HERE.

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SCEE hosted a webinar on integrating Common Core implementation with educator effectiveness reform initiatives. The focus of this webinar was to dig deeper into ways states can take a systems approach to implementing the Common Core and educator effectiveness.

Prereadings:

• Implementing the Common Core State Standards: State Spotlights
• EduCore: Tools for Teaching the Common Core
• Year Two of Implementing the Common Core State Standards: States' Progress and Challenges
  

The presenters for this webinar included:

• ICCS coaches Doug Christensen and Gavin Payne
• SCEE Educators-in-Residence Holly Boffy, and Terry Janicki
• Representatives from Utah Linda Alder and Diana Suddreth.
  

A current list of ICCS State Team Leads is available to SCEE Members HERE.

Those interested in re-watching this webinar can do so via the links below. This webinar was open to SCEE members only and does require an a password to access.

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Power Point slides for this webinar are available HERE.

Live Chat: Click to view the transcript from the live chat that took place following the discussion.

Check out our blog posts about this topic:

What's Next in Common Core Implementation?

SCEE hosted a special follow-up webinar showcasing a framework of key decision points and offering a set of questions states should address in designing evaluation systems that reflect measures of growth for all teachers.

The pre-reading for this webinar was an updated paper, "Considerations for Analyzing Educators' Contributions to Student Learning in Non-Tested Subjects and Grades with a Focus on Student Learning Objectives.  You may find the pre-reading HERE.

Those interested may want to further explore additional materials that go into provide both examples and approaches to using student learning objectives:

• "Approaches and Considerations for Incorporating Student Performance Results from Non-Tested Grades into Educator Effectiveness Determinations," found HERE.
• "A Survey of Approaches Used to Evaluate Educators in Non-Test Grades and Subjects," found HERE.

Power Point slides for this webinar are available HERE.

The presenter for this webinar included:

• Scott Marion of the Center for Assessment

• Laura Kacewicz and Jessica Brown Assessment Specialists in the Office of Instruction, Assessment, and Curriculum and Jessica Delforge, Education Specialist in the Office of Educator Quality, of the RI Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Those interested in re-watching this webinar can do so via the links below. This webinar was open to the public and does not need a password.

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Check out our blog posts about this topic:

Webinar Series on Non-Tested Grades and Subjects and Student Learning Objectives

SCEE Offers Special Webinar on Student Learning Objectives

This webinar was co-sponsored and facilitated by West Wind Education Policy Inc. 

SCEE hosted a webinar on the complexities of using of classroom assessments to determine student achievement and growth in non-tested grades and subjects and to use such determinations in an educator evaluation system.  An expert in student assessment joined the head of Delaware's Teacher and Leader Effectiveness Unit to discuss theoretical and practical considerations.

The prereading for this webinar is the draft chapter, "Evidence From Classroom Assessments," from the forthcoming book, The Misguided Evaluation of America's Teachers: What YOU Can Do to Help Fix It.

Power Point slides for this webinar are available here.

The presenters for this webinar included:

Jim Popham, Professor Emeritus, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies

Christopher Ruszkowski, Chief Officer, Teacher and Leader Effectiveness Unit, Delaware Department of Education

Those interested in re-watching this webinar can do so via the links below.  This webinar was open to the public and does not need a password.

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NTGS Webinar Features Pre-Reading from Forthcoming Book by Jim Popham 

For a summary of this webinar go HERE. 

SCEE hosted a webinar on planning pilots for new evaluation systems.  We presented a framework for thinking about pilots in general, then talked with representatives from North Carolina about the evaluation system pilots they have  run and what they learned. 

The prereading for this webinar, Pilot Testing and Usability Testing is available HERE.

During the webinar we briefly referred to the resource "Critical Considerations When Designing and Implementing Pilots." PowerPoint slides for this webinar are available HERE.

Additional resources to support pilot planning also are posted in the "Pilot" subfolder of the "Evaluation (Public)" file folder, including sample MOUs for districts participating in pilots (HERE and HERE) and reports from North Carolina's various pilot projects.

Those interested in re-watching this webinar can do so via the links below. This webinar was open to SCEE members only and does require an a password to access.

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Check out our blog posts about this topic:

Webinar Pre-Reading: "Pilot Testing and Usability Testing"

What are states studying as they pilot evaluation systems?

July 10 SCEE Webinar: Evaluation Pilots-Designing for a Purpose

SCEE hosted a webinar to discuss preliminary lessons learned from The Wallace Foundation's Principal Pipeline Initiative with district leaders involved in the initiative, SEA staff, and Jody Spiro of The Wallace Foundation. 

SCEE members may re-watch this webinar via the links below. Please note that you will need the password to access the recordings.  For the password see the module on the right hand side of this page.

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Pre-Reading:  These early findings from the presenters were shared at the 2012 Summit and referenced during the webinar.  

PPT: These are the PowerPoint slides that accompany the webinar. 

 
Live Chat: Click to view the transcript of the live chat that took place at the end of the webinar. 

Blogs:  For more information, please see the blogs about the webinar HERE and HERE. 

SCEE hosted a webinar following the National Summit on Educator Effectiveness: SCEE Base Camp.  

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SCEE hosted a webinar focusing on how to craft, refine, and use a state-level theory of action for improving educator effectiveness.

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Pre-Readings

• Missouri's Theory of Action
• The Featured video of Liz City demonstrating a theory of action

You may download the accompanying PowerPoint slides HERE.

Live Chat:  Click to view the transcript of the live chat that took place at the end of the webinar.

See also blog posts about the webinar HERE and HERE and the featured video on the home page for more information.

SCEE hosted a special webinar following the International Summit on the Teaching Profession:  Preparing Teachers and Developing School Leaders.  Several State and National Teachers of the Year shared their insights from the Summit.   

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Additional Resources:  Kimberly Worthy, 2009 D.C. Teacher of the Year, offered these additional PPT slides.

The Summit is hosted by the U.S. Department of Education, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and Education International (EI), the National Education Association (NEA), the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the Council of Chief State School Officers(CCSSO), National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS), Asia Society, and public broadcaster WNET.

SCEE hosted a webinar focusing on educator effectiveness initiatives with specific connections to principal leadership and teacher preparation with Common Core State Standards implementation.

A recording of this webinar is available below.   (Note that this has a special password because ICCS members also are welcome to view the webinar.  Email valerie@westwinded.com for the password.)

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Pre-Readings: 

• The Common Core State Standards and Teacher Preparation
  
• Common-Core Work Must Include Teacher Development

Power Point Slides:  Click HERE to download the PPT for this webinar.

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SCEE hosted a webinar aimed at drawing connections between the lessons of implementation science and state efforts to implement new educator effectiveness agendas.

Those interested in re-watching this webinar can do so via the links below. This webinar was open to SCEE members only and does require an a password to access.

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Pre-Reading:  The pre-reading is the newest section on Implementation in our ESEA Flexibility Toolkit for Principle 3. 

PowerPoint slides: Click HERE to download the PPT slides for the webinar. 

Q&A with the Presenters:  Presenters will respond to questions or comments offered in this SCEE discussion thread.

Additional Resources:  The Minnesota Department of Education shared this PowerPoint presentation describing the alignment of their Common Principles of Effective Practice to their Quality Compensation for Teachers program.

You can access the related featured video HERE.

CCSSO hosted a special webinar discussion on Principle 3 of ESEA Flexibility to provide important perspectives gleaned from states' submitted waiver applications and unveil a toolkit full of information, considerations, and state examples regarding designing and implementing teacher and leader evaluation systems.

Powerpoint:  Click HERE for the webinar PowerPoint presentation.

This was a special SCEE webinar provided for CCSSO members only. Members interested in watching this webinar, please contact Valerie Nyberg at valerie@westwinded.com to receive the links to the webinar recording.

SCEE hosted a webinar discussion to reveal findings from the Measuring Effective Teacher (MET) Project.  To accommodate the presentation, the webinar did not include a live chat. 

The featured speaker was Steve Cantrell, Senior Program Officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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The pre-reading is Gathering Feedback for Teaching Policy and Practice Brief.

PowerPoint: Click HERE for the PowerPoint slides for the January 10th webinar.

SCEE hosted a webinar discussion to address current issues pertaining to the legal defensibility of teacher and leader evaluation systems.
 
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The pre-reading includes: pages 1-5 of the Legal Implications for Next Generation Teacher and Leader Evaluations 

PowerPoint: Click HERE for the webinar PowerPoint presentation.

Live Chat: Click to view the transcript of the live chat that took place at the end of the webinar. You can share your input in this discussion thread.

Expert discussion session: A week after the webinar, SCEE hosted a lively follow-on discussion forum with the webinar presenters; SCEE members can go to the SCEE Overall Discussion Thread to check out the great questions and substantive comments.

SCEE hosted a webinar discussion to address SCEE member questions on student growth models and measuring student performance and growth in untested subjects and grades. 

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The pre-readings include:

• Student Growth Percentiles and Shoe Leather 
  
• Comments from Members and Friends: The Use of Students Test Scores to Evaluate Teachers

Additional in-depth and useful readings are in the Evaluation File Folder and sub-folders, such as A Survey of Approaches Used to Evaluate Teachers in Non-Tested Grades and Subjects, which is in the Non-Tested Subjects & Grades sub-folder.  

Live Chat: Click to view the transcript of the live chat that took place at the end of the webinar. You can share your input in this discussion thread.

PowerPoint: Click HERE for the webinar PowerPoint presentation.

Follow-Up Blog:  Growth Models and Untested Subjects and Grades: Recap of the November SCEE Webinar

Related Activities: Download the suggested agenda for a Q&A discussion among your SCEE colleagues.

Expert discussion session: A month after the webinar, SCEE hosted a lively follow-on discussion forum with the webinar presenters; go to the SCEE Overall Discussion Thread to check out the great questions and substantive comments.

SCEE hosted a webinar discussion of Leadership Evaluation Processes and Frameworks organized by Mary Canole, consultant to CCSSO.

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Pre-Readings: Measuring Principal Effectiveness: Review of research and practice

Related Blogs:
SCEE to Host October 4th Leader Evaluation Webinar
Leadership Evaluation Webinar Looks at Framework for Principal Evaluation

Related Activities: SCEE members were encouraged to use a Framework for Principal Evaluation prior to and during the webinar.

SCEE hosted a webinar regarding the US Education Department announcement of provisions for NCLB flexibility requests.

This webinar was for members only, but the public may click HERE for the webinar PPT with reminders about upcoming SCEE events and HERE for the PPT with details on the educator effectiveness provisions. 

Members can go to this discussion thread to access the webinar recording and materials.  (NOTE:  You must be a member of the SCEE Overall discussion group to access this.  If you are a member but are not in SCEE Overall, just request access and the site administrator will get you connected.)

Related Blogs:
SCEE Hosts Webinar on NCLB Waiver Flexibility Announcement

SCEE hosted a webinar discussion of Preparation organized by Irv Richardson, 2011 SCEE Summit Preparation Strand presenter.

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Pre-Readings: Blue Ribbon Panel on Clinical Preparation and Partnerships for Improved Student Learning

Additional Resource: Educational Partnerships to Advance Clinically Rich Teacher Preparation

Related Blogs:
Teacher Preparation Webinar Summary
Licensure as a Key Policy Lever for Reform

SCEE hosted a webinar that was led by Kathleen Paliokas and Peter Winograd on Tiered Licensure and Developmental Continuums.

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Pre-Readings:
• State Policy Implications of the Model Core Teaching Standards by Deanna Hill, Circe Stumbo, Kathleen Paliokas, Deb Hansen & Peter McWalters
• CCSSO Education Work Force White Paper: Transforming Teaching and Leading: A Vision for a High-Quality Educator Development System by Deanna Hill, Judy Jeffrey, Peter McWalters, Kathleen Paliokas, Alice Seagren, and Circe Stumbo

Related Blogs:
States Share about Tiered Licensure Systems
Licensure as a Key Policy Lever for Reform

SCEE hosted a webinar discussion on Policy and Systems Change led by Circe Stumbo of West Wind Education Policy Inc.

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Related Blogs: July 26 Policy and Systems Change Webinar Next Steps

SCEE hosted a webinar featuring Stephanie Hirsh, Learning Forward, and Deb Hansen, West Wind Education Policy.

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Pre-Readings:Advancing High-Quality Professional Learning through Collective Bargaining and State Policy

Related Blogs:
Learning Forward Officially Releases Standards for Professional Learning
SCEE Gets Advance Review of the Newly Revised Standards for Professional Learning
Webinar July 12: The Role of Professional Development in Educator Effectiveness

SCEE hosted a webinar discussion with presenters from the 6 topical strands at the SCEE National Summit in April.

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SCEE kicked-off the Rural Affinity Group with a special webinar to determine the issues and actions of the group.

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Our monthly SCEE webinar for May focused on the new InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards.  

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PowerPoint: Click HERE to download the main PPT slide deck and click HERE to download South Carolina's slides.  

Other: You may download the new standards HERE and the accompanying policy paper HERE. A video of the standards presentation at the SCEE  National Summit on Educator Effectiveness is available HERE.

On April 12, Michael Fullan, the National Summit on Educator Effectiveness keynote speaker, helped launch Summit preparations by serving as our featured presenter. 

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Research:  Follow the link below to read this article by Michael Fullan:

The Big Ideas Behind Whole System Reform.

On March 8, Adam Ezring and Scott Palmer joined SCEE to discuss Educator Effectiveness in ESEA Reauthorization.

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Follow Up Activities:  Click HERE for sample agendas for state team meetings to follow the webinar. 

On February 22, Dr. Ellen Golding joined us to discuss learning-centered leadership and principal effectiveness. She analyzed the time demands made on principals and the behaviors that encourage effective leadership. 

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PowerPoints:  To view Ellen Goldring's slides, please click HERE.  To view SCEE information and results of the informal webinar polls, click HERE.

Research:  To read two of Ellen Goldring's articles on leader effectiveness please click on these links: 

     Assessing Learning-Centered Leadership

     The Evaluation of Principals

Follow Up Activities:  Click HERE for a follow-up activity for state teams and click HERE for sample agendas for state team meetings that follow the webinar.

Following-up on the January SCEE webinar, Dr. Laura Goe of ETS rejoined us on Tuesday, February 8, to dig deeper into the question of how we might validly and reliably measure teacher effectiveness in subjects and grades where statewide standardized exams are not available.

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On Tuesday, January 11th, Laura Goe of ETS gave a presentation on the design of statewide systems of teacher evaluation.  

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PowerPoint: Go to the Teacher Evaluation folder within the Evaluation (Public) folder of the file cabinet to download the PowerPoint slides from the webinar, which now include results of the webinar poll.  You may click here to go directly to the PPT file. 

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If you wish to share your state's system of Teacher Evaluation you may do so by uploading it to the Teacher Evaluation folder under Evaluation in the file cabinet.

On this webinar, presented December 9, from 2:00-3:30 pm EST, we were joined by national and state experts in CCSSO's FAST SCASS* to discuss definitions of formative assessment and its connection to standards, professional growth, and evaluation. 

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Visit the Assessment Literacy subfolder in the File Cabinet (under "Share") to read informational reports on formative assessment.  Background files from Iowa and North Carolina are in the state folders in the file cabinet. 

*Formative Assessment for Student and Teachers State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards

This is the first in a series of monthly webinars for the State Consortium on Educator Effectiveness (SCEE). This webinar oriented new SCEE state team members to key issues and processes within SCEE and introduced SCEE members to our collaborative workspace.

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