Implementing the new teacher and principal evaluation system requires all hands on deck. It carries implications for teachers, principals, central office and the school board. This presentation was for a board study to inform the school board of changes in evaluation systems and how those changes affect the district and their role as board members.

1. Orting School District TPEP
Working Together as a System
Dr. Marci Shepard
January 3, 2013

2. Teamwork
This is the case with any team. If one cog of the
wheel doesn't work, the entire team grinds to a
halt. We should never discount the importance
of teamwork - people working together towards
a common goal - in assuring our ultimate
success.
The success of our students is our joint
responsibility, and when they succeed, it is to
our joint credit and cumulative
accomplishment.
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3. Principals Central
Office
School
Teachers
Board
TPEP
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4. I can explain TPEP and describe how it impacts our district and my role.
School
Board
District
State
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7. I can explain TPEP and describe how it impacts our district and my role.
School
Board
District
State
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8. I can explain TPEP and describe how it impacts our district and my role.
Evaluation System Overview
State criteria, teacher evaluations and principal evaluations
Definitions
Implementation schedule
Scoring and student growth measures
RIG and eVAL
Reflection and feedback
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9. EVALUATION
SYSTEM OVERVIEW
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10. • Should teacher and principal
evaluations be for GROWTH
or ACCOUNTABILITY?
• 6696
• Race to the Top/ ESEA Waiver
• 5895
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11. Why measure educator effectiveness?
While there are many formative and summative
reasons to measure teacher and principal
effectiveness, we believe the ultimate goal of all
measurement should be…
to improve teaching and student learning.
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12. Before and After – A Snapshot
Before Component After
Binary – Sat/Unsat
2 tiers Tiers 4 tiers-professional growth
and development system
Developed over 25 years ago Criteria Describes effective teaching
& leadership – developed by
stakeholders in 2010
legislative session
2 years (prior to ‘09-’10) Provisional Status 3 years
No existing requirement Educator
Educator Evaluation data must be
evaluation Data
Evaluation Data
evaluation submitted to OSPI,
beginning ‘10-’11, for all
employee groups
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13. CEL 5D
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15. I can explain TPEP and describe how it impacts our district and my role.
Evaluation System Overview
State criteria, teacher evaluations and principal evaluations
Definitions
Implementation schedule
Scoring and student growth measures
RIG and eVAL
Reflection and feedback
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16. State Criteria
Teacher Evaluation
Principal Evaluation
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20. Principal Evaluation
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21. TPEP Criteria Themes
Themes:
Centering
instruction on Creating a
high culture
Exhibiting expectations Demonstrating
collaborative effective Closing the Ensuring
and collegial teaching gap school safety
practices pracitces
Communicating
Teacher Principal
with parents and Evaluation Individualizing Engaging Evaluation Planning with
shcool instruction communities data
community Criteria Criteria
Use student Managing Aligning
Subject matter
data to modify resources curriculum
knowledge
instruction
Fostering a safe, Improving
positive learning instruction
environment
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23. I can explain TPEP and describe how it impacts our district and my role.
Evaluation System Overview
State criteria, teacher evaluations and principal evaluations
Definitions
Implementation schedule
Scoring and student growth measures
RIG and eVAL
Reflection and feedback
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24. Definitions
Classroom teacher
Principal
Comprehensive evaluation
Focused evaluation
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25. “Certificated Classroom Teacher” Definition
• Designed for “classroom teachers”
• Teachers who provide academically-focused
instruction to students
• Districts determine best fit
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27. Comprehensive Evaluation for Teachers
• Assesses all 8 evaluation criteria
• All criteria contribute to the comprehensive evaluation rating
• Student growth rubrics embedded in Criterion 3, 6 and 8
• All provisional classroom teachers and any classroom teacher
not on level 3 or level 4 receive comprehensive evaluation
• All classroom teachers shall receive a comprehensive summative
evaluation at least once every four years
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28. “Principal” Definition
• Designed for certificated principals and assistant
principals
• Districts determine best fit
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29. Comprehensive Evaluation for Principals
• Assesses all 8 evaluation criteria
• All criteria contribute to the comprehensive evaluation rating
• Student growth rubrics embedded in Criterion 3, 5 and 8
“Due to the importance of instructional leadership and assuring
rater agreement among evaluators, particularly those evaluating
teacher performance, school districts are encouraged to conduct
comprehensive summative evaluations of principal performance on
an annual basis.”
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31. Focused Evaluation
• Includes an assessment of one of the 8 criteria
• Student growth rubrics from one of the 3 criterion
 If a teacher chooses 3, 6 or 8, their accompanying student growth rubrics will
be used
 If a teacher chooses criterion 1, 2, 4, 5, or 7, the accompanying student
growth rubrics from criterion 3 or 6 will be used
• Approved by the teacher or principal’s evaluator
• A focused evaluation must be performed in any year that a
comprehensive evaluation is not scheduled (both teachers and
principals)
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33. I can explain TPEP and describe how it impacts our district and my role.
Department
District
State
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34. I can explain TPEP and describe how it impacts our district and my role.
Evaluation System Overview
State criteria, teacher evaluations and principal evaluations
Definitions
Implementation schedule
Scoring and student growth measures
RIG and eVAL
Reflection and feedback
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35. State and District
IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE
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36. 5895 Timeline
2013-2014
Must begin
implementation
Teacher
evaluation Begin
rubrics implementation
All teachers must
have
comprehensive
evaluation
Instructional TPEP Pilot
framework 2015-2016
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37. Orting School District
• 2010-2011
• Information sharing
• Instructional framework (5D)
• 2011-2012
• TPEP Team
• 4-year implementation plan
• Teacher evaluation rubrics
• Information sharing
• Instructional framework (5D)
• 2012-2013
• RIG District/RIG Team
• TPEP Pilot/TPEP Team
• Transition plan
• Principal evaluation rubrics
• Teacher evaluation rubrics
• Information sharing
• Instructional framework (5D)
• 2013-2014
• Implementation (2 likely models)
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38. Implementation Schedule
• Steering committee recommends all districts move to the new
evaluation criteria for all classroom teachers and principals in
2013-2014, with some classroom teachers on the focused and
some on the comprehensive.
• 5895 requires provisional or probationary teachers, and principals
with fewer than 3 years of experience, unsatisfactory performance,
or new to the district to be transitioned first. Nothing prevents
earlier transition.
• All districts must begin implementation in 2013-2014 school year
and by fully implemented by 2016.
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39. OSD 3-Year Transition Plan DRAFT
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40. I can explain TPEP and describe how it impacts our district and my role.
Evaluation System Overview
State criteria, teacher evaluations and principal evaluations
Definitions
Implementation schedule
Scoring and student growth measures
RIG and eVAL
Reflection and feedback
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  M. Shepard  January 2013

41. 5895 and ESEA Waiver
SCORING EVALUATIONS
STUDENT GROWTH MEASURES
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42. Raw Score Model
Determined December 1st
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43. Evaluation Summative Scoring Process
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44. Defining Key Terms
• Student Achievement: The status of subject-matter
knowledge, understandings, and skills at one point in time.
• Student Growth (Learning): The growth in subject-matter
knowledge, understandings, and skill over time.
It is student growth, not student achievement, that is relevant in
demonstrating impacts teacher and principals have on students.
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45. Student Growth Rubrics
• The TPEP steering committee organizations approved statewide
rubrics for student growth to ensure consistency in
implementation of the evaluation system across Washington
State.
• The rubrics for student growth describe both goal-setting and
outputs of student learning.
• OSPI has provided student growth rubrics for each of the three
criterion
 Teachers – 3, 6 and 8
 Principals – 3, 5 and 8
Note: 3/5 of the student growth rubrics for teachers are goal setting.
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49. Summative Rating and
Impact on Student Learning Matrix
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51. I can explain TPEP and describe how it impacts our district and my role.
Evaluation System Overview
State criteria, teacher evaluations and principal evaluations
Definitions
Implementation schedule
Scoring and student growth measures
RIG and eVAL
Reflection and feedback
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52. Support and Resources
REGIONAL IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS
EVAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
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54. About
2/3
districts
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56. Next Steps
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57. QUESTIONS?
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58. I can explain TPEP and describe how it impacts our district and my role.
Evaluation System Overview
State criteria, teacher evaluations and principal evaluations
Definitions
Implementation schedule
Scoring and student growth measures
RIG and eVAL
Reflection and feedback
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  M. Shepard  January 2013

59. I can explain TPEP and describe how it impacts our district and my role.
School
Board
District
State
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60. Think: What are implications for the school board/your role?
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61. I can explain TPEP and describe how it impacts our district and my role.
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62. School
TPEP
Supt’s
Board
Teaching, Office
Learning,
Assessment
Teachers Special
Technology
Services Principals
HR
Business
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When systems align and work together,
real progress is made.
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63. Next steps?
…and feedback
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64. Orting School District TPEP
Working Together as a System
Dr. Marci Shepard
January 3, 2013