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New York, NY — StudentsFirstNY today issued a brief analysis comparing the difference in teacher effectiveness between New York City's high poverty and low poverty districts following the State Education Department's recent release of teacher evaluation data.

Today, the New York State Education Department made available a detailed data file for the 2012 - 2013 teacher and principal evaluation results for all districts except New York City (which did not begin its teacher evaluation program until the 2013 - 14 school year).

Professor Thomas Kane and the team at the Center for Education Policy Research are experts at working closely with districts and harnessing big data to identify effective policies and practices in teacher preparation, teacher evaluation, and learning technologies.

After collecting and synthesizing data from 17 states and the District of Columbia, we found that, despite state policy changes, many districts still don't factor student growth into teacher evaluation ratings in a meaningful way.

This study combines data on teacher requests (by parents) and teacher evaluations (by principals) from 12 elementary schools in a midsized school district that asked to remain anonymous, in the western United States.

Contrary to claims that teacher evaluation reforms are leading to strict, one - size - fits - all policies, data suggests that local districts are implementing state - based teacher evaluation reforms inconsistently.

First, misaligned assessments undermine the critical link between what is reported in accountability systems (test - score and teacher - evaluation data) and what districts purport to value (Common Core — aligned instruction, student success with the new standards).

Contrary to claims that recent teacher evaluation reforms are leading to strict, one - size - fits - all policies, state - level data actually suggests local districts are implementing state - based teacher evaluation reforms inconsistently.

The establishment of annual systematic student testing and data collection systems at the school, district, and state levels has created an opportunity for policymakers to link teacher evaluations and tenure to student performance in a way that was heretofore impossible.

On an evaluation of the federal Race to the Top and School Improvement Grant initiatives, she was a content area expert advising on development of protocols, data collection instruments, and reports, examining how states and districts use grant funds to improve teacher quality.

L.A. Unified is looking to pilot a teacher evaluation program that will use student test data in measuring performance; Deasy made clear that this will come up during the district's contract negotiations with the AFT.

In a letter sent on behalf of some families Wednesday to L.A. Unified Superintendent John Deasy and the school board — and just before the district begins negotiations with the American Federation of Teachers» City of Angels unit over a new contract — Barnes & Thornburg's Kyle Kirwan demanded that the district «implement a comprehensive system» of evaluating teachers that ties «pupil progress» data to teacher evalTeachers» City of Angels unit over a new contract — Barnes & Thornburg's Kyle Kirwan demanded that the district «implement a comprehensive system» of evaluating teachers that ties «pupil progress» data to teacher evalteachers that ties «pupil progress» data to teacher evaluations.

First, misaligned assessments undermine the critical link between what is reported in accountability systems (test - score and teacher - evaluation data) and what districts purport to value (Common Core — aligned instruction and student success with the new standards).

Tennessee, where lawmakers passed legislation that mandates using student achievement as half of a teacher's annual evaluation in every district, stood out for its mature «value - added» data system that has been around for nearly two decades.

As districts grapple with implementing statutory requirements for annual evaluation, a common pain point has been the use of student growth and assessment data, including properly understanding what the legislation requires, which measures to use, how to aggregate growth measures for teachers and administrators, and reliably scoring for 25 % of an effectiveness rating.

The district wants to use test score data as one of several measures in its new evaluation system, as it is currently doing in a voluntary program involving nearly 700 teachers and administrators at more than 100 schools.

Making sense of the teacher effectiveness data is tough work given that different districts use different evaluation systems.

For example, lawmakers flirted with using student performance measures to evaluate teachers and principals, but did not require districts to connect hard data to job evaluations.

As full implementation of both the teacher and principal evaluation systems looms for September 2013, it is imperative that boards of education, district leaders, and the DOE ensure that principals and teachers have a viable curriculum based on the Common Core Standards; valid and reliable assessment tools to measure growth in every subject area (tested and nontested); and time to work in professional teams to set growth targets, analyze data, and provide the appropriate instructional interventions for every student.

Learning Sciences International supports states and districts with exclusive implementation and redevelopment services on Dr. Marzano's Causal Evaluation Model including training evaluators with high degrees of observer accuracy and inter-rater reliability and offering the iObservation companion data system for data collection, classroom observation, professional development, feedback to teachers, and final eEvaluation Model including training evaluators with high degrees of observer accuracy and inter-rater reliability and offering the iObservation companion data system for data collection, classroom observation, professional development, feedback to teachers, and final evaluationevaluation.

States and school districts that adopted Obama's preferred policies — like designing teacher evaluation systems and using «robust» data systems to track student progress — were given cash grants as an award.

Drew Furedi, an L.A. Unified official overseeing the district's evaluation system, said he could not comment on the proposals because he hadn't seen them yet, but he welcomed their support for multiple measures of teacher effectiveness, including test score data.

Thursday's LA Times editorial about the use of student achievement data in teacher evaluations around the country (Bill Gates» warning on test scores) makes some valuable points about the dangers of rushed, half - baked teacher evaluation schemes that count test scores as more than half of a teacher's evaluation (as is being done in some states and districts)...

Accordingly, even though their data for this part of this study come from one district, their findings are similar to others evidenced in the «Widget Effect» report; hence, there are still likely educational measurement (and validity) issues on both ends (i.e., with using such observational rubrics as part of America's reformed teacher evaluation systems and using survey methods to put into check these systems, overall).

June 13, 2012 (Los Angeles)-- A day after a judge ruled the Los Angeles Unified School District must start incorporating student growth data into annual teacher evaluations, a group of Los Angeles classroom educators are proposing a unique framework for teacher evaluation that would include a mix of State and new, locally developed assessments as part of a multi-measured evaluation system.

Districts can use an Indiana Department of Education - approved evaluation system or design their own, but all schools must include student growth data — think test scores — as part of a teacher's rating.

Deasy «is free to express his opinions, but any attempt to require principals to assign a specific weight to student test data in a teacher's evaluation is a violation of the protections in an agreement between UTLA and the District,» UTLA responded in a statement.

Conduct multiple evaluations for each first - year teacher that are integrated with the district's beginning teacher support program and include observations and reviews of student performance data.

«I thought it was generous for 20 percent to be data,» says Kristen Dawn, a German teacher at Ben Davis High School and president of the Wayne Township Classroom Teachers Association, which provided input to district administrators developing the evaluation system.

Because they have spent little on developing robust data systems that can monitor student achievement and teacher performance means (and thanks to state laws that had banned the use of student test score data in teacher evaluations), districts haven't been able to help those aspiring teachers by pairing them with good - to - great instructors who can show them the ropes.

(The group has also filed a case challenging 13 California districts» teachers contracts that prohibit the use of standardized test data in teacher evaluations, which they say violates a 1971 law.)

As per Weingarten: «Over a year ago, the Washington [DC] Teachers» Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to see the data from the school district's IMPACT [teacher] evaluation system — a system that's used for big choices, like the firing of 563 teachers in just the past four years, curriculum decisions, school closures and more [see prior posts about this as related to the IMPACT prograTeachers» Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to see the data from the school district's IMPACT [teacher] evaluation system — a system that's used for big choices, like the firing of 563 teachers in just the past four years, curriculum decisions, school closures and more [see prior posts about this as related to the IMPACT prograteachers in just the past four years, curriculum decisions, school closures and more [see prior posts about this as related to the IMPACT program here].

The study sample included four districts that were «fully implementing» their teacher evaluation systems at the time data were collected in 2012 and early 2013, and four districts that were considered to be «partially implementing» their systems.

She has extensive experience in student achievement data analysis, design and implementation of district data systems, statistical methodologies, and the creation and use of relational databases in teacher evaluation and performance - based compensation reforms.

Under ESSA, states will have the authority to continue to use student achievement data in teacher evaluation, currently in place in 42 states and the District of Columbia.

-LSB-...] says the foundation's conclusions were based on the politics of convincing teachers and school districts of the merits of evaluations, and not data.

At least 50 percent of a classroom teacher's or school administrator's performance evaluation, or 40 percent if less than 3 years of student performance data are available, shall be based upon learning growth or achievement of the teacher's students or, for a school administrator, the students attending that school; the remaining portion shall be based upon factors identified in district - determined, state - approved evaluation system plans.

As a member of EPAC for the past two years, my responsibilities have included reading research studies on teacher evaluation programs around the country, learning about evaluation tools and ways to manage data, and collaborating with educators from pilot districts.

If you said «yes» to Question # 4 above, you must submit documents attached to this application from your last two school years that provide evidence of your effectiveness as a teacher in your current school district (performance evaluations and student academic growth data).

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Florida School Boards Association calls on the Governor of Florida to establish a diverse committee, to include Florida teachers and district personnel, charged with conducting a comprehensive review of Florida's assessment and accountability system and with providing a report and recommendations, including but not limited to recommendations on the appropriate components of the system, the appropriate use of data derived from assessments; an assessment of the capacity of districts and schools to administer the required assessments without interruption in the ongoing delivery of instruction to students who are not being assessed; a feasible timeline for the transition and full implementation of the system; and the appropriate role of the system with regard to personnel evaluations.

And parents don't know that our district will be the model for all others — because we do it best — we will collect SSP data in the form of social and emotional surveys, we will change our curriculum to socially engineer our children with social and emotional instruction without parents suspecting a thing, we will assess and survey up the wazoo about academics, school climate, cyberbullying, etc. while willing parents stand by, we will enhance our teacher evaluation program and refine it into a well - oiled teacher manipulation machine, and since our kids would do well no matter what because we have uber - involved parents, it will look like everything the Administrators are doing at the State's recommendation causes the success.

Weston is only now searching for an online tool to manage teacher evaluation data, unlike many districts that started out looking at the new teacher evaluation guidelines through a data management software lens.

Because evaluations are set at the local level, Ritz says districts using other teacher evaluation systems could also minimize how ISTEP data is used to determine merit pay.

Student Achievement Data — Phoenix Union High School District described the drivers for including student achievement data in teacher evaluations and how data informed decisions lead to continuous revisiData — Phoenix Union High School District described the drivers for including student achievement data in teacher evaluations and how data informed decisions lead to continuous revisidata in teacher evaluations and how data informed decisions lead to continuous revisidata informed decisions lead to continuous revisions.

A day after a judge ruled that Los Angeles Unified School District must start incorporating student growth data into annual teacher evaluations, E4E - LA's policy team made up entirely of current classroom teachers is proposing a unique framework for teacher evaluation that would include a mix of State and new, locally developed assessments as part of a multi-measured evaluation system.

Specifically, officials at the state and district levels have had difficulty building staff capacity for implementing the reforms, meeting the requirements to develop teacher evaluations and increase student learning time, and gathering data on performance in SIG schools to make decisions about future grant renewals.

April Bain, a math teacher at Downtown Magnets High School, said she was «flabbergasted» the district rates teachers without considering student achievement and hopes the decision will force it to add student test data to evaluations.

Technology facilitates such practices through video - based teacher evaluation modules for aspiring principals and leader tracking systems, which build a district's capacity to collect and organize data on experience and performance to inform staffing and other decisions.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, whose department has called on districts and states to use student data in teacher evaluations in return for grants and less federal regulation, said last week that he believes states should definitely use data to drive instruction and in evaluations.