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Weston Superintendent Colleen Palmer shared her district's teacher evaluation plan with PEAC members.
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CEA President Sheila Cohen and CEA Executive Director Mark Waxenberg, who both serve on PEAC, said mastery tests are not designed for the evaluation of teachers or administrators.
Fellow columnist and public education advocate Sarah Darer Littman left Governor Dannel Malloy, the corporate education reform industry and their obsession with standardized testing no room to hide in her latest MUST READ article in CT Newsjunkie entitled, Garbage In, Garbage Out: A Reminder for PEAC and the State Board of Education
At today's PEAC meeting in Hartford, Waxenberg and CEA President Sheila Cohen, who represent teachers on the council, reiterated the Association's position that state mastery tests should not be used in teacher evaluation.
«I myself tried to participate in PEAC for a long time, but it felt to me like something else was driving that agenda,» said Ingrid Villeda, co-chair of the Latino Caucus.
Many of the issues articulated by PEAC members are ones that CEA has voiced concern about already and addressed in the proposed CEA teacher evaluation guidelines released at a news conference last week.
But as of today, no other full PEAC committee meetings have been set.
«I think this is a coup against Warren,» said a source within LAUSD, referring to the UTLA President Warren Fletcher, who at times has appeared caught in the middle of widely disparate factions within the union — reform - friendly teachers like NewTLA on the one hand, and hard - liners like PEAC on the other.
Cohen stressed, «We do not want to see what is happening at PEAC not coincide with what is happening in the legislative session and go past the legislative adjournment.
CEA President Sheila Cohen told PEAC members that more flexibility and autonomy is needed for local districts.
Since PEAC last met, the notion that one can rate teacher's effectiveness based on student standardized test scores has been thoroughly debunked.
The full PEAC Committee (charged with creating the system) hasn't met since the beginning of February — only a «framework» currently exists.
The State Department of Education (SDE) also gave PEAC an update regarding the Connecticut Common Core of Teaching (CCT) rubrics.
This week, PEAC discussed other pieces of the evaluation system — including the number of performance designators required to rate educators and the percentages allocated to different evaluation components.
PEAC unanimously agreed recommending to the State Board of Education to continue the practice of not requiring mastery exam scores in teachers» evaluations for the next academic year.
PEAC action would provide flexibility in implementing teacher evaluation guidelines for the 2013 - 14 school year.
PEAC plans to continue to work on determining the appropriate use of mastery test scores and examining the current «matrix» used to evaluate teachers.
Meriden Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and Learning Miguel Cardona said he hopes PEAC can finalize the PDEC best practices over the summer so that they're available for PDECs for the fall.
PEAC serves in an advisory capacity to the state Board of Education.
«Malloy, Wyman, Sharkey, and Williams asked the [PEAC] council to create a subcommittee of classroom teachers to share the obstacles they face and have them make recommendations to the council, General Assembly, and state Education Board by Jan. 1, 2015, nearly two months after the election.»
«There's a desperate need for professional learning for leaders on what good evaluation looks like,» said PEAC member and Meriden Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and Learning Miguel Cardona.
Cardona said that when PEAC has heard directly from education practitioners at its meetings they often want to focus on what is going well with teacher evaluation.
PEAC includes representatives of a long list of groups, including CEA and AFT - Connecticut as well as organizations representing principals, superintendents, school boards, and higher education.
Throughout his tenure, Fletcher has been described as both a «moderate» and a «pragmatist,» attempting to balance the demands of the «progressives» and «social justice advocates» within PEAC and the Latino Caucus with some of the more «reform» teachers, who were less organized and less active.
By adding more tests of the same skills in the same subjects, PEAC merely added more meaningless «noise.»
Decided to conduct surveys of local Professional Development and Evaluation Committee (PDEC) members and teachers to get feedback on how the PDEC process is working and review the findings at the next PEAC meeting.
EDUCATION CONNECTION Professional Development Specialist Susan Domanico, CEA Teacher Development Specialist Kate Field, and AFT - Connecticut Professional Issues and Development Coordinator Jennifer Benevento talked to PEAC about their work with Professional Development and Evaluation Committees.
CEA Executive Director Mark Waxenberg and CEA President Sheila Cohen urged PEAC to prohibit the use of SBAC scores in teacher evaluations.
PEAC reviewed surveys of PDECs by the state Department of Education as well as surveys CEA and AFT - Connecticut conducted of members who sit on PDECs.
Training for evaluators is one area that CEA leaders on the Council have previously highlighted as needing attention, and yesterday PEAC heard from administrators in the Wolcott Public Schools about their efforts to improve evaluator training.
Rather than construct an evaluation process based on what is easiest to measure, shouldn't PEAC start with an examination of the type of skills we want in teachers?
Cohen concluded, «We are hopeful that the State Board of Education will adopt PEAC's recommendation at its April 5 meeting so that we can continue to move forward and to improve the educational opportunities for all public school students in Connecticut.»
«Today's recommendation by PEAC affirms the consensus among Connecticut education stakeholders that state mastery tests provide a valid and reliable estimate of student achievement and that they can play an important role in goal - setting for educators.»
Click here to read a draft copy of the new PEAC Guidelines for Educator Support and Evaluation Programs.
At a meeting May 31, PEAC decided the following, against CEA's strong objections and opposition.
This is frustrating and disappointing, in light of the progress PEAC made during the meetings you convened in December 2011 and January 2012.
With today's PEAC improvements, parents and communities can be confident that teachers will be able to enhance their impact on students — a focus put at risk this school year as teachers, administrators, and school districts were forced to put enormous time and resources into compliance and paperwork required by the Connecticut State Department of Education.
We respectfully suggest that the full PEAC begin to meet as soon as possible and develop and agree to guidelines based on our agreed - upon framework, per our statutory charge and responsibility.
UConn Neag School of Education researcher Morgaen Donaldson presented PEAC with five recommendations based on an interim report of a study of the statewide pilot of new teacher evaluation guidelines.
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Caputo - Pearl is a member of PEAC, which strongly opposes the spread of charter schools and the use of public school choice to upend district schools.
State Education Commissioner Dianna Wentzell responded by saying — unlike CEA that has formulated a plan to address teacher evaluation problems — other representatives on PEAC and their respective organizations have not yet done that.