The Washoe County School District searched for a solution that could serve as a
true professional growth system for District employees, a common platform for conducting and tracking evaluations that aligned professional development to evaluation results and compliance needs.
But while the system was being designed, anti-public education legislation was passed in Pennsylvania that hijacked a promising
professional growth system by making it a numbers game fixated on ranking, sorting and firing teachers.
She founded Truenorthlogic in 2000 and spent 18 years working with school districts to define and
develop professional growth systems, create a one - of - a-kind comprehensive approach to continuous educator improvement, and connect educator performance to student achievement.
, administrators had one week to log into LAUSD's online evaluation platform, the
My Professional Growth System (MyPGS), to view a prerecorded classroom lesson, review scripted evidence, align evidence to selected elements of the TLF, and rate the evidence using the TLF rubrics.
Guest Experts: Susan Korach, Ed.D., Associate Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Morgridge College of Education, University of Denver David Steinburg, Director, Department
of Professional Growth Systems, Montgomery County Public Schools
«To make this a
true professional growth system, we needed to tie it into a professional learning system aligned to our frameworks to make it really work,» said Yvette Deighton, Program Coordinator.
One teacher told me, «I was asked to travel an hour to another county to deliver training on
the professional growth system, but my own district brought someone else in and never acknowledged that I have this capacity.»
Supporting staff selection and
professional growth systems that foster collegial collaboration in pursuit of high - impact, evidence - based practices consistent with state and district learning goals.
The Montgomery County Education Association (MCEA) worked with MCPS to develop three
Professional Growth Systems (PGS) for teachers, administrators and support professionals.
Support staff selection and
professional growth systems that foster collegial collaboration.
All three school districts have shifted from outdated teacher evaluation systems to
professional growth systems that strengthen collaborative opportunities among administrators, educators and teachers» unions.