{"id":125,"date":"2016-02-04T21:49:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T21:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/EffectiveInstruction.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/?p=125"},"modified":"2016-02-04T21:49:15","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T21:49:15","slug":"12816-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/EffectiveInstruction.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"1\/28\/16 Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Effective Instruction (EI) Committee met on January 28, 2016 to review the progress of the SGM pilot and discuss the implications of possible regulatory changes related to the December 2015 passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).\u00a0 Questions regarding the following information may be directed to the facilitator of the EI Committee, Dr. Christine Ermold, or any member of the committee.\u00a0 Principals have been asked to share the following information with their faculty and to organize questions at\u00a0their site into a single document to help direct the flow of communication through the site administrator.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Background:<\/strong> Pending the outcome of the March 2016 State Board of Education &amp; Early Development meeting, 4 AAC 19.010(k) Purpose and Scope of Evaluations may be repealed.\u00a0 This would remove the state requirement for all educators to pilot a measure of student learning data as part of the evaluation system. As stated in the 1.25.16 State Board packet Agenda Item 3A memo, \u201cIt will be necessary for the State Board of Education &amp; Early Development to determine whether or not to maintain the use of student achievement data as part of the educator evaluation process, as well as to maintain or revise other elements of the evaluation process currently required by regulation.\u00a0 The department recommends a full discussion of possible regulatory revisions as part of \u2026 a future board meeting.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Issue:<\/strong> Should the KPBSD continue the pilot of SGM for the 2015-16 school year if the regulatory requirement to do so is repealed?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Discussion:<\/strong> Charlotte Danielson\u2019s Framework for Teaching and her related research is the foundation upon which the KPBSD Effective Instruction System was built.\u00a0 The consideration of evidence of student learning is woven throughout the Framework, and the basis for the current Student Growth Map (SGM) can be explicitly found in Components 1F: Designing Student Assessments and\u00a0\u00a0 3D: Using Assessment in Instruction.\u00a0 Evidence of a teacher\u2019s impact on student growth and learning is one piece of the broader picture of teacher effectiveness that the KPBSD values.\u00a0 The KPBSD Board of Education is required to review and approve any changes to the certified employee evaluation system.\u00a0 The current evaluation system was presented and approved by the Board on 7\/6\/15.\u00a0 Additionally:\n<ul>\n<li>The original regulation required the use of the state\u2019s approved test as one of multiple measures considered in a teacher\u2019s evaluation.\u00a0 The future of the state\u2019s assessment, the Alaska Measures of Progress (AMP) is uncertain.\u00a0 It was anticipated that eventually, educators would build one of the two to four SGMs off of AMP data.<\/li>\n<li>The current format of SGMs has resulted in additional record keeping that has been beneficial for some teachers, redundant for some teachers, and unsuccessful for some teachers.<\/li>\n<li>Conversations around the data presented in the SGM has proven to result in a positive change in practice for many principals and teachers.<\/li>\n<li>In circumstances that the SGMs were reported to be too difficult or too cumbersome, it appears likely that educators\u2019 developing skill levels with SGMs, and the challenge of determining what amount of growth is appropriate for various students with various measures were the source of the challenges.<\/li>\n<li>Additional information is needed from KPBSD teachers <em>after completing the current pilot<\/em> to determine how best to proceed with including evidence of student learning in the KPBSD\u2019s E.I. Evaluation System.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Decision:<\/strong> The E.I. Committee recognizes that KPBSD\u2019s current SGM process has both benefits and drawbacks, and in an effort to continually refine and improve the KPBSD\u2019s E.I. Evaluation System, the SGM pilot will continue this school year regardless of the State Board of Education &amp; Early Development\u2019s decision in March 2016.\n<ul>\n<li>In an effort to ease the burden of additional meetings and paperwork preparation, and to promote authentic conversations around student data with colleagues, all educators piloting an SGM who are being evaluated on the Standard Evaluation Plan in 15-16 may conduct their mid and end-of-SGM reviews within their collaborative teams.\u00a0 The completed SGM form does not get submitted to district office; it should be kept onsite by the principal.<\/li>\n<li>Only educators piloting an SGM under the Alternate Protocol for Tenured Teachers in 15-16 will continue to review their SGM data with their administrators and submit their final form to district office.\n<ul>\n<li>Please note that it was the intent of the committee that the reviews of SGM progress should occur during already existing meetings.\u00a0 Therefore, the reviews with tenured teachers on the Alternate Protocol should occur during regularly occurring calibration meetings or informal observation discussions whenever possible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Future Action<\/strong>: The E.I. Committee will meet again this winter to refine the E.I. Survey that is sent to all certified teachers each spring.\u00a0 Data from the survey will be used along with any regulatory changes and guidance to make changes to the E.I. Evaluation System for the 16-17 school year and beyond.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Effective Instruction (EI) Committee met on January 28, 2016 to review the progress of the SGM pilot and discuss the implications of possible regulatory changes related to the December 2015 passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).\u00a0 Questions regarding the following information may be directed to the facilitator of the EI Committee, Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3837,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126739,126743],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-committee-information","category-sgms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/EffectiveInstruction.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/EffectiveInstruction.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/EffectiveInstruction.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/EffectiveInstruction.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/EffectiveInstruction.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/EffectiveInstruction.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/EffectiveInstruction.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/EffectiveInstruction.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/EffectiveInstruction.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/EffectiveInstruction.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}