Student Growth Retreat

I learned a lot about the process of identifying needs, implementing strategies and modifying… loved the emphasis on the process… not focusing on writing a goal: CTAC introduced Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) nationally through a groundbreaking partnership with Denver Public Schools in 1999. As the leading practitioner, trainer and evaluator of SLOs, we have assisted a number of districts and states with implementing successful SLO models. For more information, please contact us at (617) 423-‐1444 or ctac@ctacusa.com. From an art teacher in MA: Hi Ellen, Our superintendent put together this wiki which may be interesting to you. It has all of the presentations and worksheets that the district has used in the process for new evaluation, including SLOs. http://rpseducatorevaluation.wikispaces.com/ Here is also part of an e-‐mail the superintendent sent us in January in terms of evidence collection: TAP Update We are now entering our fifth month of implementing the revised TAP process. By this point, most, if not all of you have completed your self-‐assessment, developed your goals, established your educator plan with your goals, key action steps, and benchmarks, and are now implementing your educator plans. You are doing a great job! As part of this plan, you will be collecting evidence. Listed below are some guidelines on collecting evidence. ·∙ Keep the process simple. Less is more when collecting evidence. It is better to collect a few key pieces of evidence rather than a significant amount that duplicates your work. Your collection process should not require you to go beyond what you already have available. ·∙ Focus the evidence collection process on the goals that you have developed in your educator plan, Standard 3 (Family and Community Engagement) and Standard 4 (Professional Culture). The reason that you should focus on those standards is because they are not readily observable in day to day practice. ·∙ For this first year of implementation, you can use either Baseline Edge to collect your evidence or a paper portfolio system in a three ring binder. ·∙ Some examples of evidence could include, but are not limited to: ·∙ Lesson Plans ·∙ A screenshot or link to your Edline Page ·∙ Assessment Data ·∙ Communication with Parents (Email, Phone logs, etc.) ·∙ Back to School Night or Open House Material ·∙ Assessments and/or assessment data ·∙ Different resources you have created for your classes ·∙ Different multi-‐media (video, podcast, etc.) that you have created ·∙ Fliers and materials from workshops that you have attended I followed up with a teacher one year after her first blog post about SLO PD…. She wasn’t happy then, and I wanted to see what a year may have done to mellow her reaction…. Hi, Ellen. This school year was our first year to launch our regional and state assessments in regards to SLO's. As far from what I see, the SLO's are really set for failure. Our art department decided to go ahead with the state assessments because we

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