Friday Focus
January 29, 2016
Mid-Year Effective Educator Review Information
February 19 is the due date for all WRPS educators to complete our mid-year review for their Educator Effectiveness plan. This involves the School Learning Objective (SLO) and Professional Practice Goal (PPG).
Nic and/or I will be meeting with all Howe faculty the week of February 15-19 to help facilitate the review with you. Our goal is to provide support for this process in order to help faculty improve their practice and students to be successful. Stay tuned for the schedule.
- Interim/benchmark results (reading, writing, mathematics)
- Screener results
- Reading inventories and book logs around indicators of engaged reading
- Test/quiz results from classroom assessments
- Report cards
- Student interest surveys
- Reflective journals (students and/or teacher)
- Student self-assessments
- Parent feedback
- Writing samples
- Images and video of student learning
Yes, all of these items are considered data. More importantly, what data points will serve your SLO and PPG and inform your current instruction? Taking multiple measures to understand the complexities of the classroom is called triangulation. Using data in this way paints a broader picture of what is happening with student achievement and growth.
Here is my example, with the School Learning Objective in the middle and the three pieces of data used to measure the SLO around it (my PPG is using instructional walks in lieu of formal classroom observations).
Clear as mud? :-) The journey is as important as the destination. With that, start thinking about what data will or could serve to inform your own practice. Our time together will be spent on this topic. Any information you can organize ahead of time would be helpful.
Best,
Matt
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Howe Elementary School, 8th Street North, Wisconsin Rapids, WI, United States
Howe Elementary School
Email: matthew.renwick@wrps.net
Website: http://www.wrps.org/schools/howe/index.cfm
Location: 221 8th Street North, Wisconsin Rapids, WI, United States
Phone: 715-424-6772
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