Iowa

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Iowas Statewide Approach to Performance
Evaluation Compensation

• Judy Jeffrey, Director

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Iowas Approach to Evaluation, Professional
Development, Compensation

• The Iowa Context
• Infrastructure in place
• Intent of the Legislation
• The Iowa Student Achievement and Teacher Quality
  Program
• Components that provide support and
  accountability
• Cross-walk of essential elements
• Going to scale state-wide
• Lessons learned
• Next steps

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The Iowa Context

• Infrastructure
• Well functioning Area Education Agencies (AEAs)
• Strong pre-service programs
• State initiatives in content already underway
• Cooperative atmosphere between teacher unions,
  administrator organizations, DE, and AEAs

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The Iowa Context

• Iowa Student Achievement and Teacher Quality
  Program (2001)
• Establishes structure for Mentoring and
  Induction, Professional Development, Evaluation,
  and Career Levels

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Intent of the Iowa Legislation

• To create a student achievement and teacher
  quality program that acknowledges that
  outstanding teachers are a key component in
  student success.

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The program's goals are to

• enhance student achievement and to redesign
  compensation strategies and teachers'
  professional development.

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Teacher Quality Program Supports

• are designed to increase student achievement by
  increasing teacher quality
• offer teachers opportunities to improve their
  instructional practices
• attract and retain high performing teachers
• reward teachers for improving their skills and
  knowledge in a manner that translates into better
  student learning
• establish increased accountability for quality
  teaching
• build on already existing supports

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Iowa Teaching Standards
Iowa Teaching

• Standards in Iowa Code Criteria established by
  stakeholder group and adopted by State Board
• Provide a set of knowledge and skills that
  reflects the best evidence available regarding
  effective teaching.
• Provide teachers and administrators consistent
  criteria for determining what constitutes
  effective teaching in Iowa schools.
• Foster ongoing dialogue about effective
  practices.
• Teachers and the evaluator use the standards and
  criteria for determining what evidence to collect
  for the comprehensive evaluation for beginning
  teachers and the performance reviews for career
  teachers.

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Eight Iowa Teaching Standards

• 1. Demonstrates ability to enhance academic
  performance and support for implementation of the
  school districts student achievement goals.
• 2. Demonstrates competence in content knowledge
  appropriate to the teaching position.
• 3. Demonstrates competence in planning and
  preparing for instruction.

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• 4. Uses strategies to deliver instruction that
  meets the multiple learning needs of students.
• 5. Uses a variety of methods to monitor student
  learning.
• 6. Demonstrates competence in classroom
  management.
• 7. Engages in professional growth.
• 8. Fulfills professional responsibilities
  established by the school district.

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Beginning Teachers

• Salary minimum
• Initial License (2 year)
• Evaluation (Comprehensive Evaluation)
• Must meet teaching standards
• Evaluation determines eligibility for standard
  license

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• Mentoring and Induction
• Provided for all 1st and 2nd year beginning
  teachers
• Funds are appropriated for districts/AEAs based
  on the number of 1st and 2nd year teachers
  (1,300 per mentee)
• AEAs provide technical assistance and training
  for mentors
• A model plan has been developed to assist
  districts in their work

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Mentoring and Induction

• 4th year of program 100 of districts have a
  mentoring plan
• At the end of the 2nd year the beginning
  teachers evaluator makes a decision to move the
  teacher from an initial license to a standard
  license
• A 3rd year of mentoring is available to beginning
  teacher who needs additional assistance to move
  to a standard license.
• The district must pay for the program. (Title II)

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Career Teachers

• Salary
• Evaluation (Performance Reviews)
• Classroom observation
• Implementation of individual career plan
• Documentation from other evaluators, peers,
  students, parents
• Not meeting Iowa Teaching Standards
• Intensive Assistance
• 5th year in career level ineligible for pay
  increases

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Professional Development

• Iowa Professional Development Model
• District Career Development Plans
• Iowa Content Networks
• Individual Teacher Career Development Plans

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Key Elements of the Model

• Focus on curriculum and instruction
• Study of implementation
• All site personnel
• Specific student learning goals
• Intensive professional development
• Collaboration
• Ongoing follow-up, support, technical
  assistance
• Formative and summative evaluation

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Iowa Professional Development Standards

• District Career Development Plans address
• Iowa Teaching Standards
• Research-based instructional strategies
• District student achievement goals
• Training and learning opportunities that target
  instruction and design that includes
• Theory, demonstration, practice, observation
• Collaboration and study of implementation
• Integration of instructional technology
• Evaluation (instructional practice student
  learning)
• All staff responsible for instruction

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Individual Teacher Career Development Plan

• Based on Iowa Teaching Standards and
  district/building student achievement goals
• Annual meeting with teacher and evaluator to
  review goal(s) and refine plan
• Individual Plans should be a direct fit with
  District Career Development Plans

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Professional Development Resources

• Iowa Content Networks
• Source for reviews of research studies for use by
  local districts
• Iowa PD Model Training Materials
• Set of print resources for local districts
• Case studies of Iowa Districts
• http//www.state.ia.us/educate/ecese/tqt/tc/prodev
  .html

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What you will find on the Content Network website
is an initial organization of research in the
areas of reading, mathematics, and science.
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The Research Continuum

• The Content Network Teams reviewed the research
  articles based on a continuum that measured the
  research according to specific criteria.

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Evaluation System

• Evaluation processes locally driven
• Evaluations are required at the end of year two
  for beginning teachers and every three years for
  career level teachers
• Includes an intensive assistance component
• Statewide adoption of standards and criteria for
  teachers
• Uniform summative evaluation tool for beginning
  teachers

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Preparing Evaluators

• Extensive evaluator training provided
• 1,000 awarded for completion of training
• The Evaluator Training process developed skills
  in the following areas
• Support for Teaching Standards
• Data Collection Skills
• Feedback Techniques
• Data-driven Leadership

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Evaluator Training Process

• Train administrators to make license
  recommendations at the end of a 2 year induction
  program.
• Integrates with district career development
  planning efforts.
• Is an interagency effort. Higher education
  programs are certified to provide training.

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Going to Scale

• DE provided
• State-wide capacity building efforts to support
  PD, MI and Evaluation
• Rules/procedures to create structures and
  accountability for PD, MI, Evaluation
• Models of quality professional development in
  Reading and Math (Science to be added)

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Legislative Proposal2007

• Revamp Career II/Advanced
• Focus on strengths of professional development
• Establish Regional Academies
• Establish teacher leaders

• Establish Administrator Quality Program
• Mentoring/Induction
• Iowa Leadership Standards
• Evaluation
• Professional Development

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Implementation Timeline

• 02-03 Districts volunteered to implement over
  95
• Mentoring and Induction
• Salary increases for beginning and career
  teachers (year 3)
• Team-based variable pay pilots implemented
• Content networks formed

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Implementation Timeline

• 03-04 All districts implementing
• 10 days of training for evaluators
• Stakeholder group develops Iowa professional
  development model
• Content networks release initial information
• Team-based variable pay evaluation

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Implementation Timeline

• 04-05 Salary increases
• 24,500 (1st 2nd year teachers)
• 25,500 (3rd year teachers)
• 26,000 (4th year teachers)
• TBVP Pilot continues
• School districts implement district career plans
  as approved in their Comprehensive School
  Improvement Plan
• Regional Academies implemented/summer 05
• Addition of equivalent of 1 PD day to teacher
  contracts

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Evaluation

• TBVP pilots did not reveal any conclusive results
• Mentoring and Induction are viewed as a retention
  factor and supportive of new teachers
• Salary rankings in US have not improved (budget
  shortfalls, etc. have not provided additional
  increases as expected)
• Comprehensive evaluation of program due in 2007

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Professional Development Evaluation

• Examining District PD Plans
• Iowa Teacher Development Academies
• Studying teacher implementation and student
  results
• Preliminary input shows students are responding
  to changes in instruction

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When Quality PD is provided positive things
happen

• Kids are excited about the books from which they
  can choose.
• Kids like coming to this class!
• A student who refused to pick a book to read, so
  I picked for him, hated the book, dislikes
  reading, told me last Friday, Hey, this is
  really a good book!
• Im surprised about the number of my students who
  have finished books and gone on to the second or
  third. Also, the smiles on their faces when they
  proudly show me how much they have read.
• Several students have said they are really happy
  they can read their book.

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04-05 Costs

• 1,300 per new teacher for 2 years 4.2M
• One day of PD 10M
• District allocation for teacher salaries 46.3M
• Department costs for staffing, technical
  assistance state funds 400,000 and is
  supplemented with federal funds

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The Iowa Teacher Quality Program

• For Additional Information
• http//www.state.ia.us/educate/ecese/tqt/tc/index.
  html

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