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 March 26  Coaching, Mentoring, and Evaluating Teachers in Urban Schools

Civitas Schools; Chicago, Illinois Presenters: School management organization operating charter schools in Chicago Stacey Beardsley, Chief Academic Officer sbeardsley@civitasschools.org  Dawn Sandoval, Curriculum Director dsandoval@civitasschools.org  Anne Matz, Director, CICS Northtown Academy amatz@cicsnorthtown.org Task: To Develop an aligned coaching, mentoring, evaluation process (using Danielson Framework). Required Intensive PD in coaching of staff in leadership positions (they professionally developed existing leaders; did not reorganize staff and positions. . . through the PD, others also emerged as leaders) Survey of teacher interests included: -clear and consistent set of expectations for high quality instruction -well defined standards-based evaluate process -Professional development -voice in decision-making process Elements: 1) Coaching on-going PD Clear guidelines for coaches Transparency in coaching logs  Instructional coaches ( used work of Kathy Toll) Coaches ask good questions, provide resources, make suggestions, assist in problem-finding and problem-solving, demonstrate instructional strategies, and engage in other . . . Coaches meet with teachers at least once every 2 weeks Keep Coaching Logs  A teacher self-assessment using the Danielson Framework used with coach to develop professional growth plan and develop professional growth goals. The coaching experience: flexible (assistance with lesson and unit planning, observation of teaching and provides feedback, and coobservations of other teachers). Analyzing st work, data conversations . . .  Coobservation: watching and talking about components of practice  Coaches are departmentalized (40%of job is coaching) with 7-15 teachers Observation of teachers every 2 weeks w/pre & post conferences 2) Mentoring Ongoing PD Clear guidelines  8 PD days provided for mentors Identify beginning teacher's needs and modify support in response to the assessed needs   Mentoring supports Professional norms of collaboration & learning Improved teaching performance Increased st achievement One-to-one mentoring 90 minutes (not necessarily in same content area)   Differentiated Mentoring Instructive Suggest Provide samples Offer information Collaborative Codevelop Problem-solve Analyzemst work together Coobserve Coteach Facilitative. Groups of new t Listen Pose questions   Mentoring vs Coaching: Mentoring and Coaching are different roles. A mentor may coach. Mentoring is designed for beginning teachers. All teachers have a coach  All teachers supported by coach, + new teachers supported by mentors  Coaches will have a role in eval . . . have been building up to this over the years.   Lesson learned: Coaches need to be coached: metacoached 3) Evaluation Ongoing PD Differentiation   All PD aligned to Danielson because the Danielson Framework aligned with their goal of "highly engaged more interactive instruction" PD around components of the framework Teachers that have been rated as Proficient/Distinguished provide PD to others in that component   Teacher Evaluation Observed/Evaluated 3x throughout the year, 1 dropped Summative Evaluation Artifact review conversation to get at reflection& thinking around practice and get at Domain 4 Unit plan High quality student assignment   link to compensation Novice,associate, professional,master Stay in a band for at least 2 years If performance improves, you move bands  Do people go down? Haven't experienced that . . . but in theory could.    Reflection: This group has used the Danielson Framework to develop and evaluate their teachers and is in the process of implementing Pay for Performance around teacher evaluation. Further conversations can definitely inform our work. Liuone and I made contact with a principal of one of the schools. He is willing to share his insights. I recommend that we tap into these people as resources! Turon Ivy, M.Ed Director CICS Ellison Campus tivy@cicsellison.org 1817 West 80th Street Chicago, Il 60620 1-773-478-4434 1773-478-4494 www.cicsellison.org