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| Ad Hoc Superintendent's Evaluation Sub Committee Meeting - Oct 28, 2020 |
Quick Recap:
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As with most meetings in this pandemic period, I took my notes via Twitter during the meeting reporting in real-time via the virtual session.
The Twitter hashtag can be found online #schcom1013
https://twitter.com/hashtag/schcom1013?src=hashtag_click
Franklin, MA: School Committee - Recap - Oct 13, 2020
Agenda doc = https://www.franklinps.net/sites/g/files/vyhlif4431/f/agendas/adhocsuptevalsub_com_agenda_-_10-8-20.pdf
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| Ad Hoc Superintendent's Evaluation Sub Committee Meeting - Oct 8 |
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| FHS guidance Ms Dolan flanked by School Committee Chair Ann Bergen and Superintendent Sara Ahern |
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| Oak St kindergarten teacher Dolores Sherlock flanked by School Committee Chair Ann Bergen and Superintendent Sara Ahern |
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| HMMS Math teachers Bob O'Brian flanked by School Committee Chair Ann Bergen and Superintendent Sara Ahern |
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| Parmenter math specialist Mrs Dauley flanked by School Committee Chair Ann Bergen and Superintendent Sara Ahern |
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FHS Terese Danizio-To flanked by School Committee Chair Ann Bergen
and Superintendent Sara Ahern
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| group photo |
To ensure that all students are supported and challenged to reach their full potential, the FPS will align curriculum, best practices, and varied assessment opportunities to personalize learning and meet individualized needs. [emphasis mine]
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| Superintendent Sara Ahern presenting the update on the DIP plan |
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| screen grab of evidence doc |
"The state’s education commissioner, aiming to end a long-brewing controversy, is proposing to scrap a rule requiring school systems to develop individual ratings for teachers and administrators based solely on student test scores.
“I heard loud and clear from teacher unions and administrators that having a separate rating has more downsides then upsides,” Mitchell Chester, commissioner of elementary and secondary education, said in an interview.
His proposal, however, would not entirely do away with the use of student test scores in evaluating teachers and administrators, prompting mixed reaction to the proposal Tuesday.
Instead, it would require school systems to fold the scores into a separate system of judging educator performance: the annual job review, a process that has been based largely on observations, and a review of other evidence, such as lesson plans."
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| The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education |
"Importantly, the proposed amendments eliminate the separate student impact rating, but preserve a focus on student learning in the evaluation framework. This approach addresses the concerns about a separate student impact rating while retaining evidence of student learning based on multiple measures, including common assessments and statewide student growth measures, as a component of the educator's summative performance rating."http://www.doe.mass.edu/boe/docs/FY2017/2016-11/item2.html
“Today, Massachusetts made state history when the governor signed into law legislation to put teacher effectiveness first,” Stand for Children Executive Director Jason Williams said in a statement. “This legislation, which ensures that performance comes before seniority in teacher staffing decisions, is a win for teachers, parents, children, and all of Massachusetts.”
The bill passed the Senate last week and the House this week without recorded votes.
According to the new law, its purpose is to assure effective implementation of education evaluation systems adopted by the Board of Education, provide training for teachers and administrators in evaluation and training, and ensure that “indicators of job performance as evidenced by evaluation and other factors are the primary factors in school staff decisions.”
The law also calls for a data collection system to assess the effectiveness of the evaluation system.
The topic was teacher evaluations, a system that is to be discussed, and very likely changed, in the negotiations for the Franklin Education Association contract.
"The current evaluation system is out of date. It has been out of date for a long time," said union President Chandler Creedon, who spoke along with union Vice President Donna Grady, as well as Superintendent Maureen Sabolinski and Assistant Superintendent Sally Winslow. "When we finished this past contract, one of my concerns was that we hadn't touched this."
Creedon said the current evaluations, which rely in large part on an administrator sitting in on a single class, breed distrust.
"In the past, the goal was always to get through the observation," Creedon said. "You would have to perform. Someone would have to come watch you perform. There was always that feeling that somebody was out to 'get' you."
