Meeting for Aldine Professional Staff Wednesday, May 16, 20124:30 p.m.M.O. Campbell Teaching Theater   Aldine ISD educators and staff are invited to an employee meeting to discuss the proposed new INVEST teacher evaluation system. This meeting is for the district professional staff and is not open to the general public.            INVEST will be piloted in several schools during the 2012-2013 school year. The public forum provides an opportunity of educators to ask questions and share their perspectives on the new evaluation system, which uses multiple measures of effectiveness, and has been built with substantial teacher input. ...

Latest INVEST Update On June 11, 2012, the AISD School Board approved the INVEST program to be implemented in the 34 pilot schools. At these pilot schools, all administrators will be certified as evaluators on the Teachscape instrument, and teachers will have access to a series of videos and an interface to help them better understand the Danielson Framework. Student Growth Percentiles will not be used for consequence, but instead will be used in the first year primarily to collect data and to improve growth results. In July, AISD leadership met with school principals and trained them on the Danielson Framework for Teaching. All principals and assistant principals in the pilot partici...

In a series of meetings held with teachers, principals, and other staff, educators in the three work groups continued to discuss key ideas, issues, and concerns about INVEST, the collaborative evaluation system that is being developed to more accurately measure educator effectiveness.  What follows outlines the progress made in each of these meetings. Student Impact Group –Participating educators reviewed the INVEST Timeline and Student Growth Policy Document. Shirley Scott discussed the Student Growth Objectives and how they are used in Denver, CO. Members of this working group are playing a key role in the final review and revisions of these policy documents, along with the dev...

In a series of meetings held with teachers, principals, and other staff, educators in the three work groups continued to discuss key ideas, issues, and concerns about INVEST, the collaborative evaluation system that is being developed to more accurately measure educator effectiveness.  What follows outlines the progress made in each of these meetings. Student Impact Group – Participating educators reviewed the components of the initiative and the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document, examined the actual data results and surfaced any questions, and discussed the possibility of using student growth objectives for teachers outside of tested subjects. The meeting was attend...

In a series of meetings held with teachers, principals, and other staff, educators in the three work groups continued to discuss key ideas, issues, and concerns about INVEST, the collaborative evaluation system that is being developed to more accurately measure educator effectiveness.  What follows outlines the progress made in each of these meetings. Student Impact Group – Participating educators reviewed several different aspects of future decisions and reforms that will need to be made in the INVEST system. The group broke into three smaller subgroups. One subgroup focused solely on choosing an assessment that could be used for Pre-K through 3rd grade teachers. The other two s...

In a series of meetings held with teachers, principals, and other staff, educators in the three work groups key ideas, issues, and concerns about INVEST, the collaborative evaluation system that is being developed to more accurately measure educator effectiveness.  What follows outlines the progress made in each of these meetings.   Teacher Practices Group – Participating educators continued to learn about the Danielson Framework, discuss elements of the current evaluation system and why it is being replaced and recommend the most effective procedures to implement the new system. The large majority of work group members believe an evaluation system can help tea...

Other Staff Group – The meeting began with an overview on the INVEST initiative and an introduction of the external advisers that will be consulted throughout the development and implementation of the new teacher evaluation system. From Operation Public Education, Dr. Ted Hershberg, Paul Nedeau, and Claire Robertson-Kraft will provide oversight for the initiative and help to collect research and best practices from which AISD can learn. Also, Lynn Sawyer, from the Danielson Group, will provide support for the working groups as they collaborate to design the new teacher evaluation system.Work group participants discussed how INVEST will focus on two key measures – teacher practice...

Aldine Independent School District has received a substantial grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to help the district develop a new and improved educator evaluation process that ties evaluation to student learning outcomes and professional development. The system Aldine is developing, called INVEST, will be built with substantial teacher input and will be a way for the district to align evaluation with what students and teachers need to grow and succeed. To help consider how to best measure performance, the district has enlisted external consultants, including: Charlotte Danielson, who has developed a comprehensive framework for evaluating teaching that identifies a clear set...

The district has received a substantial grant to help the district develop a new and improved evaluation process that ties evaluation to outcomes and professional development.  The new system, called INVEST, will provide the district, school leaders and teachers with useful information to ensure the most effective instruction for our students.  Our plan will assess multiple measures of teacher performance, including classroom observations and student growth.