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A committee made up of East Peoria Community High School teachers and staff presented their plan to help the school evaluate teachers in the future at Monday’s District 309 School Board meeting.
“In the State of Illinois there’s a lot of education reform going on ... and one of the things taking place this year is to reform the way we do teacher evaluations,” said Superintendent Chuck Nagel. “The biggest piece of that is how teacher evaluation ties into student achievement.”
Nagel said the school will eventually follow the Charlotte Danielson model of teacher evaluation.
Danielson is an educational consultant and creator of the Danielson Framework for Teaching. Her framework is a research-based set of components of instruction that identify aspects of a teacher’s responsibilities. It is made up of four domains: planning and preparation, the classroom environment, instruction and professional responsibilities.
“Each domain has several components underneath it that help describe those elements,” said athletic director and committee member Lori Laredo. “She likened that to professions that have tools or similar framework to show the levels of expertise to show a person entering into the career and going all the way to being a veteran.”
Teacher ratings that will go into effect for 2012 are excellent, proficient, needs improvement and unsatisfactory. Each component of the four domains will have a rating of its own.
Nagel said many schools have adopted Danielson’s framework.
“As a teacher, I really value the way that this rubric is set up,” said math teacher and committee member Tamara Coughlon. “I can look at where I feel I am and what I need to do to move on to the next level. This is something we haven’t had in the past.”
In other business, the board:
• Passed a resolution to recognize the years of service staff retiring at the end of the 2010-11 school year have given to District 309.
This years retirees include Sue Dion, with 33 years of service; Jan Gronewold, with 17-and-a-half years of service; Mary Lewis, with 33 years of service; Debi Neff, with 17-and-a-half years of service; Phyllis Parrish, with 22 years of service; and Paul Whittington, with 17 years of service.
• Heard an update on Illinois State Board of Education focus monitoring from Special Services Coordinator Lisa Kendall.
She said the ISBE cited the school as not having enough students with individualized education programs in a general education setting.
A committee made up of East Peoria Community High School teachers and staff presented their plan to help the school evaluate teachers in the future at Monday’s District 309 School Board meeting.
“In the State of Illinois there’s a lot of education reform going on ... and one of the things taking place this year is to reform the way we do teacher evaluations,” said Superintendent Chuck Nagel. “The biggest piece of that is how teacher evaluation ties into student achievement.”
Nagel said the school will eventually follow the Charlotte Danielson model of teacher evaluation.
Danielson is an educational consultant and creator of the Danielson Framework for Teaching. Her framework is a research-based set of components of instruction that identify aspects of a teacher’s responsibilities. It is made up of four domains: planning and preparation, the classroom environment, instruction and professional responsibilities.
“Each domain has several components underneath it that help describe those elements,” said athletic director and committee member Lori Laredo. “She likened that to professions that have tools or similar framework to show the levels of expertise to show a person entering into the career and going all the way to being a veteran.”
Teacher ratings that will go into effect for 2012 are excellent, proficient, needs improvement and unsatisfactory. Each component of the four domains will have a rating of its own.
Nagel said many schools have adopted Danielson’s framework.
“As a teacher, I really value the way that this rubric is set up,” said math teacher and committee member Tamara Coughlon. “I can look at where I feel I am and what I need to do to move on to the next level. This is something we haven’t had in the past.”
In other business, the board:
• Passed a resolution to recognize the years of service staff retiring at the end of the 2010-11 school year have given to District 309.
This years retirees include Sue Dion, with 33 years of service; Jan Gronewold, with 17-and-a-half years of service; Mary Lewis, with 33 years of service; Debi Neff, with 17-and-a-half years of service; Phyllis Parrish, with 22 years of service; and Paul Whittington, with 17 years of service.
• Heard an update on Illinois State Board of Education focus monitoring from Special Services Coordinator Lisa Kendall.
She said the ISBE cited the school as not having enough students with individualized education programs in a general education setting.
In December 2008, 17.5 percent of students had IEPs in the general education setting, 80 percent or more of the school day.
“Based on that number, the state decided they were going to put us on a plan to correct that and increase that number,” Kendall said.
Focus monitoring visits began in December 2009, at which point the percentage had increased to 24.4 percent.
“They gave us the target of 27.5 percent by December 2011,” she said.
A committee created a plan to reach that percentage. Ideas included co-taught classes and incorporating an academic resource center.
In December 2010, the percentage increased to 34 percent and is currently at 36 percent. Because of these numbers, the state has closed the case eight months early.
“We also have been asked by the state to be a school that gives information to other schools in the same predicament,” Kendall said.
• Approved a $500 donation to Project Graduation, the all-night lock-in for graduating seniors following the graduation ceremony. Graduation is scheduled for May 21.
• Approved summer language arts and drivers education courses for students in need of making up required credits. The fee for each class is set at $100. Classes will meet Monday through Thursday from May 31 to June 28.
• Approved the employment of Brett Gonigam to the position of assistant athletic director for Spring 2011 and Sherry Tondre to the position of volunteer job coach.
• Learned from Nagel that the district has again earned the Certificate of Financial Recognition from the ISBE.
