Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC)

• National Implications
• Check out the proposed State Board evaluation rules and amendments, and add your comments to the conversation! Visit  http://www.isbe.net/rules/proposed/default.htm to learn more.
• Performance Evaluation Reform Act (PERA) and Senate Bill 7

• Introduction
• Nonregulatory Guidance (1/12)

• FAQs
• Glossary
• Members
• Overview
• Public Act 096-0861
• Timelines

• Unable to attend a forum? Your voice can still be heard! Please complete our online survey at http://bit.ly/pxL96K.
• Teacher and Principal Evaluation Survey

Beginning in September 2012, all principals must be evaluated every year by a trained, pre-qualified evaluator. Like teachers, principals’ evaluations will now incorporate measures of student academic growth. Also similar to teachers, principals will be rated using clearly defined standards of effective practice and excellent school leadership.

• Principal Evaluation Basics

For more information, please check out the FAQ page.

Guidelines for districts: TDB

State default option: TBD

Professional development: TBD

Benefits: Improved evaluation systems have the potential to offer principals a clearer picture of what’s happening in their schools. Effectively implemented, these systems will provide more opportunities for educators to reflect on their practice, receive constructive feedback, and expand opportunities for professional growth. Hand in hand with new evaluation systems, districts will be expected to strengthen their professional development offerings so that educators get the support they need to help their students improve. The ultimate goal of this evaluation reform is ensuring that every child in Illinois has an outstanding teacher and principal.

• PEAC Illinois State Model for Principal Evaluation       PDF Format   (Posted 2/12)

State law requires school districts to create and implement performance evaluation systems to measure teachers’ and principals’ skills while factoring in student academic growth. Over the next five years, district administrators and teachers’ union representatives will have the ability to work together to develop their own measures or decide to use all or part of the state’s default/optional model.

The new, more objective systems will clearly define professional excellence, using observation and evidence to rate teachers in one of the four categories:

• Excellent
• Proficient
• Needs Improvement
• Unsatisfactory

• Teacher Evaluation Basics

For more information, please check out the FAQs page.

Guidelines for districts: Coming soon!

State default option: Coming soon!

Professional development: Coming soon!

Benefits:
Improved evaluation systems have the potential to offer teachers a clearer picture of what’s happening in their classrooms. Effectively implemented, these systems will provide more opportunities for educators to reflect on their practice, receive constructive feedback, and expand opportunities for professional growth. Hand in hand with new evaluation systems, districts will be expected to strengthen their professional development offerings so that educators get the support they need to help their students improve. The ultimate goal of this evaluation reform is ensuring that every child in Illinois has an outstanding teacher and principal.

Member Resources

PERA Resources

• Mandatory Board Training

  
  Board member training that satisfies Section 10-16a of the Illinois School Code (added by Public Act 097-0008) is available via the Illinois Association of School Board's Online Learning Center. Senate Bill 7 authorizes ISAB to conduct this mandatory training and additional providers may be approved by ISBE (in consultation with IASB) for this training in the future. Additional information and course information is available at on the IASB website, http://www.iasb.com/.

• PEAC Proposed Rules and General Information (1/18/12)
• Principal & Teacher Evaluation in Illinois: Past, Present & Future (Updated 6/1/11)
  
  Note: This is a full compilation of slides regarding PERA/PEAC for use by PEAC Members. It is a continuously updated document. The user of the slides is encouraged to choose the slides that are appropriate for each specific use rather than using all of the slides with every audience.

  For more information regarding use of presentation slides by nonmembers of PEAC, please contact Vicki Phillips at Illinois State Board of Education, vphillip@isbe.net.

New PEAC Timeline Without Race to the Top

New Procurement Requirements

• 2011 Outline of Procurement Communications and Reporting
• 30 ILCS 500 Sections Regarding Prohibited Bidders and Contractors and Reporting Requirements

Request for Information (RFI): Evaluator Pre-Qualification Program & Evaluator Training Program

Vendor Webinar (3/8/11)

Technical Resources

• Additional Reading is available at http://www.k12center.org/archives.html
• Alignment of the Illinois Performance Standards for School Leaders with the 2008 Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards and the National Board Standards for Accomplished Principals
• "Approaches and Considerations for Incorporating Student Performance Results from "Non-Tested" Grades and Subjects Into Educator Effectiveness Determinations" (Buckley, K. & Marion, S. September 2011)
• "A Survey of Approaches Used to Evaluate Educators in Non-Tested Grades and Subjects" (Buckley, K. & Marion, S. June 2011)
• Current Efforts in Developing Principal Performance Evaluation Frameworks in Illinois
• Daily Herald News Article: "Dist. 211's new teacher evaluation system" - By Ashok Selvam 8/27/10
• "Design Of An Assessment System For The Race To The Top: A Learning Sciences Perspective On Issues Of Growth And Measurement" Policy Brief (Pellegrino, J. W. 2010)
• Educator Performance Evaluation Resources - With Special Focus on Special Educators (NCCTQ) 2012
• Exploratory Seminar: Measurement Challenges Within the Race to the Top Agenda December 2009 Responses to Session 1: Measuring Growth - Policy Brief
• "Final Report on the Evaluation of the Growth Model Pilot Project," January 2011
• Goe, Dr. Laura: Conversation with the PEAC Teacher Evalution System Design Subcommittee Slide Presentation: October 27, 2011
  Conversation Summary: October 27, 2011
• "Growth In Student Achievement: Issues Of Measurement, Longitudinal Data Analysis, and Accountability" Policy Brief (Betebenner, D.A., & Linn, R. L. 2010)
• IEA PERA Information Flier
• Illinois Performance Standards for School Leaders - Draft January 2012
• Illinois Professional Teaching Standards - 2010
• IMPACT Conference Summary
• "Incorporating Student Performance Measures into Teacher Evaluation Systems" by Jennifer L. Steele, Laura S. Hamilton, and Brian M. Stecher
• Leadership Development Framework - Ohio Leadership Advisory Council
• "Learning About Teaching" Met project/Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation December 2010
  "Review of Teaching About Learning" by Jesse Rothstein, University of California at Berkeley, January 2011
• New Leaders for New Schools - Balancing Accountability With Professional Growth
• North Carolina Standards for School Administrators - "Future-Ready Students for the 21st Century" - 2006
• Performance Expectations and Indicators for Education Leaders - CCSSO
• Principal Evaluation Process - Public Schools for North Carolina/State Board of Education
• Principal Evaluation Rubrics
• Problems with the Use of Student Test Scores to Evaluate Teachers - EPI Briefing Paper
• Rethinking Teacher Evaluation Policy Brief - Consortium on Chicago School Research
• Teacher and Principal Evaluation Talk Points
• Teacher Evaluation 2.0 - The New Teacher Project
  "Review of Teacher Evaluation 2.0" by H. Richard Milner, IV, Vanderbilt University, November 2010
• Teacher Evaluation Model or Framework & PEAC
• The 8 Roles of School Leaders School Level Assessment – Georgia Leadership Institute for School Improvement
• Understanding and Using Achievement Growth Data - CCSSO, 2011
• “Using Student Growth to Evaluate Educators of Students With Disabilities: Issues, Challenges, and Next Steps” - Summary, CCSSO, 2012
• Using Student Progress to Evaluate Teachers: A Primer on Value-Added Models
• Value-Added Research Center (VARC- UW-Madison) Comments on PEAC Teacher Evalution System Design Subcommittee Questions (October 2011)
• "When the Stakes Are High, Can We Rely on Value-Added?" by Dan Goldhaber - December 2010

PEAC Launches New Site

PEAC will make recommendations to the Illinois State Board of Education on how to reform current educator evaluation systems to incorporate measures of student academic growth. The new performance evaluations are a result of the 2010 Performance Evaluation Reform Act (PERA).  The intent is to produce more accurate evaluations, leading to more effective teachers in classrooms and higher-achieving students.

The website will be updated with new information as PEAC completes its work and the state considers the group’s recommendations. The site will also serve as an excellent resource for those looking to participate in creating new evaluation systems, with details on PEAC’s public meetings, surveys, upcoming regional meetings, and other opportunities for educators to share their thoughts.

Please check www.isbe.net/PEAC regularly to learn how new teacher and principal evaluation systems will transform education in Illinois.