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Educator Effectiveness

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Improve Leader and Teacher Performance to Improve Student Performance

21st century tools to support 21st century change

Spend less time developing meaningful performance reviews and reports.
Support your leaders and teachers’ growth with differentiated, any-time, anywhere online professional development.
Benefit from some of the most engaging thinkers in education today.

Contents

Implementation Path...... 6

Success Story...... 7

Teacher Compass™ Observe...... 8

Teacher Compass™ PD...... 9

Principal Compass™...... 12

Educational Effectiveness...... 20

Set a Time-Effective Course for Educational Effectiveness with Pearson’s Teacher Compass™ Suite

Teacher effectiveness? Leader effectiveness? With today’s focus on improving student performance, you can’t really manage one without managing the other. How can you effectively do that with your limited time? Use a compass to set the right course toward improving teacher and leader effectiveness—Pearson’s Teacher Compass™ Suite.

Time-saving efficiency

Behind the Teacher Compass™ Suite is simple-to-use technology that helps you record meaningful observations and recommend targeted professional development for both teachers and school leaders. Spend your limited time gathering important data and making performance recommendations, not learning how to use the technology that’s supposed to be helping you.

Time-saving support

Behind the Teacher Compass™ Suite is the largest available library of rubrics, videos, tutorials, and online modules all focused on improving teacher and student performance. Spend your limited time having meaningful conversations about performance, not trying to find the resources that help improve it.

Time-saving credibility

Behind the Teacher Compass™ Suite are some of the most respected voices in education today—ASCD, Dr. Michael Fullan, Dr. Robert Marzano, Johns Hopkins University, and school practitioners—speaking on what’s already been shown to bring about effective results. Spend your limited time helping implement effective strategies, not hunting them down.

How Pearson’s Teacher Compass™ Suite Works

Teacher Compass Suite

Technology that is:

Accessible – Reliable 24x7

Integrated – Data in one place

Analytical – Easy data analysis

Flexible – System changes with practice

Customizable – Can be adapted to meet specific district needs

Teacher Compass Observe

Enables quick data gathering and data organization of classroom walkthroughs, formal observations, and fidelity checks

Principal Compass

“Needs Analysis/Progress Monitoring”

The Marzano School Administrator Evaluation Rubric and other tools to help diagnose and identify development needs and monitor progress

Teacher Compass PD

On-demand, online, and assignable library of professional development for continuous training

Principal Compass

“Targeted Support”

More than 50 self-paced, online modules, on-site coaching and team development, and other professional development

Originally developed by Johns Hopkins University

LEGEND

English Language Learners

Response to Intervention

Common Core State Standards

Online Services

Time challenged? Drive teacher and leader effectiveness with the Teacher Compass™ Suite

Let Technology Work for You

The Teacher Compass™ Suite is designed as both a diagnostic and prescriptive professional development tool. The software streamlines the process of teacher and leader observations, allowing observers to gather and input data online easily via laptop or mobile devices and to generate insightful reports and graphs. It is highly customizable, supporting local evaluation frameworks, reports and labels.

Once trends or target areas for improvement have been identified, the Teacher Compass™ Suite automatically suggests online professional development from a library of thousands of videos, tutorials and online modules. The professional development library enables teachers and school leaders to browse, search and share professional development content from renowned authors such as Robert Marzano, Rick Stiggins, John Saphier and many others.

These recommended road maps show how you can implement the Teacher Compass™ Suite with fidelity—just pick your focus area.

STEP 1

Define and customize rubrics
Secure administrator training

STEP 2

Perform observations
Write comments or use system-generated comments

STEP 3

Identify trends through reports
Recommend differentiated professional development

STEP 4

Monitor progress

Success Story

Innovative Rural District Improves Teaching Effectiveness with New Evaluation System

Beresford School District

Beresford, South Dakota

CHALLENGE

The schools in this small district share teachers in art, music, and language arts, but because the principals were conducting classroom observations in different ways, they could not compare findings or track data over time. And Tim Koehler, the Director of Curriculum and Professional Development and Principal of Beresford Middle School, found the old evaluation system very time-consuming.

SOLUTION

After Teacher Compass staff showed Mr. Koehler how to build customized online rubrics, he worked with other principals to quickly create additional rubrics and link them together. He now takes his iPad along on every classroom visit, working through the online rubrics, making comments, and e-mailing notes to teachers.

RESULTS

“My observation and feedback time has been reduced by over 50%,” says Mr. Koehler. “And it’s easy to do summative evaluations, because everything is in one place.” Sophisticated data collection is also helping to build personalized coaching plans, supported by the Teacher Compass online library of over 5,000 professional development videos.

“Now we have stronger teaching, and that’s key to improving student performance.”

—Tim Koehler

Director of Curriculum and Professional Development/Principal

Beresford Middle School

Teacher Compass Observe

Awards of Excellence Winner

“Teacher Compass™ is a huge help in writing the evaluations. It saved me approximately two hours for every evaluation. And, the dialogue during the post observation conference was more beneficial to the teacher.”

—Principal

Queen Anne’s County Public School, MD

Effectively Manage Classroom Observations and Guide Teachers to Personalized PD Goals

Fully customizable rubrics, forms, and reports
Paperless observations—online or off
Walk-throughs, instructional rounds, observations, and evaluations
Improved feedback for teachers
Differentiated professional development
Insightful reports for data-driven decisions
Automatic recommendations of online professional development
Include multiple measures by uploading documents, videos, and images

Teacher Compass PD

Awards of Excellence Winner

Unparalleled Breadth of PD Content

With over 3,000 videos, tutorials, and documents; fifteen strands; sixteen nationally-used programs; and dozens of renowned authors, the Teacher Compass™ Suite is the largest and broadest professional development library on the market.

Topics

Accountability

Assessments

Classroom Management

Common Core ELA

Common Core Mathematics

Curriculum Planning

Differentiation

Early Childhood

Effective Use of Technology

English Language Arts

English Language Learners

Families and Communities

Instructional Strategies

Mathematics

Professional Learning Communities

Programs

Assessment Training Institute

A+RISE®

enVisionMATH™

Good Habits, Great Readers™

Interactive Science™

Literacy Navigator®

Math Navigator®

Miller & Levine Biology

My Sidewalks

myWorld Geography

Opening the World of Learning™

Prentice Hall Literature

Prentice Hall Math

Reading Street™

SIOP®

Skillful Teacher

Authors / Partners

Dr. Robert Marzano

Rick Stiggins

Dr. Jon Saphier

Grant Wiggins, Ed.D.

ASCD

Johns Hopkins University

Battelle for Kids

Dr. Tim Shanahan

Margo Gottlieb, Ph.D.

Jeffrey Arnett, Ph.D.

Phil Daro

Donna Ogle, Ed.D

Charles Temple, Ph.D.

MaryEllen Vogt, Ed.D.

Lily Wong Fillimore, Ph.D.

Walt Wolfram, Ph.D.

Announcing the Jon Saphier

The Skillful Teacher Video Series—

featured in Teacher Compass™

Few have done more over the last quarter century to advance teacher effectiveness than Dr. Jon Saphier, Founder and President of Research for Better Teaching, Inc. His book, The Skillful Teacher: Building Your Teaching Skills (6th ed. 2008, Kindle ed. 2012) has become the gold standard text in many colleges and school districts across the country for studying pedagogy. Designed as a practical guide for practitioners working to broaden their teaching skills, the book combines theory with practice and focuses on critical areas of classroom performance.

And now this new video series helps to bring those lessons on classroom performance to life where they count the most—in the classroom.

The Skillful Teacher Video Series

Introduction:

Skillful Teaching – Performance, Repertoire, Matching

Skillful Teaching – What Accounts for Student Engagement

Curriculum Planning:

Learning Experiences – Differentiation

Inquiry-Oriented Lessons

How to Observe a Class

Effective Feedback During Instruction

Content Planning Conference

Error Analysis and Reteaching:

PLC/Content Teams
Students Giving Reasons
Landmark Numbers
Coordinate Pictures

Motivation:

Stimulating Effective Effort

Teaching Effective Effort – Motivational Structures

Teaching Effective Effort – Explicit Teaching of Strategies

History of Intelligence 1

History of Intelligence 2

Feedback and Building Confidence – Learning is Messy

Teaching Group Skills

High-Expectations Teaching

Persevere and Return

Three Expectations Messages

Giving Help with Tenacity and Making Thinking Visible

Instructional Strategies:

Framing the Learning – Mastery Objectives

Framing the Learning – Itineraries and Big Ideas

Framing the Learning – Criteria for Success

Making Thinking Visible in Small Groups

Making Thinking Visible and Classroom Climate

Checking for Understanding II

Connections

Management:

Entering Class and Opening Exercise

“Of all the things that are important for good schools, nothing is as important as the teacher and what that person knows, believes, and can do.”

—Dr. Jon Saphier

Research for Better Teaching, Inc. (RBT) is an educational professional development organization founded by Dr. Saphier in 1979 that is dedicated to the mission of improving student performance by improving teaching. RBT partners with many school districts, suburban and urban, large and small, to plan for, implement, monitor, and sustain improvements over time in teaching and learning. RBT’s programs, consulting, publications, and products for educators fall into three interlocking areas:

Skillful Teaching centered on the rich research knowledge base on teaching and incorporating focus on the Common Core and 21st Century Skills
Skillful Leadership with emphasis on skills required to leverage teacher quality, strengthen adult professional culture, and implement the mandated Teacher Evaluation systems
Skillful Data Use™ aimed at supporting educators in using student data to improve and target instruction and to accelerate student learning

Learn more at or contact RBT at or 978.263.9449.

The Skillful Teacher Series videos are also available on DVDs as a full collection or by topic area from RBT. Reference code TSTPPD. Features include:

Discussion questions, supplemental material, and textbook references for each video topic
Longer duration clips to help viewers see lessons unfold naturally
Post-viewing analysis provided by Dr. Saphier

Principal Compass

Bringing together some of today’s leading educational authors to connect improved student performance to improved leadership performance.

LEADERSHIP THAT IMPACTS STUDENT PERFORMANCE

Dr. Robert Marzano

Provides an evidence-based framework that outlines what principals must do to develop and maintain relentless focus on improving instruction. (See pages 18–19.)

Dr. Michael Fullan

Uses case studies from around the globe to highlight specific leadership actions that can build system-wide reform and sustainable change. (See pages 14–15.)

Lyle Kirtman

Identifies leadership-related personality traits of principals. Self-assessments compare individual results to high-performing principals and link to targeted professional development. (See pages 16–17.)

“You can’t find a great school without a great principal.”

—Arne Duncan

US Secretary of Education

Each Principal Compass™ module includes:

One or more videos of fellow practitioners.

One or more videos of the module topic at work in the classroom.

An overview PowerPoint.

Short readings.

An application that takes the module topic back into the school.

How Principal Compass Works to Build the Competencies of Effective School Leadership

24/7 online access provides time-strapped leaders with flexibility.
Self-assessments analyze leadership tendencies and recommend a personalized training plan.
Online, self-paced modules build the competencies of highly effective school leaders. (See pages 18–19 for a complete list of the modules in the series.)
Videos and case studies bring in the key voice of the practitioner.
Built-in applications bring the concepts back into the school building.

NEW for Principal Compass™ in 2013

Announcing the Michael Fullan Leadership-in-Motion Series for superintendents and other district and school leaders

“Motion Leadership” is a style of educational leadership that causes positive change forward—change in individuals, schools, and systems—toward two shared goals.

Building capacity to drive system-wide reform and sustainable change
Focusing on only a few select factors to improve instruction and student performance

The Michael Fullan Leadership-in-Motion Series includes:

Action Seminars / Start with a face-to-face learning experience with other district and school leaders to hear what it takes to drive real system-wide reform that leads to improved student performance.
Fullan Leadership-in-Motion Modules / The Fullan Leadership-in-Motion self-paced, online modules provide a road map for action—“how” lessons with extensive case studies—to help district and school leaders drive sustained, system-wide change.
Social Networking / To increase collaboration within and beyond their district and carry the learning beyond the various training opportunities, participants have the option of joining a mediated, national social network.

“The richest source of learning is through the alchemy of application.”

—Michael Fullan

Michael Fullan is professor emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Fullan and his team continue to be successfully engaged in the hands-on implementation of district- and system-wide reform in Canada, the United States, Australia, and other jurisdictions around the world.

NEW for Principal Compass™ in 2013

Announcing Lyle Kirtman’s Workplace Personality Inventory (WPI) for principals and school leaders—

available exclusively through Principal Compass™

See how the performance of your district’s principals compares to some of the highest-performing principals in the country.
Take the guess work out of recommending targeted professional development that can help all principals improve their performance.

A portion of an actual self-assessment using the WPI. The report compares a principal’s performance over eight domains and seventeen indicators against those of high-performing principals. Areas for targeted professional development are quickly identified.

“… a principal or superintendent who knows how to build capacity for change has a much better chance of sustained improvement than one who leads from a top-down stance.”

—Lyle Kirtman

Lyle Kirtman is the author of Leadership and Teams: The Missing Piece of the Educational Reform Puzzle. Since 1979, he has focused on the development of school leaders to build organizational capacity for sustainable change. In that time, Mr. Kirtman has assessed and observed principals to develop the Workplace Personality Inventory (WPI) and the Seven Competencies of Effective School Leaders—the behaviors that some of the nation’s top-performing principals routinely demonstrate on their way to leading effective schools.

Principal Compass modules that address WPI findings and help develop the competencies of effective principal leadership include:

Developing the Seven Competencies of Effective Principal Leadership
Challenging the Status Quo
Building Trust through Clear Communication and Expectations
Creating a Commonly Owned Plan for Success
Focusing on Team over Self
Creating a Sense of Urgency for Change and Sustainable Results
Maintaining a Strong Commitment to Continuous Improvement
Building External Networks and Partnerships

Modules in Principal Compass™

Marzano Rubric Domains / Principal Compass™ Modules
Overview to the rubric and domains
A data-driven approach to student achievement / Identifying and using the right data to improve instruction (district, school view)
Using assessment results and other data to inform classroom instruction
Providing tiered interventions
Building a school-wide instructional improvement plan
Creating structures and systems for data analysis
Understanding the fundamentals of a data-driven culture
Developing systems thinking
Looking at student work against standards
Improving student achievement through standards-based reporting
Continuous improvement of instruction / Implementing research-based instructional strategies
Building instructional capacity
Becoming an instructional leader; using a common instructional language
Engendering standards-based instruction in the classroom
Using observations to create a culture of continuous improvement
Providing effective feedback to improve teacher performance
Developing knowledge of the “art and science” of teaching
Integrating technology purposefully into instruction
Coaching for improved performance
Guaranteed and viable curriculum / Determining readiness for the Common Core and beginning to close the gaps
Working with and managing special populations
Developing academic behavior for college and career readiness
Aligning and prioritizing programs and initiatives
Creating and implementing a high-functioning schedule
Personalizing the learning atmosphere for students to meet their academic, social, and emotional needs
Cooperation and collaboration / Developing a shared mission and vision that focuses on instruction
Cultivating commitment and ownership within the staff
Building distributed leadership and delegating authority
Developing high-performing teams
Developing professional learning communities
Engaging the community
Building rapport to open doors to new learning
Understanding when and how to make strategic decisions
School climate / Creating a moral and ethical environment
Managing human capital effectively
Holding fierce conversations when you have to
Using people’s time wisely
Utilizing various budget sources and alignment them to the mission
Using effective channels of communication and managing real-time information systems
Creating a school climate conducive to learning
Running effective meetings
Additional Pearson/ASCD Domain / Principal Compass™ Modules
Competencies for sustainable change / Developing the competencies of effective principal leadership
Challenging the status quo
Building trust through clear communications and expectations
Creating a commonly owned plan for success
Focusing on team over self
Leading change for sustainable results
Maintaining a strong commitment to continuous improvement
Building external networks and partnerships
Leading a culture of change
Overcoming resistance to change
Managing up effectively
Building a value-added performance portfolio that shows principal/team impact

New Modules for 2013 from the Michael Fullan Motion Leadership in Action Series