Educator Evaluation Spring Convening 5/29/2013

Educator Evaluation Spring Convening:
Connecting Policy, Practice, and Practitioners
Wednesday, May 29th, 7:45am-4:30pm

Sturbridge Host Hotel & Conference Center
366 Main Street, Sturbridge, Massachusetts 01566

The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is excited to bring together public school districts, associations and educator preparation programs for a day of celebration, learning and reflection about promising and emerging practices in the new Educator Evaluation framework. This new framework will be implemented statewide in the 2013-2014 school year; however, many districts have already begun to engage in this work. This is an opportunity for districts currently implementing the framework to share their successes and challenges and indentify new and actionable strategies for improving implementation in the coming year. It is also a chance for newly implementing districts to learn from and connect with colleagues who have been engaged in this work over the past two years. ESE is pleased to bring together districts, associations, and educator preparation programs to build connections and relationships across the educator pipeline in Massachusetts.

More information and registration (by 5/15) is available at:
http://registration.airprojects.org/MDESEEducatorEvaluationDistrict/

Data Institute Follow-Up

The Lassoing Local Data Conference was held last week at Stonehill College with over 180 attendees from 40+ school districts in the Southeast region.

Thank you to all attendees and presenters for a very successful day! (Please visit the event web site at https://sites.google.com/site/southeastdatainstitute/ for follow-up information and a slide show of the day.)

Presentation materials and handouts from the day are being posted on the Conference Materials page as we receive them, so that they may be shared with a wider audience.

In addition, a series of follow-up networking meetings focused on data use are being organized in order to continue the important conversations that were started at last week's event. All districts in the region are invited to attend these initial meetings, not just the districts which were able to send teams to the institute. Please visit the Follow-Up Opportunities page for additional information and registration.

Regional Data Institute Details

The “Lassoing Local Data: Creating Systems that Support a Culture of Inquiry” event will be held March 16, 2011 at Stonehill College in Easton and will be open to teams from school districts in the Southeast region of Massachusetts. Teams must be coordinated through the superintendent's office, as spots for this free event are limited.

For details, please visit https://sites.google.com/site/southeastdatainstitute/.

District Data Team Toolkit Overview

There are still spots available at the District Data Team Toolkit Overview, being held at North River Collaborative in Rockland on Thursday, April 15 from 10:00-11:30. More information and registration is available here:

http://www.doe.mass.edu/conference/?ConferenceID=815