Workshop Item
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Information and Technology
Workshop Item |
| DATE: | Tuesday, December 14, 2010 |
| TO: | School Board Members |
| FROM: | MaryEllen Elia, Superintendent |
| SUBJECT / RECOMMENDATIONS | |
| Review of Preliminary Results from the First Year of the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project and an Overview of Communications Efforts Underway in Conjunction with the Empowering Effective Teachers (EET) Initiative (Information and Technology Division) | |
| EXECUTIVE SUMMARY | |
| Tom Kane, Steve Cantrell, with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and their research partners, have released some preliminary year-one data from the Measures of Effective Teaching study. Research thus far suggests that multiple measures of teacher effectiveness provide the best methodology for evaluating teachers. In particular, the value-added data serve as the best predictors of student success both from year to year with a given teacher and from one class to another.
The Empowering Effective Teachers team continues to update and inform district employees and community members of the initiative's progress and to keep them apprised of upcoming events. |
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| STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES | |
| All Strategic Objectives | |
| FINANCIAL IMPACT (Budgeted: No) | |
| Measure of Effective Teaching and Empowering Effective Teachers represent an investment of almost $103 million dollars by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. | |
| EVALUATION | |
| SUBMITTED BY: | |
| Stephen Hegarty | David J. Steele, Ph.D. | |
| Communications Officer (813) 272-4046 |
Chief Information and Technology Officer and Project Director, Empowering Effective Teachers Grant (813) 272-4600 |
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| Hillsborough County Public Schools (Florida) * Mtg.#20101214_463 (Board Workshop) * Section W Item# 1 | ||