The vision for the Professional Growth and Effectiveness System (PGES) is to have every student taught by an effective teacher and every school led by an effective principal. The goal is to create a fair and equitable system to measure teacher and leader effectiveness and act as a catalyst for professional growth. The system will consist of multiple measures of student growth and achievement as well as components to measure leadership, professionalism, instruction, learning climate and assessment practices. The key strategies to design and implement the system include collaboration with education partners and the intentional involvement of local districts and schools, along with support and guidance from steering committees.
Teacher and Principal Effectiveness Steering Committee(s) representing KASA, KSBA, KEA, JCTA, CPE, colleges and universities, EPSB, parents, and individual teachers, principals and superintendents from volunteer districts have been convened and are meeting quarterly to design the system.
To identify the characteristics of good teaching and leadership practice, the committees and volunteer districts were provided with previously developed frameworks of teacher/leader effectiveness as a beginning point for discussion (teacher framework – KDE work with Wallace Foundation, principal framework – designed by a subgroup of principal steering committee members).
Dr. James Stronge, a nationally-recognized expert in teacher effectiveness, conducted a two-day workshop in April with the teacher steering committee and volunteer districts, provided expert review of the framework and recommended next steps in the development process.
Experts on the Val-Ed 360 degree component of the principal framework are scheduled to work with the principal effectiveness steering committee and volunteer districts.
Input from experts will continue to inform the work throughout the development and implementation phases of this project.