E4E Statewide Recommendations
Programmatic Recommendation #1: Keep and
improve MDEs annual review of Q Comp programs.
Programmatic Recommendation #2: Move MDEs Q
Comp support to a performance management
system.
Career Ladder State Recommendation #1: Require
that teacher leader hiring criteria include measures
of effectiveness.
Career Ladder State Recommendation #2: Require
the creation of a variety of hybrid leadership roles.
Career Ladder State Recommendation #3: Monitor
the quality of these roles and help districts to
develop, refine, and implement career ladders.
Job-Embedded Professional Development State
recommendation #1: Require teacher professional
development plans to align with teacher
evaluations.
Job-Embedded Professional Development State
Recommendation #2: Require professional
development plans to align with school
improvement plans.
Republicans in legislature Democrats in legislature
Makes sure the program is running as effectively as possible
Accountability of your tax dollars Maintain fairness for teachers
Even greater potential for effectiveness Gives districts the flexibility and space for
Reduces governmental bureaucratic innovation to meet performance targets based
compliance and moves to empower local on their own individual circumstances
individual actors Would allow for greater, direct programmatic
support
Best teachers for the job, effectiveness helps ensure the teachers helping to teach our teachers are
teaching them good habits
More pathways to empower the profession
Give teachers the ability to own their crafttruly effective teachers who know whats best for their
school get to create progress that can help students outside of their classroom
Almost none of the districts I talked to were during true hybrid roles. We need to find ways to help
teachers that want the ability to stay in the classroom accept more responsibility and gain the
recognition and prestige they deserve
Quality control and fairnesswe dont want bad principals selecting their cronies to these leadership
roles. That sometimes happens now and is a problemwe want people who are proven by an
objective set of criteria to be the teachers elevated to these positions
Uniform standards, transparent selection, and These standards, coming from the state, help
systems of support will help ensure this ensure a fair and uniform approach for teachers
no matter where they teach in Minnesota
Professional development should be focused to address areas that have been identified as areas of
need.
Between you and me, theres plenty of Feedback drives excellence. Thats all were
professional development out there thats a asking for herethat the state require all
wastebe it teaching, in law, or else. This is professional development to acknowledge and
simply about making it more meaningful for address areas of teacher strength and teacher
our teachers so it can drive their practice and improvement that have been identified through
improve their craft the teacher evaluations
This is about coordinationthe areas you are trying to improve as a staff should align with the areas
you are trying to improve as a school or district
Job-Embedded Professional Development State
Recommendation #3: Create professional
development libraries.
Teacher Evaluation and Development System State
Recommendation #1: Recommend that districts
implement holistic, multi-measure evaluation
systems by using research-based reliable evaluation
tools.
Teacher Evaluation and Development System State
recommendation #2: Gather and use teacher and
principal evaluation date strategically.
Performance Pay and Alternative Salary Schedules
State Recommendation #1: Require alignment
between alternative salary schedules and
performance pay measures.
Performance Pay and Alternative Salary Schedules
State recommendation #2: Include a category for
working in hard to staff schools in bonus and salary
schedule allotments.
Why make every teacher try to reinvent the wheel? A collection of best practices could help decrease
the learning curve and help new teachers become master teachers much more quickly.
Low cost=potentially high reward Could also help experienced teacher become
exposed to new and creative teaching methods
The more measures you use to assess something, but more accurate of a picture you will receive in
return
Student surveys and value-added (when done No single measure is perfect or fully accurate,
right) are powerful tools at gauging teacher thats why multiple measures are more fair to
effectiveness. teachers and more
Multiple measures=greater reliability=greater
buy-in by teachers=more effective teaching.
If patterns come up, analyzing the data will allow us to find them and take appropriate actions to fix
the situation.
Data can help spot trends and make our Data analysis can help make sure were being
teachers even more effective absolutely 100% fair to teachers
The attributes that we want to encourage with stipends and one time bonuses should be the same
attributes that qualify you for an increase in your base salary
HTSS are some of the lowest-performing dropout factories in our state.
We can stop thatlets get top talent into these schools, by offering the best teachers a bonus to go
teach there.