Download - Building a Pipeline of Teaching Excellence
Wendy Miller, NBCT
STAR Mentor
Seattle Public Schools
Building a Pipeline of Teaching Excellence
• ATLAS overview• i3 Project overview• Where we’ve been• Plans for the future• Q & A
Overview
An online professional development resource with:• Video examples of teaching with written reflective analyses
from National Board Certified Teachers• Tools that support focused inquiry into examples of teaching• Ways of linking to multiple sets of standards
Designed to:• Provide pre-service and early-career teachers with examples
of accomplished teaching and reflection• Support the development of shared professional language
and standards of practice• Make rich, inquiry based, professional learning opportunities
more widely available
ATLAS
We are in the process of tagging ATLAS cases to the following:• National Board Standards• High Leverage Teaching Practices• edTPA rubrics• Common Core State Standards – Mathematics• Next Generation Science Standards
There will be more to come!
Tagging of ATLAS Cases
• Cases in ATLAS are drawn only from NBCTs, and consist only of entries scoring 3.5 or above
• All personally identifiable information is removed from entries, and Cases are not assigned to districts or teacher preparation programs in the NBCT’s state
• Cases in ATLAS are drawn entirely from entries submitted by NBCTs from 2011 on
• In that same year, permission forms were changed to explicitly alert candidates that their entries might be used in an online database
ATLAS Cases = NBCT Entries
• NB has always retained all rights to submitted entries, including the right to use them for PD purposes
• In 2011 the releases signed by students, adults, and candidates was clarified specifically to note our intended use of entries in an online database
• All entries used were governed by these releases
Clear Permissions
• When ATLAS was in development, all NBCTs were informed of this project
• Before an NBCT entry is used in ATLAS, its use is announced to the NBCT
• Responses: to date, NBCTs responses to these announcements have been universally supportive
Clear Communications
• Examples of instructional practice and analysis at the accomplished level
• Supports pre-service and early-career teachers’ developing practices through exemplars
• Contributes to a professional continuum, grounded in performance assessment, from pre-service through National Board Certification
Building a Pipeline of Teaching Excellence
• Six edTPA institutions and eight P12 partners• edTPA• American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
(AACTE)• American Federation of Teachers (AFT)• National Education Association (NEA)• Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)• TeachingWorks at University of Michigan
Project Partners
LEA Partner IHE Partner
New York Niagara Falls City Niagara University
Tennessee
Metro-Nashville Public SchoolsVanderbilt University
Tennessee State University
Dyersburg City Schools
University of MemphisJackson-Madison Schools
Tipton County Schools
Washington
Seattle Public Schools University of Washington
West Valley School District (Yakima)
Central Washington University
Educational Service District 105
Project Partners
• Connecting work across the continuum of professional learning
• Creating a rich language for teacher learning and teaching practice improvement
• Improving teacher quality through educative assessment
Significance of this Work
Work thus far
2013 February
2013 July
2014 January
2014 June
Faculty members from the partner universities met to develop protocols that reflect a normative stance regarding “good teaching”.
All partners met to review the protocols and consider overlapping and distinct support needs for pre-service and early career teachers.
All partners met to share feedback on the protocols, brainstorm other possible ways ATLAS can be used, and develop a plan for testing ATLAS in the spring.
All partners meet to share feedback from testing ATLAS in the spring and developed “user guides” to be tested in the fall.
• Test the six “user guides” created in June• Develop “user guides” for additional topics• Come together in January to refine the user guides based on
the feedback from the testing in the fall
Plans for the future