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June 18, 2014 Office of Educator Quality Update

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Shift to Praxis Core for Teacher Certification Beginning Jan. 1, 2014 Recognition of Juris Doctorates and Masters of Fine Art degrees on the Specialist salary scale Office of Educator Licensure

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Reporting period for Superintendents 10 days Code of Ethics training Please conduct annually Common Reporting offenses: Texting Sexting Breach of Contract Inappropriate Relationships Physical Inappropriate Relationships Non-Physical Violation of Student Rights to Privacy and Religion. Office of Educator Misconduct

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Teacher Recruitment Changes Website Teacher Job Vacancy Report Online www.teach.k12.ms.us Future Educators of America Support for creating charters Tuition/Loan Reimbursement Programs Teacher Center

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Streamlined PGGs to Domain 5 Elimination of the 20% weight in overall evaluation score The Walkthroughs and Formal Observation requirements have been modified 2 walkthroughs, 1 formal observation, 1 post- conference The Formal Observation time requirement has been reduced to a minimum of 30 minutes (rather than bell-to-bell). The collection of artifacts beyond the lesson plan used during the formal observation is left to the districts discretion. Frequency words have been streamlined Educator Evaluations

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Evaluation rubrics have been created for: Speech Language Therapists Library/Media Specialists Guidance Counselors More to come... Resources and videos are being updated regularly and available on our website. Evaluation training is open to those the district designates with authority to observe educators and not limited to principals. Missing components (sub-group scores) of the Principal Evaluation will receive a score of zero. Principal Evaluation Summative Assessment Conferences have been changed to August 31 st annually. Educator Evaluations - Continued

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Evaluation training will be offered again in July in conjunction with the MASS Summer Conference. Registration forms are online. The training offered in July will be recorded and available to anyone on our website later in July. Student Learning Objective (SLO) will begin soon. Principal webinars are scheduled for June 20 and June 23 rd. Registration is available on our website. Please sign up for educator and principal evaluation updates on our website. Evaluation Training

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Educator rosters were loaded into the Superintendents district SharePoint folder. For ease, the educator identification numbers were pre- populated. The scores for each of the standards should be loaded onto the excel spreadsheet and posted back into the SharePoint folder. We will import the evaluation information into ELMS at the end of June. M-STAR is not optional but a requirement of the states ESEA waiver. 2013-2014 Evaluation Scores Import

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Recent Attorney Generals Opinion regarding National Board Supplements and the CALT supplement Teach MS Institute Salary placements Reading endorsement for Elementary Educators Beginning Sept. 2016 Critical Teacher Shortage Scholarship will phase out next year and replaced with MS Teacher Fellows program Expert license applications If applicant is not an expert, please dont request the license. Miscellaneous

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Cerissa Neal, Bureau Manager, Office of Educator Quality 601-359-3631 or cneal@mde.k12.ms.uscneal@mde.k12.ms.us Amy Daniel, Office Director, Educator Misconduct 601-359-3483 or adaniel@mde.k12.ms.usadaniel@mde.k12.ms.us David Cook, ELMS Administrator 601-359-3483 or dcook@mde.k12.ms.usdcook@mde.k12.ms.us Tarance Hart, Director, Educator Evaluations 601-359-3631 or thart@mde.k12.ms.usthart@mde.k12.ms.us Lisa White, Educator in Residence, Principal Evaluations 601-359-3631 or lwhite@mde.k12.ms.uslwhite@mde.k12.ms.us Contact Information