Section 2

EDUCATOR PREPARATION UPDATE

APRIL 15, 2016

Delaware
Overarching Goal:
Ensure aspiring educators are day one
ready, particularly for our students who
need them the most.

DE Strategies
Ensure novice educators are day one ready
- Require Performance Assessment to demonstrate readiness
to teach
- Strengthen/expand year-long residencies
Use data to determine program effectiveness
- Use data to differentiate programs by performance level, with
clear consequences for those programs not meeting Delaware
standards or performance expectations and opportunities to
recognize programs with exemplary performance.
Seed Innovation
- Use resources for innovation grants to strengthen K-12/EPP
partnerships, improve clinical practice, etc.

Performance Assessment
Cut Scores Established
Systems to collect scores from
ETS/Pearson
Lead Mentor Training
Provisional License

EDUCATOR PREPARATION
PROGRAM REPORTS

Six domains

Six domains represent the core

areas in which programs are
evaluated

Each is worth a
different number
of total points

Programs can earn various

percentages of available
points based on performance
on each metric

Scorecards evaluate performance on fourteen metrics across

six domains worth 85 points total (100 in future years)
Recruitment
(10)

Candidate
Performance

Diversity of Candidate Class

SAT of Candidate Class
Praxis Scores
Performance Assessment

Candidate profile and

aptitude are given weight
given what research tells us
about long-term effects

(10)

Placement
(15)

Retention
(15)

Graduate
Performance
(35)

Perceptions

Placement in DE Public Schools

Placement in DE High-Needs Schools
Retention Beyond First Year
Retention Beyond Third Year

DDOE places weight on if

and where educators enter
the Delaware schoolhouse
and for how long they stay

Student Growth Outcomes

Student Improvement Component Ratings
Observation Scores
Overall Performance Evaluation Ratings

Most weight is attributable to

how educators do in the
classroom

Graduates Perception of Preparation

LEAs Perception of Graduates Preparedness

One domain is not scored this

year (but will account for 15
points in future years)

Educator Preparation Program Reports

EPP Scorecard Workgroup meets monthly
Exploring improvements in the following
areas:
1.) Allow Praxis Core as measure in the
Candidate Aptitude metric
2.) Add a content readiness exam metric
3.) Measure placement more broadly
4.) Consider reducing retention if not measuring
placement more broadly
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Educator Preparation Program Reports

1.) Plan to include Praxis Core
2.) Add Content Readiness metric into the
Candidate Performance Domain
3.) Add Placement in America metric
- Keep Placement in Delaware metric
- Add Placement in America Metric
* 100 graduates
* 44 graduates are placed in Delaware
* 30 graduates placed out of state
*74/100 consider placed
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Statewide Survey & Data Collection

Upgrades
Worked collaboratively with programs to
create and launch 1st year completer and
supervisor survey
April 18th
Perceptions Domain

Expanded data collection processes to

improve metric calculation

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Leader Preparation Program Reports

Leader Preparation Program Reports
drafted
Scheduled to be released publicly late
May/Early June

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Moving Forward
Stay on track to release 2016 EPP
Program Reports in October 2016 and
Leader Prep Program Reports in
December 2016
Finalize program accountability
consequences and processes based on
the scorecard results
Support implementation of the
performance assessment and provisional
license
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