On September 1, from 1-4 p.m. in Washington, DC, the Data Quality Campaign will host a national meeting and interactive webcast that will feature leading experts who will discuss states’ current capacity to use data to improve teacher effectiveness, promising practices to ensure a high-quality teacher-student data link, and specific recommendations on how data can inform teacher effectiveness efforts. Participants will also hear from state leaders who have effectively pursued policies that rely on data to improve teacher effectiveness.
Featured presenters will include:
• Sandi Jacobs, Vice President, National Council on Teacher Quality • Sarah Almy, Director of Teacher Quality, Education Trust
• Sarah Heyburn, Policy Advisor, Race to the Top, Tennessee Department of Education
• Molly Hortsman, Louisiana Department of Education Human Capital Office
This meeting will also feature a federal panel comprised of a U.S. Senate and a U.S. House of Representatives majority staff member as well as a member of the Obama Administration.
For more information and to RSVP, click here.Seats are limited, so to attend in person, please register by August 24, 2011.
Maximizing Data to Improve Teacher Effectiveness
With growing state, federal and national attention on teacher quality, the nation is poised to dramatically influence teacher effectiveness through a spate of policies and practices, particularly those related to teacher preparation, credentialing, evaluation, and educators’ own decisionmaking. With the tremendous progress made in recent years on implementing statewide longitudinal data systems, states have the necessary data to meaningfully inform teacher effectiveness policies. However, as the stakes attached to these policies rise, it is imperative that states ensure a high-quality teacher and student data linkage that can meet these new demands. Read DQC’s new resource, Using Data to Improve Teacher Effectiveness: A Primer for State Policymakers, for more information about this issue, including a checklist to guide state planning efforts.