Please note, the resources and links provided on this site do not indicate any endorsement, affiliation, or official position of the agency; they are intended to be a selection of resources that may be useful for districts evaluating, designing, piloting, or learning about evaluation systems.
Certification Standards
- Washington’s Teacher Residency Requirements
- Washington’s Professional Certificate Requirements
- National Board for Professional Teaching Standards: Certificate Areas
Reports & Studies
- Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance (PDF)
- Wallace Foundation’s Learning from Leadership Project: Investigating the Links to Improved Student Learning (PDF)
- Professional Learning in the Learning Profession: A Status Report on Teacher Development in the United States and Abroad (PDF)
- Recognizing and Developing Effective Teaching: What Policy Makers Should Know and Do (PDF)
- Teacher Evaluation Systems: The Window for Opportunity and Reform (PDF)
- Teacher Quality: What You Need to Know — Sponsored by The Joyce Foundation
- Teacher Evaluation 2.0 (PDF)
- 5 Dimensions of Teaching and Learning (Version 3.0) (PDF)
- Center for American Progress Report: Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness — How Teacher Performance Assessments Can Measure and Improve Teaching (PDF)
- Gary Gordon — The Other Outcome: Student Hope, Engagement, and Wellbeing (PDF)
- Getting Teacher Assessment Right: What Policymakers Can Learn From Research
- Learning About Teaching: Initial Findings from the Measures of Effective Teaching Project (PDF)
Saphier Materials
- How Coaches Can Maximize Student Learning (PDF)
- How School Leaders Create High-Functioning Teams that do Error Analysis and Plan Re-teaching (PDF)
- Walkthroughs (PDF)
- Sustainable Improvement of Teaching and Learning in Every Classroom (PDF)
Evaluation-Focused Conferences
- Defining and Evaluation Teacher Effectiveness (zip). Portland, OR
- Evaluating and Rewarding Educator Effectiveness (zip). Nashville, Tennessee
- Teachscape Leadership Academy (zip). San Diego, CA
Sites of Interest
- Success at the Core
- The Center for Strengthening the Teaching Profession
- The New Teacher Project
- National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality
- Consortium on Chicago School Research
- Center on Innovation and Improvement: Indicators in Action
- Teacher Effectiveness Initiative – Memphis City Schools
- Framework for Evaluation and Professional Growth – Tennessee Department of Education
- Advancing Consortium Assessment Reform (ACAR)
Principal Evaluation Resources
- AWSP’s Leadership Framework (PDF)
- October 14, 2011 Principal Rubric Development Meeting Videos (w/Cathy Taylor, UW)
- Success at the Core
- Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance (PDF)
- Investigating the Links to Improved Student Learning (PDF)
- Washington State Leadership Academy
- National Association of Elementary School Principals
- National Board Certification for Principals
- Practicing the Art of Leadership: A Problem-based Approach to Implementing the ISSLC Standards (2nd Edition)
- National Association of Secondary School Principals: 10 Skills for Successful School Leaders
- Standards for What Principals Should Know and Be Able To Do
- Gallup Student Poll
- Success at the Core
- AWSP’s GPS: Great Principal Strategies
- Evaluating Principals: Balancing Accountability with Professional Growth (PDF)
- Evaluating Principals Tips and Tools (PDF)
- Measuring Principal Performance: How Rigorous Are Publicly Available Principal Performance Assessment Instruments (PDF)