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, or piloting their own evaluation systems.
- E2SSB 6696 New Teacher Evaluation Criteria
- Planning Frameworks for Teacher-Principal Evaluation Pilots
- Certification Standards
- Reports & Studies
- Saphier Materials
- Conference Documents
- Sites of Interest
E2SSB 6696 New Teacher Evaluation Criteria
- Centering instruction on high expectations for student achievement
- Demonstrating effective teaching practices
- Recognizing individual student learning needs and developing strategies to address those needs
- Providing clear and intentional focus on subject matter content and curriculum
- Fostering and managing a safe, positive learning environment
- Using multiple student data elements to modify instruction and improve student learning
- Communicating with parents and school community
- Exhibiting collaborative and collegial practices focus on improving instructional practice and student learning
Planning Frameworks for Teacher-Principal Evaluation Project
- Evaluation System Criteria and Model Development
- Data Infrastructure
- Professional Development
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Communication Plan
- Assessing Evaluation System
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)