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It’s Elementary, My Dear Watson 
Sharing Evidence of Your School Librarian Awesomeness! 
October 1, 2014
Contact Information 
Becky Russell 
CDE School Lib./Dig. Lit. 
Instructional Specialist 
russell_b@cde.state.co.us
Contact Information 
Dr. Laura Summers 
Director of School Library, 
Teacher Leadership, Online 
Teaching, and EDU at UCD 
laura.summers@ucdenver.edu
Outcomes 
By the end of this session, I will: 
•Know the difference between “Teacher Quality” 
evidence and ‘Student Growth” evidence 
•Have some beginning ideas for how to compile 
different types of evidence. 
•Have some insights on prioritizing aspects of my job
Question 
Share a working definition of these 2 things: 
Teacher Quality evidence 
vs. 
Student Growth Evidence
CDE Teacher Evaluation Rubric 
Quality Standard 1 
QUALITY STANDARD I 
Teachers demonstrate mastery of and pedagogical 
expertise in the content they teach. The elementary 
teacher is an expert in literacy and mathematics and is 
knowledgeable in all other content that he or she 
teaches (e.g., science, social studies, arts, physical 
education, or world languages). The secondary 
teacher has knowledge of literacy and mathematics 
and is an expert in his or her content endorsement 
area(s).
Other 4 Quality Standards 
QUALITY STANDARD II 
Teachers establish a safe, inclusive and respectful learning environment 
for a diverse population of students. 
QUALITY STANDARD III 
Teachers plan and deliver effective instruction and create an environment 
that facilitates learning for their students 
QUALITY STANDARD IV 
Teachers reflect on their practice. 
QUALITY STANDARD V 
Teachers demonstrate leadership.
What evidence can you think of for 
these “Teacher Quality” concepts? 
I. Pedagogical Expertise 
I. Respectful Learning Environment 
I. High Quality Instruction/Environment 
I. Reflect 
I. Leadership
Other Evidence Ideas 
for Teacher Quality 
• Backwards Plan – 
• Linked from Drive, Dropbox, etc. 
• Contains ‘big picture’ outcomes, differentiation 
strategies, assessment, etc. 
• Self Reflection (pre/post) 
• Observations that are uploaded and linked 
• Video Clips 
• Photos (think of what it’s capturing)
What evidence Ideas can you think 
of for “Student Growth”? 
Determine what you are measuring 
•Writing 
•Reading 
•Math 
•Other core areas 
•Digital lit, info lit or 21st c. skills* 
*(likely embedded with the core content you are co-teaching)
21st C. Skills Measures 
Formative Assessment Rubrics 
Student Pre/Post Reflection 
21st C. Skills Rubrics: 
•Tools for Real-Time Assessment of Info. Lit. Skills (TRAILS) 
•Adams 12 Digital Literacy Skills Rubric 
•Google Community – “School Librarian Town Hall” 
•Academy District 20 CO 21st c. Skills Assessment Rubrics
Calcon elementary watson evidence
School Unified 
Improvement Plan 
Goal (UIP) Goal 
Which all-school goal are you aligning with for your first goal? (If your school goals are not 
easily available, how are you planning on finding out from your administrator what they are?) 
The gap in writing achievement in the Proficient and Advanced categories between 3rd grade 
boys and girls will decrease from 20 percentage points to 10. Last year’s test scores indicated 
girls are scoring 20 percentage points higher than boys. 
HESLP Target area 
(which 1-2 areas 
would you like to 
improve upon and 
WHY?) 
Select a target area from the HESL “Evaluation Rubric” in which you would like to make 
growth. We recommend targeting an area from the “Leadership” or “Instructional Expert” 
areas of the HESLP rubric. After identifying which area (i.e., collaboration), write a brief 
sentence or so explaining WHY you are targeting this area for growth. 
I am focusing on HESLP target area #2 Collaboration and #4 instructional delivery strategies 
(in targeting boys). Past collaboration activities with third grade teachers have been 
inconsistent. I want to establish a yearlong collaboration and co-teaching plan that focuses 
on writing in different content areas. I’m also targeting 3rd grade since this is their first year 
of statewide testing exam. 
My SMART goal 
which is worded to 
show alignment 
between UIP and 
HESL Target area 
Based on your target area, write growth plan goal #1 here. How is this aligned with your 
school’s goal? 
•1st try - By March 2015, I will have collaboratively planned and taught a third grade science, 
social studies, and math unit/lesson; these lessons will include a written element that 
incorporates our building writing curriculum program. 
•Better 2nd try after getting feedback/coaching- By March 2015, focusing on growth areas 
indicated in the MAP test**, the 3rd grade teachers and I will have co-developed student 
writing rubrics and e-portfolios for 3 writing units (that we will co-teach and co-assess in at 
least 2 subject areas) that contains 3 of their pre unit and post unit writings.
Think, Pair Share 
Using this growth plan, what Teacher Quality and 
Student Growth Ideas can you brainstorm?
MEASURABLE 
EVIDENCE of 
Collaboration, 
Leadership, and/or 
instruction for 
Teacher Quality 
Standards 
What measurable Teacher Quality evidence can you provide for your principal? 
(Evidence of YOUR growth for your portfolio) 
I will upload 3 collaboratively backward-planned units on google drive so that I can easily 
link this evidence of professional growth with my principal and other stakeholders. These 
plans will include differentiation strategies we used for targeting boys scores. I will share a 
personal reflection of instructional delivery strategies that I tried as a discussion point with 
my principal during evaluation. Lastly, I will upload and link student writing examples 
(some pre-post writing), especially of boys’ writing. 
MEASURABLE 
EVIDENCE of 
Student Growth 
What measurable Student Growth evidence can you provide that shows how what you 
taught or implemented resulted in student growth? 
Formative Assessment - Review the Assessment rubrics of the 3 units to analyze student 
growth from 1st unit to 3rd unit. Did growth occur by the end of the 3rd unit? Is their 
writing showing more use of (descriptive writing)? We will ensure that our random 
sampling of student assessment examines boy’s writing growth and that our student 
sampling is reflective of our school’s demographics. 
•We will include student reflection examples - Prior to unit 1, we will ask students write an 
answer to the following prompt: “Look at the assessment rubric. What do you hope to 
learn? At end of unit 3, we will ask student to write a reflection on “What did I learn about 
descriptive writing throughout these 3 units?” 
•In this same pre/post reflection time I will work with the 3rd gr. teachers to include 2-3 
questions for student self-assessment on ability to create an e-portfolio. 
•I will include the answer to the following when submitting formative evidence. “I worked 
with ___ of boys around using more descriptive words in writing. Here are the results from 
our 3 units.” 
Summative measure - Using the MAP data , student achievement in descriptive writing will 
be measured.
Re-Think our Job 
Some aspects of our job are not reflected in the 
teacher rubric (just like a principal or, instructional 
coach) 
1)Can you capture all of your job in your goals? 
2) In thinking what is most important for high 
teaching quality and student growth, what aspects of 
our job might we reduce, replace of think differently?
Resources 
CDE Teacher Evaluation Rubric 
Highly Effective School Library Program 
Rubric 
Growth Plan Template 
Sample Growth Plan Goal 
TRAILS 
Adams 12 Digital Literacy Skills 
District 20 21st Century Skills Assessment Rubrics (Compilation) 
21st C. Learning Objectives 
(aligned with NETS, AASL, and P21) 
Google Community – School Librarian Town Hall
Outcomes 
By the end of this session, I will: 
•Know the difference between “Teacher Quality” evidence 
and ‘Student Growth” evidence 
•Have some beginning ideas for how to compile different 
types of evidence. 
•Have some insights on prioritizing aspects of my job
Reflection/Evaluation 
1) Share one thing you learned today 
1) Share one or two things you wish you 
learned or that you’d like to know more 
about

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  • 1. It’s Elementary, My Dear Watson Sharing Evidence of Your School Librarian Awesomeness! October 1, 2014
  • 2. Contact Information Becky Russell CDE School Lib./Dig. Lit. Instructional Specialist russell_b@cde.state.co.us
  • 3. Contact Information Dr. Laura Summers Director of School Library, Teacher Leadership, Online Teaching, and EDU at UCD laura.summers@ucdenver.edu
  • 4. Outcomes By the end of this session, I will: •Know the difference between “Teacher Quality” evidence and ‘Student Growth” evidence •Have some beginning ideas for how to compile different types of evidence. •Have some insights on prioritizing aspects of my job
  • 5. Question Share a working definition of these 2 things: Teacher Quality evidence vs. Student Growth Evidence
  • 6. CDE Teacher Evaluation Rubric Quality Standard 1 QUALITY STANDARD I Teachers demonstrate mastery of and pedagogical expertise in the content they teach. The elementary teacher is an expert in literacy and mathematics and is knowledgeable in all other content that he or she teaches (e.g., science, social studies, arts, physical education, or world languages). The secondary teacher has knowledge of literacy and mathematics and is an expert in his or her content endorsement area(s).
  • 7. Other 4 Quality Standards QUALITY STANDARD II Teachers establish a safe, inclusive and respectful learning environment for a diverse population of students. QUALITY STANDARD III Teachers plan and deliver effective instruction and create an environment that facilitates learning for their students QUALITY STANDARD IV Teachers reflect on their practice. QUALITY STANDARD V Teachers demonstrate leadership.
  • 8. What evidence can you think of for these “Teacher Quality” concepts? I. Pedagogical Expertise I. Respectful Learning Environment I. High Quality Instruction/Environment I. Reflect I. Leadership
  • 9. Other Evidence Ideas for Teacher Quality • Backwards Plan – • Linked from Drive, Dropbox, etc. • Contains ‘big picture’ outcomes, differentiation strategies, assessment, etc. • Self Reflection (pre/post) • Observations that are uploaded and linked • Video Clips • Photos (think of what it’s capturing)
  • 10. What evidence Ideas can you think of for “Student Growth”? Determine what you are measuring •Writing •Reading •Math •Other core areas •Digital lit, info lit or 21st c. skills* *(likely embedded with the core content you are co-teaching)
  • 11. 21st C. Skills Measures Formative Assessment Rubrics Student Pre/Post Reflection 21st C. Skills Rubrics: •Tools for Real-Time Assessment of Info. Lit. Skills (TRAILS) •Adams 12 Digital Literacy Skills Rubric •Google Community – “School Librarian Town Hall” •Academy District 20 CO 21st c. Skills Assessment Rubrics
  • 13. School Unified Improvement Plan Goal (UIP) Goal Which all-school goal are you aligning with for your first goal? (If your school goals are not easily available, how are you planning on finding out from your administrator what they are?) The gap in writing achievement in the Proficient and Advanced categories between 3rd grade boys and girls will decrease from 20 percentage points to 10. Last year’s test scores indicated girls are scoring 20 percentage points higher than boys. HESLP Target area (which 1-2 areas would you like to improve upon and WHY?) Select a target area from the HESL “Evaluation Rubric” in which you would like to make growth. We recommend targeting an area from the “Leadership” or “Instructional Expert” areas of the HESLP rubric. After identifying which area (i.e., collaboration), write a brief sentence or so explaining WHY you are targeting this area for growth. I am focusing on HESLP target area #2 Collaboration and #4 instructional delivery strategies (in targeting boys). Past collaboration activities with third grade teachers have been inconsistent. I want to establish a yearlong collaboration and co-teaching plan that focuses on writing in different content areas. I’m also targeting 3rd grade since this is their first year of statewide testing exam. My SMART goal which is worded to show alignment between UIP and HESL Target area Based on your target area, write growth plan goal #1 here. How is this aligned with your school’s goal? •1st try - By March 2015, I will have collaboratively planned and taught a third grade science, social studies, and math unit/lesson; these lessons will include a written element that incorporates our building writing curriculum program. •Better 2nd try after getting feedback/coaching- By March 2015, focusing on growth areas indicated in the MAP test**, the 3rd grade teachers and I will have co-developed student writing rubrics and e-portfolios for 3 writing units (that we will co-teach and co-assess in at least 2 subject areas) that contains 3 of their pre unit and post unit writings.
  • 14. Think, Pair Share Using this growth plan, what Teacher Quality and Student Growth Ideas can you brainstorm?
  • 15. MEASURABLE EVIDENCE of Collaboration, Leadership, and/or instruction for Teacher Quality Standards What measurable Teacher Quality evidence can you provide for your principal? (Evidence of YOUR growth for your portfolio) I will upload 3 collaboratively backward-planned units on google drive so that I can easily link this evidence of professional growth with my principal and other stakeholders. These plans will include differentiation strategies we used for targeting boys scores. I will share a personal reflection of instructional delivery strategies that I tried as a discussion point with my principal during evaluation. Lastly, I will upload and link student writing examples (some pre-post writing), especially of boys’ writing. MEASURABLE EVIDENCE of Student Growth What measurable Student Growth evidence can you provide that shows how what you taught or implemented resulted in student growth? Formative Assessment - Review the Assessment rubrics of the 3 units to analyze student growth from 1st unit to 3rd unit. Did growth occur by the end of the 3rd unit? Is their writing showing more use of (descriptive writing)? We will ensure that our random sampling of student assessment examines boy’s writing growth and that our student sampling is reflective of our school’s demographics. •We will include student reflection examples - Prior to unit 1, we will ask students write an answer to the following prompt: “Look at the assessment rubric. What do you hope to learn? At end of unit 3, we will ask student to write a reflection on “What did I learn about descriptive writing throughout these 3 units?” •In this same pre/post reflection time I will work with the 3rd gr. teachers to include 2-3 questions for student self-assessment on ability to create an e-portfolio. •I will include the answer to the following when submitting formative evidence. “I worked with ___ of boys around using more descriptive words in writing. Here are the results from our 3 units.” Summative measure - Using the MAP data , student achievement in descriptive writing will be measured.
  • 16. Re-Think our Job Some aspects of our job are not reflected in the teacher rubric (just like a principal or, instructional coach) 1)Can you capture all of your job in your goals? 2) In thinking what is most important for high teaching quality and student growth, what aspects of our job might we reduce, replace of think differently?
  • 17. Resources CDE Teacher Evaluation Rubric Highly Effective School Library Program Rubric Growth Plan Template Sample Growth Plan Goal TRAILS Adams 12 Digital Literacy Skills District 20 21st Century Skills Assessment Rubrics (Compilation) 21st C. Learning Objectives (aligned with NETS, AASL, and P21) Google Community – School Librarian Town Hall
  • 18. Outcomes By the end of this session, I will: •Know the difference between “Teacher Quality” evidence and ‘Student Growth” evidence •Have some beginning ideas for how to compile different types of evidence. •Have some insights on prioritizing aspects of my job
  • 19. Reflection/Evaluation 1) Share one thing you learned today 1) Share one or two things you wish you learned or that you’d like to know more about