Presents a selection of noteworthy procedures, ideas and data taken from the 2007 CPKP Expansion Applications. It is a sampling of best practices reviewers felt were significant. It is intended to provide "food for thought" for coordinators, district advisory council members and school district administrators as they work toward implementing exemplary Colorado Preschool and Kindergarten Programs.
This best practice guide includes short profiles of eight schools which display elements of each of the 10 best practices. A combination of these practices working together is clearly required to generate positive results in closing student achievement gaps.
This report presents the findings and recommendations by The Public Good, Inc. in its evaluation of the 2003-2004 school year of Colorado Online Learning. The time period represents Year 2 of a three-year grant awarded to COL from the Colorado Department of Education. The intent of the evaluation is to provide answers to three key questions about COLs activities and performance for this time period: How is the program being implemented? What is the quality of the curriculum, teaching, student support and administrative services? What are the outcomes?
Senate Bill 10-191 (S.B. 10-191) was passed in 2010 changing the way both principals and teachers are supported and evaluated in Colorado with the ultimate goal of accelerating student learning. To support a fair and consistent educator evaluation system, the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) is developing tools to promote common interpretations of teacher quality and help evaluators provide useful and actionable feedback to educators. One tool is Elevate Colorado, an online inter-rater agreement training system that is being developed in partnership with My Learning Plan.
In May 2010, the Colorado legislature passed and Gov. Ritter signed SB 191, which establishes new requirements for local personnel evaluation systems. Among other requirements, this law requires that at least 50 percent of teachers' evaluation be determined by the academic growth of their students and at least 50 percent of principals' evaluation be determined by the academic growth of the students in the principal's school.
This best practice guide includes short profiles of eight schools which display elements of each of the 10 best practices. A combination of these practices working together is clearly required to generate positive results in closing student achievement gaps.
Colorados Race to the Top Monitoring Plan defines strategies for both programmatic and fiscal monitoring at the state and subgrantee levels with respect to implementation of their approved scopes of work.
