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.
The Teacher Student Data Link provides a way to link teacher and student data. Once linked, analyzing this data assists efforts to continuously improve instructional practice and student achievement in districts and across Colorado. In practical terms, the teacher student data link describes the instructional relationships that educators have with students.
Colorado is implementing focused, strategic improvements in education to ensure that all students are prepared for success in a globally competitive workforce.
As part of its overall process to revise the State's Model Content Standards, the Colorado Department of Education asked WestEd to expand its review to include summaries of the pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) and early learning standards of innovative states or states considered leaders in the field.
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.
As part of its overall process to revise the State's Model Content Standards, the Colorado Department of Education asked WestEd to review summarize national- and state-based initiatives to define school readiness indicators.
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.
