This course is designed to give the special education administrator legal knowledge and best practices regarding special education eligibility, procedures, methodology, implementation of IEP's and discipline of the special education student.

OTHER RELEVANT LAWS AND REGULATIONS, CASE LAW AND CURRENT LEGAL DISPUTES WILL BE REVIEWED.

ADMINISTRATORS' ACADEMY credit available; however, any educator may attend.

This is one of the teacher evaluator practice academies that need to be taken for retraining of teacher evaluators.

The student growth academy is also required for both teacher and principal evaluators.

This academy will allow participants to learn effective skills and strategies for using Charlotte Danielson's Frameworks in a summative setting in order to more effectively;
1. Identify evidence at the component/element level during formal and informal observations
2. Use evidence to effectively rate staff on the levels of performance for each domain
3. Acquire strategies to support effective collaborative conferencing around formal and informal observations and
4. Learn techniques, strategies and protocols to use when conferencing with staff.

This is the one REQUIRED student growth retraining course for principal and teacher evaluators who are renewing their designations required to evaluate staff. Evaluators will be required to participate in a pre-session webinar that will review Part 50 Administrative Rules as they relate to student growth. Participants will learn how to:

• Use assessments and measurement models to determine student growth.
• Use data from the evaluation rubric, other evidence collected and best practices relative to student growth to link teacher/principal professional development plans to evaluation results.
• Create targeted professional development plans to school improvement goals.
• Communicate evaluation outcomes and findings that enable teachers/principals to set goals and improve practice.

NOTE: Participants will have one week following the Academy to complete their Application/Dissemination component and send to the presenter for review and comment.