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.

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.

A light breakfast and box lunch will be served.

This workshop is designed to help administrators develop skills in interviewing and interrogation techniques. Participants will learn how to recognize verbal and nonverbal behavior to determine who is telling the truth (or not). They will also learn characteristics to determine if an allegation against another is true, and how to structure the investigative interview combining both investigative and behavior provoking questions.

This academy will familiarize administrators with ILS-Science (NGSS) and the major classroom shifts expected. It will provide them with a fundamental understanding to assess the current level of implementation of NGSS within their district/school and prepare an implementation plan.
Participants will:
• Become familiar with the terminology and design of NGSS documentation and develop an understanding of Performance Expectations, Cross Cutting Concepts, Science and Engineering Practices, and Disciplinary Core Ideas.
• Be able to compare the description of an NGSS classroom to that of an effective classroom as described by ILS Math and ELA and the Danielson Framework.
• Reflect on the challenges and successes they have encountered with implementation of ILS Math and ELA brainstorm effective implementation of ILS-Sci (NGSS), and come up with possible solutions and supports for a variety of situations and stakeholders (including teachers).
• Individually develop an action plan for implementing ILS-Science (NGSS).

ADMINISTRATORS' ACADEMY credit available; however, any educator may attend. If you are taking for Administrators' Academy a $15 fee is due and will be collected at the workshop.

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.

A light breakfast and box lunch will be served.

THIS IS ONE OF THE COURSES THAT IS REQUIRED FOR ALL ADMINISTRATORS WHO EVALUATE PRINCIPALS.

All administrators who evaluate principals are required to take re-training within their 5 year renewal cycle in TWO specifically approved Administrators' Academies.

AA # 1779 - Principal/Teacher Evaluator Retraining: Student Growth
AND
AA # 1865 - Principal Evaluator Competency Skill Building

Academy Outcomes:
• Communicate Evaluation Findings
• Apply Illinois Standards for Principal Evaluation
• Demonstrate Inter-Rated Reliability
• Develop Data-Driven Improvement Plans

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.