The State Board approved the following policy change for teacher evaluation. A

teacher’s rating on the sixth standard is determined by a student growth value as calcu-

lated by the statewide growth model for educator effectiveness. The End-of-Course

assessments, End-of-Grade assessments, Career and Technical Education post-

assessments, and the Measures of Student Learning provide the student data used to

calculate the growth value.

Standard VI data on impacting student achievement is a growth model, not a proficiency

model. The teacher effectiveness rating will be based on three (3) years of data plus

other multiple measures (not yet determined). This 2012-13 school year will be year one

for all teachers impacted by state assessments and MSL (common exams) as they are

now being called. Next year will be year one for teachers in the arts, PE/Health, Second

Languages and K-2, who are not yet impacted with a MSL/Common exam. Therefore, it

will be three to four years for teachers to have an overall teacher effectiveness rating.

NCDPI has created a library of common exams based on the work of 800 teachers who

assisted in making decisions on what essential standards needed to be assessed. There

are more than 6,000 items; enough for three years of MSL/Common exams. Most ex-

ams are multiple choice, with few of the questions being recalling facts, and there are

constructed response questions as well. LEAs will be responsible for scoring the exams

as well as deciding on the format the exams will be given. There is much local flexibility

in how the exams will be given, when they will be given and what percentage the exams

will count for a student’s final grade. NCDPI encourages LEAs to use these MSL/

Common exams in place of the former teacher made exams. Need more information

http://www.ncpublicschools.org/educatoreffect/measures/specifications/

Teacher Effectiveness Update:

Information Connected to Standard VI

NCAE SBE Review NCAE SBE Review

O C T O B E R 2 0 1 2 O C T O B E R 2 0 1 2 NCAENCAE

Congratulations to a

former NCAE local

leader from Pitt County, NCAE Kay Trull Outstanding

Educator Award win-ner, and NC Teacher Academy trainer -

Jackie Wooten! Jackie is now

Governor Perdue’s Teacher Advisor.

NCDPI & NCAE are

hosting an informational

webinar on MSL/Common Exams

October 24th at 4:30 PM

Please register! https://

www1.gotomeeting.com/register/217537432.

NCAE NCAE NCAE SBE Review October 2012 NCAE SBE Review October 2012

The NC WISE

student information

system is in the last

year of operation.

Next year North

Carolina will use a

Learning/Student

Management

System called

Power School that

was created by

Pearson. The pro-

gram will be more

user friendly and

allow teachers to

generate all types

of reports.

P A G E 2

Budget Discussion

A frustrating discussion took place on the

expansion budget requests for the 2013-

2015 Biennium that is due to the Office of

State Budget and Management on Novem-

ber 9, 2012. Priority items for the SBE in-

clude, salary for educators, discretionary

budget items, & professional development as

well as numerous other items that impact

the safety of schools and the academic

achievement of students. Over the years the

following areas/programs have been cut or

eliminated due to budget shortages: ABC in-

centive bonus, child obesity pilot program, drop

out prevention programs, critical foreign lan-

guage pilots, improving student accountability,

literacy coaches, mentor pay, supplemental bonus

for math and science teachers, school technology

items, staff development, textbooks, central office

positions, non-instructional support personnel,

transportation, classroom materials/supplies and

items based on local decisions.

Major concerns over the budget issues also

centered on the mandates of the Excellent

Public School Act; in year one 10 mandates

are unfunded and three are funded at the

cost of $26,608,363.

The SBE will have a conference call to contin-

ue the discussion in order to have the budget

prepared so Governor Perdue can craft her

final budget.

The SBE adopted a

new Vision of Public

Education in NC: A

Great Public

Education System for a Great State

The main points of the vision include the

following, that are based on conversations

and meetings with more than 100

stakeholder groups around the state over

the last year and a half. The NCAE Board

of Directors was one of the groups who

provided input.

1. Public Education is the foundation for democratic institutions and economic prosperity

2. Ambitious and evolving educational standards

3. Public and individual benefits

4. The importance of diversity and equal opportunity

5. A coherent and flexible system

The State Board of Education The State Board of Education The State Board of Education

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P A G E 3

Congratulated to the 2012 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Math and Science finalists.

Member Georgina Ray from Buncombe is standing by Superintendent Atkinson, and mem-

bers Tonya Keply from Rowan-Salisbury and Kayonna Pitchford of Cumberland are to the

left of Lt. Governor Dalton.

Received data from the NC Teacher Turnover Report for the 2011-12 school year. A surprising fact to some was that 2,505 teachers left teaching by retiring with full and/or partial benefits. There were 2,131 teachers who left to teach elsewhere, while 1,239 left due to family reloca-tions. Overall 11,791 teachers left the profession and of that total, 339 were non-renewals and 172 were a reduction in force.

Received information on the report going to the General Assembly on how LEAs are in com-pliance with SB 738 and SB 911 on Caring for Children with Diabetes. There are four guiding questions LEAs provide data on in regards to how they support students. In 2011-12 there were 4,803 students with diabetes. Of the 115 LEAs, 110 offer annual generalized training about how staff support the students, while 114 LEAs have at least two persons intensely trained to help care for the students. There are 3,990 students whose parents completed necessary paper work to alert teachers to their child’s needs.

Discussed the new graduation requirement that impacts the current 10th graders; successfully completing CPR instruction. Students have been instructed on CPR for years in NC based on the Standard Course of Study in Health/PE. The new benchmark calls for an assessment that is evi-dence-based to ensure students have knowledge needed to provide CPR. Once a student has met this requirement, it does not expire like a CPR certification does; therefore it does not matter when the student has been instructed in CPR.

Provided information on the new CTE courses being offered: Public Safety II, Emergency Medi-cal Technology I and II, Introduction to Trade & Industrial Education, Adobe Visual Design, Virtual Enterprises International and Microsoft SharePoint.

Received 37 testing appeals from LEAs regarding field tests and/or online assessments. All appeals were denied.

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