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Creating a Culture of Sustained Professional Growth & Reflection Within the Evaluation Process Sara Deveaux, Sara Deveaux,Director of the Henry R. Kravis Center ‘63 for Excellence in Teaching, Loomis Chaffee @kravisteaching Sara_Deveaux@loomis.org Andrew Matlack, Andrew Matlack, Dean of Faculty, Loomis Chaffee Andrew_Matlack@loomis.org

Outline What was the process? What did we create? What is behind the scenes that allows us to do this work?

Learning objectives: Evaluation can be part of a larger process focused on professional growth and development. Numerous sustained professional growth opportunities are a necessary component of faculty development. Conversations about teaching are an integral part of school culture.

Identify the pillars at the heart of Reflection your evaluation system. Would Opportunities you change them if you could? Identify the cornerstones that currently allow for a culture of professional growth at your school. What would you change or add? Identify three ideas that you can take back to your school.

“I like that it focuses on "Strenuous, yet classroom culture.” valuable.” "The holistic evaluation (residential and coaching as well as teaching) is essential.”

“The process should be more “There’s no follow up self-directed and reflective. We between evaluation know the one who does the events, no continuum.” work does the learning.” - “ "Year 5 should be “Do we do anything "Evaluation different than year 3, at all to support our fatigue: death and from years 1 and 2 senior teachers?” by feedback” for that matter.”

Faulty Premises ● Our evaluation system is a mechanism used to remove poorly performing teachers ● Evaluation is the best way to train new and beginning teachers ● Bonus: summative feedback makes people better at their craft

What was the process? ● Research ○ Internal: Faculty-wide survey; 20 Interviews ○ External: ■ “Which factors have the greatest positive effect on students’ learning?” ■ “What makes teachers credible?” ■ “When does PD work best?”

What was the process? ● Research ○ Internal: Faculty-wide survey; 20 Interviews ○ External: ● Set goals/pillars ● Build the system ● Present; seek feedback; revise; propose

What was the process? ● Research ○ Internal: Faculty-wide survey, 20 Interviews ○ External ● Set goals/pillars

Three Pillars ● We want evaluation to be Faculty Owned Faculty Owned ● We want professional growth to be Sustained Sustained ● We want our system to feel Simple Simple

New Evaluation System Dept Head Year 1 [New Faculty Cohort] “Evaluation A” Self-evaluation (Year 2) Educational Philosophy SET Department Head Obs (3) Senior Colleague Obs (1) Year 3 [PD] “Evaluation B” (Year 4) Year 5 [PD]

New Evaluation System Dept Head Year 1 [New Faculty Cohort] “Evaluation A” Self-evaluation (Year 2) Educational Philosophy SET Department Head Obs (3) Senior Colleague Obs (1) Year 3 [PD] DoF “Evaluation B” Self-evaluation (Year 4) Video of a class Department Head Obs (1) SET DoF Obs (2) Year 5 [PD]

New Evaluation System Dept Head AD Year 1 [New Faculty Cohort] “Evaluation A” Self-evaluation (Year 2) Educational Philosophy SET Department Head Obs (3) Senior Colleague Obs (1) Year 3 [PD] DoF “Evaluation B” Self-evaluation (Year 4) Video of a class Department Head Obs (1) SET DoF Obs (2) Year 5 [PD]

New Evaluation System Dept Head AD Year 1 [New Faculty Cohort] “Evaluation A” Self-evaluation (Year 2) Educational Philosophy SET Department Head Obs (3) Senior Colleague Obs (1) Year 3 [PD] Dorm Head DoF “Evaluation B” Self-evaluation (Year 4) Video of a class Department Head Obs (1) SET DOF Obs (2) Year 5 [PD]

Evaluation C = Inquiry Project Intentional Change to pedagogy and a critical ADoF examination of the results. ● How might student writing be improved with a redesign of the traditional feedback cycle? ● How does the use of collaborative assessments impact individual student learning? ● How might “flipping” the teaching of some of the content in my class impact student engagement and mastery?

Evaluation C = Inquiry Project Spring Prior YR SET; begin to create guiding question ADoF Fall Meet with cohort; design and propose project Winter Implement; collect data; analyze; reflect Spring Meet with ADoF for formal feedback

Professional Evaluations Development Dean of Faculty office Kravis Center for Excellence in Teaching

What are your pillars? Faculty owned Sustained Simple

Creating a Culture of Growth Sustained professional growth Increased faculty Conversations & collaboration investment Faculty voice and choice

Outline What was the process? What did we create? What is behind the scenes that allows us to do this work?

The Four Cornerstones ● Support ● Dedicated PD time ● Internal PD offerings ● Opportunities for conversations

1 Support from the top Head of School Sheila Culbert interacting with faculty during a PD event.

The Kravis Center The Henry R. Kravis ‘63 Center for Excellence in Teaching provides the space and time to guide and nurture faculty in their pursuit of pedagogical excellence by creating a sense of ownership and intentionality surrounding professional growth; the ultimate goal is to instill in faculty the same passion for lifelong learning that we aim to instill in our students.

2 Dedicated PD time

PD needs to be: ● Experimental: create opportunities for observation, coaching, and support ● Collaborative: provide time and space for conversation ● Sustained and focused: provide the time to learn, practice, implement, and reflect

3 Internal PD offerings ● Books on Learning and Teaching (BLT) ● Instructional Coaches ● Diversity, equity and inclusion ● Sessions on pedagogy and current topics in education ● Technology training

4 Creating the Conversations ● Monday Musings ● Open Classroom Weeks ● Collaborative programming ● Twitter @kravisteaching

Visibility ● Celebration of Teaching and Learning Gallery W alk ● Workshop on PoCC ● Presentation of Inquiry projects ● Recording classes and feedback

Identify Identify the cornerstones that currently allow for a culture of professional growth at your school. What would you change or add?

Identify three three ideas that you can take back to your school. • Something that you could implement now that would take minimal effort • Something that may take some effort. • A “pie-in-the-sky” idea

Questions? Sara Deveaux, Sara Deveaux,Director of the Henry R. Kravis Center for Excellence in Teaching, Loomis Chaffee @kravisteaching Sara_Deveaux@loomis.org Andrew Matlack, Andrew Matlack, Dean of Faculty, Loomis Chaffee Andrew_Matlack@loomis.org

… Thank you for coming! Sara Deveaux, Sara Deveaux,Director of the Henry R. Kravis Center for Excellence in Teaching, Loomis Chaffee @kravisteaching Sara_Deveaux@loomis.org Andrew Matlack, Andrew Matlack, Dean of Faculty, Loomis Chaffee Andrew_Matlack@loomis.org