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Welcome back to school! As you get started with the new school year we are excited to share the launch of the new Student Perception Survey Toolkit. The toolkit provides resources for teachers as they move through the process of issuing the Student Perception Survey.
We also have 9 Free Resources to start your new school year on the right track. Check out Stories from School blogger Mark Gardner's new post on Edutopia about including his students in lesson planning. There is a new grant that was released to support mentoring for districts who are not currently part of the BEST program. Finally, we wanted to alert you to some big changes coming to certain endorsements for new teachers starting on September 1, 2019.
Do you have educators in your district or colleagues who should have this information? Be sure to and encourage them to sign-up for our emails to stay on top of events and opportunities.
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Student Perception Survey Toolkit
CSTP is excited to launch the new Student Perception Survey Toolkit. This set of tools and resources was developed by a cadre of teachers from across the state to support teachers in administering and reflecting on
a newer resource available to all teachers in eVAL, the state's evaluation management system - Student Perception Surveys of learning and teaching
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The Toolkit includes a guide to engage students in further conversations around the feedback they provided their teacher, reflective questions for teacher growth and action planning to self-monitor implementation of new strategies and practices.
Learn more about the new Student Perception Survey toolkit during our informational webinar on Thursday, October 17th from 7-8 PM. Register now for the webinar.
A special thanks to Learn Next that provided funding for the project and to the Washington teachers who both developed the toolkit and provided invaluable feedback on the project including:
- Joanna Brown
- Sandra Casanova
- Shannon Cotton
- Denise Isler
- Sarah Kankelberg
- Emma-Kate Schaake
- Mary Snyder
- Kristine Straw
- Sheila Stuhlsatz
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Upcoming Events & Opportunities
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EdCamp #WATeachLead
Date:
October 5, 2019
Location: Renton, WA
Cost: Free
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WEA's Jump Start Renewal
Date:
October 5, 2019
Location: Everett, WA
Cost: $75
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WEA's Jump Start Renewal
Date:
October 19, 2019
Location: Spokane, WA
Cost: $75
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WEA's Jump Start Renewal
Date:
November 2, 2019
Location: Yakima, WA
Cost: $75
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WEA's Jump Start Renewal
Date:
November 16, 2019
Location: South Puget Sound
Cost: $75
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9 Free CSTP Resources for the New School Year
- Teacher Leadership Framework - This newly updated and revised tool identifies and clarifies knowledge, skills and dispositions essential to a successful and effective teacher leadership.
- Teacher Leader Self-Assessment - This companion tool for the Teacher Leadership Framework helps teacher leaders assess their current knowledge and skills and areas of focus for future development as a leader.
- Mathematics: Knowledge of Content and Pedagogy - This tool is designed for teachers and district leaders to articulate the specific knowledge and skills teachers need to lead initiatives in mathematics.
- School and District Capacity Tool - This companion tool for the Teacher Leadership Framework is designed for school principals and district leaders to determine systems-level readiness to utilize the expertise of teacher leaders and support their work and development as leaders.
- New Teacher Support - Do you have new teachers starting in your school or district this year? Learn how you can support them to be successful in their first year and beyond.
- Early Career Performance Expectations - This document complements the evaluation process by providing early career teachers with a formative look at where their performance is right now, and the steps that a teacher could take to improve. It is not to replace any rubrics or evaluation materials provided by the state or that accompany the instructional frameworks a district has chosen.
- Teacher Case Stories: Student Growth - Eight short stories from Washington NBCTs about their challenges and struggles with student growth from their varied perspectives in different contexts, grade levels and content areas, but all from their authentic voices.
- TPEP Best Practices - A series of videos of local Washington school districts discussing their best practices for the Teacher Principal Evaluation Project (TPEP).
- Student Perception Survey Toolkit - Tools and resources to create a climate of emotional safety for teachers; this toolkit supports educators as they seek and respond to student perception data and honor student voice.
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CSTP Official Clock Hour Transcripts
CSTP Official Clock Hour Transcripts have been emailed out (or mailed for those without an email on file) the week of August 19-23.
Frequently Asked Questions for participants are available on our website. If you have any questions about your transcript, please contact
[email protected].
Are you running a course and want to offer clock hours through CSTP? Educators who want to offer clock hours for an upcoming course or book study can apply online two weeks or more prior to the first meeting.
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Takeover CSTP's Instagram
We would like to thank NBCT Shari Conditt. Shari is a civics/history teacher at Woodland High School in Woodland, WA, and took over our Instagram two weeks during August. During the first week she showed us how Woodland supports their new teachers and gave us an insider look into their training program. In the second week, we got a behind the scenes look into the first week of school to see what it takes to get the students ready for the new year. You can find these stories at the top of our Instagram page in highlights under "Shari Conditt".
Do you have something exciting coming up in your classroom or school that you would be interested in highlighting on our Instagram? We are looking to line-up monthly takeovers during the 2019-2020 school year. It can be an afternoon takeover or a week-long activity. If you are interested in taking over our account please apply at https://goo.gl/forms/m8me3LMAWrMan1C53.
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Washington State NBCT Mark Gardner on Edutopia
NBCT and
Stories From School blogger Mark Gardner recently posted on Edutopia to discuss why he engaged his students with lesson planning
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"An early-career lesson flop taught me this. A class discussion about To Kill a Mockingbird sidetracked into a dialogue comparing Atticus Finch to Adolf Hitler. No matter how politely, or forcefully, I redirected the conversation, students were excited about (and ultimately successful at) locating text evidence to support that conclusion."
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WEA National Board Renewal Jump Start
Renewal is a personal and public statement about your commitment to the profession and to your students. WEA's National Board Renewal Jump Start is a 1-day training that provides key information to NBCTs who are engaged in the National Board Certification renewal process. This training helps candidates consider their growth and experiences since becoming a NBCT and how to relate this to the renewal process.
Find out more about National Board Renewal.
Registration is now open for the 2019 Fall Renewal Jump Starts! To sign up, click on the date and location of your choice:
Question on registration or logistics? Email WEA Staff
Arlyn Palomo
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Beginning Educator Support Team (BEST) One-Year Induction Development
Grants
OSPI's Beginning Educator Support Team (TEAM) is awarding one-year-only grants to districts, tribal compact schools and/or regional consortia who are not currently in a BEST district or consortium.
Funds may be used for activities such as:
- Developing induction leadership
- Selecting, identifying, and training mentors
- Developing existing mentors through additional mentor training
- Providing mentoring time for conferences, observations, and written feedback
- Developing/refining new teacher professional learning
- Developing/refining Year 2 teacher professional learning
Those who are interested in applying for the grant must first attend a one-day Induction Development Training on October 7. To learn more
read OSPI bulletin 057-19.
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Big Changes Coming to Bilingual, English Language Learner, Special Education, Early Childhood Special Education and Science Endorsements
The Professional Educator Standards Board (PESB) has announced that b
eginning
September 1, 2019, candidates for certification seeking one of the following endorsements are required to pair it with a second endorsement:
- Bilingual education
- English language learner (ELL)
- Special education (SPED)
- Early childhood special education
- Science
For the bilingual education, English language learner, special education, and early childhood SPED endorsements, the second endorsement cannot be special education, early childhood special education, bilingual education, English language learner, or traffic safety.
For the science endorsement, only teachers who have completed requirements for an endorsement in biology, chemistry, earth and space science, or physics are eligible to add science.
The new requirement
does not affect current certificate holders, but will affect those obtaining certification after September 1, 2019. To learn more about this change, visit
the PESB website.
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Apply Now for a $15,000 Grant to Support your PLC's Professional Growth Plan
 The Professional Educator Standards Board is awarding six $15,000 grants to professional learning communities completing a Professional Growth Plan (PGP). The grants will cover compensation, release time, grant-related efforts and programming for PLCs of 20 participants or more.
Learning communities will focus on PGPs aligned to:
- the National Board Five Core Propositions, or
- the Washington state Social Emotional Learning (SEL) standards, or
- the focus may be on collaboration across roles: teacher, administrator, educational staff associate (ESA), and paraeducator.
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Stories From School Roundup
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