Window Rock Unified School District Career Ladder Program Student Achievement Through Teacher Excellence

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Window Rock Unified School District Career
Ladder Program Student Achievement Through
Teacher Excellence (ARS 15-918)
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History

• Opportunity provided for ALL Arizona school
  districts to apply for grant planning money to
  design a performance-based compensation program
  for teachers
• The Arizona legislature created the Arizona
  Career Ladder Program (CLP) as a five-year pilot.
• 1986 WRUSD 8 was phased in.
• 1990 The Career Ladder Program received
  permanent legislative status as a result of
  demonstration of higher student achievement in
  Career Ladder districts. Expansion of the program
  was authorized for seven additional districts.
• No further expansion is authorized limiting CL
  to 28 districts
• Career Ladder Law A.R.S 15-918 - 15-918.05

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CLP Mission Statement

• The mission of WRUSD Career Ladder Program is to
  increase student achievement through teaching
  excellence by providing support and incentive for
  teachers as they cultivate their teaching skills
  and expand their collegial efforts.

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Career Ladder Goals

• Positively Impact Student Achievement
• Motivate Educators to Improve Skills
• Attract, Retain, and Reward Exemplary Teachers
• Promote Collegiality
• Integrate with WRUSD Priorities

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What is Career Ladder?

• It is a performance-based compensation plan that
  provides incentives to teachers who choose to
  make career advancements without leaving the
  classroom or the profession.
• The state requires that a number of basic
  elements be included in the local plan Career
  Ladder Law ARS 15-918
• To ensure compliance in all areas, CL Steering
  Committee annually review and refine the required
  elements

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Career Ladder is

• Taking one step at a time
• As you progress into Advanced Levels of
  Performance in
• Pupil academic progress
• Teaching skills
• Teacher responsibilities and leadership
• You move up the ladder!

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New Teacher Induction

• All teachers new to WRUSD automatically placed
• During 2nd year, new teachers begin qualification
  process for placement at Residency Phase
• Attend all current New Teacher/CLP Induction
  In-services
• Certified teachers transferring in from other
  Arizona CL Districts will be individually
  evaluated for placement in their initial year
  with WRUSD through the reciprocity process

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Three Distinct Phases

• Residency
• Evolving
• Accomplishing
• Within each phase, there are 3 steps.

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Components

• Instructional Performance
• Student Academic Progress
• Higher Level Instructional Responsibilities
• Arizona Revised Statute 15-918

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Instructional Performance

• Teacher Evaluation
• CL Teachers evaluated every year
• WRUSD Professional Teacher Evaluation
• Professional Development
• Must not be financially compensated
• Individual Professional Development Plan

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Pupil Academic Progress

• Use SMART Goals
• S SpecificM MeasurableA AttainableR
  RealisticT Timely
• Identify describe specific instructional
  strategies
• Assessments that will provide student data
• Analyze student data

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Higher Level Instructional Responsibilities

• Must NOT be financially compensated
• Leadership Role
• Required for Evolving Accomplishing
• Contributing Role
• Required for all phases
• Meet with principal for your higher level
  responsibilities
• Must keep documentation

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Higher Level Instructional Responsibilities
Required Hours
Levels Total Hours
Residency 16 hours Minimum of 8 hours from List A, all other hours can be from List A or B.
Evolving 24 hours Minimum of 12 hours from List B, all other hours can be from List A or B.
Accomplishing 32 hours Minimum of 16 hours from List C, all other hours can be from List A, B, or C.
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Higher Level Instructional Responsibilities List
List A v List B v List C v
School Committee Member District Committee Member Extra-Curricular Activities Club Sponsor Grade Level Leader Department Chair
On-going Tutoring Spelling Bee Member Co-Curricular Activities Sponsorship Steering Committee Rep Mentoring
Science Fair Committee Member Science Fair Coach Special Olympics Chair In-service Facilitator/Presenter
PTO/PTA Teacher Rep Cultural Committee Member Family Literacy Committee Chair Peer Coach Supervisor of Intern
School Climate Committee Service Learning Sponsor Spelling Bee Coordinator Conference Presenter Parent Trainings
Parental/Community Involvement Science Fair Coordinator Cultural Committee Coach Facilitator of book studies Facilitator of focus groups
Curriculum Mapping Peer Evaluator

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Residency Phase

• Minimum 2 years teaching experience
• Professional Teacher Evaluation (No FFB)
• Professional Development
• Individual Professional Development Plan
• Reflection
• Pupil Academic Progress
• 1 goal (must be aligned to SIP)
• Documentation
• Data Analysis, Assessment, Reflection
• Strategies must be clearly convincingly
  described
• Higher Level Instructional Responsibility
• Contributing Role
• Documentation (total of 12 hours)
• Reflection

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Evolving Phase

• Minimum 3 years teaching experience
• Professional Teacher Evaluation (100 _at_ Meets
  Exceeds)
• Professional Development
• Individual Professional Development Plan
• Reflection
• Pupil Academic Progress
• 2 goals (must be aligned to the SIP)
• Documentation for each goal
• Data Analysis, Assessment, Reflection for each
  goal
• Strategies must be clearly convincingly
  described
• Higher Level Instructional Responsibility
• 1 Leadership Role
• 1 Contributing Role
• Documentation for each role (total of 24 hours)
• Reflection for each role

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Accomplishing Phase

• Minimum 6 years teaching experience
• Professional Teacher Evaluation (100 at Meets
  Exceeds)
• Professional Development
• Individual Professional Development Plan
• Reflection
• Pupil Academic Progress
• 3 goals (must be aligned to SIP)
• Documentation for each goal
• Data Analysis Reflection for each goal
• Strategies must be clearly convincingly
  described
• Higher Level Instructional Responsibility
• 1 Leadership Role
• 2 Contributing Role
• Documentation for each role (total of 36 hours)
• Reflection for each role

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Timeline

• August 4-6, 2008
• New Teacher Orientation
• August 16, 2008
• CLP Orientation
• Placement Letters will be issued
• September 2008
• 2008-09 addendum contracts issued
• September 30, 2008
• Letter of Intent
• IPDP
• NBC Pre-candidacy Intent

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Timeline continues

• October 22, 2008
• Reflective Writing Data Analysis
• October 31, 2008
• Preliminary Plan
• Higher Level Instructional Responsibility Form
• January 21, 2009
• Reflective Writing Harry Wong
• January 30, 2009
• IDPD reflections for any learning activities
  completed up through December 2008
• Reflection Documentation for Leadership/Contribu
  ting Role completed up through December 2008

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Timeline continues

• April 22, 2009
• Reflective Writing
• May 6, 2009
• Reflective Writing
• May 13, 2009
• Reflective Writing
• June 4, 2009
• Complete Portfolio Submission to the CLP
• All late submissions will be docked one point for
  each day it is late. CLP portfolios will not be
  accepted after June 11, 2009.

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Career Ladder Handbook

• Teachers Administrators will receive copy as
  soon as Governing Board approves the handbook
• Revisions made to the handbook
• Appendix includes the following
• All forms needed for portfolio
• Revised Blooms Taxonomy
• Appeals Process Form
• Portfolio Checklist
• Glossary

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