Educator Effectiveness Project

Our Project Goal:
To develop a teacher effectiveness model that will reform the way we evaluate teachers as well as the critical components of teacher training and teacher professional growth.
In 2010-11 PDE received a Gates Momentum grant to support the development of statewide policy, tools and processes to evaluate teachers and principals in which student achievement is a significant factor affecting performance ratings. This has resulted in the initiation of the Teacher Effectiveness Project which will comprise of several phases.
General Information:
Resources for LEA's Participating in Phase II Implementation
More Than 100 Entities Sign Up to Participate in Teacher and Principal Evaluation Program
Harrisburg – (Sept. 21, 2011) - Secretary of Education Ron Tomalis today announced that 104 K-12 entities, including nine career and technical centers, nine charter schools and nine intermediate units, have signed-up to participate in the new teacher and principal evaluation program. Read the full press release