Evaluation and Support Services

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• Connecticut Equity Plan

  Connecticut's six strategy plan to ensure equitable access to excellent educators

• Professional Learning - Outcomes

  Professional learning that enhances both educator practice and outcomes for each and every student is aligned with district/school goals, relevant Connecticut standards, and other agreed-upon standards for educator practice and student growth.

• Educator Evaluation Plans - APSEPs

  State approved educator evaluation and support plans for approved private special education programs.

• Educator Evaluation Plans – Public School Districts, Charters and RESCs

  Listed below are the state approved educator evaluation and support plans for the current school year. The plans are sorted alphabetically.

• Connecticut Evidence Guides

  The CSDE encourages districts to use the CT Evidence Guides as a tool for professional development and growth as well as guiding observations. These guides can offer opportunities for valuable professional learning as educators work with one another to generate their own examples of evidence aligned to their respective rubric.

• CSDE-Approved LEA Evaluation and Support Plans

• Professional Learning - Cultural Competence

  Professional learning that enhances both educator practice and outcomes for each and every student facilitates educators’ self-examination of their awareness, knowledge, skills, and actions that pertain to culture and how they can develop culturally-responsive strategies to enrich the educational experiences for all students.

• Professional Learning - Learning Communities

  Professional learning that enhances both educator practice and outcomes for each and every student occurs within learning communities committed to continuous growth, collective responsibility, family and community engagement and alignment of district and school vision and goals.

• Professional Learning Podcasts

  A podcast series focused on the Connecticut standards for professional learning.

• Professional Learning

  Connecticut's Definition of Professional Learning: High-quality professional learning is a process that ensures all educators have equitable access throughout their career continuum to relevant, individual and collaborative opportunities to enhance their practice so that all students advance towards positive academic and non-academic outcomes.

• Professional Learning - Data

  Professional learning that enhances both educator practice and outcomes for each and every student requires the use of both quantitative and qualitative student, educator and system data to plan, implement, monitor, and assess professional learning.

• Professional Learning - Resources

  Professional learning that enhances both educator practice and outcomes for each and every student requires purposeful planning for the identification, coordination, monitoring, evaluation, and equitable use and allocation of resources to support educator learning.

• Professional Learning - Leadership

  Professional learning that enhances both educator practice and outcomes for each and every student requires and develops leadership capacity at all levels to advocate for and create systems for professional learning.

• Professional Learning - Learning Designs

  Professional learning that enhances both educator practice and outcomes for each and every student integrates research on effective adult learning and uses flexible learning designs to achieve intended outcomes.

• The Student Learning Goals/Objectives Process

  The process begins before the start of the new school year with the superintendent identifying the instructional priorities for the district, which informs the instructional priorities of each school and thus informs the administrator’s student learning priorities. Teacher then examine their own student data and set goals to address the learning priorities identified by their administrators.