Walkthroughs & Your Right to Respond

LCEA's Teacher Quality Committee has discussed walk-throughs and the role they play in the overall evaluation process several times.  Through these disucssions, administrators and educators on the committee have concluded and agreed that walk-throughs are indeed "formative snapshots" that directly and indirectly impact the summative evaluation of an educator.

As a result, these walk-throughs, the information gleened from them, the written feedback forms are subject to response from our members. If you would like to formally amend the material collected in a walkthrough, respond to the data, challenge observations, you may do so.  Guidance for this can be found in the Master Contract.  Grievance and Contract Maintenance Co-Chairs, Tom McLaughlin and Dave Bergman, are also willing to assist our members by answering questions.

The timelines are process are outlined in Article I of the Master Contract:

Teacher Quality Agenda 5/7/2008

LEWIS CENTRAL
Teacher Quality
Committee Meeting
Educational Resource Center
Wednesday,
May 7, 2008
4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Tentative Agenda

1. Call To Order – Roll Call

2. Review and Approve Minutes

3. Model Evidence for “Non-Core “ Areas

4. Update for Core Areas

5. February Professional Development Days Reflection

6. Monitor Evaluation Procedures Implementation

7. Future Meeting Dates

6:30 8. Adjournment

Teacher Quality Committee Agenda 3/4/2008

LEWIS CENTRAL
Teacher Quality
Committee Meeting
Educational Resource Center
Tuesday,
March 4, 2008
4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Tentative Agenda

4:30 1. Call To Order – Roll Call

4:31 2. Review and Approve Minutes

3. Sub Committee Report – Evaluation Procedures

4. Future Meeting Dates

6:30 5. Adjournment

Teacher Quality Agenda February 7, 2008

LEWIS CENTRAL Teacher Quality Committee Meeting Educational Resource Center Thursday,
February 7, 2008
4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Tentative Agenda

1. Call To Order – Roll Call

2. Review and Approve Minutes

3. Monitor Teacher Performance Evaluation Requirements and Model Evidence

4. Future Meeting Dates

5. Adjournment

Teacher Quality Agenda January 9, 2008

LEWIS CENTRAL
Teacher Quality Committee Meeting
Educational Resource Center
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Tentative Agenda

4:30 1. Call To Order – Roll Call

4:31 2. Review and Approve Minutes

3. Monitor Teacher Performance Evaluation Requirements and Model Evidence

4. Future Meeting Dates

6:30 5. Adjournment

LCEA Executive Board Agenda November 8, 2008

LCEA Executive Board Meeting
Date: 11/8/2007
Place: Titan Hill: Room 804 (New Section) Susan Drustrup’s room
Time: 4:15

Roll Call: Sharon Crawley, Kim Muta, Jennifer Doorlag,
Maggie Bennett, Dave Bergman
HS Reps: Tom McLaughlin, Allison Towne, Brian Johnson, Christina Woodward
MS Reps: Margot Argotsinger, Beth Frank, Al Lorenz, Barb Motes
TH Reps: Susan Drustrup, Maggie Miller, Jennifer Hake
Kreft Reps: Kathy Moe, Melinn Ruzicka, Tara York

Approval of Agenda:

Secretary’s Report/ Approval of Minutes: Kim Muta

Treasurer’s Report: Jen Doorlag: Audit (Where are we on this?)

Negotiations: Beth Frank

TQC: Barb Motes

President’s Report: Sharon Crawley

Committee Reports:
High School:
Kreft:
Middle School:
Titan Hill: (Susan) Report cards?

Old Business:
• Reps setting up monthly meetings with individual building principals
• Ten minute meetings with members
• Building Reps information/ check in on new teachers

New Business:
• Attendance to a board meeting (Dave lost the “official” sign up sheet) 
• Public Relations: Committees for Education weeks, National Teacher Day, Reading Across America, Retirees, etc..
• Public Relations: Toy drive, Food/Books drives, etc..
• Delegate Assembly coming up!!! (Kim will you talk about this?)

Adjournment

Teacher Quality Committee Agenda 10/15/2007

LEWIS CENTRAL
Teacher Quality
Committee Work Session
Educational Resource Center
Monday,
October 15, 2007
6:30 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.

Tentative Agenda

6:30 1. Call To Order – Roll Call

6:31 2. Board Presentation

7:15 3. Adjournment

Teacher Quality Committee Agenda 10/10/2007

LEWIS CENTRAL
Teacher Quality
Committee
Educational Resource Center
Wednesday,
October 10, 2007
4:30 p.m.

Tentative Agenda

4:30 1. Call To Order – Roll Call

4:31 2. Approval of the October 10, 2007 Agenda

3. Review the Minutes of September 5, 2007

4. Review Iowa Professional Development Model

6:30 5. Adjournment

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Teacher Quality Meeting Agenda Septemeber 5, 2008

It's time to get started with our work for this year. Barb Motes and Dave Black have built the following schedule for the year.

Sept 5 Sept 26
Oct 10 Oct 24
Nov 7 Dec 5
Jan 9 Jan 30
Feb 20 Mar 19
Apr 2 Apr 16
May 7 May 21

We may not need all of these meeting dates and we may not want to meet for two hours each time. This will be part of what we decide on Wednesday. The agenda for this first meeting (September 5 from 4:15-6:15 at the ERC) will include:



1. Review the requirements of Senate File 277 with regard to this Committee
Establish the committee
Ensure that the negotiated agreement determines the compensation of the teachers on the committee
Function within the Open Meetings Law
Monitor PD plans
Determine the use and distribution of 277 PD funds
Monitor implementation of SF277 with regard to Chapter 20 (negotiated agreement)
Monitor teacher performance evaluation requirements and develop model evidence
Recommend market factor incentives to the Board and LCEA
2. Formalize the committee structure/facilitation
3. Establish ground rules for committee operation
4. Determine calendar for the year and procedures for adding or deleting meetings
5. Establish agenda communication and posting procedures
6. Determine procedures for documenting committee meetings (minutes) and the distribution of minutes
7. Determine decision making process(es)
8. Establish and forward a recommendation for compensation rate and compensation procedures for the teachers on the committee
9. Identify procedures for studying the IPDM and LC Professional Development plans


I hope you can all make this important first meeting.