Targeted Feedback Institute

MASSP, in partnership with the University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership, offers school districts a two-day Feedback Institute, "Feedback for Teacher Growth: Tools and Processes to Support Teacher Evaluation."

The workshop supports principals, teachers and central office leaders in learning the skills for giving feedback and creating a culture that results in effective teacher evaluations centered on the growth of teacher practice and improvement of student learning. Participants will learn how to develop feedback that responds to a teacher’s identified learning needs/goals.

Essential Questions

  • How do we use observations and feedback to change our practice?
  • How do practitioners use a cycle of inquiry to foster teacher growth?
  • How do we shift a culture to ongoing support for teacher learning?

Principals, teachers and a central office leader who supervises principals should attend the institute as a team. The institute requires that participants use a research-based instructional framework to inform the observation and feedback process. The process itself can be used with any instructional framework, including CEL’s 5 Dimensions of Teaching and Learning™, Danielson’s Framework for Teaching, Marshall's Teacher Evaluation Rubric, Marzano’s Art and Science of Teaching Framework, and the Thoughtful Classroom Teacher Effectiveness Framework.

Institute Overview

Day 1:

  • Foundations of a Strengths-based Observation Process
  • The Role of an Instructional Framework in Observation and Feedback
  • Determining an Area of Focus
  • Formative Feedback Cycles
  • Targeted Feedback Cycles: Types of Conversations

Day 2:

  • Targeted Feedback Cycles: Check-in, Pre-inquiry Cycle, Post-inquiry Cycle, Next Steps
  • Targeted Feedback: Planning a Feedback Conversation
  • Targeted Feedback Cycles: Reflection Conversations
  • Targeted Feedback: Practice
  • Targeted Feedback Cycles: Scheduling


Cost:

  • $3,000/day in-district private booking ($6,000 total for two days)
  • $249/members at Regional location
  • $299/non-members at Regional location