eVAL is an electronic application to support the work of the new teacher and principal evaluation systems. This presentation describes what eVAL is and how teachers and principals can use it to support their growth and manage evaluation processes.

1. eVAL Tool
Orting School District TPEP Team Training
Dr. Marci Shepard
Orting School District
November 14, 2012

2. Learning Target
And Success Criteria
 We are developing an understanding of using the eVAL tool to
support teacher and principal inquiry, growth and evaluation.
1 Describe
What is eVAL?
2 Explain the role of
Teachers
3 Explain the role of
Principals
4 Explore the
Sandbox
5 Log in and take the self-assessment
eVAL Tool
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

3. Learning Target
And Success Criteria
 We are developing an understanding of using the eVAL tool to
support teacher and principal inquiry, growth and evaluation.
1 Describe
What is eVAL?
2 Explain the role of
Teachers
3 Explain the role of
Principals
4 Explore the
Sandbox
5 Log in and take the self-assessment
eVAL Tool
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

4. eVAL
Supporting Washington’s Teacher & Principal Evaluation
eVAL is a web-based tool designed to manage the evaluation process and
documentation. Developed in partnership with the Washington Education Association,
the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Educational Service District 113,
eVAL is:
• a free resource piloted within the Teacher/Principal Evaluation Pilot districts in the
2011-12 school year (currently eVAL will be used by our pilot and RIG districts for
2012-13);
• personalized for each district for their instructional framework, resources, and
documents;
• voluntary for all districts, who can use as many or as few of eVAL’s features as
they’d like (or none at all); and
• extremely secure with limited access physically and virtually to its servers.
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

5. Conceptual Understanding
An analogy
If 5D is the and if 5D+/state then eVAL is
curriculum… 8 are the the grade book.
assessment…
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

6. eVAL’s Uses and Roles
eVAL has a number of roles, but the primary uses
are:
• to support dialog between supervisor and
supervisee
• reflection about an individual’s practice
• collection of evidence of effective practice
eVAL serves as a central storage and reporting tool for many
aspects of the evaluation process. The primary users of eVAL
are teachers and principals.
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

7. Learning Target
And Success Criteria
 We are developing an understanding of using the eVAL tool to
support teacher and principal inquiry, growth and evaluation.
1 Describe
What is eVAL?
2 Explain the role of
Teachers
3 Explain the role of
Principals
4 Explore the
Sandbox
5 Log in and take the self-assessment
eVAL Tool
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

8. eVAL Users
TEACHERS
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

9. Teachers
Self-Assess: Teachers can develop self-assessments by scoring
rubrics organized by the state criteria or local instructional
models. Each self-assessment can remain private or be shared
at teachers’ discretion with supervisors.
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

10. Teachers
Goals: This dashboard allows you to view and track the status of
your goal setting work. Goals may be evaluator-assigned or self-
assigned. It also contains space for artifacts and resources.
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

11. Teachers
Observations: Under this section teachers be reminded of the date,
time and location of events related to planned observations. Teachers
can also respond to questions prior to their pre-conferences, enter
notes for their principal and reflect upon their lessons.
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

12. Teachers
Artifacts: Under this section teachers can load evidence such as
documents, spreadsheets, or presentations and align them to the state
criteria. The purpose of this section is to allow teachers the
opportunity to gather and showcase evidence in multiple forms.
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

13. Teachers
Summary: Under this section teachers can view the totality of
the elements of their evaluation.
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

14. Learning Target
And Success Criteria
 We are developing an understanding of using the eVAL tool to
support teacher and principal inquiry, growth and evaluation.
1 Describe
What is eVAL?
2 Explain the role of
Teachers
3 Explain the role of
Principals
4 Explore the
Sandbox
5 Log in and take the self-assessment
eVAL Tool
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

15. eVAL Users
PRINCIPALS
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

16. Principals
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17. Self-Assessment
Example
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18. Principals
Conference: Under this sections principals plan for pre-conferences,
observations and post-conferences. Principals can communicate their
focus while observing instruction, craft pre and post-conference
questions for teachers and schedule observations in this section.
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

19. Principals
Practice: Principals and teachers can use the practice section to enter
formative evaluation data regarding videos or classroom observations. The
purpose of practice is to engage teachers and principals in dialog regarding
their shared (or different) perceptions of quality instruction. Practice
contains dashboards that display multiple data points summarizing many
evaluator perspectives.
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

20. Principals
Observe: Principals enter notes during lessons (or paste them from other
software afterwards), align the evidence from their notes to state or local rubrics
and provide feedback to teachers regarding the level of quality observed.
Principals score rubric, annotate their scores and manage all aspects of evidence
gathered during observations in this section. Post-conference observation
reports can be printed from within the Observe section.
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

21. The Evaluation Process
In TPEP the evaluation process, like curriculum has
been for 18+ years, is being aligned to state standards.
There are now four possible outcomes:
Unsatisfactory
Basic
Proficient
Distinguished
Aggregated results are shared with the state.
In eVAL-WA the process is
conducted entirely online.
Traditionally, this process has been
conducted entirely on paper.
Usually the criteria and prompts are
established in collective bargaining.
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

22. Principals
Summary: Under this section principals can submit final summative
scores of teachers to their district office, reflect on all evidence
gathered during the year, and score final summative rubrics. Final
summative reports can be printed from this section.
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

23. Principals
Reports: Principals can view a variety of reports under this
section. Reports include school-wide evaluation summaries,
individual teacher evaluation trends and discrepancies between
teacher self-assessments and evaluator scores.
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

24. eVAL Video Walkthroughs
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http://tpep-wa.org/resources/eval/eval-video-walkthroughs/

25. Questions?
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

26. Learning Target
And Success Criteria
 We are developing an understanding of using the eVAL tool to
support teacher and principal inquiry, growth and evaluation.
1 Describe
What is eVAL?
2 Explain the role of
Teachers
3 Explain the role of
Principals
4 Explore the
Sandbox
5 Log in and take the self-assessment
eVAL Tool
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

27. Playing in the Sandbox
Go to http://sandbox.eval-wa.org.
The sandbox resets every night at 12:00 am.
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

28. The Sandbox
Roles and log-ins
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

29. It’s Observation Time!
Pair up with someone
Person A (Evaluator) Person B (Evaluatee)
• Logs in as a Head • Logs in as a Teacher
Principal/Principal of a in the same school
specific school • completes the Self-
• Starts a formal Assessment
observation with their • Creates at least one
partner teacher goal
• Complete all steps • Submits an Artifact
• Responds to
Evaluator
When finished, logout, switch roles, login and repeat process

30. From the Sandbox
SHARE OUT DISCOVERIES
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

31. Learning Target
And Success Criteria
 We are developing an understanding of using the eVAL tool to
support teacher and principal inquiry, growth and evaluation.
1 Describe
What is eVAL?
2 Explain the role of
Teachers
3 Explain the role of
Principals
4 Explore the
Sandbox
5 Log in and take the self-assessment
eVAL Tool
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

32. SELF-ASSESS IN EVAL
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

33. From eVAL
SHARE OUT DISCOVERIES
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

34. Some first steps
• Complete the Self-Assessment
• Create a goal
• Other
• Other
• Other
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

35. Learning Target
And Success Criteria
 We are developing an understanding of using the eVAL tool to
support teacher and principal inquiry, growth and evaluation.
1 Describe
What is eVAL?
2 Explain the role of
Teachers
3 Explain the role of
Principals
4 Explore the
Sandbox
5 Log in and take the self-assessment
eVAL Tool
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard

36. Questions?
Feedback!
Orting School District  Teaching, Learning and Assessment  November 2012  M. Shepard