coe-staff: GRANT MATTERS Update: Webinar Series on Using Student Growth to Evaluate Educators of Students With Disabilities

[Linda Lewis]

The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (TQ Center) is 
sponsoring a series of *free webinars that address the challenges in 
measuring the growth of students with disabilities for use in educator 
performance evaluation*, including one that focuses on measuring student 
growth for the purpose of teacher evaluation.College of Education 
students may find these webinars of interest.

Established in 2005, the Cente ris supported by the US Department of 
Education and operated through a cooperative venture by the American 
Institutes of for Research, ETS, and Vanderbilt University. The Center 
was created to serve as the premier national resource to which the 
regional comprehensive centers, states, and other education stakeholders 
turn for strengthening the quality of teaching and for finding guidance 
in addressing specific needs, thereby ensuring highly qualified teachers 
are serving students with special needs.

Information about each of the webinars and instructions for registering 
for them can be found through the links below:

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    AN INVITATION

        Join us for a series of webinars that address the challenges in
        measuring the growth of students with disabilities for use in
        educator performance evaluation.

        *WEBINAR 1 (RECORDED): *

        */STATE APPROACHES TO MEASURING STUDENT GROWTH /*//

        */FOR THE PURPOSE OF TEACHER EVALUATION/*

        This webinar will provide participants with a general overview
        of the various approaches that states and districts are using or
        contemplating for measuring student growth. Stakeholders with
        limited knowledge of state approaches to measuring growth will
        benefit from this 60-minute, prerecorded webinar.

        *Access the webinar and informational readings.
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        *WEBINAR 2: *

        */CHALLENGES AND CONSIDERATIONS IN MEASURING /*

        */THE GROWTH OF STUDENTS WITH DISABLILITIES/*

        This webinar will highlight important challenges and
        considerations that states should contemplate when using or
        designing various state and district approaches to measuring the
        growth of students with disabilities for the purpose of teacher
        evaluation. State examples will be highlighted. Participants
        working with states and districts in designing teacher
        evaluation systems will benefit from this 90-minute webinar.

        *Date: Thursday, June 7, 2012*

        *Time: 1 to 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time*

        *Register for the webinar
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        *WEBINAR 3: *

        */MEASURING THE GROWTH OF STUDENTS PARTICIPATING /*//

        */IN THE ALTERNATE ASSESSMENT/*

        This webinar will provide participants with information related
        to the specific challenges in measuring the growth of students
        participating in the alternate assessment. State examples will
        be highlighted. Participants working with states and districts
        to design teacher evaluation systems will benefit from this
        90-minute webinar.

        *Date: Thursday, August 9, 2012*

        *Time: 1 to 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time*

        *Register for the webinar
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