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Annual Goals
This report lists the annual improvement goals reported to ESE in the educator preparation program provider’s state annual report. Providers may report up to three goals for the upcoming year and are asked to report on progress made toward the prior year’s goals. Annual goals are reported in May of the academic year listed.
| Annual Goals - 2016 |
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Educator preparation program improvement goals for the upcoming program year |
| Goal #1 |
Goal #1: TRAIN & SUPPORT: Provide high-quality initial training and ongoing support to teachers and leaders such that they make a significant impact on students. 1) Support corps members and alumni such that an increasing share of partner schools perform in the top quartile of student growth in both math and English Language Arts on statewide assessments. 60% of priority partner schools will meet this goal in the 2015-16 school; an increase of 8% from the 2014-2015 school year. 2) Provide high-quality, localized training to incoming cohort of corps members. Train 115 new corps members through our third regional Lawrence institute in Summer 2016. |
| Goal #2 |
Goal #2: RETAIN: Support teachers and leaders such that they remain in their schools and in the field of education at high rates, building a sustainable pipeline for long-term change. 1) Foster a strong corps culture such that Massachusetts ranks in the top 10 of all regions for corps member satisfaction. 2) Provide support such that corps members complete their two-year commitment at high rates. a. 2015 teachers: 90% will complete their 2 year commitment b. 2016 teachers: 95% will complete their first year of teaching; in service of 90% completing their 2-year commitment |
| Goal #3 |
Goal #3: RETAIN: Support teachers and leaders such that they remain in their schools and in the field of education at high rates, building a sustainable pipeline for long-term change. 1) Provide support such that corps members continue to teach beyond their two-year commitment at high rates and mobilize the rest to work towards the fulfillment of our mission from another position in education. 70% of 2014 corps members will teach for a 3rd year and 85% will continue to work in education. |
| Annual Goals - 2015 |
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Educator preparation program improvement goals from the prior year |
| Goal #1 |
Teacher Effectiveness: By the end of the year, 50% of all our teachers
will achieve significant academic growth with their students.
(Significant = over 1.6 years growth in elementary, 1.9 in secondary;
mastery =80% mastery or higher; 70% mastery or higher on ANet) AND 100% of CMs will achieve solid growth. (Solid growth=at least 1 year; mastery = 70% mastery or higher) using high quality assessments vetted by the Teach For America staff. |
| Goal #2 |
Retention:
2014 teachers: 90% will complete their 2 year commitment
2015 teachers: 95% will complete their first year of teaching; in service
of 90% completing their 2-year commitment |
| Goal #3 |
Teach Beyond 2:
70% of 2nd year teachers will teach for a 3rd year. |
| Progress Toward Goals - 2015 |
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Progress made toward prior program year goals |
| Goal #1 |
GOAL #1: Teacher Effectiveness: By the end of the year, 50% of all our teachers will achieve significant academic growth with their students. (Significant = over 1.6 years growth in elementary, 1.9 in secondary; mastery =80% mastery or higher; 70% mastery or higher on ANet) AND 100% of CMs will achieve solid growth. (Solid growth=at least 1 year; mastery = 70% mastery or higher) using high quality assessments vetted by the Teach For America staff. PROGRESS: This past year, we have proactively shifted the way we measure corps member impact on student achievement. Instead of measuring the percentage of corps members who met a static target (solid growth or significant growth), we found it is more accurate to measure the percentage of individualized ambitious student achievement goals that corps members led students to achieve. Using this method, known as benchmark achieved, means that different corps members can set specific and varying goals that are ambitious and tailored for their students, grade level, and content area. In the last school year, our corps members led their students to achieve 78% of their ambitious goals, which is above the national Teach For America network average. Our overall benchmark achieved for the current school year is 102% as of April 2016. This means that as an overall corps, we tracking ahead of a rigorous goal of all classrooms being at 1.6/1.9 years growth, or 80% or higher. Edwin Reports/Additional Performance Data Analysis for our Program Completers: This past year, with support from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE), we conducted a performance data analysis for our program completers for the 2013-2014 school year. This analysis included Student Growth Percentile for our 2011 TFA alums in their third year of teaching, and 2010 TFA alums in their fourth year of teaching, as follows: SGP ELA Math # Included % High % Moderate % Low # Included % High % Moderate % Low All Teacher of Record completers 90 34% 50% 16% 90 34% 49% 17% All Baccalaureate completers 194 24% 52% 24% 193 24% 50% 26% All Post-Bac completers 783 21% 57% 22% 784 24% 51% 25% TFA 2011 alums (in year 3) 22 50% 32% 18% 22 50% 32% 18% TFA 2010 alums (in year 4) 15 53 40 7 15 47 40 13 This analysis also included Educator Evaluation Data for all 2009-2011 TFA alums who are in their 3rd-5th year teaching, respectively: The headlines from this analysis included: • Over 95% of our young alums were rated Exemplary or Proficient, and not a single one was rated unsatisfactory • Our rate of exemplary teachers – the highest rating – was more than double the state rate. We will be conducting a similar analysis for the 2014-2015 school year as this data becomes available, and we look forward to continuing to partner with the Department to gather data on our program completers to have this data inform the continuous improvement of our program. |
| Goal #2 |
GOAL #2: Retention: 2014 teachers: 90% will complete their 2 year commitment 2015 teachers: 95% will complete their first year of teaching; in service of 90% completing their 2-year commitment PROGRESS: 2014 teachers: 83% are on track to complete their 2-year commitment. We are not on track to meeting our 2-year retention goal of 90% due to having had some of these teachers resign from our program for personal reasons, including medical conditions. In some of these cases, not passing MTELs was a factor. In response to this, we are continuing to provide individualized coaching plans to struggling teachers as well as increased MTEL resources and support, such as one-on-one tutoring. We are also working to provide additional health resources for our teachers, including mental health resources. Our year two retention is at 97%. This data suggests that when we have attrition the majority is in year one or occurs over the summer in between years one and two. Once our teachers begin their second year, the vast majority stay and fulfill their commitment. 2015 teachers: 96% are on track to complete their 2-year commitment. We are therefore on track to meet our retention goal of 95% with our first year teachers. We have prioritized relationship-building with our teachers and school partners as part of our coaching model in order to more proactively anticipate and address the needs of our teachers. We are also working to identify struggling teachers earlier, during our summer Institute training, in order to offer differentiated and increased support at the start of the year. We have also clustered more of our teachers at fewer schools which has helped them receive support from their fellow Teach For America peers and alums. |
| Goal #3 |
GOAL #3: Teach Beyond 2: 70% of 2nd year teachers will teach for a 3rd year. PROGRESS: 68% of 2013s are currently teaching in their third year in the state of Massachusetts. 89% of 2013s are still working in the field of education. We came very close to meeting our past year's goal of 70% of our second year teachers staying to teach for a third year. We actively encourage our program participants to continue teaching for a third year and are proud to report that the majority of our most recent cohort of second years elected to stay in the classroom. For the 2014 corps members (our current second year teachers), we are on pace to surpass our goal of 70%. As of April 1, 2016, 64% of our current second year teachers are already committed to teaching in Massachusetts next year. We are especially proud of our work with our second year corps members teaching in the South Coast (Fall River and New Bedford, MA). In the South Coast, 57% (15/26) of our second year teachers have committed to returning and teaching for a third year. This is a tremendous increase from last year. Many of our 2014 corps members are still making their decisions for next year, but we project we will land slightly above 70% across the MA region, with over 85% committed to staying in the field of education. We continue to readdress strategies that will influence second year teachers to choose to teach in their third year, including alumni fellowships, increased alumni support, and career coaching. |
| Annual Goals - 2014 |
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Educator preparation program improvement goals from the prior year |
| Goal #1 |
Teacher Effectiveness: By the end of the year, 50% of all our teachers will achieve significant academic growth with their students. (Significant = over 1.6 years growth in elementary, 1.9 in secondary; mastery =80% mastery or higher) AND 100% of CMs will achieve solid growth. (Solid growth=at least 1 year; mastery = 70% mastery or higher) using high quality assessments vetted by the Teach For America staff. |
| Goal #2 |
Retention:
2013 teachers: 90% will complete their 2 year commitment
2014 teachers: 97% will complete their first year of teaching; in service of 95% completing their 2-year commitment |
| Goal #3 |
Teach Beyond 2:
70% of 2nd year teachers will teach for a 3rd year |
| Progress Toward Goals - 2014 |
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Progress made toward prior program year goals |
| Goal #1 |
We currently have 82% of our teachers on track to making solid or significant gains by the end of the year (58% of our teachers on track to making solid gains, 24% on track to making significant gains). 15% are making limited growth, and 3% do have student data but due to their settings (for example, supporting students across content teachers) their data is not rolled up into the categories above in the same way.
We will continue to follow our most effective fourth quarter strategies, including: further incorporating differentiation into our professional development to meet the needs of teachers across settings and districts, providing learning teams with a focus on content area knowledge and skill-building, supporting our teachers in developing rigorous assessments and skill in backwards planning, and providing targeted support to teachers who are making solid gains but have the potential to make significant gains by the end of the year, in addition to supporting teachers who are making limited growth. |
| Goal #2 |
2013 teachers: 87% are on track to complete their 2-year commitment. 10% of these resignations occurred between the first and second year of teaching. We are not on track to meeting this retention goal due to having had some of these teachers resign from our program for personal reasons. In several of these cases, not passing MTELs was a factor. In response to this, we are continuing to provide individualized coaching plans to struggling teachers as well as increased MTEL resources and support.
2014 teachers: 95% are on track to complete their 2-year commitment. We are very close to being on track to meeting our retention goal. We have prioritized relationship-building as part of our coaching model in order to more proactively anticipate and address the needs of our teachers. Having offered our summer Institute training locally in Lawrence, MA, helped to build investment in our community, helped us identify struggling teachers earlier and offer differentiated and increased support at the start. |
| Goal #3 |
73% (59/80) of 2012s are currently teaching in their third year. We met last year?s goal of 70% of our 2nd year teachers staying to teach for a third year. Of those teachers, 56% (45/80) are teaching in Massachusetts, which was an important priority as well. We actively encourage our program participants to continue teaching for a third year and are proud to report that the majority of our most recent cohort of second years elected to stay in the classroom.
45% of our current second year teachers are already committed to teaching in Massachusetts next year. Many are still making their decisions but we project we will land between 60-65%, with over 80% committed to teaching in full-time teaching roles, slightly behind our projected goal. We continue to readdress strategies that will influence second year teachers to choose to teach in their third year. |
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