Evaluating Teachers and Principals: Developing Fair, Valid, and Reliable Systems

Rethinking Teacher Evaluation in Chicago: Lessons Learned from Classroom Observations, Principal-Teacher Conferences, and District Implementation

Education Trust: Fair to Everyone: Building the Balanced Teacher Evaluations that Educators and Students Deserve

Gates Foundation: Empowering Effective Teachers, Strategies for Implementing Reforms

National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality

• A Practical Guide to Designing Comprehensive Teacher Evaluation Systems, Component 2: Securing and Sustaining Stakeholder Investment & Cultivating a Strategic Communication Plan
• Communication Framework for Measuring Teacher Quality and Effectiveness: Bringing Coherence to the Conversation

Student Growth Objective Resources
See the following links for resources and examples on how to set Student Growth Objectives (Please note: The NJDOE does not endorse any specific model below, but is providing links as a resource for educators to begin to learn from other similar systems as we continue to build our own resources. Also, note that these systems are called by other names in many states and districts):
                                                                     
Indiana RISE –

• Measures of Student Learning
• Resources

Rhode Island –

• Student Learning Objectives

EngageNY –

• Materials for SLOs

Louisiana Compass –

• Student Learning Target Examples

Austin Independent School District –

• Student Learning Objectives

Denver Public Schools –

• Student Growth Objectives