Program: School Improvement
Audience: Great for superintendents, APPR coordinators, instructional coaches, APPR negotiating members and building leaders—bring your whole team for maximum impact!
Dates: 8/11/2025
New Empower your APPR team with the strategies and tools needed to design a robust, standards-aligned NYS STEPS plan. In this interactive session, participants will: Build Crosswalks: Map your district's current observation rubrics to the NYS Teaching Standards, identifying strengths, gaps, and opportunities for deeper alignment; Explore Alternative Measures: Review and discuss additional evidence sources-student surveys, peer reviews, artifacts of practice-and how they dovetail with the standards; Design Your Plan: Collaborate with colleagues to draft key components of your individualized NYS STEPS plan, from goal-setting structures to data-collection timelines. Giving you a starting point when working with your district team; Share & Reflect: Exchange ideas, best practices, and lessons learned in facilitated "think-tank” breakouts, then reconvene to surface collective insights; Whether you're refining an existing APPR framework or building a new educator-evaluation system from the ground up, this hands-on workshop will leave you with actionable templates, peer feedback, and a clear roadmap for linking observation, measurement, and professional growth directly to the NYS Teaching Standards. Great for superintendents, APPR coordinators, instructional coaches, APPR negotiating members and building leaders-bring your whole team for maximum impact!