1. NEPF a semester away… Focus: All Students 21st Century Ready
Administrators Unpacking Teaching Standards

2. NEPF Administrators Teachers
High-leverage Instructional Leadership Standards
Professional Responsibilities Standards
Student Outcomes
High-leverage Instructional Standards
Professional Responsibilities Standards

3. 2013-14 Implementation Validation Schools: Pilot NEPF
WestEd Observations and Surveys: March 2014
Study of NEPF components - data collection on processes and instruments
Identify infrastructure needed for successful implementation and scaling up of NEPF

4. Full NEPF system 2014-15 Implementation
100% of NV educators – all schools
Legislative Interim Finance Committee determines if consequences in place or delayed

5. Getting Started: Shift in Educational Practices
NEPF PHASE-IN
Getting Started:
Shift in Educational Practices

6. AGENDA Nevada Educator Performance Framework Unpacking the Standards
Planning for Action – Next Steps

8. Unpacking the Standards
What is the level of “doing” in my school?

10. Standards Weave Together7

11. Describe your vision of an effective teacher.
Your Turn
Describe your vision of an effective teacher.
Record notes on handout: Unpacking the NEPF

12. Your Turn Write down your vision of an effective teacher.
“What are the skills and knowledge of an effective teacher in the five different areas?”
1: Connecting Learning
2: High-Cognitive Demand
3: Meaning-Making through Discourse
4: Metacognition
5: Assessment in Instruction
Make notes on handout: Unpacking the NEPF. 8

13. Turn and Talk Share your notes with a partner.
What similarities did you have with your partner? If there were differences, what were they?
As you discuss with your partner, refine the skills and knowledge listed. 14

14. Your Turn Standards Carousel: At each standard station
“Where do you see links between the skills and knowledge of an effective teacher and the standard that you just read? Note on the chart paper.
Similarities in this standard to my personal experiences/knowledge. – “How do my teachers do this?”
Questions/wonders that I have about this standard. – “How could my teachers do this?”
“What support do I need to provide?” 8

15. Reflections: Turn and Talk
In which indicators did you find most similarities? Why do you think that is?
In which indicators did you find the most differences? Why?
How do the differences challenge your thinking about effective teacher that enables student learning?
How do you get teachers in your building to think about what they are currently doing and what they could be doing? 14

16. Next Steps: Plan for Action

17. http://rpdp.net/NEPF.html For More Information
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