This is a resource for supporting Colorado school district employees, administrators, and teachers in developing an understanding of the Rubric for Evaluating Colorado Teachers. As individuals apply the rubric to their own teaching and to that of others, the Resource Guide can be used to support observers and coaches in accurately identifying evidence for the professional practices and for classroom teachers to accurately reflect on their teaching...

Senate Bill 10-191 was passed in 2010 changing the way educators are evaluate and supported in Colorado.The new evaluation system provides principals, teachers and specialized service professionals with annual evaluations based on both professional practices and multiple measures of student learning or student outcomes.

Colorado has created evaluation rubrics for principals, teachers and nine categories of specialized service professionals designed to capture evidence of professional practices relating to effectiveness. The performance management system includes electronic interfaces and data collection tools for the evaluation rubrics, measures of student learning/outcomes, final effectiveness ratings, and reports with useful and actionable feedback for educators....

The purpose of the PRS is to provide SLPs an avenue for personal reflection on the quality of their performance across their roles and responsibilities in professional practice in public schools and to assist supervisors/administrators in interpreting the evidence in order to complete meaningful evaluations of SLPs' performance. The outcome of the PRS results in thoughtful and targeted professional development plans that focus SLPs on improvement...

Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women's voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In this book the author examines why women's progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root causes, and offers solutions that can empower women to achieve...

"Writing for the Health Professions teaches the principles of writing, writing for academic purposes and writing to help health care professionals in practice. Designed for those with a firm grasp of basic grammar, it leads the reader through the fundamentals of writing papers, documentation and writing research grants. This book can be used in a writing class for health care students, as a reference for the student to use during their academic years...

In order to be an effective participant on the education team, to provide quality services to students, and to advance professionally, a paraeducator must acquire and maintain certain essential skills. In this document, such skills are called core competencies and are subdivided into the four domains of: Professionalism and Ethical Practice, Instructional Content and Practice, Supporting the Learning Environment, and Communication and Collaborative...