1:15pm-2:05pm Innovative Practices Showcase: Western Washington University — Stephanie Salzman, George “Pinky” Nelson Spotlight on some of the great things WWU does to prepare teachers. Mr. Nelson encouraged the PESB to raise the passing score on the WEST-E. Ms. Salzman said WWU is excited about the ProCert assessment and plan to use it to help [...]

11:05am-12:10pm PESB/Washington State Letter of Intent for Participation in Cross-State Pilot of California’s Teacher Performance Assessment — Jennifer Wallace, Raymond Pecheone -Partnership between ACTE, CCSSO, Stanford University -In California, have 6,000 candidates annually, so scale is not much of an issue -Portfolio scoring takes 2 hours or less -Designed as a bridge to induction -Washington’s [...]

9:05am-9:45am Legislative Session Outcome — Jennifer Wallace -HB 2261 *By January 2010, PESB must *Have new knowledge, skill and performance standards calibrated at each level of certification *Adopt a new definition of “master teacher” *Proposal for a uniform, statewide, valid and reliable classroom-based means of evaluating teacher effectiveness at pre-service level *Update on implementation of [...]

The Professional Educator Standards Board will meet tomorrow and Thursday in La Conner. You can see the agenda here. We’ll be there tomorrow, live blogging as usual.