The Professional Educator Standards Board is meeting today and tomorrow at St. Martin’s University in Lacey. The agenda is available here. And the full Board packet here (warning: it’s a 75MB file). Some of the agenda highlights include: Discussion of work related to implementation of ESHB 2261 Update on progress of Race to the Top [...]
SBE & PESB to meet Nov. 11-13
PESB meeting recap
The Professional Educator Standards Board meet Wednesday and Thursday in Spokane. The agenda featured a lot of good updates, as well as some interesting discussion. On the updates side: The ProTeach portfolio is plowing ahead — to earn Professional Certification educators will need to complete a portfolio (ProTeach) — the submission webportal looks very user-friendly [...]
PESB meeting Sept. 23-24 in Spokane
PESB Meeting
PESB meeting July 22-23
LIVE BLOG: PESB
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 [...]
LIVE BLOG: PESB
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 [...]
LIVE BLOG: PESB
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 [...]











