Robert E. Riley Presented at 2010-11 IAASE Conference – Leadership & Learning for the 21st Century

This session focused on the new statutory requirements for developing and implementing Teacher Evaluation Plans and for evaluating principals. Significant changes must be made by districts in the next few years to teacher evaluation processes. These changes include revamping teacher rating systems, using student growth as a significant factor in teacher performance assessments, and changing how poorly performing teachers are to be identified and remediated. Principals' evaluation requirements also have been overhauled and all evaluators of certificated personnel must new undertake training meet additional qualifications. The session covered not only these substantive changes but also the processes districts must follow for making these changes and provided practical advice on how to comply with any collective bargaining obligations.

The 2010-11 IAASE Conference: Leadership & Learning for the 21st Century took place September 23-24, 2010 at the Holiday Inn Select Hotel & Conference Center in Tinley Park, Illinois.

The Illinois Alliance of Administrators of Special Education is a non-profit corporation organized to promote quality education for all students and provide an organizational structure through which students with disabilities are represented at a local, state and national level.

*IAASE is affiliated as a subdivision of the International Council of Administrators of Special Education