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NEW JERSEY MANDATES
PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
POT LUCK INITIATIVES
NEW PROGRAMS
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This state-wide system is designed to recognize those who excel, identify those who need additional support, and provide meaningful feedback and professional development to all teachers. The system was created by New Jersey educators for New Jersey educators.
What is Achieve NJ?
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Brief, unannounced 3-5 minute classroom visits to gather instructional data to help support and drive professional development in the district.
What is a walkthrough?
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Lopatcong students grades 6-8 will have the opportunity to bring their own devices to school.
What is BYOD?
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Designated instructional period during the school day that will address intervention and extension activities for all levels of learners.
What is Learning Zone or PAWS?
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Program used to implement Danielson's Framework for Teaching based upon four domains of teaching responsibility.
What is Teachscape?
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Standards that provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them. The standards are designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers.
What is Common Core?
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Summative review of staff performance based on the 4 domains of the Danielson model and Student Growth Objectives.
What is an Annual Performance Review (APR)?
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This online program can be used as a learning management system that also allows students to model good online behaviors including blogs, discussion boards, assignments, and more.
What is My Big Campus (MBC)?
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Schools identify students at risk for poor learning outcomes, monitor student progress, provide evidence-based interventions and adjust the intensity and nature of those interventions depending on a student’s responsiveness.
What is Response To Intervention (RTI)?
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A digital assessment and intervention tool for all levels of students. This will be used in grades 5-8.
What is Renaissance Learning?
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This is is a long-term academic goal that teachers set for groups of students and must be specific and measurable, aligned to New Jersey’s curriculum standards, based on available prior student learning data, a measure of what a student has learned between two points in time, and ambitious and achievable.
What is Student Growth Objective (SGO)?
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Utilized to form SGO's, interventions and extensions. Also used to drive instruction based on individual student achievement as well as to supplement curriculum for best practices.
What is assessment data?
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These online courses are free and available to any person interested in do-it-yourself (DIY) learning. Some schools providing free courses include MIT and Stanford.
What is a Massively Open Online Course (MOOC)?
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Math program that combines elements of standards-based instruction with the best traditional approaches. Through objects, drawings, conceptual language, and real-world examples, it helps students make sense of mathematics. It is research-based and proven to be effective in raising student achievement. It also offers new ways to teach and learn mathematics through exploration, modeling and discussion.
What is Math Expressions?
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A data storage system in which district assessment data can be analyzed and managed in order to drive instructional practices and response to intervention. This program has been adopted by Lopatcong for use in grades Prek-8.
What is Link-It?
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State mandated act implemented in September of 2011 outlining a definition of inappropriate student to student and teacher to student interactions.
What is Harassment, Intimidation, & Bullying (HIB)?
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Collections of data to be submitted for scoring of teacher observations and APR's.
What are artifacts or evidence?
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In the 14-15 school year this proficiency assessment for readiness in college and careers will be taken online.
What is PARCC?
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This is the educational practice of educating children with disabilities in classrooms with children without disabilities. It is being a part of what everyone else is, and being welcomed and embraced as a member who belongs.
What is Inclusion?
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A set of procedures and measures for assessing the acquisition of early literacy skills from kindergarten through sixth grade. They are designed to be short (one minute) fluency measures used to regularly monitor the development of early literacy and early reading skills.
What is Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS)?
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The new state mandated evaluation system for building administrators that focuses on measurable goals, school performance data and community relations.
What is Multi-Dimensional Principal Performance Rubric (MPPR)?
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The Framework for Teaching is a research-based set of components of instruction, aligned to the INTASC standards, and grounded in a constructivist view of learning and teaching. The complex activity of teaching is divided into 22 components (and 76 smaller elements) clustered into four domains of teaching responsibility.
What is Danielson's Framework for Teaching?
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Voted into law in April, this act states that schools shall not use any electronic capabilities in a manner that would violate the privacy rights of students.
What is the Anti Big Brother Act?
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This initiative will help to better understand our school’s behavior needs and plan interventions directly linked to our data. It will help us (the adults) improve how we prevent as well as deal with student behavior. It will also help us support students who require more individualized behavior support.
What is Positive Behavior Support?
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A Web-based tool from NJDOE that allows districts to view and analyze state assessment data.
What is Ed-Analyzer?