This partnership worked closely with Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) to create sustained, systematic organizational change by helping DDOE implement a revised teacher evaluation system statewide that effectively helps teachers improve their instructional practice. In particular, REL staff worked closely with the DDOE partners to help them collect and analyze data on teachers’ and school leaders’ perceptions about the new system’s observation component and on whether the system was helping teachers improve their instructional practice. Coaching sessions focused on the improvement of data collection efforts, including increasing DDOE’s capacity for conducting and analyzing data from focus groups, observations, interviews, and survey administration.
Partnership organization: Delaware Department of Education
Current Projects
No completed projects at this time.
Completed Projects
This TCTS project focused on the observation component of Delaware’s new teacher evaluation system. The project helped the Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) collect and learn from data from the two pilot years of the new system (2021/22 and 2022/23) as DDOE prepared to implement the system statewide in 2023/24. REL staff partnered with DDOE to help them collect and make sense of data on teachers’ and school leaders’ perceptions of the system’s observation component, factors supporting and limiting effective implementation of the observation component, and needed changes or additional support.