What does that mean?
Later in the notice she says States will "continue to progress with implementation of their teacher and principal evaluation and support systems," while USED is "offering flexibility where needed for targeted, State-specific adjustments to implementation steps, timelines, and sequencing."
What does that mean?
Probably that so long as SC is implementing and progressing on its evaluation systems, it can extend a few timelines - like the one that has been requested related to SLOs.
So maybe we don't have to implement SLOs in August 2014.
Thanks for keeping us updated and giving us some things to consider. SLOs are an ongoing practice for many teachers and the profession for decades. As with many educational practices, they have been repackaged and renamed to suit the political aspects of educational policy. Right now SLOs are the term for making sense out of what students are supposed to be able to do (not just know) in both higher education policy and elementary/secondary schools policy. In this latter case, seems that while the consequences of SLO-based educator evaluation might be delayed, refining and updating educators' application of SLOs ought to proceed.
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