Community Forum Describes Test Of New Teacher Evaluation System In Denver
The DPS-DCTA Teacher Compensation Community Forum will hear a presentation from 7:45 to 9 a.m. Friday, Oct. 22 on the new teacher evaluation system being field tested in 31 schools in Denver this year.
The new system is being developed by a work group of the Professional Compensation System for Teachers (ProComp), a comprehensive new pay plan approved earlier this year by the Denver Board of Education and members of the Denver Classroom Teachers Association (DCTA).
The Community Forum meets at the Career Education Center Middle College of Denver, 2650 Eliot St., in the Eliot Street Café. Speakers will include Southeast Area Superintendent Beth Biggs, co-chair of the ProComp Professional Evaluation Work Group; Robin Kane, executive director of DPS Human Resources; Carol Velasquez, assistant principal, Kepner Middle School; and Leslie Stahl, Southmoor Elementary School teacher.
ProComp promotes improved student achievement by rewarding teachers with bonuses and salary increases for improved student performance and by encouraging talented teachers to work in schools and assignments with the greatest needs. ProComp also will help attract and retain top quality teachers by allowing teachers to have more direct control of their career with options that reward them for increased knowledge and skills and by offering salary incentives for satisfactory professional evaluations.
ProComp is scheduled to be implemented in 2006-07 following testing and refinement of all new elements and passage of a mill levy increase by Denver voters. The new teacher evaluation system was called for in DPS-DCTA negotiations prior to passage of ProComp, so it will be implemented for all teachers in any event.
For more information, please contact the DPS Communications Office, 720-423-3414.
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