Evaluate to Better Serve Students

CESA 6 is the leader in teacher effectiveness in Wisconsin and is home to the Effectiveness Project, a suite of tools designed to evaluate teachers, schools, and student success. You can rely on CESA 6 for innovative evaluation solutions and customized support, ensuring your educational team thrives at all levels.

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Educating Learners Effectively

The Teacher Performance Evaluation System (TPES) is a tool that educators can leverage to optimize student learning and growth, improve the quality of instruction, ensure accountability for educators in the classroom, and contribute to the success and achievement of the school district’s mission, vision, and goals. CESA 6 will work with your team to provide a basis for instructional improvement, appraise your teachers’ productivity and need for growth, while also collaborating with your team to self-reflect, understand and implement the evaluation, and create a path for an overall job performance improvement. 

Distinguishing Characteristics

  • A focus on the relationship between professional performance and improved learner academic achievement
  • Sample performance indicators for each of the educator performance standards
  • A system for documenting educator performance based on multiple data sources, including goal setting, documentation log, surveys, observations
  • A procedure for conducting performance reviews that stresses accountability, promotes professional improvement and increases the involvement of educators in the evaluation process
  • A support system for providing assistance when needed

Evaluate Educational Specialists

The Educational Specialists Performance Evaluation System (ESPES) is designed to analyze how educators in the pupil personnel (School Counselors, Nurses, Psychologists, and Social Workers), instructional support (Library Media Specialists and Learning Coaches), and special education services (Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists, and Autism Support Specialists) perform. 

Program Knowledge and Delivery

The ESPES focuses on the professional knowledge, communication and collaboration, program delivery, management, and professionalism of education specialists. Utilizing this multi-tiered evaluation tool can assess strengths and weaknesses in how your district serves students across various educational areas.

Evaluating School Administrators

Understanding how school administrators serve their students and collaborate with their staff is highly important to a school’s success. The School Administrator Performance Evaluation System (SAPES) provides a basis for leadership improvement through in-depth performance analysis to develop professional growth. Collaborating with an evaluator can build better transparency between staff and the administration and focus their strengths on how to improve student learning leadership, human resources management, and community relationships. 

How the SAPES Differs

The SAPES focuses on other important evaluation areas to better understand how administrators are guiding their schools toward success: 

  • Benchmark behaviors for each of the school administrator's performance standards
  • A focus on the relationship between school administrator performance and improved student learning and growth
  • The use of multiple data sources for documenting performance, including opportunities for school administrators to present evidence of their own performance as well as student growth
  • A procedure for conducting performance reviews that stresses accountability, promotes professional improvement, and increases school administrators’ involvement in the evaluation process
  • A support system for providing assistance when needed

Appraise Central Office Administration Performance

The primary purposes of the Central Office Performance Evaluations System (COPES) are to improve district quality by ensuring accountability for overall performance, provide a path for improvement by assessing central office administrator performance, and promote self-growth and leadership effectiveness for overall job performance. 

Evaluation Standards for COPES

Central office administrators are evaluated on a series of benchmarks to understand how their effectiveness aligns with the mission, vision, and goals of the district. COPES analyzes:

  • Benchmark behaviors for each of the central office administrator performance standards
  • A focus on the relationship between central office administrator performance and improved district achievement
  • the use of multiple data sources for documenting performance, including opportunities for central office administrators to present evidence of their own performance
  • a procedure for conducting performance reviews that stresses accountability, promotes professional improvement, and increases central office administrators' involvement in the evaluation process

District Administrator Appraisal

Utilize the District Administrator Performance Evaluation System to improve educational performance and district administrator/superintendent and board relations. This tool will help your district clarify roles, improve planning, and inform district administrators of the board’s expectations.

Evaluation Standards for DAPES

Delivering a DAPES analysis, districts will be able to assess and improve their district administrator’s strategic leadership, operations and resource management, and community relations competency. Other evaluation benchmarks include: 

  • A focus on the relationship between district administrator/superintendent performance and improved school performance and student learning and growth
  • The use of multiple data sources for documenting performance, including opportunities for district administrators/superintendents to present evidence of their own performance as well as student growth
  • A procedure for conducting performance reviews that stresses accountability, promotes professional improvement, and increases district administrators'/superintendents' involvement in the evaluation process

Athletic Director Evaluation

The Athletic/Activities Directors Performance Evaluation System (AADPES) optimizes individual and group student learning, promotes collaboration between extracurricular leaders and evaluators, while also ascertaining important data and touchpoints on leadership improvement to provide productive performance growth and professional development.

AADPES Benchmarks

The AADPES benchmarks allow districts to analyze an athletic director’s professional knowledge, leadership skills, cultural competency, and program management. This focus will all for a more in-depth look at how athletic programs and extracurriculars can be improved at a data-driven, foundational level. 

Appraise and Guide Educator Performance 

  • Understand the Challenge

    Begin your journey through a complimentary virtual session, where our specialists will identify your distinct administrative challenges. 

  • Choose the Path

    Following an assessment of your needs, CESA 6 provides you with the tools to implement your evaluation and key areas to improve your district performance. 

  • Implement the Solution

    CESA 6 stands by your side as you implement your chosen evaluation systems. Our consultants can provide useful background on analyzing data and informing key decisions on leveraging valuable information.