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=Welcome to the Thompson School District = =and the Colorado Integration Project =

In August, 2011, the Thompson School District was selected as in Integration District to participate in the Colorado Integration Project .

October 2012 TSD Educator Effectiveness Newsletter
 to the Thompson School District Board of Education, April 11, 2012

Project Manager
Lanny Hass, lanny.hass@thompsonschools.org 970-613-5027.

Summary
 Funded by the //Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation// through the Colorado Legacy Foundation, the project supports CDE’s work to address:
 *  Senate Bill 10-191(Educator Effectiveness)
 * Senate Bill 08-212 (Colorado Achievement Plan for Kids or "CAP4K")
 * Senate Bill 09-163 (Educator Accountability Act for Post-Secondary and Workforce Readiness).

The project seeks to implement these objectives:
 * Colorado Academic Standards and aligned instructional materials to guide instruction;
 * Professional development in formative practices to inform instruction; //and//
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;"> Regular performance evaluations that hold educators accountable for student growth and provide them feedback to improve instruction.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">... and provide four Grant Outcomes:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Grant Outcome 1: Educator Effectiveness** - Implement educator performance evaluation systems aligned with S.B. 191 providing supports directly aligned to educator performance evaluations and using performance evaluations to directly inform human resource decisions.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Grant Outcome 2: Teacher Supports and Formative Instructional Tools** - Build capacity of educators to utilize the Math Design Collaborative tools and Literacy Design Collaborative tasks to implement strong formative instructional practices aligned with the Colorado Academic Standards.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Grant Outcome 3: Integration** - Demonstrate the impact and benefit of implementing new educator performance evaluation systems in an integrated manner with the Colorado Academic Standards and aligned instructional practices.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Grant Outcome 4: Scaling Integration** - Leverage exemplars created and lessons learned from the Integration Districts to support statewide scaling of integration work.

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