District expands evaluator training, continues ST Math rollout; administration to upload individual MCAS reports to Aspen

Assistant Superintendent Lynch and Dr. Colbert updated the committee on teaching-and-learning initiatives. They said the district invested in multi-day evaluator training this year (Research for Better Teaching) to focus evaluators on student evidence of learning and how to give formative feedback. Thirty-one evaluators — principals, department chairs and other certified evaluators — are enrolled in a seven-part series (four sessions completed by the meeting) that runs through February; the trainings are intended to promote consistent, student-focused…