Professional Growth Tracks. The LIFE2 HCMS drives all aspects of the educator evaluation process and influences all of its components. An essential component of the LIFE2 HMCS System is the Professional Growth Tracks strategy. Annually, all educators – newly-hired and experienced – will be assigned to a Professional Growth Track based on effectiveness data and ratings: LIFE2 : Professional Growth Tracks Track Audience Professional Growth Strategies Track 1: Initial Professional Development • All educators with less than 3 years experience • Designed to support growth of new educators – both new educators and new to LIFE2 district schools – during probationary period. • Strategies promote assimilation of educators into district culture and promote mastery of district instructional / administrative strategies. Track 2: Ongoing Professional Growth •Experienced Educators – Exemplary, Proficient •Designed to support experienced educators demonstrating mastery of educator effectiveness domains. •Strategies promote development of leadership skills, advanced certifications and peer support to promote sharing effective practice. Track 3: Professional Development • Experienced Educators – Needs Improvement • Designed to support experienced educators demonstrating single-issue concern or single-issue deficiency in effectiveness domains. • Strategies promote development of skills aligned to effectiveness domains – Concern and strengthen weaknesses identified during evaluations. Track 4: Professional Development • Experienced Educators – Unsatisfactory • Designed to support experienced educators demonstrating less than satisfactory performance across multiple effectiveness domains. • Strategies develop skills aligned to effectiveness domains / strengthen – Warning multiple weaknesses identified during evaluations.• Strategies mitigate deficiencies to avoid potential dismissal actions. Annual assignment of educators to Professional Growth Tracks will trigger Professional Growth Plans that connect educators to support, professional development and quality improvement strategies that promote educator attainment of Exemplary and Proficient performance ratings. LIFE2 seeks to raise student achievement by connecting all students attending schools with Exemplary and Proficient educators.
