Great Teachers & Leaders:

Continuing to Invest in our

Educators
DDOE Summary

Fall 2014

Vision for Teacher & Leader Effectiveness in Delaware

Vision

FY16 Budget Request

We will ensure Delaware is a

world-class destination
for the strongest
educators to grow and
build a career in teaching
and school leadership,
especially for scholars who
need them the most.

DRAFT for Discussion Only

: Acting upon what we already know

People are the most important lever in raising student achievement.

As we continue the work of making Delaware one of the best systems of
public education in the world, we must ensure the state is a leading
destination for the strongest educators to start, grow and build a career in
teaching and school leadership, especially for the students who need them
the most.
Delawares investments within RTTT and state funding are aligned to this
focus on teacher and leader effectiveness. About 50% of all state RTTT
funding focused on Great Teachers & Leaders which have supported the
state at a time of improved student outcomes. Districts also contributed
sizable portions of their local funds to this.
Some initiatives have already been discontinued or do not merit ongoing
support. Not all grant funding needs to continue. However, Delaware
will not be able to stay the course by leaving the gap from grant funding
unfilled. If we believe that Delaware should be a magnet for Great
Teachers & Leaders, then this will require an additional and ongoing
investment annually, with a focus on major priorities such as educator
preparation, educator evaluation, human capital analytics and jobembedded coaching.
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Examples of what Delaware might lose without investment to support

current and future educators
Prospective List of Initiatives (examples)
Illustrative Annual Allocation (FY16 & Beyond)
The best possible training for aspiring
teachers and leaders in the country through new
legislation/regulation, targeted investments and
new expectations for designing and executing
outstanding preparation.

Support for Delaware Schools of Education

(Traditional Teacher/Principal Training)
UD, DSU, Wilmington University

$400,000

JoinDelawareSchools (Recruitment Statewide)

$200,000

The best talent recruitment and talent pipeline

development and investment in the country for our
LEAs, to help cultivate, select, train, and induct
top-talent teachers and leaders through innovative
approaches and district reform.

School Leadership Pipelines (DLP, e.g.)

$600,000

Relay Graduate School of Education

$300,000

UD ARTC/TFA (Alt-Pathways)

$800,000

The best educator effectiveness data tools,

systems and supports in the country, with an
emphasis on gathering insights from educators,
and feeding that data back into PLCs and Board
Rooms to make data-driven decisions.

PLC Supports & Teacher-Leadership

Networks (Various)

$700,000

DEEDS Upgrades/Teacher Prep Scorecards

$200,000

TELL-Delaware Survey

$100,000

Development Coaches (DASL)

$500,000

The Vision Network

$400,000

Relay Graduate School of Education Principal Fellowships

$100,000

The best educator management, development

and professional learning networks in the
country, leveraging our size to provide jobembedded coaching for educators that drives their
professional growth in real-time.

School Leadership Evaluation Work - at all

$300,000

TLE FY16 Budget, $7.0M = ($4.6 sustainability + $2.4 existing

(non-staffing investments))
Educator Effectiveness
Continuum

Sub-Component

Ed Prep - Competitive grants for

educator prep improvement
(teacher/specialist)
Leadership Prep - Competitive
grant for school leader pipeline
Pre-Service
development (principal, sup, district
Preparation
leaders, APs)
Technical Assistance
Program Evaluation/Data
Analytics
Sub Total

Annual Activity
Budget (new)

Current Funding
(non- RTTT,
Existing)

$ 1,500,000

$ 400,000

$ 650,000
$0

$0
$ 100,000

$ 100,000
$ 2,250,000

$0
$ 500,000

$ 100,000
$ 100,000

$ 50,000
$ 50,000

Recruitment/
Selection

Recruitment - Professional services

for Districts and vendor support for
statewide talent portal
Sub Total
Licensure/Certification
Management - Professional
services needed for processing &
Licensure/Certification database management (including
DEEDS)
(State Code requirements for
Educators)
Sub Total
Mentoring/Induction - Regulatory
Induction/Mentoring requirement for mentoring of
educators
Sub Total
Equitable Distribution Educator Incentive & PD
Funding
Sub Total
Training and Coaching (for DPASII)
Assessment & System
Development
Evaluation, Coaching, Evaluation Technology and Data
PLCs, and Professional Systems
Learning Networks Learning Communities Teacher-

$0
(See Technology
Budget)
$0

$ 150,000
$ 150,000

$0
$0

$ 400,000
$400,000
$0

$ 900,000
$ 900,000

$0

$ 500,000

$ 100,000

$0

$ 1,050,000

$50,000

$0

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