[ISLMA-Share] Evalu-wise

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Our district has been using Evaluwise for at least three years now, and I would say that our overall experience is favorable.  I find it’s a little difficult to separate teachers’ frustrations with the program itself from their frustration that they must provide evidence in the new evaluation models.  A few wish they could just return to the days of one formal lesson every two years without a continuum of evidence or reflection.

We have made suggestions for the program, and EvaluWise has been very good about adjusting to our needs.  The main problems we find are on the user end.  Either the admin hasn’t clicked something in their module or the non-tech savvy teachers struggle with uploading files in the correct formats.  This has vastly improved in the last year since EvaluWise added a wider variety of formats that can be uploaded.  Most of us are in our second cycle with EvaluWise, and we are not uploading as many artifacts this time.  Since our admins’ walk-through app can link directly to the drop-in observation, we can just look through for components that might still be lacking evidence and then upload artifacts for just those (primarily Domains 1 and 4).


Jeanne Brucher
Teacher-Librarian
jbrucher at geneseoschools.org <mailto:jbrucher at geneseoschools.org>
Geneseo Middle School (309) 945-0524
Geneseo High School (309) 945-0316



> On Feb 23, 2017, at 2:28 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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> Hi Kathy,
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> Our district uses EvaluWise, and I really like it. You can upload and pair documents to the Danielsen domains which is super helpful. The administrator is then able to see all your artifacts paired up, and you can pair a document with multiple domains if applicable.
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> I can't really think of any cons with the program itself, though it could be a con if administration expected you to upload all evidence there instead of being able to also show them things in your room/library space.
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> Administrators can write a transcript of their observation which is also neat. They can then go through and pair parts of the transcript with the domain of the evaluation. I have enjoyed using it and felt as though it helped me organize my evaluation materials. Since so many of my artifacts were electronic anyway, I felt like it wasn't extra work. As I created a document, I would upload it.
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> As for having to email an administrator, that is a setting that they can change on their end so that it will alert them.
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> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info <mailto:islma at list.railslibraries.info>> wrote:
> Con-  I find it formatted strangely and never understand what it is asking for.  It also never alerts the administrator when I have filled something out.  Therefore I always have to send a separate email to my principal to let her know that I have accomplished a step.  It asks you to show evidence, but you have to make your charts etc. pdfs before you can insert them.  It just always seems like so many steps to accomplish one goal.
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> Does any district use Evaluwise for teacher evaluation?  Pros and Cons?
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> Unity Junior High Librarian
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> Tolono, IL
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