This high-impact professional learning session is designed to help Tennessee school leaders effectively understand, interpret, and apply TVAAS (Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System) data to support academic growth and instructional decision-making across their schools. Participants will explore how TVAAS provides a clear picture of student growth over time—beyond proficiency—and how this data can be used to shape school improvement plans, support teacher development, and ensure equitable learning opportunities for all students.
Through guided analysis, real-school case studies, and interactive sessions with data specialists, leaders will gain confidence in using TVAAS as a tool for collaborative leadership and strategic action. Key Learning Outcomes: Understand the core principles of TVAAS, including growth vs. achievement, and its alignment with Tennessee’s accountability framework. Analyze school-level and teacher-level TVAAS reports to identify trends, gaps, and instructional strengths, Use TVAAS data to inform PLC conversations, target intervention supports and refine curriculum pacing. Leverage value-added insights to support educator evaluations, differentiated PD, and equity-focused leadership; and Integrate TVAAS with other data sources (e.g., benchmark assessments, RTI², and state assessments) for comprehensive decision-making. These things will all be presented to you by your peers currently doing this work.
Who Should Attend Principals, assistant principals, instructional coaches, academic deans, data teams, and district instructional leaders. Although we originally planned this event for school leaders, it is open to any ALI subscriber who feels the need to improve their learning in their schools. By request, this event will feature school and system leaders who want to inspire confidence, create change, and support their leaders by modeling their use of data to coach the underperforming teacher and leader in our state’s schools, use data such as TVAAS reports to monitor growth over time, and to support the lead learner who may be less familiar with TVAAS than their peers or their teachers. When we change grade levels, begin to look at cohort data over grade spans, we often need support from leaders who have already made this data real to their staff members.
This event is presented by three leaders who received nominations from their superintendents or who were recently honored during the Principal or Supervisor of the year program. They are leaders who are willing to both share their work and to embrace data as a tool for student and teacher success. Join us as we learn from Dr. Chris George from Murfreesboro City Schools, Dr. Leneda Laing from Cleveland City Schools, and Sheryl Theil from Dickson County Schools. They all come with the highest recommendations from their Superintendents.
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