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 this Asynchronous event? 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 videos feature for example, Chris George, the Coordinator of Assessment and Data for Murfreesboro City schools and Jessica Novak an Instructional Coach in that system. We will collaborate with these leaders as we respond to the requests to dig more deeply into the work of leaders who use the data to affect change. 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 this team and a panel of leaders from across state who will discuss how TVAAS data can be used to support learning across grade levels. There will be 9 different presenter’s videos to select from for your own personalized professional learning experience.
Here is what is required of our subscribers to receive full TASL credit:
You will register for this event. Once you are registered, you will receive a link to 4-5 facilitated videos on this topic.
You may select to view them all or select your top three choices and only view those. Each video will be marked so that you can view and select the correct assessment easily.
You will then need to finish the evaluation and the short assessment on each viewed recording and submit that to Dr. Shelton no later than midnight on June 5, 2026.
Your work will be verified, feedback submitted to your email, and the TASL certificate will be issued to you by June 15, 2026.
All directions needed to open the videos, complete and submit the assessment, handouts, quizzes, and evaluations will be sent to you soon after you register, but credit will only be given after the materials are collected by Dr. Shelton. These documents must be completed and submitted to her no later than midnight on June 5, 2026. The TASL approval date for this event is June 5, 2026 and that is what will be listed on your official certificate of attendance. If you have leaders that need TASL credit near the end of the year, but who do not want to leave their schools to attend, they may register for this event and complete the videos in their own time, but they must be ALI subscribers to register.
*** 8 HOURS TASL CREDIT **