Teaching and Learning Branch

MEMORANDUM

September 2012

TO:Delaware School Librarians

FROM:Denise DiSabatino Allen – Education Associate, Library/Media/Technology-ELA

RE:DPAS II Component V for School Librarians

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This year we are all involved with DPAS II Component 5 Growth Measures. There are three groups of educators and three Measure of Growth (Measures A, B & C) for this initiative:

  1. DCAS educators (i.e. ELA & Math) (Group 1)
  2. Non-DCAS in graded subjects (Group 2)
  3. Non-DCAS educators in non-graded subjects (Group 3)

The state has established that all Delaware School librarians will be evaluated in DPAS II Component 5 as the Non-DCAS Educators in Non-Graded Subject, Group 3.

This means that a school librarian Component 5 will be 100% of Measure C Growth Goals. A committee of Delaware school librarians was formed to help address and create growth measures to implement for the 2012-2013 school year. Attached you will see the documents created as a result of their hard work. When the school librarians first began their work they were to come up with 5 “required” and 10 “selected growth goals.This has changed, there are no set performance measures required, you will be able to choose from a menu of options, however the document has not been updated due to deadlines.Instead, this year you will:

  • Only need to choose 4 performance goals (approved by your principal) to use as a measure.
  • Choose a cohort of 10 or more students to follow for measuring student growth.
  • Find the average score of student performance between two points in time with at least 8 weeks between those two points in time.

The good news is the committee created a document that emulates “evidence based practice” in our school libraries, focusing on student growth through student learning outcomes. We targeted our growth goals to both 21st Century Learner Standards in alignment with Common Core State Standard in ELA, focusing on research.

All the information is in the zip file attached. The information includes:

  • Performance Plus School Library Growth Goals Manual
  • School Librarians General Overview
  • Appendix I – Required Performance Measures Directions
  • Appendix II – Selected Performance Measures Directions
  • Appendix III – Graphic Organizer Materials/Templates

Component V for school librarians is also accessible on the Delaware Department of Education School library website,

More information about DPAS II can be found at the URL,

Thank you and feel free to contact me for any assistance needed.

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