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Data Quality in Action
Highly Qualified Teachers
Describe how to highly qualify a teacher for an assignment where one is required.
Identify ways to troubleshoot data quality errors when highly qualifying teachers.
Objectives
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 2001 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA) of 2004 outline qualifications for teachers.
Highly Qualified Teachers
HQT requirements apply to all teachers who provide instruction in the core academic subjects. English, Language Arts, Reading Mathematics, Science Foreign (World) Languages Civics/Government, Economics, History, Geography Visual Arts, Music, Dance, Theatre Elementary Curriculum
Highly Qualified Teachers
A highly qualified teacher must Have at least a bachelor’s degree, and Hold full state certification, and Demonstrate subject matter knowledge
Highly Qualified Teachers
http://www.k12.wa.us/TitleIIA/HighlyQualifiedTeachers.aspx
Highly Qualified TeachersLearn more at the Title IIA web site Guidelines for highly qualifying teachers,
including special education and alternative learning environments
Accountability plans Guidance about highly qualified paraeducators
Districts annually report the status of their teachers using an EDS application: the highly qualified teacher (HQT) data collection tool.
The HQT Tool
The HQT Tool
All of the schools in a district are listed.
The HQT Tool This information is pulled
from directory information in EDS. This directory data is the foundation of all other data connections.
Check building names and grade levels.
The HQT Tool
Be sure that the CEDARS term dates are entered and match what is reported to CEDARS.
The HQT Tool
Information about individual teachers is drawn from various files and databases.
The HQT Tool
Staff are reported on the S-275 or through CEDARS.
The HQT Tool
Only staff who do not have students should be identified in the tool by the S-275.
Correct errors in the Student Schedule File and Staff Schedule File in CEDARS to resolve the issue.
The HQT Tool
Be sure that teachers are listed only once per building.
The S-275 is due October 1 for allocation purposes. Districts can resubmit the report as often as they want in order to address data quality errors. It will not affect their allocation.
All information (name, certificate number…) needs to match across all of the district’s reports.
The HQT Tool
Be sure courses match their content areas. If they are not aligned, the teacher will be identified as not highly qualified.
This correction must be made at the district level.
The HQT Tool
If there is a mismatch, correct it in CEDARS. Reporting what’s wrong in the action box does not fix the data quality issue.
The HQT Tool
These data quality issues place a district’s federal funds at risk.
The HQT Tool
Information displayed in this area is gathered from eCert and data entered by the district into the HQT Tool.
The HQT Tool
High, Objective, Uniform State Standards of Evaluation (HOUSSE) forms must be dated prior to the first day of the school term. Otherwise, the teacher will be reported as not highly qualified.
Data Quality Errors
Data Quality Errors
Reports
Use the Reports Tab to generate and download data from the HQT Tool.
Review Describe how to highly qualify a teacher for an
assignment where one is required.
Identify ways to troubleshoot data quality errors when highly qualifying teachers.
Visit http://www.k12.wa.us/CEDARS/dataquality/
Want more?
There are multiple ways in which data quality affects the process of highly qualifying teachers. How can errors be reduced?
Suppose a teacher in your list was showing as not highly-qualified in the HQT Tool, yet you had paper documentation proving otherwise. How would you troubleshoot the error?
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