Educator Identifier Project - Rationale
History of the Educator Identifier System
- SB-07-140, Quality Teachers Act
The Quality Teachers Act established the Quality Teachers Commission to assess the development and implementation of a unique educator identifier system integrated with existing and emerging educational databases.
- HB-09-1065
Directed the Colorado Department of Education, in collaboration with the Quality Teachers Commission, to develop an educator identifier system to collect and synthesize information needed to develop strategies for improving teaching and learning by linking student and teacher data.
- 2009 Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems Grant (SLDS)
The 2009 SLDS Grant Program requires both educators and students have a unique ID and relationship to be made in a data model to conduct correlation analysis, including to program and financial data.
The Grant Program also requires information about educator preparation and other HR data that can be tracked by associating data with a unique ID at the agency and institution level.
- Race to the Top
Colorado's Race to the Top proposal requires participating districts to adopt evaluation systems that include at least 4 categories, that base ratings at least 50 percent upon measures of student growth, that are conducted annually, and that use multiple measures of effectiveness that meet or exceed the rubrics established by the Governor's Council.
Purpose of the Educator Identifier System
- Identify what makes "great" educators and determine how to replicate those attributes or conditions.
- Improve teaching and learning by linking student achievement data to the students teacher(s)
- Improve educator preparation programs and professional development
- Enable users to recognize and reward educators
- Study educator mobility, recruitment and retention issues
- Address inequities in the distribution between high/low poverty schools as well as schools with high/low minority populations