Successful growth engages teachers in these important conversations through many forms. This guide was built to support your conversations throughout the year so that Mid-Year and End of Year Conversations are not a surprise, but rather a more formalized checkpoint to reflect and discuss a teacher’s practice, including their career aspirations.

It requires craftsmanship on the part of each educator to make conversations throughout the year purposeful and impactful. This guide is designed to support leaders in this effort from scheduling and analyzing data to facilitating the conversations and documenting the results.

LEAP Planning Calendar 2024-25

Checklist: School Leader Responsibilities: Is your ILT prepped and ready for conversations? Have you communicated your plan to your ILT and staff? Use this handy checklist to backwards plan and make sure you are ready!

Checklist: Evaluator Responsibilities at Mid Year: If you have any teachers on your caseload, this is the checklist for you! This is for ILT's and School Leaders.

Guided Conversation Templates for MY and EoY: Sample structure, talking points and suggestions for your conversations.

Teacher Mid Year and End of Year Conversation Checklist

Email Templates: Emails are recommended (and Best Practice!) for all teachers as a follow up to the conversation but most important for any teachers at risk of non-renewal, losing NP status or at risk for earning a NM or A rating. As always, feel free to personalize as you see fit and/or use agreed upon templates from your ILT.

Rationale Statements- Professionalism Indicators w Instructional & Professional Concerns: ILTs should norm on how to communicate the basis of your decisions with a rationale so the teacher understands the decision. Writing and recording this rationale, even when you’ve had the in-person conversation, supports you and the teacher having an understanding to reference and leverage going forward.

Calibrate for Professionalism

• Review resources and make a plan for Professionalism Calibration. (Recommended as an  ILT activity at a later date, prior to Mid-Year Conversations.) 
• TEMPLATE
• Professionalism Look Fors- School Example #1
• Professionalism Look Fors- School Example #2
• RATIONALE STATEMENTS

New LEAP Framework for Non-Instructional and Itinerant (NII) Teachers

• NII FAQ
• NII Framework 
• NII Training in Learning Space
• NII Indicator Calibration Example