Adopted by the Alabama State Board of Education in May 2009, then piloted in 2009-2010, EDUCATEAlabama is a formative system designed to provide information about an educator’s current level of practice within the Alabama Continuum for Teacher Development, which is based on the Alabama Quality Teaching Standards (AQTS), Alabama Administrative Code §290-3-3-.04.  The AQTS constitutes the foundation of the teaching profession while the Continuum is a tool used to guide educator reflection, self-assessment, and goal setting for professional learning and growth.

Pursuant to the Alabama Administrative Code §290-3-2-.01(28), EDUCATEAlabama supports sustained and collaborative activities for educators designed to increase the academic achievement of all students.  The activities must be consistent with the Alabama Standards for Professional Development, Alabama Administrative Code §290-4-3-.01(3).  The activities must strengthen pedagogical knowledge and promote the acquisition of research-based strategies.  For currently employed Alabama educators, the activities chosen to improve practice must by supported by data from local schools. Professional Learning Plans (PLP) must be approved by the employing superintendent. More History >>.

Adopted by the Alabama State Board of Education in May 2009, then piloted in 2009-2010, EDUCATEAlabama is a formative system designed to provide information about an educator’s current level of practice within the Alabama Continuum for Teacher Development, which is based on the Alabama Quality Teaching Standards (AQTS), Alabama Administrative Code §290-3-3-.04. The AQTS constitutes the foundation of the teaching profession while the Continuum is a tool used to guide educator reflection, self-assessment, and goal setting for professional learning and growth.

Pursuant to the Alabama Administrative Code §290-3-2-.01(28), EDUCATEAlabama supports sustained and collaborative activities for educators designed to increase the academic achievement of all students. The activities must be consistent with the Alabama Standards for Professional Development, Alabama Administrative Code §290-4-3-.01(3). The activities must strengthen pedagogical knowledge and promote the acquisition of research-based strategies. For currently employed Alabama educators, the activities chosen to improve practice must by supported by data from local schools. Professional Learning Plans (PLP) must be approved by the employing superintendent.

A group of stakeholders, comprised of Alabama instructional leaders and educators, worked diligently in 2009 to develop the EDUCATEAlabama process. As a result of that committee’s work, the EDUCATEAlabama Professional Learning Collaborative was chosen to replace the Professional Education Personnel Evaluation (PEPE) Program as the evaluation process needed to meet the state’s 1988 requirement of personnel evaluation for Alabama’s educators.

The EDUCATEAlabama process, a formative system designed to provide data about an educator’s current level of practice within the Alabama Continuum for Teacher Development based on the Alabama Quality Teaching Standards, was piloted statewide in 2009-2010. As the process implies, EDUCATEAlabama is a professional learning collaborative. Data were used by the instructional leader and educator to set expectations, goals, and a plan of action for educator professional growth and learning. Instructional leaders and educators received training to implement the process through a series of online training modules. This training was an approved professional study by the Alabama Council for Leadership Development (ACLD). Upon successful completion of this ACLD approved professional study, instructional leaders and educators seeking to maintain Alabama instructional leader certification, earned a Professional Learning Unit (PLU). << Less