Performance Management: Teacher Goals, Coaching, Excellent Teaching Rubric (ETR), Observations, SchoolMint Grow

Teaching and Learning provides resources for teachers and coaches to understand our performance management process, including the Excellent Teaching Rubric and Microgoals, on their site. 

Data team manages access and functionality for our observation platform, SchoolMint Grow (formerly Whetstone), and our performance management dashboards, where you can access your feedback after the close of a survey/performance management round.

Log in to SchoolMint Grow via Okta.

Jump to in this article:

• For Teachers - Teacher Workflow
• For Coaches - Adding Observations
• For Coaches - Assigning (and Mass Assigning) Microgoals
• For School and Regional Leaders - Tracking Completion
• For School and Regional Leaders - Reviewing and Norming Scores
• SchoolMint Grow Dashboard 

For Teachers - Teacher Workflow

Teachers use SchoolMint Grow to review their weekly walkthrough and Microgoal data and submit their Coaching Tool: Teacher Reflection during performance management rounds.

For Coaches - Adding Observations

Coaches use SchoolMint Grow to give feedback to their direct reports via weekly walkthroughs, O3s, and the Coaching Tool: Coach ETR and Reflection. ADP manager relationships determine SchoolMint Grow coaching assignments. If you believe your coaching load is incorrect, first contact your school operations team to confirm that assignments are correct in ADP. If ADP is correct, submit a ticket to [e-mail].

Coaches and School Leadership teams start out on the new Data Dashboard view.

For Coaches - Assigning (and Mass Assigning) Microgoals

Coaches can assign Microgoals directly from the walkthrough and Coaching Tool: Coach ETR and Reflection forms or by clicking on a teacher's profile from the Data Dashboard. If more than one teacher needs to be assigned the same Microgoal, new functionality enables coaches to mass assign goals.

For School and Regional Leaders - Tracking Completion

School Leadership teams can now use the Data Dashboard (your new home screen) & Cycles Dashboard to track completion of O3s, Walkthroughs, and Coaching Tools forms.

For School and Regional Leaders - Reviewing and Norming Scores

During Walkthrough and ETR cycles, leaders can use the Form Report to review scores by school, coach, observer, and date. 

Regional leaders can use the Form Norming Report to see the distribution of scores across a school. Updates from the norming report update with a page refresh in the app.