IMPACT - The DCPS Effectiveness Assessment System for School-Based Personnel

Background
Recognizing the importance of ensuring that talented and committed individuals are serving all of our students, DCPS has developed IMPACT, the new system for assessing the performance of teachers and other school-based staff.

Through IMPACT, DCPS seeks to create a culture in which all school-based personnel have a clear understanding of what defines excellence in their work, are provided with constructive and data-based feedback about their performance, and receive support to increase their effectiveness.

IMPACT is the culmination of over a year’s worth of research and design informed by extensive guidance and feedback from the DCPS community. Critical to the development process were over 40 question and answer sessions and over 50 focus groups with school-based personnel. In all, more than 500 teachers and other school-based staff were involved in this process.

Among the innovations in the IMPACT system are the use of student achievement data and the introduction of Master Educators – subject-based expert teachers – to help assess and improve instructional performance.

For information about IMPACT, please download a guidebook.

News
For DCPS school-based staff: Come to an IMPACT Information Session to learn more about the system.

Learn more

• IMPACT Guidebooks
• Master Educators