Strive Setup Checklist

• Identify decision-makers (HR, staff development, principals, instructional technology) for the following processes: goal setting, evaluation, and professional development.

• Invite decision-makers to a meeting to plan Strive implementation and reflection.

• Determine how Strive can support your TIA process (outlined in your application).

• Include Tasks 2-9 discussion and assignment from the Meeting Agenda.

Who Is Attending?

Meeting Date:

• Identify the date for converting evaluation documents to PDF as part of the archive.

• Identify the person responsible for archiving documents.

• Determine which documents you can archive. (The Unsigned Documents Report, Evaluation Process Completion Report, and Evaluation Status Report can help.)

• Follow the directions in Archiving Evaluations and Goals at the End of the Year.

• Verify that you’ve set the evaluation process’s Start and End Dates correctly for the archive:

  • The Start Date should be set early enough to capture the earliest date on which teachers might have written their goals.

  • The End Date should capture the completion of all evaluation documents from all staff members and be the last date the process is active.

• Determine the date and person responsible for exporting a copy of the archive for HR to keep in a digital format as PDFs.

• Determine which processes need frameworks (such as which ones will be monitored for growth/goal setting).

• Verify which frameworks and standards you want to set for the processes you will monitor for growth.

• Update existing framework language and dimensions as needed.

• Add new frameworks if needed for tagging goals, evaluation documents, and professional development.

• Access current evaluation forms for principal and evaluator feedback.

• Verify that you can obtain good data and reports from evaluation templates.

• Visit Prebuilt Forms in Form Management to determine if other evaluation forms would be more effective.

• Make copies of the prebuilt forms and edit as needed (coming soon).

• Build a new form, edit existing forms, or copy forms as needed.

• Tag evaluation forms with domain and dimension.

• Determine document options, like signatures or copying data into the summative.

• Ensure that Student Growth is added to the evaluation process per Texas Education Code Chapter 150, Subchapter AA,  §150.1001(f)(2).

• Review your T-TESS and T-PESS evaluation processes.

• Build additional processes as needed.

  • Remember, processes are based on steps and tasks, so multiple employee groups can use the same process.

• If applicable, set the framework for each process. Not all will need a framework.

• Make sure student growth is part of your T-TESS process.

• Determine if Student Portfolios in Aware and Strive can help with your student growth tracking.

• Manage appraisal alerts in Evaluation Setup to send alert notifications tied to the district evaluation calendar and encourage staff members to set up evaluation status emails.

• Define documents tied to processes that must be loaded for user reference (T-TESS rubric, district evaluation calendar, district guidelines for goal setting, etc.).

• Define who needs to access each document.

• Upload reference documents.