Strengthen Consistency. Build Confidence. Advance Instructional Feedback.
Region 13’s Calibration Coaches offer customizable calibration support designed to meet the unique needs of campuses and districts. Whether you’re seeking a targeted calibration session, a multi-session plan, or yearlong support, our team partners with you to leverage calibration to ensure consistent and accurate teacher evaluations.
Customized Calibration Support for Your Team
We offer a varied and targeted approach for calibration support, allowing districts and campuses to focus on the areas that best meet their goals. Your Calibration Coach will work closely with your team to customize support, ensuring that calibration efforts are strategic, actionable, and aligned to your context. From establishing consistent observation and feedback practices, to planning yearlong calibration systems, analyzing data, and providing targeted professional learning, we offer a comprehensive approach to support leadership teams in their calibration work. Refer to the tabs for more details on the different services we can provide.
Flexible Packages Designed Around Your Goals
Every district’s calibration journey is unique, and Region 13 offers flexible support to meet your specific needs. Whether you are seeking a targeted, single-session experience, multi-session support to build systems and practices over time, or a yearlong comprehensive partnership for sustained growth, your Calibration Coach will work with your team to design a plan that aligns with your goals. Each package can combine multiple lenses of support- such as planning, calibration walks, data analysis, and targeted professional learning so that your district or campus receives the right combination of services at the right time. Together, we ensure your calibration work strengthens consistency, builds confidence, and refines instructional practice.
Calibration Foundations
T-TESS Appraiser Calibration Training
- Time needed: 4-7 hours
- Overview: R13 provides a comprehensive introduction to calibration principles, including the Observation Calibration Protocol and a deep dive into rubric descriptors. This training ensures that appraisers and leaders are aligned in how they observe, score, and provide feedback, reducing inconsistencies and increasing confidence in evaluation practices.
- Audience: Campus T-TESS Appraisers, District Leaders
- Location: At the district/campus site or at the ESC Region 13 campus
- Price: Custom group pricing beginning at $700. This service is included at no cost for districts who have an agreement with R13 for TIA support.
Strategic Planning
Calibration Implementation Planning
- Time needed: Up to 3 hours
- Overview: Our team guides district and campus leaders through the design of a sustainable, yearlong calibration system. By creating a structured calendar, identifying key events, and supporting the formation of a calibration committee, this service ensures calibration work is coordinated, intentional, and embedded into campus and district routines.
- Audience: District leaders, Campus leaders, T-TESS Appraisers
- Location: At the district/ campus site, R13 campus, or virtual meeting
- Price: Starting at $300
Defining Dimensions and Instructional Practice
T-TESS Review and Realignment
- Time needed: 4 hours
- Overview: R13 leads a focused review of T-TESS dimensions, connecting rubric descriptors to high-impact instructional practices. This process clarifies expectations, strengthens alignment, and ensures that all appraisers and instructional leaders share a common understanding of what effective teaching looks like in practice.
- Audience: Campus T-TESS Appraisers, District Leaders, Campus calibration committee
- Location: At the district/ campus site or at R13 campus
- Price: Approx. $600
Campus Calibration Walks
On-Site Calibration Walks
- Time needed: 4-7 hours
- Overview: Our team conducts live calibration walks with your appraisers and leadership teams, using the Observation Calibration Protocol for one or multiple dimensions. Post-walk reflection and discussion allow participants to align scoring, address inconsistencies, and practice providing actionable feedback, directly improving campus-wide instructional consistency.
- Audience: Campus T-TESS Appraisers, District Leaders, Campus calibration committee (recommend a minimum of 3 campus/ district staff for calibration)
- Variation on grouping for calibration: Campus calibration committee, inter-campus, neighbor district, appraiser focus groups
- Location: At the campus site
- Price: Starting at $700
Data Analysis and Root Cause Analysis
Root Cause Follow Up Support
- Time needed: varies
- Overview: Targeted professional learning is provided to resolve specific calibration challenges, whether misalignment exists with individual appraisers, departments, dimensions, or student growth measures. This service addresses the root of the problem through focused coaching, observation, and skill-building, ensuring sustainable improvements in calibration fidelity.
- Audience: varies
- Price: Starting at $300
Possible topics could include:
| Root Cause | Support and Services |
| Misalignment of specific appraiser(s) | Targeted appraiser support: calibration walks |
Misalignment of specific rubric dimensions
OR
Limited student growth | Defining high impact instructional practices by dimension and descriptors |
| Misalignment of specific departments, subject areas, grade levels, specialized settings | Targeted calibration for skew: rubric calibration and observations by dept/ subject area/ grade level/ specialized setting |
| Skew on student growth measures | Student Growth Measure Audit: Refining student growth measures for validity and reliability (alignment to VAM) |
