This year marks my 14th year as an educator and also an evaluation year. I don’t know if you are like me, but often times I find that when I go to upload my evidence, I am scrolling through my camera roll, searching my laptop, and searching social media feeds for the picture I swear I remember taking. There had to be an easier way.

Don Sturm to the rescue. I came across his blog post about personalized hashtags and it was a game changer. You can find his blog post here: https://schoolscanbebetter.com/2019/02/05/personalized-hashtags/

Essentially, you create personalized hashtags on Twitter that corresponds to a component of the Danielson Framework. You would make the hashtag start with your last name then 2a or 4b (Ex. #Pitzer2a). I do recommend seeing if anyone else has posted to this hashtag first and if others are tweeting to that for whatever reason. Then you can change yours to be more personalized to you.

Since hashtags work as a file folder in a way, you or your evaluator then can click on that hashtag and see the evidence. All of it is timestamped and organized in one place. When it comes time to submit your evidence then, you can simply upload the link to that hashtag on Twitter. (For example: https://twitter.com/hashtag/ (include your hashtag without the # sign after that last backslash). Not only will you feel way more organized come time to submit your evidence, but you can also gain ongoing feedback throughout the year from any member of your PLC. 

I decided to take this one step further and create a Google Drawing HyperDoc. This would house all of the links to every component of the Danielson Framework. This way I share one link evaluator. I also chose to share it back in August. This way, they could provide me with feedback throughout the year too.

This was a complete game changer for me. No more trying to remember what folder I had saved something and/or what date I took that picture. Not to mention since I worked on this year round, before I knew it the domains were memorized! A big thank you to Don for this amazing idea!

To view my Evidence HyperDoc click on the image below: