Bill Text: FL S1474 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Education Personnel Evaluation
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2013-05-03 - Died in Education [S1474 Detail]
Download: Florida-2013-S1474-Introduced.html
Florida Senate - 2013 SB 1474
By Senator Bullard
39-00874-13 20131474__
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to education personnel evaluation;
3 amending s. 1012.34, F.S.; revising the criteria upon
4 which the performance evaluation of instructional
5 personnel and school administrators is measured;
6 providing an effective date.
7
8 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
9
10 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (3) and paragraph
11 (e) of subsection (7) of section 1012.34, Florida Statutes, are
12 amended to read:
13 1012.34 Personnel evaluation procedures and criteria.—
14 (3) EVALUATION PROCEDURES AND CRITERIA.—Instructional
15 personnel and school administrator performance evaluations must
16 be based upon the performance of students assigned to their
17 classrooms or schools, as provided in this section. Pursuant to
18 this section, a school district’s performance evaluation is not
19 limited to basing unsatisfactory performance of instructional
20 personnel and school administrators solely upon student
21 performance, but may include other criteria approved to evaluate
22 instructional personnel and school administrators’ performance,
23 or any combination of student performance and other approved
24 criteria. Evaluation procedures and criteria must comply with,
25 but are not limited to, the following:
26 (a) A performance evaluation must be conducted for each
27 employee at least once a year, except that a classroom teacher,
28 as defined in s. 1012.01(2)(a), excluding substitute teachers,
29 who is newly hired by the district school board must be observed
30 and evaluated at least twice in the first year of teaching in
31 the school district. The performance evaluation must be based
32 upon sound educational principles and contemporary research in
33 effective educational practices. The evaluation criteria must
34 include:
35 1. Performance of students.—At least 50 percent of a
36 performance evaluation must be based upon data and indicators of
37 student learning growth assessed annually by statewide
38 assessments or, for subjects and grade levels not measured by
39 statewide assessments, by school district end-of-course
40 assessments that are preceded by pretests administered during
41 the first week of class as provided in s. 1008.22(8). Each
42 school district must use the formula adopted pursuant to
43 paragraph (7)(a) for measuring student learning growth in all
44 courses associated with statewide assessments and must select an
45 equally appropriate formula for measuring student learning
46 growth for all other grades and subjects, except as otherwise
47 provided in subsection (7).
48 a. For classroom teachers, as defined in s. 1012.01(2)(a),
49 excluding substitute teachers, the student learning growth
50 portion of the evaluation must include growth data for students
51 assigned to the teacher, specific to the content and common core
52 state standards, where applicable, for the course or grade level
53 taught by the teacher. The data may be derived from comparisons
54 to “like” students statewide or nationally using 3 years of data
55 or the use of school district end-of-course assessments that are
56 preceded by pretests administered during the first week of class
57 over the course of at least 3 years. If less than 3 years of
58 data are available, the years for which data are available must
59 be used and the percentage of the evaluation based upon student
60 learning growth may be reduced to not less than 40 percent.
61 b. For instructional personnel who are not classroom
62 teachers, the student learning growth portion of the evaluation
63 must include growth data on statewide assessments for students
64 assigned to the instructional personnel over the course of at
65 least 3 years, or may include a combination of student learning
66 growth data and other measurable student outcomes that are
67 specific to the assigned position, provided that the student
68 learning growth data accounts for at least not less than 30
69 percent of the evaluation. If less than 3 years of student
70 growth data are available, the years for which data are
71 available must be used and the percentage of the evaluation
72 based upon student learning growth may be reduced to not less
73 than 20 percent.
74 c. For school administrators, the student learning growth
75 portion of the evaluation must include growth data for students
76 assigned to the school over the course of at least 3 years. If
77 less than 3 years of data are available, the years for which
78 data are available must be used and the percentage of the
79 evaluation based upon student learning growth may be reduced to
80 not less than 40 percent.
81 2. Instructional practice.—Evaluation criteria used when
82 annually observing classroom teachers, as defined in s.
83 1012.01(2)(a), excluding substitute teachers, must include
84 indicators based upon each of the Florida Educator Accomplished
85 Practices adopted by the State Board of Education. For
86 instructional personnel who are not classroom teachers,
87 evaluation criteria must be based upon indicators of the Florida
88 Educator Accomplished Practices and may include specific job
89 expectations related to student support.
90 3. Instructional leadership.—For school administrators,
91 evaluation criteria must include indicators based upon each of
92 the leadership standards adopted by the State Board of Education
93 under s. 1012.986, including performance measures related to the
94 effectiveness of classroom teachers in the school, the
95 administrator’s appropriate use of evaluation criteria and
96 procedures, recruitment and retention of effective and highly
97 effective classroom teachers, improvement in the percentage of
98 instructional personnel evaluated at the highly effective or
99 effective level, and other leadership practices that result in
100 student learning growth. The system may include a means to give
101 parents and instructional personnel an opportunity to provide
102 input into the administrator’s performance evaluation.
103 4. Professional and job responsibilities.—For instructional
104 personnel and school administrators, other professional and job
105 responsibilities must be included as adopted by the State Board
106 of Education. The district school board may identify additional
107 professional and job responsibilities.
108 (7) MEASUREMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING GROWTH.—
109 (e) For classroom teachers of courses for which the
110 district has not implemented appropriate assessments under s.
111 1008.22(8) or for which the school district has not adopted an
112 equally appropriate measure of student learning growth under
113 paragraphs (b)-(d), student learning growth must be measured by
114 the growth in learning of the classroom teacher’s students on
115 statewide assessments, or, for courses in which enrolled
116 students do not take the statewide assessments, school district
117 end-of-course assessments that are preceded by pretests
118 administered during the first week of class measurable learning
119 targets must be established based upon the goals of the school
120 improvement plan and approved by the school principal. A
121 district school superintendent may assign to instructional
122 personnel in an instructional team the student learning growth
123 of the instructional team’s students on statewide assessments.
124 This paragraph expires July 1, 2015.
125 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.
