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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 2012', '§ 2012', '§3012', 'art 30', '§3012', 'art 30', 'art 30']

Transparency in Testing:
On February 11, 2014, the Board of Regents adopted emergency regulations to address concerns that have been raised by the field and by stakeholders to adjust and improve the implementation of the Common Core Standards and teacher/principal evaluation. At its March 2014 meeting, the Board of Regents made a series of technical amendments to the regulations to clarify the requirements for districts and BOCES that opt to use an assessment that is not a traditional standardized assessment for grades K-2 for purposes of APPR.
You can view the memo from Assistant Commissioner Julia Rafal-Baer here
You can view all of the resources available by visiting Engage NY here.
TCSD Professional Development Plans:
Professional Development Plan - 2015-2016 School Year
Professional Development Plan - 2014-2015 School Year
Technology Professional Development Outlines - 2014-2015 School Year
Professional Development Plan - 2013-2014 School Year
Subject: Teacher and Principal School Year 2013/2014 Annual Professional Performance Review (APPR) Appraisal Information Request
Dear Tuckahoe School Parent or Legal Guardian;
In June 2012, Chapter 68 of the Laws of 2012 amended Education Law § 2012-c, requiring disclosure of APPR scores of teachers and principals. The scores will be available on or after October 17, 2014.
As a parent or legal guardian you have the right to obtain the final quality (HEDI) rating and composite effectiveness scores (0-100 point score) of your child’s teachers and principal. Our procedures for releasing teacher or principal APPR final rating and composite score are as follows:
1) When a parent or legal guardian requests their child’s principal/teacher’s APPR final HEDI rating for School Year 13/14, the request will be forwarded to the Superintendent.
2) An in-person meeting with the requestor and the Superintendent will be scheduled. Photo identification to verify the parental relationship through information in the student’s records will be performed.
3) The HEDI rating and composite score will be provided orally.
4) A record of parents who have received scores, including whose scores were given, will be maintained on a district form to be maintained in the District Clerk’s office.
5) The principal/teacher will be informed, if not already aware, of the parent/legal guardian’s request for information.
6) If the principal/teacher’s APPR data is pending appeal, the data will not be released to the parent or guardian.
7) Oral explanation of the HEDI final rating and composite principal/teacher score will be provided to the parent or legal guardian.
8) Parental requests for a change in placement remains an administrative decision and will not be based on parental preference, except in articulated unusual circumstances.
Please remember, our school has a personal relationship with each family. The APPR data release process is new and filled with many questions. We will safeguard the data and privacy of professional staff while informing our parents and legal guardians of teacher and principal data performance as reflected in final rating (HEDI) and composite scores.
We remain more than a number. We are your child’s connection to learning in a positive environment of caring, nurturing, and safety. Please ask if you have questions or issues that will help us better serve your child and your family.
Chris Dyer, Superintendent
Teacher and Principal School Year 2012/2013 Annual Professional Performance Review (APPR) Appraisal Information Request
In June 2012, Chapter 68 of the Laws of 2012 amended Education Law § 2012-c, requiring disclosure of APPR scores of teachers and principals. The scores will be available on or after October 17, 2013.
1) When a parent or legal guardian requests their child’s principal/teacher’s APPR final HEDI rating for School Year 12/13, the request will be forwarded to the Superintendent.
Dear Superintendent Dyer:
Congratulations. I am pleased to inform you that your Annual Professional Performance Review
Plan (APPR) meets the criteria outlined in Education Law §3012-c and Subpart 30-2 of the
Commissioner’s Regulations and has been approved for the 2012-2013 school year. As a reminder, we
are relying on the certification and assurances that are part of your approved APPR. If any material
changes are made to your approved APPR plan, your district/BOCES must submit such material
changes to us for approval.
Pursuant to Education Law §3012-c and Subpart 30-2, the Department will continue to work with
districts to help ensure compliance with the statute and the regulations. We will be analyzing data
supplied by districts, BOCES, and/or schools and may ask for a corrective action plan if there are
unacceptably low correlation results between the student growth subcomponent and any other
measures of teacher and principal effectiveness and/or if the teacher or principal scores or ratings show
little differentiation across educators and/or the lack of differentiation is not justified by equivalently
consistent student achievement results. Please be advised that, if any provisions of your APPR plan
violate the statute or the regulations, the Department reserves the right to require your district to correct
and/or resolve such violations.
The Department looks forward to continuing our work together, with the goal of ensuring that
every school has world-class educators in the classroom, every teacher has a world-class principal to
support his or her professional growth, and every student achieves college and career readiness.
See the full APPR letter here.
The Tuckahoe Common School District adopted on August 29, 2011, the Annual Professional Performance Review Plans for Tuckahoe Common School District teachers and principal in compliance with Education Law 3012-c and the law’s implementing regulations. The newly adopted plans for teacher (draft) and principal to be filed in the District Office and posted on the Tuckahoe Common School District website by September 10, 2011.
Section 3012-c of the Education Law imposes a duty to collectively bargain with respect to key elements of the APPR plans and to apply the use of one of the four rating for individual teacher and principal’s annual appraisals. The selection of ratings or the four evaluated categories include rating of highly effective, effective, developing, and highly ineffective. The teacher or principal’s annual performance appraisal category is to be implemented for all ratings assigned to all personnel serving as teachers and or as principal beginning in September of 2011.
Our Tuckahoe Common School District teacher APPR was addressed during SY 2010-2011 negotiations or collective bargaining. Our teacher evaluation appeal process was established during the negotiations; the applicability of our teachers’ APPR plan to include all certified teachers was determined; and the APPR professional development plan for SY 11-12 was discussed and received approval as a August 31, 2011 Board resolution. Pending collective bargaining negotiations involve determining the local assessment student growth / value added point assignments and assignment of points to the 60% non-student performance sub-component of the overall composite effectiveness.
The actual teacher evaluation rubric that has been identified for future point assignments is the New York State Teacher Union rubric.
The NYSUT Teacher Practice Rubric contains four levels of performance ratings:
“Highly Effective,” “Effective,” “Developing,” and “Ineffective.” These rating categories directly align with the four (4) rating categories developed by the New York State Education Department. Remaining teacher negotiation issues are: Teacher Improvement Plan, employment decisions, assignment of students to teachers, and local assessment measure security. The Tuckahoe Common School District (draft) teacher APPR is provided here. In reality, most of the key elements of the Tuckahoe Common School District Teachers’ APPR as envisioned in new Part 30-2 APPR negotiation will remain a product to be completed through negotiation. Teacher evaluator training has commenced and is ongoing with three future evaluation training dates scheduled during SY11-12.
Our principal APPR plan is complete and is available here.
Please feel free to visit the district office if you wish to review the written APPR plan(s).
You are invited to view the New York State based road map for the APPR progress.
Thank you for joining and sharing our progress as we work to reach a new model to appraise student achievement and to ensure continuous progress as a learning community.
Principal/Administrator APPR 2011-2012:
Section I: Final Principal/Administrator Appraisal Holistic Rubric
Section II: Principal/Administrator Performance Plan & Objectives
Section III: Administrator Goal/Objective Planning Form
Section IV: Administrator Performance Appraisal Self-Assessment
Section V: Adminisrator Performance Appraisal Document
Section VI: Multidimensional Principal Performance Rubric
Teacher APPR 2011-2012 (Draft):
APPR Appendix C Report of Observations
APPR Appendix D Mid-Year Evaluation non-tenured teacher
APPR Appendix F Teacher Improvement Plan Form