Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 704 - EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT CABINET - BOARD OF EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - OFFICE OF LEARNING PROGRAMS DEVELOPMENT › Chapter 3 - Office of Instruction › Section 704 KAR 3:370 - Kentucky framework for personnel evaluation

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1, 2024
RELATES TO:
				KRS
				156.557,
				156.800(7),
				161.740
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
				KRS
				156.557(2) and (5)(c), and
				(7) require the Kentucky Board of Education
				to promulgate administrative regulations to establish a statewide framework for
				the purposes of supporting and improving the performance of all certified
				school personnel, to develop written guidelines for local school districts to
				follow in implementing a system of evaluation for certified school personnel,
				and to establish an appeals procedure for certified school personnel. This
				administrative regulation establishes a statewide framework to support and
				improve the performance of all certified school personnel as well as an appeals
				procedure for certified school personnel.
Section
			 1. Definitions.
(1) "Assistant
			 principal" means a certified school personnel who devotes the majority of
			 employed time in the role of assistant principal, for which administrative
			 certification is required by the Education Professional Standards Board
			 pursuant to 16 KAR Chapter 3.
(2)
			 "Certified administrator" means a certified school personnel, other than
			 principal or assistant principal, who devotes the majority of employed time in
			 a position for which administrative certification is required by the Education
			 Professional Standards Board pursuant to 16 KAR Chapter 3.
(3) "Certified evaluation plan" means the
			 procedures and forms for evaluation of certified school personnel below the
			 level of superintendent developed by an evaluation committee and meeting all
			 requirements of the Kentucky Framework for Personnel Evaluation.
(4) "Certified school personnel" means a
			 certified school employee, below the level of superintendent, who devotes the
			 majority of employed time in a position in a district for which certification
			 is required by the Education Professional Standards Board pursuant to Title 16
			 KAR and includes certified administrators, assistant principals, principals,
			 other professionals, and teachers.
(5) "Conference" means a meeting between the
			 evaluator and the evaluatee for the purposes of providing feedback, analyzing
			 the results of an observation or observations, reviewing other evidence to
			 determine the evaluatee's accomplishments and areas for growth, and leading to
			 the establishment or revision of a professional growth plan.
(6) "Evaluatee" means the certified school
			 personnel who is being evaluated.
(7) "Evaluation committee" means a group,
			 consisting of an equal number of teachers and administrators, who develop
			 personnel evaluation procedures and forms for a local school district pursuant
			 to
			 KRS
			 156.557(5)(c)(1).
(8) "Evaluator" means the primary evaluator
			 pursuant to
			 KRS
			 156.557(5)(c) 2.
(9) "Evaluator certification" means
			 successful completion of certified evaluation training to ensure that certified
			 school personnel who serve as observers of evaluatees demonstrate proficiency
			 in rating teachers and other professionals for the purposes of evaluation and
			 feedback.
(10) "Formative
			 evaluation" is defined by
			 KRS
			 156.557(1)(a).
(11) "Job category" means a group or class of
			 certified school personnel positions with closely related functions.
(12) "Kentucky Framework for Personnel
			 Evaluation" means the statewide framework a school district uses to develop a
			 local certified school personnel evaluation system.
(13) "Observation" means a data collection
			 process conducted by a certified evaluator, in person or through video, for the
			 purpose of evaluation, including notes, professional judgments, and examination
			 of the data collected during one (1) or more classroom or worksite visits of
			 any duration.
(14) "Other
			 professionals" means certified school personnel, except for teachers,
			 administrators, assistant principals, or principals for which certification is
			 required by the Education Professional Standards Board pursuant to KAR Title
			 16.
(15) "Peer observation" means
			 observation and documentation by certified school personnel below the level of
			 principal or assistant principal and trained to perform such
			 observations.
(16) "Performance
			 criteria" means the areas, skills, or outcomes on which certified school
			 personnel are evaluated as described in
			 KRS
			 156.557(4).
(17) "Performance measure" means one (1) of
			 four (4) measures defined in the Kentucky Framework for Personnel Evaluation.
			 Measures include planning, environment, instruction, and
			 professionalism.
(18) "Performance
			 rating" means the rating for each performance measure for a teacher, other
			 professional, principal, or assistant principal as determined by the local
			 district certified evaluation plan aligned to the Kentucky Framework for
			 Personnel Evaluation. Ratings shall be exemplary, accomplished, developing, and
			 ineffective.
(19) "Personnel
			 Evaluation System" or "system" means an evaluation system to support and
			 improve the performance of certified school personnel that meets the
			 requirements of
			 KRS
			 156.557 and that uses clear and timely
			 formative feedback to guide professional growth.
(20) "Principal" means a certified school
			 personnel who devotes the majority of employed time in the role of principal,
			 for which administrative certification is required by the Education
			 Professional Standards Board pursuant to KAR Title 16.
(21) "Sources of evidence" or "source of
			 evidence" means the district-approved evidence aligned to the performance
			 measure and used by evaluators to inform performance measure ratings listed in
			 Section 8 of this administrative regulation.
(22) "Summative evaluation" is defined by
			 KRS
			 156.557(1)(b).
(23) "Summative rating" means the overall
			 rating for certified school personnel below the level of superintendent as
			 determined by the district certified evaluation plan aligned to the Kentucky
			 Framework for Personnel Evaluation.
(24) "Teacher" means a certified school
			 personnel who has been assigned the responsibility for student learning in a
			 classroom, grade level, subject, or course and holds a teaching certificate
			 pursuant to KAR Title 16.