Code of Maine Rules › 05 - DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › 071 - EDUCATION - GENERAL › Chapter 180 - PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND PROFESSIONAL GROWTH SYSTEMS › Section 071-180-2 - DEFINITIONS

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
1. "Approved PEPG system" means a PEPG system
				that complies with the requirements of Chapter 508 and this rule and that has
				been approved by the Department.
2.
				"Chapter 508" means Chapter 508 of Title 20-A of the
Maine Revised
				Statutes
.
3. "Department"
				means the Maine Department of Education.
4. "Educator" means a teacher or a
				principal.
5. "Instructional
				Cohort" of a particular teacher means the group of students for whom that
				teacher is the teacher of record.
6. "InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards" or
				"InTASC standards" means the set of professional practice standards for
				teachers adopted in April, 2011 by the Interstate Teacher Assessment and
				Support Consortium (InTASC).
7.
				"Educational Leadership Policy Standards: ISLLC 2008" or "ISLLC standards"
				means the set of professional practice standards for educational leaders
				adopted by the National Policy Board for Educational Administration/Interstate
				Leader Licensure Consortium Steering Committee.
8. "Peer mentor or coach" means the
				professionally certified teacher or instructional coach assigned to provide
				support for a new or conditionally certified teacher and who meets the
				qualifications in Section
				4.
9. "Performance evaluation and professional
				growth system", or "PEPG system" means a system of evaluation and support as
				described in Chapter 508.
10. "PEPG
				system plan" means the documents governing the operation of a local PEPG
				system, including but not limited to professional practice standards,
				descriptors and rubrics; student learning and growth measures the method for a
				summative effectiveness rating; and other documents describing implementation
				of the PEPG system. The use of student learning and growth measures will be
				discretionary as of September 1, 2021.
11. "Principal" means person who supervises
				teachers in delivering the instructional program of a school. This includes a
				person serving as principal, assistant principal, teaching principal, career
				and technical education administrator and assistant career and technical
				education administrator serving in a position that requires certification under
				State Board of Education Rule Chapter 115, Part II, Section 4.5, 4.6, and 4.7.
1 2. "Rating level" means one of
				the four summative effectiveness ratings assigned to educators under a PEPG
				system.
13. "School administrative
				unit" has the same meaning as in Title 20-A, section 1, subsection 26 except
				that, for purposes of this rule, it also includes career and technical
				education regions and all charter schools.
14. "Summative effectiveness rating" means
				the effectiveness rating of an educator that is assigned at the end of an
				evaluation period, under an approved PEPG system.
15. "Teacher" means a person who provides
				classroom instruction to students in a general education, special education or
				career and technical education program. It does not include adult education
				instructors or persons defined as "educational specialists" in State Board of
				Education Rule Chapter 115, section 2.20.
16. "Teacher of Record" means a teacher to
				whom the academic growth of a student in a course or other learning experience
				is attributed, in whole or in part, as described in Section
				7(2).