New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 6A - EDUCATION › Chapter 10 - EDUCATOR EFFECTIVENESS › Subchapter 2 - EVALUATION OF TEACHING STAFF MEMBERS › Section 6A:10-2.2 - Duties of district boards of education

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) Each
				district board of education shall meet the following requirements for the
				annual evaluation of teaching staff members, unless otherwise specified:
1. Establish a District Evaluation Advisory
				Committee to oversee and guide the planning and implementation of the school
				district board of education's evaluation policies and procedures as set forth
				in this subchapter;
2. Annually
				adopt policies and procedures developed by the chief school administrator
				pursuant to
				N.J.A.C.
				6A:10-2.4, including the evaluation rubrics
				approved by the Commissioner pursuant to
				N.J.A.C.
				6A:10-2.1(c);
i. The chief school administrator shall
				develop policies and procedures that, at a minimum, ensure student performance
				data on the Statewide assessment is, upon receipt, promptly distributed or
				otherwise made available to teaching staff members who were primarily
				responsible for instructing the applicable students in the school year in which
				the assessment was taken, as well as to teaching staff members who are or will
				be primarily responsible for instructing the applicable students in the
				subsequent school year.
3. Ensure the chief school administrator
				annually notifies all teaching staff members of the adopted evaluation policies
				and procedures no later than October 1. If a staff member is hired after
				October 1, the district board of education shall notify the teaching staff
				member of the policies at the beginning of his or her employment. All teaching
				staff members shall be notified of amendments to the policy within 10 working
				days of adoption;
4. Annually adopt
				by June 1, Commissioner-approved educator practice instruments and, as part of
				the process described at
				N.J.A.C.
				6A:10-2.1(c), notify the
				Department which instruments will be used as part of the school district's
				evaluation rubrics;
5. Ensure the
				principal of each school within the school district has established a School
				Improvement Panel pursuant to
				N.J.A.C.
				6A:10-3.1. The panel shall be established
				annually by August 31 and shall carry out the duties and functions described in
				N.J.A.C.
				6A:10-3.2;
6. Ensure data elements are collected and
				stored in an accessible and usable format. Data elements shall include, but not
				be limited to, scores or evidence from observations for the purpose of
				evaluation and student growth objective data; and
7. Ensure that each chief school
				administrator or his or her designee in the district certifies to the
				Department that any observer who conducts an observation of a teaching staff
				member for the purpose of evaluation as described in
				N.J.A.C.
				6A:10-4.4, 5.4, and 6.2, shall meet the
				statutory observation requirements of
				N.J.S.A.
				18A:6-119,
				18A:6-123.b(8),
				and 18A:27-3.1 and the teacher member of the School Improvement Panel
				requirements of
				N.J.A.C.
				6A:10-3.2.