Pennsylvania Code › Title 22 - EDUCATION › Part I - State Board of Education › Subpart A - Miscellaneous Provisions › Chapter 19 - EDUCATOR EFFECTIVENESS RATING TOOL › Section 19.1a - General provisions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The subsections Definitions and Terms, Evaluation Process,
					 Maintaining and Reporting Evaluation Data and Records, and Standards of Use for
					 Rating Tools included in this section are applicable to the evaluation of
					 classroom teachers in §
										19.2a (relating to Classroom
					 Teacher Evaluation), principals in §
										19.3a (relating to Principal
					 Evaluation) and nonteaching professionals in §
										19.4a (relating to Nonteaching
					 Pofessional (NTP) Employee Evaluation).
(a)
Definitions and Terms
When used in this chapter, the following words and terms
					 shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise:
Assessment
-The Pennsylvania System of
					 School Assessment test, the Keystone Exams or another test established by the
					 State Board of Education or approved by an act of the General Assembly to meet
					 the requirements of section 2603-B(d)(10)(i) of the Public School Code
					 (24
					 P.S. §
												26-2603-B(d)(10)(i)) and the
					 requirements of the Every Student Succeeds Act (Pub.L. No 114-95) or its
					 successor statute or required to achieve other standards established by the
					 Department for the school or school district.
Attendance Rate
-The Average Daily
					 Attendance (ADA) divided by the Average Daily Membership (ADM), where:
(1) ADA is the total number of days of
				  student attendance divided by the total number of days in the regular school
				  year.
(2) ADM is the total number
				  of days enrolled (days present plus days absent) divided by the actual total
				  number of student days in the regular school year.
Building
-A school or configuration of
					 grades assigned a unique four-digit identification number by the Department.
Challenge Multiplier
-An adjustment of the
					 building level score by adding points based on the percentage of economically
					 disadvantaged students enrolled in the school.
Chief School Administrator
-An individual
					 employed as a school district superintendent, an executive director of an
					 intermediate unit, or an administrative director of an area career and
					 technical school.
Classroom Teacher
-A professional or
					 temporary professional employee who provides direct instruction to students
					 related to a specific subject or grade level.
Comprehensive Classroom Observation
-An
					 observational classroom visit that includes a pre-conference and
					 post-conference between an evaluator and an employee which may be conducted by
					 telephone or videoconferencing. Upon the mutual agreement of both an evaluator
					 and a professional employee, the requirement of a post-conference may be waived
					 for extenuating circumstances, if the evaluator places written documentation of
					 the comprehensive classroom observation in the professional employee's file. If
					 the extenuating circumstances are raised by the evaluator, a professional
					 employee who does not receive a post-conference shall not receive a rating of
					 needs improvement or failing on the comprehensive classroom observation
					 component of an evaluation. The requirement of a post-conference shall not be
					 waived for a temporary professional employee.
Data-Available Teacher
-A classroom teacher
					 who is a professional employee teaching English, language arts, mathematics,
					 science or other content areas as assessed by an Assessment, including the
					 Pennsylvania System of School Assessment and Keystone Exams.
Department
-The Department of Education of
					 the Commonwealth.
Differentiated Supervision
-A system of
					 supervision of professional employees that:
(1) Involves a multi-year cycle in which
				  supervisors complete a comprehensive classroom observation for one annual
				  rating in the professional employee's supervision cycle and in the other years
				  of the cycle collaborate with the professional employee to differentiate
				  supervision by developing individualized goals, learning activities, and
				  measures for the professional employee's growth in one or more areas listed in
				  section 1138.3(a)(1) or (b)(1) of the Public School Code (24 P.S. §§
												11-1138.3(a)(1)) or (b)(1)),
				  a nonteaching professional employee's growth in one or more areas listed in
				  section 1138.5(a) or (b)
				  of the Public School Code (24 P.S. §§
												11-1138.5(a) or
				  (b)).
(2) Is offered only to professional employees
				  who received a proficient or distinguished annual rating in both of the 2
				  immediately preceding years and is not offered to temporary professional
				  employees.
(3) Is optional for the
				  employer and the professional employee.
(4) In any year in which the professional
				  employee does not receive a comprehensive classroom observation, uses data
				  sources and data collection strategies designed to measure a professional
				  employee's progress toward the professional employee's individualized
				  professional goals.
(5) Allows a
				  supervisor to move a professional employee out of individualized professional
				  goals, activities and measures and into comprehensive classroom observation at
				  any time.
(6) Allows a professional
				  employee to move out of individualized professional goals, activities and
				  measures and enter comprehensive classroom observation at any time.
District-Designed Measures and
					 Examinations
-Methods for evaluating student performance created or
					 selected by a local education agency (LEA).
Economically Disadvantaged
-The status of a
					 student as reported by a school district, intermediate unit, or area career and
					 technical school through the Pennsylvania Information Management System (PIMS)
					 and determined based upon poverty data sources such as eligibility for
					 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Medicaid, or free or reduced-price
					 lunch, census data, residence in an institution for the neglected or
					 delinquent, or residence in a foster home.
Educational Specialist
-A person who holds
					 an educational specialist certificate issued by the Commonwealth, including but
					 not limited to, a certificate in the area of elementary school counselor,
					 secondary school counselor, social restoration, school nurse, home and school
					 visitor, school psychologist, dental hygienist, instructional technology
					 specialist or nutrition service specialist.
Evaluator
-Includes the chief school
					 administrator or the chief school administrator's designee who is an assistant
					 administrator, supervisor or principal, has supervision over the work of the
					 professional employee or temporary professional employee being rated and is
					 directed by the chief school administrator to perform the rating.
Graduation Rate
-The rate submitted by the
					 Department under the Every Student Succeeds Act State plan that represents the
					 percentage of students in a school who earn a high school diploma within 4
					 years.
Growth
-Calculated in the Pennsylvania
					 Value-Added Assessment System (PVAAS) using longitudinal assessment data,
					 growth reflects the level of evidence that a school's students achieved the
					 expected level of advancement over the academic year.
IEP Goals Progress
-A measure of growth and
					 student performance for special education students as established in
					 Individualized Education Program (IEP) plans by the LEA IEP team.
Keystone Exam
-An assessment developed or
					 caused to be developed by the Department under 22 Pa. Code §
												4.51 (relating to State assessment
					 system).
LEA-Local Education Agency
-including a
					 school district, area career technology and technical center, and intermediate
					 unit, which is required to use a rating tool established under sections
					 1138.1-1138.16 of the Public School Code (24 P.S. §§
													11-1138.1-11.1138.16).
Locally Developed School District
					 Rubrics
-Measures of student performance created or selected by an LEA.
Nondata-Available Teacher
-A Classroom
					 Teacher teaching in a content area not assessed by an Assessment.
Nonteaching Professional (NTP)
					 Employee
--An educational specialist or a professional employee or
					 temporary professional employee who provides services and who is not a
					 classroom teacher.
PVAAS-Pennsylvania Value-Added Assessment
					 System
--A statistical analysis established in compliance with 22 Pa.
					 Code §
												403.3 (relating to single
					 accountability system) and used to measure the influence of a district, school,
					 or teacher on the academic progress rates of groups of students from year to
					 year. PVAAS data are made available by the Department under section 221 of the
					 Public School Code (24 P.S. §
													2-221).
Performance Improvement Plan
--A plan,
					 designed by an LEA with documented input of the employee, that:
(1) Provides actionable feedback to an
				  employee on the specific domain within the comprehensive classroom observation
				  and practice models that prevented the employee from achieving a proficient
				  rating. The employer shall consider the documented input from the employee for
				  inclusion in the plan.
(2)
				  Identifies employer resources that will be provided to an employee to help the
				  employee improve. Resources may include, but shall not be limited to,
				  mentoring, coaching, recommendations for professional development and intensive
				  supervision based on the contents of the rating tool provided for under
				  sections 1138.1 -1138.16 of the Public
				  School Code.
Principal
-Includes a building principal,
					 an assistant principal, a vice principal, a supervisor of special education or
					 a director of career and technical education.
Professional Employee
-Shall include those
					 who are certificated as teachers, supervisors, supervising principals,
					 principals, assistant principals, vice-principals, directors of career and
					 technical education, dental hygienists, visiting teachers, home and school
					 visitors, school counselors, child nutrition program specialists, school
					 librarians, school secretaries the selection of whom is on the basis of merit
					 as determined by eligibility lists and school nurses.
Rating Scale
-The method by which a value
					 is assigned during the evaluation of a professional employee using the
					 following levels of performance:
(1) A
				  score of three, or "distinguished," indicates the employee's performance
				  consistently reflects teaching professional position and placement at the
				  highest level of practice.
(2) A
				  score of two, or "proficient," indicates the employee's performance
				  consistently reflects practice at a professional level.
(3) A score of one, or "needs improvement,"
				  indicates the employee is functioning below proficient for performance
				  expectations required for continued employment.
(4) A score of zero, or "failing," indicates
				  the employee does not meet performance expectations required for the position.
Temporary Professional Employee
-Any
					 individual who has been employed to perform for a limited time the duties of a
					 newly created position or of a regular professional employee whose service has
					 been terminated by death, resignation, suspension or
					 removal.