Valders Area School District
Bylaws & Policies
 

3220 - STAFF EVALUATION AND EDUCATOR EFFECTIVENESS

The Board of Education is responsible for the employment and discharge of all personnel. To carry out this responsibility, it delegates to the District Administrator the function of establishing and implementing professional staff job descriptions and a program of personnel assessment that identifies specific criteria and a systematic procedure to evaluate staff. This procedure shall include an appropriate and approved Educator Effectiveness program for the evaluation of teachers and Principals in the District.

It is the purpose of the program of staff assessment to:

 A.strive for the improvement of the total District program;

 B.stress the importance of personal improvement on the part of individual professional staff members so that each student may be provided a quality education;

 C.ensure the continuous improvement of administrative and supervisory services provided professional staff members;

 D.evaluate the renewal or non-renewal of individual contracts and to assist in staff assignments

The staff evaluation program shall aim at the early identification of specific areas in which the individual professional staff member needs help so that appropriate assistance may be provided or arranged for. A supervisor offering suggestions for improvement to a professional staff member shall not release that professional staff member from the responsibility to improve. If a professional staff member, after receiving a reasonable degree of assistance, fails to perform his/her assigned responsibilities in a satisfactory manner, dismissal, or non-renewal procedures may be invoked. In such an instance, all relevant evaluation documents may be used in the proceedings.

A professional staff member shall be given a copy of any documents relating to his/her performance that will be placed in the personnel file.

Licensed Teachers and Principals

Evaluations shall be conducted in the first year of employment and at least every third year thereafter, or more frequently as determined by the administration or the protocols of the Educator Effectiveness program adopted and used by the Board. Pursuant to Wisconsin’s Educator Effectiveness law, the Board delegates to the District Administrator the task of selecting and implementing an approved Educator Effectiveness program such that the District is in compliance with State law.

The Board will use the educator effectiveness model available and will assess, upon the recommendation of the District Administrator, whether to use an alternative program.

Evaluations shall be conducted based on the model in place at the time and consistent with applicable State law and the District’s guidelines.

The administration is authorized to implement additional evaluation procedures for specific personnel in need of additional or alternative evaluation in addition to the educator effectiveness program. A positive rating from the educator effectiveness model does not necessarily preclude the District from taking adverse employment action towards an employee for other performance or conduct related reasons, or from implementing remedial or performance improvement measures.

P.I. 8.01(2q), P.I. 47 Wis. Adm. Code
118.225, 118.30, 121.02 (1) (q) Wis Stats
20 USC 6311

Revised 8/27/12
Revised 1/18/16

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