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 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.

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 from the Department of Public Instruction 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), Wis. Adm. Code

Revised 7/18/12
Revised 11/18/15