Section 507 – Components of educator evaluation program.

• (1) A local school board in consultation with a joint committee established in Section 53G-11-506 shall adopt a reliable and valid educator evaluation program that evaluates educators based on educator professional standards established by the state board and includes:
  • (a) a systematic annual evaluation of all provisional, probationary, and career educators;
  • (b) use of multiple lines of evidence, including:
    • (i) self-evaluation;
    • (ii) student and parent input;
    • (iii) for an administrator, employee input;
    • (iv) a reasonable number of supervisor observations to ensure adequate reliability;
    • (v) evidence of professional growth and other indicators of instructional improvement based on educator professional standards established by the state board; and
    • (vi) student academic growth data;
  • (c) a summative evaluation that differentiates among four levels of performance; and
  • (d) for an administrator, the effectiveness of evaluating employee performance in a school or school district for which the administrator has responsibility.

• (2)
  • (a) An educator evaluation program described in Subsection (1) may include a reasonable number of peer observations.
  • (b) An educator evaluation program described in Subsection (1) may not use end-of-level assessment scores in educator evaluation.

Amended by Chapter 293, 2019 General Session