TEACHER PERFORMANCE EVALUATION. 16-1 The Board shall ensure that the Pueblo District 60 written teacher performance evaluation system is in compliance with Colorado State Law, The Pueblo District 60 Educator Effectiveness Handbook, applicable timelines, Colorado Department of Education Guidelines, and this Article. A written copy of these procedures and forms shall be posted annually on the District web site by September 30 each year. 16-2 All teachers shall be evaluated annually in compliance with this Article. 16-3 Consistent with the state law, the purpose of the evaluation system shall be to ensure that all licensed personnel are evaluated using multiple, fair, transparent, timely, rigorous, and valid methods; ensure that all licensed personnel receive adequate opportunity to improve their effectiveness; provide a basis for the improvement of instruction, enhance implementation of programs, provide documentation for unsatisfactory performance and serve as a measure of the professional growth and development of licensed personnel. The steps of the formal evaluation process will be followed by the administration. Only those evaluation forms approved by the Board of Education in consult with the advisory School District Performance Evaluation Council/ HB 1338 Committee shall be used. 16-4 Evaluation of teachers shall be based on the Colorado Model Evaluation System. The evaluation shall be conducted so as to observe the legal and constitutional rights of teacher personnel, and no evaluation information shall be gathered by electronic devices without the prior written consent of the teacher. No informality in any evaluation or in the manner of making or recording any evaluation shall invalidate such evaluation. ▇▇-▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ shall impanel an Advisory School District Performance Evaluation Council/HB 1338 Committee of between five (5) and ten (10) members which shall include a minimum of two (2) teachers, one (1) administrator, one (1) principal from the District, one (1) resident of the District who is a parent of a child within the District, and one (1) resident of the district who is not a parent of a child within the District. The council shall perform all of the duties required by the Educator Effectiveness Act. This council shall meet as required by statute or more often as needed and minutes of each meeting shall be provided to all HB1338 committee members. 16-6 Evaluation reports and all public records used in preparing the evaluation report shall be exempt from public inspection in compliance with the Educator Effectiveness Act. 16-7 Participation in extracurricular activities shall not constitute a valid basis for appraising a teacher’s classroom performance. 16-8 No teacher shall assume or be required to assume the role of evaluator for any other teacher’s performance. Both parties understand that only those authorized by state law may be evaluators. Observations made as part of an instructional coaching process shall not be included in teacher performance evaluations unless submitted by the teacher as an artifact in the evaluation system. 16-9 Evaluation timeline (see Pueblo District 60 educator effectiveness timeline) 16-9-1 Evaluators shall adhere to the evaluation timelines in accordance with the Pueblo District 60 Educator Effectiveness Handbook. Any deviation from the timeline, shall have prior approval from human resources and the association president. 16-10 1 Non-probationary teachers receiving a second partially effective or ineffective performance evaluation rating have the voluntary option to file an appeal and shall be limited to the following: 1. The evaluator did not follow evaluation procedures that adhere to the requirements of statute and rule and that failure had a material impact on the performance evaluation rating that was assigned and/or 2. The data (MSLs) relied upon was inaccurately attributed to the teacher.
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