Florida Senate - 2017                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 926
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/03/2017           .                                
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       The Committee on Education (Simmons) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 167 and 168
    4  insert:
    5         Section 3. Paragraph (c) of subsection (1), paragraph (a)
    6  of subsection (3), and subsections (7), (8), and (9) of section
    7  1012.34, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
    8         1012.34 Personnel evaluation procedures and criteria.—
    9         (1) EVALUATION SYSTEM APPROVAL AND REPORTING.—
   10         (c) Annually, by February 1, the Commissioner of Education
   11  shall publish on the department’s website the status of each
   12  school district’s instructional personnel and school
   13  administrator evaluation systems. This information must include:
   14         1. performance evaluation results for the prior school year
   15  for instructional personnel and school administrators using the
   16  four levels of performance specified in paragraph (2)(e). The
   17  performance evaluation results for instructional personnel shall
   18  be disaggregated by classroom teachers, as defined in s.
   19  1012.01(2)(a), excluding substitute teachers, and all other
   20  instructional personnel, as defined in s. 1012.01(2)(b)-(d).
   21         2. An analysis that compares performance evaluation results
   22  calculated by each school district to indicators of performance
   23  calculated by the department using the standards for performance
   24  levels adopted by the state board under subsection (8).
   25         3. Data reported under s. 1012.341.
   26         (3) EVALUATION PROCEDURES AND CRITERIA.—Instructional
   27  personnel and school administrator performance evaluations must
   28  be based upon the performance of students assigned to their
   29  classrooms or schools, as provided in this section. Pursuant to
   30  this section, a school district’s performance evaluation system
   31  is not limited to basing unsatisfactory performance of
   32  instructional personnel and school administrators solely upon
   33  student performance, but may include other criteria to evaluate
   34  instructional personnel and school administrators’ performance,
   35  or any combination of student performance and other criteria.
   36  Evaluation procedures and criteria must comply with, but are not
   37  limited to, the following:
   38         (a) A performance evaluation must be conducted for each
   39  employee at least once a year, except that a classroom teacher,
   40  as defined in s. 1012.01(2)(a), excluding substitute teachers,
   41  who is newly hired by the district school board must be observed
   42  and evaluated at least twice in the first year of teaching in
   43  the school district. The performance evaluation must be based
   44  upon sound educational principles and contemporary research in
   45  effective educational practices. The evaluation criteria must
   46  include:
   47         1. Performance of students.—At least one-third of a
   48  performance evaluation must be based upon data and indicators of
   49  student performance, as determined by each school district in
   50  accordance with subsection (7). This portion of the evaluation
   51  must include growth or achievement data of the teacher’s
   52  students or, for a school administrator, the students attending
   53  the school over the course of at least 3 years. If less than 3
   54  years of data are available, the years for which data are
   55  available must be used. The proportion of growth or achievement
   56  data may be determined by instructional assignment.
   57         2. Instructional practice.—For instructional personnel, at
   58  least one-third of the performance evaluation must be based upon
   59  instructional practice. Evaluation criteria used when annually
   60  observing classroom teachers, as defined in s. 1012.01(2)(a),
   61  excluding substitute teachers, must include indicators based
   62  upon each of the Florida Educator Accomplished Practices adopted
   63  by the State Board of Education. For instructional personnel who
   64  are not classroom teachers, evaluation criteria must be based
   65  upon indicators of the Florida Educator Accomplished Practices
   66  and may include specific job expectations related to student
   67  support.
   68         3. Instructional leadership.—For school administrators, at
   69  least one-third of the performance evaluation must be based on
   70  instructional leadership. Evaluation criteria for instructional
   71  leadership must include indicators based upon each of the
   72  leadership standards adopted by the State Board of Education
   73  under s. 1012.986, including performance measures related to the
   74  effectiveness of classroom teachers in the school, the
   75  administrator’s appropriate use of evaluation criteria and
   76  procedures, recruitment and retention of effective and highly
   77  effective classroom teachers, improvement in the percentage of
   78  instructional personnel evaluated at the highly effective or
   79  effective level, and other leadership practices that result in
   80  student learning growth. The system may include a means to give
   81  parents and instructional personnel an opportunity to provide
   82  input into the administrator’s performance evaluation.
   83         4. Other indicators of performance.—For instructional
   84  personnel and school administrators, the remainder of a
   85  performance evaluation may include, but is not limited to,
   86  professional and job responsibilities as recommended by the
   87  State Board of Education or identified by the district school
   88  board and, for instructional personnel, peer reviews,
   89  objectively reliable survey information from students and
   90  parents based on teaching practices that are consistently
   91  associated with higher student achievement, and other valid and
   92  reliable measures of instructional practice.
   93         (7) MEASUREMENT OF STUDENT PERFORMANCE.—
   94         (a) The Commissioner of Education may develop shall approve
   95  a formula to measure individual student learning growth on the
   96  statewide, standardized assessments in English Language Arts and
   97  mathematics administered under s. 1008.22. The formula must take
   98  into consideration each student’s prior academic performance.
   99  The formula must not set different expectations for student
  100  learning growth based upon a student’s gender, race, ethnicity,
  101  or socioeconomic status. In the development of the formula, the
  102  commissioner shall consider other factors such as a student’s
  103  attendance record, disability status, or status as an English
  104  language learner. The commissioner may select additional
  105  formulas to measure student performance as appropriate for the
  106  remainder of the statewide, standardized assessments included
  107  under s. 1008.22 and continue to select formulas as new
  108  assessments are implemented in the state system. After the
  109  commissioner approves the formula to measure individual student
  110  learning growth, the State Board of Education shall adopt these
  111  formulas in rule.
  112         (b) Each school district may, but is not required to, shall
  113  measure student learning growth using the formulas developed
  114  approved by the commissioner under paragraph (a) and the
  115  standards for performance levels adopted by the state board
  116  under subsection (8) for courses associated with the statewide,
  117  standardized assessments administered under s. 1008.22 no later
  118  than the school year immediately following the year the formula
  119  is approved by the commissioner. For grades and subjects not
  120  assessed by statewide, standardized assessments, each school
  121  district shall measure student performance using a methodology
  122  determined by the district.
  123         (8) RULEMAKING.—No later than August 1, 2015, The State
  124  Board of Education shall adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1)
  125  and 120.54 which establish uniform procedures and format for the
  126  submission, review, and approval of district evaluation systems
  127  and reporting requirements for the annual evaluation of
  128  instructional personnel and school administrators; specific,
  129  discrete standards for each performance level required under
  130  subsection (2), based on student learning growth models approved
  131  by the commissioner, to ensure clear and sufficient
  132  differentiation in the performance levels and to provide
  133  consistency in meaning across school districts; the measurement
  134  of student learning growth and associated implementation
  135  procedures required under subsection (7); and a process for
  136  monitoring school district implementation of evaluation systems
  137  in accordance with this section.
  138         (9) TRANSITION TO NEW STATEWIDE, STANDARDIZED ASSESSMENTS.
  139  Standards for each performance level required under subsection
  140  (2) shall be established by the State Board of Education
  141  beginning with the 2015-2016 school year.
  142  
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  144  And the title is amended as follows:
  145         Delete line 19
  146  and insert:
  147         assessment results; amending s. 1012.34, F.S.;
  148         revising personnel evaluation procedures and criteria;
  149         authorizing the commissioner to develop a formula for
  150         measuring student learning growth on specified
  151         statewide, standardized assessments, rather than
  152         requiring the commissioner to approve such a formula;
  153         authorizing, rather than requiring, a school district
  154         to use certain formulas developed by the commissioner;
  155         providing an effective date.