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 Substitute for Amendment (521886) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Between lines 167 and 168
    5  insert:
    6         Section 3. Paragraph (c) of subsection (1), paragraph (a)
    7  of subsection (3), and subsections (7), (8), and (9) of section
    8  1012.34, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
    9         1012.34 Personnel evaluation procedures and criteria.—
   10         (1) EVALUATION SYSTEM APPROVAL AND REPORTING.—
   11         (c) Annually, by February 1, the Commissioner of Education
   12  shall publish on the department’s website the status of each
   13  school district’s instructional personnel and school
   14  administrator evaluation systems. This information must include:
   15         1. performance evaluation results for the prior school year
   16  for instructional personnel and school administrators using the
   17  four levels of performance specified in paragraph (2)(e). The
   18  performance evaluation results for instructional personnel shall
   19  be disaggregated by classroom teachers, as defined in s.
   20  1012.01(2)(a), excluding substitute teachers, and all other
   21  instructional personnel, as defined in s. 1012.01(2)(b)-(d).
   22         2. An analysis that compares performance evaluation results
   23  calculated by each school district to indicators of performance
   24  calculated by the department using the standards for performance
   25  levels adopted by the state board under subsection (8).
   26         3. Data reported under s. 1012.341.
   27         (3) EVALUATION PROCEDURES AND CRITERIA.—Instructional
   28  personnel and school administrator performance evaluations must
   29  be based upon the performance of students assigned to their
   30  classrooms or schools, as provided in this section. Pursuant to
   31  this section, a school district’s performance evaluation system
   32  is not limited to basing unsatisfactory performance of
   33  instructional personnel and school administrators solely upon
   34  student performance, but may include other criteria to evaluate
   35  instructional personnel and school administrators’ performance,
   36  or any combination of student performance and other criteria.
   37  Evaluation procedures and criteria must comply with, but are not
   38  limited to, the following:
   39         (a) A performance evaluation must be conducted for each
   40  employee at least once a year, except that a classroom teacher,
   41  as defined in s. 1012.01(2)(a), excluding substitute teachers,
   42  who is newly hired by the district school board must be observed
   43  and evaluated at least twice in the first year of teaching in
   44  the school district. The performance evaluation must be based
   45  upon sound educational principles and contemporary research in
   46  effective educational practices. The evaluation criteria must
   47  include:
   48         1. Performance of students.—At least one-third of a
   49  performance evaluation must be based upon data and indicators of
   50  student performance, as determined by each school district in
   51  accordance with subsection (7). This portion of the evaluation
   52  must include growth or achievement data of the teacher’s
   53  students or, for a school administrator, the students attending
   54  the school over the course of at least 3 years. If less than 3
   55  years of data are available, the years for which data are
   56  available must be used. The proportion of growth or achievement
   57  data may be determined by instructional assignment.
   58         2. Instructional practice.—For instructional personnel, at
   59  least one-third of the performance evaluation must be based upon
   60  instructional practice. Evaluation criteria used when annually
   61  observing classroom teachers, as defined in s. 1012.01(2)(a),
   62  excluding substitute teachers, must include indicators based
   63  upon each of the Florida Educator Accomplished Practices adopted
   64  by the State Board of Education. For instructional personnel who
   65  are not classroom teachers, evaluation criteria must be based
   66  upon indicators of the Florida Educator Accomplished Practices
   67  and may include specific job expectations related to student
   68  support.
   69         3. Instructional leadership.—For school administrators, at
   70  least one-third of the performance evaluation must be based on
   71  instructional leadership. Evaluation criteria for instructional
   72  leadership must include indicators based upon each of the
   73  leadership standards adopted by the State Board of Education
   74  under s. 1012.986, including performance measures related to the
   75  effectiveness of classroom teachers in the school, the
   76  administrator’s appropriate use of evaluation criteria and
   77  procedures, recruitment and retention of effective and highly
   78  effective classroom teachers, improvement in the percentage of
   79  instructional personnel evaluated at the highly effective or
   80  effective level, and other leadership practices that result in
   81  student learning growth. The system may include a means to give
   82  parents and instructional personnel an opportunity to provide
   83  input into the administrator’s performance evaluation.
   84         4. Other indicators of performance.—For instructional
   85  personnel and school administrators, the remainder of a
   86  performance evaluation may include, but is not limited to,
   87  professional and job responsibilities as recommended by the
   88  State Board of Education or identified by the district school
   89  board and, for instructional personnel, peer reviews,
   90  objectively reliable survey information from students and
   91  parents based on teaching practices that are consistently
   92  associated with higher student achievement, and other valid and
   93  reliable measures of instructional practice.
   94         (7) MEASUREMENT OF STUDENT PERFORMANCE.—
   95         (a) The Commissioner of Education may develop shall approve
   96  a formula to measure individual student learning growth on the
   97  statewide, standardized assessments in English Language Arts and
   98  mathematics administered under s. 1008.22. The formula must take
   99  into consideration each student’s prior academic performance.
  100  The formula must not set different expectations for student
  101  learning growth based upon a student’s gender, race, ethnicity,
  102  or socioeconomic status. In the development of the formula, the
  103  commissioner shall consider other factors such as a student’s
  104  attendance record, disability status, or status as an English
  105  language learner. The commissioner may select additional
  106  formulas to measure student performance as appropriate for the
  107  remainder of the statewide, standardized assessments included
  108  under s. 1008.22 and continue to select formulas as new
  109  assessments are implemented in the state system. After the
  110  commissioner approves the formula to measure individual student
  111  learning growth, the State Board of Education shall adopt these
  112  formulas in rule.
  113         (b) Each school district may, but is not required to, shall
  114  measure student learning growth using the formulas developed
  115  approved by the commissioner under paragraph (a) and the
  116  standards for performance levels adopted by the state board
  117  under subsection (8) for courses associated with the statewide,
  118  standardized assessments administered under s. 1008.22 no later
  119  than the school year immediately following the year the formula
  120  is approved by the commissioner. For grades and subjects not
  121  assessed by statewide, standardized assessments, each school
  122  district shall measure student performance using a methodology
  123  determined by the district.
  124         (8) RULEMAKING.—No later than August 1, 2015, The State
  125  Board of Education shall adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1)
  126  and 120.54 which establish uniform procedures and format for the
  127  submission, review, and approval of district evaluation systems
  128  and reporting requirements for the annual evaluation of
  129  instructional personnel and school administrators; specific,
  130  discrete standards for each performance level required under
  131  subsection (2), based on student learning growth models approved
  132  by the commissioner, to ensure clear and sufficient
  133  differentiation in the performance levels and to provide
  134  consistency in meaning across school districts; the measurement
  135  of student learning growth and associated implementation
  136  procedures required under subsection (7); and a process for
  137  monitoring school district implementation of evaluation systems
  138  in accordance with this section.
  139         (9) TRANSITION TO NEW STATEWIDE, STANDARDIZED ASSESSMENTS.
  140  Standards for each performance level required under subsection
  141  (2) shall be established by the State Board of Education
  142  beginning with the 2015-2016 school year.
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  145  And the title is amended as follows:
  146         Delete line 19
  147  and insert:
  148         assessment results; amending s. 1012.34, F.S.;
  149         revising personnel evaluation procedures and criteria;
  150         authorizing the commissioner to develop a formula for
  151         measuring student learning growth on specified
  152         statewide, standardized assessments, rather than
  153         requiring the commissioner to approve such a formula;
  154         authorizing, rather than requiring, a school district
  155         to use certain formulas developed by the commissioner;
  156         providing an effective date.