(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:

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Terms Used In Utah Code 53G-11-507

  • Administrator: means an individual who supervises educators and holds an appropriate license. See Utah Code 53G-11-501
  • district: means :
         (14)(a) a public school district; or
         (14)(b) the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind. See Utah Code 53G-11-501
  • Educator: means an individual employed by a school district who is required to hold a professional license issued by the state board, except:
         (7)(a) a superintendent; or
         (7)(b) an individual who works less than three hours per day or is hired for less than half of a school year. See Utah Code 53G-11-501
  • Employee: means a career or provisional employee of a school district, except as provided in Subsection (7)(b). See Utah Code 53G-11-501
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • School board: means a local school board or, for the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, the state board. See Utah Code 53G-11-501
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Summative evaluation: means an evaluation that:
         (15)(a) a supervisor conducts;
         (15)(b) summarizes an educator's performance during an evaluation cycle; and
         (15)(c) a supervisor or school district may use to make decisions related to an educator's employment. See Utah Code 53G-11-501
     (1)(a) a systematic annual evaluation of all provisional, probationary, and career educators;
     (1)(b) use of multiple lines of evidence, including:

          (1)(b)(i) self-evaluation;
          (1)(b)(ii) student and parent input;
          (1)(b)(iii) for an administrator, employee input;
          (1)(b)(iv) a reasonable number of supervisor observations to ensure adequate reliability;
          (1)(b)(v) evidence of professional growth and other indicators of instructional improvement based on educator professional standards established by the state board; and
          (1)(b)(vi) student academic growth data;
     (1)(c) a summative evaluation that differentiates among levels of performance; and
     (1)(d) for an administrator, the effectiveness of evaluating employee performance in a school or school district for which the administrator has responsibility.
(2)

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