Principal evaluation refers to the process of assessing and judging the performance and effectiveness of a school principal. It involves gathering feedback and information from various sources, such as teachers, staff, students, and parents, in order to determine how well the principal is doing their job in leading and managing the school.
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In many cases, these new
principal evaluation systems include measures of both principal practice and student growth as key indicators of performance.
The state also released the results
of principal evaluations, which were also based on a combination of test scores and observations by administrators.
Ironically, just as teachers are set to be judged by test scores for the first time,
new principal evaluations will rely less on test score data.
This toolkit also provides a
model principal evaluation system, including implementation training modules to help districts develop a system that improves principal practice and elevates school and student performance.
By aligning
principal evaluation results to supportive professional development, identified areas of need are directly addressed, enabling principals to take charge of their own professional growth.
As principal evaluations become a more common practice, district leaders need to provide them with a PD boost to meet state accountability measures.
This might be reasonable when value - added is used to measure instruction, while a less
structured principal evaluation might capture contributions to the school community that are unrelated to classroom instruction.
In the final analysis, we need to
see principal evaluation, just like teacher evaluation, as a means to support improvement — not an end in itself.
In these districts, ineffective teachers are removed in greater numbers than in districts that rely
on principal evaluation.
Requires a rigorous and transparent teacher and
principal evaluation system based on multiple criteria, including student achievement and classroom practice.
State aid increases continue to be linked to compliance with the teacher and
principal evaluation process; districts will be ineligible for school aid if they have not fully implemented the teacher evaluation process for the 2013 - 14 year by September 1, 2013.
The Marzano Causal Teacher Evaluation Model has been chosen by Washington's Superintendent of Public Instruction and Washington's Teacher /
Principal Evaluation Pilot as one of three preferred evaluation models, not least because the focus of the model is squarely on teacher development and increased student achievement.
GothamSchools» Geoff Decker covers the release of E4E - NY's teacher policy team paper, «Principals Matter:
Principal Evaluations from a Teacher Perspective.»
As a result, TEA developed and implemented the Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System (T - TESS) and the
Texas Principal Evaluation and Support System (T - PESS) to encourage more frequent, timely, and formative feedback and incorporate multiple indicators of success, including measures of student learning.
These recommendations are informed by our work designing and
implementing principal evaluation systems in partnership with various districts and states, as well as lessons learned while preparing, supporting, and evaluating principals since 2000.
Incorporating Retention of Effective and Highly Effective Teachers in Principal Evaluations [PDF, 1.10 MB]
Carol Conklin - Spillane of the Empire State School Administrators Association speaks during a learning summit on teacher and
principal evaluation at the New York State Museum on Thursday, May 7, 2015, in Albany, N.Y.
By wading
into principal evaluations, the group is taking on an issue that has drummed up little of the controversy that accompanies debates about teacher effectiveness.
To this end, some districts now
use principal evaluations to identify these needs and embed cycles of goal setting and professional growth planning within the evaluation process.
NYCLA can work with your district to integrate your leadership standards or
principal evaluation framework with our Leadership Planning and Performance Worksheet © (LPPW) to become the competency - base for the coaching work.
Researchers analyzed the state of
principal evaluation practices and outlined criteria for developing comprehensive guidelines at NAESP's National Leaders Conference
With principal evaluations on the horizon, the Minnesota Principals Academy has become the forum for strengthening leadership skills.
She attributed the dramatic progress to three pieces of legislation passed in the run - up to round two: laws that created new teacher and
principal evaluations based in part on student progress, alternative teacher and principal certification, and improvements to the state's data system.
The session, at Spackenkill High School, was filled with parents and teachers opposed to King's policy agenda, including the state's rush to the Common Core standards, high - stakes Common Core tests and teacher and
principal evaluations tied to those tests.
«I am introducing my bill, the Teacher and
Principal Evaluation Disclosure Act, for consideration by the Senate and the Assembly,» Cuomo said in a statement sent after midnight.
Texas also did not have a
recommended principal evaluation system, despite findings that school leaders are responsible for as much as 25 percent of the total school effect on student learning [1].
To be eligible for that program, states had to adopt Common Core (or similarly rigorous standards and assessments), and they had to put into place teacher evaluation systems that use student test score growth as a «significant» part of both teacher and
school principal evaluations.
We examined New York's
current principal evaluation system, researched the role of a principal, pored over rubrics and debated what an ideal principal does.
To offer a single definition of a «highly effective principal» and provide recommendations for federal, state, and local policymakers as they
develop principal evaluation systems and other policies affecting school leaders.
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