Teacher and Principal Evaluation Project Background
E2SSB 6696 requires OSPI, in collaboration with WEA, WASA, AWSP, and WSPTA, to improve principal and teacher evaluation by:
- Revising the evaluation criteria for both classroom teachers and principals;
- Creating a four-level rating systems;
- Requiring OSPI to create a pilot with school districts in the 2010-11 (development) and 2011-12 (pilot implementation) school years;
- All districts to adopt new systems in the 2013-14 school year;
- Increasing the length of the provisional status for new teachers; and
- Requiring school districts to send OSPI information on the current evaluation system for all employee groups beginning in 2010-2011 school year.
Nine pilot participants, eight districts and one consortium of districts, participated in the 2010/2011 Teacher/Principal Evaluation Pilot as a component of a broad education reform bill, Washington State Bill E2SSB 6696, passed by the Washington State Legislature in the 2010 session.
The results from the work of the pilots in the 2010-2011 school year, along with the recommendations from the Superintendent of Public Instruction can be found in the July, 2011 Report to the Legislature.