Are You Ready to Deal with Annual Evaluations?

MASSP has been working for some time to help members prepare to fulfill the annual evaluation requirement that was included in legislation as part of Michigan's Race to the Top application.The law went into effect January 1, 2010.

Are you wondering how the new law relates to existing laws and your collective bargaining agreement?

Do you have questions about the legality of your current evaluation practices?

Join MASSP and MIEM as one of Michigan’s most respected school
attorneys, Lisa Swem, explains the intricacies of the new law as well
as how it relates to existing state law and your collective
bargaining agreement.

Specifically, the new law₁ requires:

• Involvement of teachers and school administrators, the board of a school district or intermediate school district or board of directors of a public school academy
• Rigorous, transparent, and fair performance evaluation systems
• Evaluation based on multiple rating categories
• Evaluation with student growth as determined by multiple measures of student learning, including national, state or local assessments or other objective criteria as significant factors
• Evaluations to inform decisions regarding:
  • ✔ Individual professional learning opportunities with ample time for improvement
  • ✔ Promotion, retention, and professional development opportunities, including coaching, and instruction support
  • ✔ Tenure and/or certification decisions based on rigorous, streamlined, transparent and fair procedures
  • ✔ Removal of ineffective teachers and administrators after opportunities to improve have been deemed unsuccessful based on decisions made by use of rigorous, streamlined, transparent and fair procedures

Roll up your sleeves, bring your collective
bargaining agreement, and come to this one-day seminar prepared to
learn all you need to know about Section 380.1249 of the Revised School
Code.

₁ A Framework for Michigan Educator Evaluations

Register here for the Annual Evaluation : The Law of the Land