Educator Effectiveness System: Act 13 of 2020
Beginning with the 2013-14 school year, the evaluation of professional and temporary professional employees serving as classroom teachers changed from the two current categories of Satisfactory and Unsatisfactory (Failing) to four categories: (1) Failing (Unsatisfactory); (2) Needs Improvement (Satisfactory) except under certain conditions - any subsequent overall rating of "needs improvement" issued by the same employer within 10 years of the first overall performance rating of "needs improvement" where the employee is in the same certification shall be considered Unsatisfactory; (3) Proficient (Satisfactory); and (4) Distinguished (Satisfactory). Act 13 of 2020 requires a percentage of the teaching assessment to be based on observation, including: Planning and Preparation; Classroom Environment; Instruction; and Professional Responsibilities. The Pennsylvania Department of Education has developed a rating scale to reflect student performance measures and employee observation results and establish overall score ranges for each of the four rating categories: Distinguished, Proficient, Needs Improvement, and Failing. Information about the rating scale can be found on the Educator Effectiveness page on the SAS Website. The remaining percentage of the professional classroom teacher assessment will be data driven using multiple measures that includes Building Level Data, Teacher Specific Data, and LEA Selected Measures. Temporary professionals are evaluated twice during the school year and Professional Classroom Teachers and Non-Teaching Professionals are evaluated once during the school year. An administrator supervises teachers using the Observation and Practice Framework. This framework was adapted by the Pennsylvania Department of Education from Charlotte Danielson’s 2011 “Framework for Teachers” and adapted by the Pennsylvania Department of Education from Charlotte Danielson’s 2020 “Framework for Remote Teaching”.
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