The Pilot in a Political Context

NY State Education Law (Section 3012 - c) requires all districts in the state to implement a new teacher evaluation system that is comprised of multiple measures which means that in addition to assessing teacher competency, student performance will also be considered.  The DOE is in communication with other districts, notably Washington DC who is also struggling with changing the way in which teachers are evaluated.  This law is anticipated to go into effect for all NYC teachers in 2012-2013.  Policy mandates that 1) All teachers need measures of students’ learning; 2)There be multiple student assessments state policy allows one assessment in which case it count for the entire 40% of the teacher competency score; 3) The same measure for every grade and subject; and 4) Practices to support the reliability ad validity of assessments teachers cannot score assessments for which they have a vested interests and test materials must be secure.  Teachers of courses leading to a state exam must use those exams as at least one of their measures of student learning.  By SY 2014-2015, assessments will correlate to the Common Core Standards and teacher competencies should correspond to such standards as well.

The below calendar indicates the suggested timing of the assessments.