(1) A local school board in consultation with a joint committee established in Section 53G-11-506 shall adopt a reliable and valid educator and principal evaluation program that evaluates educators based on educator professional standards established by the state board and includes: (a) a systematic annual evaluation of all provisional, probationary, and career educators; (b) use of multiple lines of evidence, including: (i) self-evaluation; (ii) student and parent input; (iii) for an administrator, employee input; (iv) a reasonable number of supervisor observations to ensure adequate reliability; (v) evidence of professional growth and other indicators of instructional improvement based on educator professional standards established by the state board; (vi) for a teacher in kindergarten through grade 3, fluency in and implementation of the science of reading, as that term is defined in Section 53G-10-306; (vii) for a principal of a school that includes kindergarten through grade 3, effective implementation of the science of reading, as that term is defined in Section 53G-10-306, within the school; and (viii) student academic growth data, including, in kindergarten through grade 3, student performance and academic progress on the benchmark reading assessment described in Section 53E-4-307; (c) a summative evaluation that differentiates among levels of performance; and (d) for an administrator, the effectiveness of evaluating employee performance in a school or school district for which the administrator has responsibility. (2) (a) An educator evaluation program described in Subsection (1) may include a reasonable number of peer observations. (b) An educator evaluation program described in Subsection (1) may not use end-of-level assessment scores in educator evaluation.
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