Common use of Focused Clause in Contracts

Focused. In the years when a comprehensive, summative evaluation is not required, employees who received a comprehensive, summative evaluation performance rating of Level 3 or above in the previous school year are required to complete a focused evaluation. a. A focused evaluation includes an assessment of one of the eight criteria selected for a performance rating plus professional growth activities specifically linked to the selected criteria. b. The selected criteria must be approved by the classroom teacher’s evaluator and may have been identified in a previous comprehensive summative evaluation as benefiting from additional attention. The evaluation must include an assessment of the criterion using the adopted instructional framework rubrics and the Superintendent of Public Instruction’s approved student growth rubrics. More than one measure of student growth data must be used in scoring the student growth rubrics. If criterion 1, 2, 4, 5 or 7 is chosen, the employee must select a student growth criterion as well. The summative criterion score will be the summative evaluation score. The student growth criterion will be rated low, average, or high. A low student growth impact will result in a student growth inquiry. Distinguished ratings with a low student growth impact rating will reduce the summative rating to proficient. c. The evaluator must assign a summative score using the summative score from the most recent comprehensive evaluation. This score becomes the focused summative evaluation score for any of the subsequent years following the comprehensive summative evaluation in which the certificated classroom teacher is placed on a focused evaluation. d. A teacher may be transferred from a focused evaluation to a comprehensive summative evaluation at the request of the teacher or principal. This request must be made in writing and signed by both parties at any time on or before December 15. e. A group of employees may focus on the same evaluation criteria and share professional growth activities.