24 Pa. Stat. § 11-1138.5

Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-111
Section 11-1138.5 - Nonteaching professional employees.
(a) Evaluation.--Beginning in the 2021-2022 school year, professional employees employed as nonteaching professionals shall be evaluated using a rating tool designed specifically for nonteaching professional employees which shall be determined in the following manner:
(1) The following shall compose 90% of the overall rating of nonteaching professional employees:
(i) Planning and preparation, with a weight of 25%.
(ii) Educational environment, with a weight of 25%.
(iii) Delivery of service, with a weight of 25%.
(iv) Professional development, with a weight of 25%.
(2) Student performance as measured by building-level data as described in section 1138.3(a)(2)(i)(A) and (B) for each building in which the employee is assigned shall compose 10% of the overall rating of nonteaching professional employees.
(b) Evaluation without building-level data.--Beginning in the 2021-2022 school year, the evaluation of the effectiveness of a professional employee who is a nonteaching professional primarily assigned in a building or buildings within a school entity by which the nonteaching professional is not employed or where building-level data is not made available by the department shall include the following:
(1) Planning and preparation, with a weight of 25%.
(2) Educational environment, with a weight of 25%.
(3) Delivery of service, with a weight of 25%.
(4) Professional development, with a weight of 25%.
(c)Temporary professional employee.--Beginning in the 2021-2022 school year, the evaluation of the effectiveness of a temporary professional employee who is a nonteaching professional shall be evaluated using a rating tool designed specifically for nonteaching temporary professional employees which shall include the following:
(1) Planning and preparation, with a weight of 25%.
(2) Educational environment, with a weight of 25%.
(3) Delivery of service, with a weight of 25%.
(4) Professional development, with a weight of 25%.
(d) Rating tool.--
(1) No later than March 31, 2021, the department shall develop, issue and publish in the Pennsylvania Bulletin a rating tool for nonteaching professional and temporary professional employees that is consistent with this section and includes the weights given to the multiple measures of student performance contained under subsection (a).
(2) Beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, the rating tool developed under this section shall be used in the rating of each nonteaching professional and temporary professional employee.
(3) After March 31, 2021, any subsequent changes to the rating tool developed under this subsection shall be made by the State Board of Education through regulations promulgated under the Regulatory Review Act.

24 P.S. § 11-1138.5

Added by P.L. TBD 2020 No. 13, § 3, eff. 3/27/2020.