Current through Register 1531, September 27, 2024
School committees shall establish evaluation systems and
performance standards for the evaluation of administrators that include all of
the principles of evaluation, set forth in
603 CMR 35.00. School
committees may supplement the standards and indicators in 603 CMR 35.04 with
additional measurable performance standards consistent with state law and
collective bargaining agreements where applicable. The district shall adapt the
indicators based on the role of the administrator to reflect and allow for
significant differences in assignment and responsibilities. The district shall
share the performance standards with all administrators.
(1)
Instructional Leadership
Standard. Promotes the learning and growth of all students and the
success of all staff by cultivating a shared vision that makes effective
teaching and learning the central focus of schooling.
(a)
Curriculum
Indicator. Ensures that all teachers design effective and rigorous
standards-based units of instruction consisting of well-structured lessons with
measurable outcomes.
(b)
Instruction Indicator. Ensures that instructional
practices in all settings reflect high expectations regarding content and
quality of effort and work, engage all students, and are personalized to
accommodate diverse learning styles, needs, interests, and levels of
readiness.
(c)
Assessment Indicator. Ensures that all teachers use a
variety of formal and informal methods and assessments to measure student
learning, growth and understanding, and also make necessary adjustments to
their practice when students are not learning.
(d)
Evaluation
Indicator. Provides effective and timely supervision and
evaluation in alignment with state regulations and contract provisions,
including:
1. Ensures educators pursue
meaningful, actionable, and measurable professional practice and student
learning goals.
2. Makes frequent
unannounced visits to classrooms and gives targeted and constructive feedback
to teachers.
3. Exercises sound
judgment in assigning ratings for performance.
4. Reviews alignment between judgment about
practice and data about student learning, growth, or achievement when
evaluating and rating educators and understands that the supervisor has the
responsibility to confirm the rating in cases where a discrepancy
exists.
(e)
Data-informed Decision-making Indicator. Uses multiple
sources of evidence related to student learning, including state, district, and
school assessment results and growth data, to inform school and district goals
and improve organizational performance, educator effectiveness, and student
learning.
(f)
Student
Learning Indicator. Demonstrates expected impact on student
learning based on multiple measures of student learning, growth, and
achievement, including student progress on common assessments and statewide
student growth measures where available.
(2)
Management and Operations
Standard. Promotes the learning and growth of all students and the
success of all staff by ensuring a safe, efficient, and effective learning
environment, using resources to implement appropriate curriculum, staffing, and
scheduling.
(a)
Environment
Indicator. Develops and executes effective plans, procedures,
routines and operational systems to address a full range of safety, health,
emotional, and social needs of students.
(b)
Human Resources Management
and Development Indicator. Implements a cohesive approach to
recruitment, hiring, induction, development, and career growth that promotes
high quality and effective practice.
(c)
Scheduling and Management
Information Systems Indicator. Uses systems to ensure optimal use
of time for teaching, learning and collaboration.
(d)
Laws, Ethics and Policies
Indicator. Understands and complies with state and federal laws
and mandates, school committee policies, collective bargaining agreements, and
ethical guidelines.
(e)
Fiscal Systems Indicator. Develops a budget that
supports the district's vision, mission and goals; allocates and manages
expenditures consistent with district/school level goals and available
resources.
(3)
Family and Community Engagement Standard. Promotes the
learning and growth of all students and the success of all staff through
effective partnerships with families, community organizations, and other
stakeholders that support the mission of the school and district.
(a)
Engagement
Indicator. Actively ensures that all families are welcome members
of the classroom and school community and can contribute to the classroom,
school, and community's effectiveness.
(b)
Sharing Responsibility
Indicator. Continuously collaborates with families to support
student learning and development both at home and at school.
(c)
Communication
Indicator. Engages in regular, two-way, culturally proficient
communication with families about student learning and performance.
(d)
Family Concerns
Indicator. Addresses family concerns in an equitable, effective,
and efficient manner.
(4)
Professional Culture
Standard. Promotes success for all students by nurturing and
sustaining a school culture of reflective practice, high expectations, and
continuous learning for staff.
(a)
Commitment to High Standards Indicator. Fosters a
shared commitment to high standards of teaching and learning with high
expectations for achievement for all, including:
1.
Mission and Core
Values. Develops, promotes, and secures staff commitment to core
values that guide the development of a succinct, results-oriented mission
statement and ongoing decision-making.
2.
Meetings. Plans
and leads well-run and engaging meetings that have clear purpose, focus on
matters of consequence, and engage participants in a thoughtful and productive
series of conversations and deliberations about important school
matters.
(b)
Cultural Proficiency Indicator. Ensures that policies
and practices enable staff members and students to contribute to and interact
effectively in a culturally diverse environment in which students' backgrounds,
identities, strengths, and challenges are respected.
(c)
Communications
Indicator. Demonstrates strong interpersonal, written, and verbal
communication skills.
(d)
Continuous Learning Indicator. Develops and nurtures a
culture in which all staff members are reflective about their practice and use
student data, current research, best practices and theory to continuously adapt
instruction and achieve improved results. Models these behaviors in the
administrator's own practice.
(e)
Shared Vision Indicator. Successfully and continuously
engages all stakeholders in the creation of a shared educational vision in
which every student is prepared to succeed in postsecondary education and
careers, and can become responsible citizens and community
contributors.
(f)
Managing Conflict Indicator. Employs strategies for
responding to disagreement and dissent, constructively resolving conflict, and
building consensus throughout a district/school community.
