New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 8 - EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
Chapter I - Rules of the Board Of Regents
Part 30 - Tenure Areas and Annual Professional Performance Reviews For Classroom Teachers and Building Principals
Subpart 30-4 - STANDARDS-BASED EDUCATOR EVALUATION AND PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT ("STEPS") PLANS BEGINNING IN THE 2024-2025 SCHOOL YEAR AND THEREAFTER
Section 30-4.4 - Criteria for Evaluating Classroom Teachers and Principals on the NYS Teaching Standards and Leadership Standards

Universal Citation: 8 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs § 30-4.4

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 12, March 26, 2025

(a) Evaluating classroom teachers and principals on the NYS Teaching and Leadership Standards.

(1) On an annual basis, all classroom teachers and principals shall be evaluated on the NYS Teaching and Leadership Standards, respectively, using multiple measures consistent with the following:.

(i) Probationary teachers and principals shall be evaluated on each of the NYS Teaching and Leadership Standards, respectively, on an annual basis and shall receive an annual overall rating

(ii) Tenured teachers and principals shall be evaluated on each of the NYS Teaching and Leadership Standards, respectively, but may be evaluated on a subset of standards on an annual basis. If a tenured teacher is not evaluated on each standard annually or does not receive an overall rating on an annual basis, the LEA's plan must include a process for tenured teachers to receive a score on each standard and an overall rating on a cycle; provided that such an evaluation cycle will be no longer than three (3) years.

(iii) Nothing in this subpart prohibits all teachers and principals from being evaluated on each standard on an annual basis and receiving an overall rating on an annual basis.

(iv)The educators' performance on the NYS Teaching and Leadership Standards will be scored and overall ratings determined pursuant to section 30-4.5 of this Subpart.

(b) Using multiple measures to evaluate classroom teachers and principals on the NYS Teaching and Leadership Standards.

(1) All classroom teachers and principals shall be evaluated using multiple measures, provided that one of the measures must be classroom observations for teachers and school visits for principals, consistent with the following requirements:

(i) Required observations/school visits. LEAs shall perform more than one classroom observation/school visit for all teachers and principals across their evaluation cycle consistent with subdivision (c) of section 30-4.2 of this Subpart. Such observations/school visits shall occur with a sufficient number and duration such that the evaluator can collect meaningful evidence of teaching and leadership to evaluate the applicable standard. Nothing in this subparagraph shall require that all teachers and principals have the same number or frequency of observations.

(ii) Additional measures. All teachers and principals shall also be evaluated using one or more of the following measures:

(a) portfolios;

(b) surveys and feedback;

(d) student outcome data, such as student goal setting, attainment, and progress monitoring to evaluate a teacher's or principal's contribution to student growth, student achievement goal setting, a performance index, statistical growth measures, and portfolios of student work;

(e) teacher/principal projects; and/or

(f) another LEA-developed measure.

(2) Any measure selected to evaluate a teacher or principal shall provide direct evidence of such teacher's or principal's practice that appropriately and accurately assesses the degree to which the educator meets each applicable NYS Teaching or Leadership Standard.

(3) One measure may be used to address more than one teaching or leadership standard provided that each teacher's or principal's evaluation consists of two or more measures.

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