Delaware General Assembly

Signed 8/4/21

The General Assembly has ended, the current status is the final status.

3/23/21

K. Williams

Reps. S. Moore, Matthews, Bush, Morrison, Chukwuocha, Michael Smith
Sen. Townsend, Sturgeon, Lockman

Reps. Baumbach, Bennett, Brady, Dorsey Walker, Heffernan, Kowalko, Lambert, Longhurst, Lynn, Minor-Brown, Mitchell, Ramone, Spiegelman, Yearick
Sen. Ennis, Poore, Walsh

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATOR EVALUATIONS.

This Act changes the current evaluation system for all teachers from the former Delaware Performance Appraisal System II evaluation to a new Delaware Teacher Growth and Support System. The goal of this new evaluation system is to build a culture of professionalism and learning within every school by converting the evaluation system from a teacher-focused to a learning-focused system. It also increases accountability by requiring a beginning, middle and end of the year review of both the teacher’s professional learning goals and student improvement goals. All teachers (not just 4-8 testing subjects) will be held accountable for student growth. The new evaluation system will only apply to teachers. Specialists and administrators will continue to be evaluated under the Delaware Performance Appraisal System II. Under this Act the new evaluation system will be phased in with a minimum of 3 local education agencies participating in a pilot program for academic year 2021-2022, which will sunset on June 30, 2022. Under Section 2 and 3 of this Act, effective academic year 2022-2023, all teachers will fall under the Delaware Teacher Growth and Support System and all specialists and administrators will be evaluated under Delaware Performance Appraisal System II.

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8/4/21; 7/1/22

6/30/22

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