District 64 joins school districts across Illinois in implementing evaluation systems for teachers and principals that assess professional practice and include measures of student growth as required by the Performance Evaluation Reform Act (PERA).
In District 64, two committees worked over several years to develop a tool for rating professional practice and to develop a process for including student growth in certified staff evaluations. The new system goes into effect during the current 2016-17 school year.
Final summative ratings for staff now will be based on 70% for professional practice and 30% for student growth. In District 64, the student growth component is comprised of 10% "shared responsibility" based on each school's Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) performance and 20% "student learning objective," which are teacher-designed assessment projects.
A report on the new evaluation tool was presented to the Board of Education at the September 26, 2016 meeting.