- November 19, 2024
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The Flagler County School District has added a memorandum of understanding for a new teacher-evaluation measure into teacher contracts for this school year.
The Flagler County School Board voted to add the memorandum of understanding during its regular Tuesday-evening meeting.
The memorandum specifies three “metrics” used in evaluations, and the third is new, created to comply with federal Race to the Top grant requirements.
That third metric, worth just 5% of a teacher’s overall evaluation score, comes from the teacher’s Individual Professional Development Plan and Learning Target Rubric. Teachers create those documents, with administrator feedback, each year.
The first metric, worth 50% of a teacher’s overall score, is based on evaluators’ observations of the teacher in the classroom, and the second, worth 45% of a teacher’s score, is based on measurable student growth and achievement, derived from a rubric.
The board did not discuss the memorandum before its unanimous vote.
The memorandum was ratified last week by the Flagler County Educators Association, Flagler County Race to the Top Coordinator Vernon Orndorff said.
Bonus pay for high performance on the evaluations would be negotiated later, he said, and would come from a $40,000 Race to the Top grant.
