by Cathryn Creno - Sept. 17, 2012 10:00 AM
The Republic | azcentral.com
The Mesa Public Schools governing board has approved a new teacher-discipline policy that specifically prohibits falsifying test data and bans excessive use of technology for personal reasons during school hours.
The board voted unanimously on Tuesday to update an old discipline policy that was written before people routinely carried around cellphones and before recent high-profile standardized-test cheating scandals.
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The policy continues to ban falsifying documents or time cards, misuse of district property, giving students preferential treatment in exchange for gifts, possession of illegal drugs or alcohol and sexual harassment.
Superintendent Michael Cowan clarified during a board study session before the meeting that teachers may still carry cellphones to work and make occasional personal calls.
"This addresses excessive use," he said.
The board took the first step toward formalizing a new teacher-evaluation system that will rate teachers on how well their students perform on standardized tests and whether their schools meet performance goals -- as well as on their own teaching skills.
Under the new policy, expected to be approved at the board's Sept. 25 meeting, teachers will be evaluated by principals annually instead of once every three years.
Mesa schools' new performance-evaluation system is based on Arizona Department of Education requirements for the 2012-13 school year. Mesa teachers will get their first formal evaluations under the new system at the end of this school year.
Under the new evaluation system, teachers will receive one of four ratings -- highly effective, effective, developing or ineffective -- based on their teaching skills, how well their students perform on standardized tests and on whether their schools achieve overall goals set by the principal and staff.
The ratings will be reported to the Arizona Department of Education, which will tally how many highly effective, effective, developing or ineffective teachers are working at each school in the state, Cowan said.
Pete Lesar, assistant superintendent for human resources, said he expects 80 to 85 percent of the district's teachers to be rated either highly effective or effective.
How well teachers handle their classrooms and communicate with students, parents and others in the community will make up 60 percent of their evaluations. Seven percent will be based on whether a teacher's school meets goals for things like improving student attendance, lowering dropout rates and test-score improvement.
The most controversial part of the new rating system, which is required by the state, focuses on how well a teacher's students perform and show improvement on standardized tests like the AIMS. The results will account for the remaining 33 percent of a teacher's evaluation.
Principals will be evaluated under a similar new system. But instead of being rated on the AIMS performance of one class, they will be rated on their overall school performance on the state measurement.
18 Sep, 2012
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Source: http://www.azcentral.com/community/mesa/articles/2012/09/11/20120911mesa-public-schools-board-oks-policy-disciplining-teachers.html
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