2017 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 391 - Personnel
NRS 391.465 - State Board to establish statewide performance evaluation system and prescribe tools to be used by schools to measure performance; school district authorized to apply to use different performance evaluation system and tools. [Effective July 1, 2016, through June 30, 2017.]
1. The State Board shall, based upon the recommendations of the Teachers and Leaders Council of Nevada submitted pursuant to NRS 391.460, adopt regulations establishing a statewide performance evaluation system which incorporates multiple measures of an employee’s performance. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, the State Board shall prescribe the tools to be used by a school district for obtaining such measures.
2. The statewide performance evaluation system must:
(a) Require that an employee’s overall performance is determined to be:
(1) Highly effective;
(2) Effective;
(3) Minimally effective; or
(4) Ineffective.
(b) Include the criteria for making each designation identified in paragraph (a).
(c) Except as otherwise provided in subsections 2 and 3 of NRS 391.695 and subsections 2 and 3 of NRS 391.715, require that pupil achievement data account for at least 20 percent of the evaluation.
(d) Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, prescribe the pupil achievement data that must be used as part of the evaluation system pursuant to paragraph (c) which must require that:
(1) Pupil achievement data derived from statewide examinations and assessments must account for at least 10 percent of the evaluation of a teacher or administrator, as applicable; and
(2) Pupil achievement data derived from assessments approved by the board of trustees of a school district that employs the teacher or administrator, as applicable, must account for at least 10 percent of the evaluation.
(e) Include an evaluation of whether the teacher, or administrator who provides primarily administrative services at the school level or administrator at the district level who provides direct supervision of the principal of a school, and who does not provide primarily direct instructional services to pupils, regardless of whether the probationary administrator is licensed as a teacher or administrator, including, without limitation, a principal and vice principal, employs practices and strategies to involve and engage the parents and families of pupils.
(f) Include a process for peer evaluations of teachers by qualified educational personnel which is designed to provide assistance to teachers in meeting the standards of effective teaching, and includes, without limitation, conducting observations, participating in conferences before and after observations of the teacher and providing information and resources to the teacher about strategies for effective teaching. The regulations must include the criteria for school districts to determine which educational personnel are qualified to conduct peer reviews pursuant to the process.
3. The State Board shall, by regulation, designate the assessments that may be used by a school district to determine pupil achievement pursuant to subparagraph (2) of paragraph (d) of subsection 2. The board of trustees of a school district may select one or more of the assessments designated by the State Board to determine pupil achievement, or the board of trustees may apply to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for approval to use a different assessment to determine pupil achievement.
4. A school district may apply to the State Board to use a performance evaluation system and tools that are different than the evaluation system and tools prescribed pursuant to subsection 1. The application must be in the form prescribed by the State Board and must include, without limitation, a description of the evaluation system and tools proposed to be used by the school district. The State Board may approve the use of the proposed evaluation system and tools if it determines that the proposed evaluation system and tools apply standards and indicators that are equivalent to those prescribed by the State Board.
(Added to NRS by 2011, 3087; A 2013, 3158; 2015, 2411, 2412, 3833, effective July 1, 2016)
