B. Student/Staff Feedback

Starting in the 2017-18 school year, educators and administrators will administer student or staff feedback "to inform the educator’s or administrator’s self-assessment and goal setting as part of the evaluation process and shall be shared and discussed by the educator and evaluator as part of the goal setting process." This page describes the actual contract language, please see the CEA Guidance for implementation recommendations. Resources created by the joint Evaluations Process Working Group are available here.

During plan design, the educator submits the instrument and the students/staff who will be included in the feedback process* to the evaluator. The approval of these will not be unreasonably denied. In other words, the evaluator must have a valid reason for not approving the instrument and the students/staff who will be included in the feedback process.*

The instrument will then be implemented between April 1 and June 15 in the year when a summative evaluation has been completed. In other words, educators and administrators on 2 year plans, will not implement the tool in the first year of their plan. All other educators and administrators will collect feedback each year.

During the self assessment for the ensuing plan (by October 15 of the following school year), the educator or administrator will summarize the data and use it to inform their goal setting.

"The data collected by the survey instrument as well as any summary of the data collected by the survey instrument shall be available for review by the both the Unit A educator and evaluator, or the Unit B administrator and evaluator. The data collected by the student/staff survey instrument as well as any summary of the data collected by the survey instrument shall not otherwise be distributed."

* The students/staff included in the feedback process will be a "minimum of twenty (20) students/staff or eighty percent 80% of students/staff with whom the educator or administrator works, whichever is less." NOTE: There are no restrictions on whether and educator or administrator uses students or staff for feedback. This is up to the educator or administrator and their evaluator. For example, an instructional coach can gather feedback form either students or staff, and an administrator can gather feedback from staff or students.