SB833 Summary

• Replaces terminology throughout the Teacher Excellence and Support System by substituting "domains" for "categories" and "ratings" for "levels" in evaluation frameworks and rubrics

• Clarifies that teacher evaluations exclude performance in competitive athletics and competitive extracurricular activities

• Modifies external assessment requirements in tested and nontested content areas, allowing the Department of Education to authorize school districts to create external assessment measures including formative assessments

• Changes Department of Education role in administrator evaluations from providing technical assistance to developing and implementing an administrator evaluation system for school districts that weights student performance and growth similarly to the teacher system

• Updates intensive support status procedures to reference "domains" and "components" instead of "categories" and "descriptors" when placing teachers with unsatisfactory or basic ratings