Given the
general direction of federal and state policy over the past few years, one
could easily think most large districts include, or have set plans to include,
some measure of student growth in teacher evaluations. But, as our latest Teacher Trendline
shows, 28 percent of districts in NCTQ’s Teacher Contract Database still do not
include such measures.
When it
comes to evaluation frequency, the majority of districts in our database do evaluate all their teachers annually,
both tenured and non-tenured. Nearly 77 percent of districts evaluate
non-tenured teachers once a year. Clark
County (NV) stands out,
formally evaluating non-tenured teachers three times a year. Far fewer
districts (54 percent) evaluate tenured teachers annually. Nearly a quarter
only do so once every three years. Worse, in five California districts—Fresno, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Diego, teachers are only evaluated only once every
five years after they’ve taught ten years.
Read more about teacher evaluation trends across
the districts in our Teacher Contract database, here.
