Utah Code § 53G-11-507: Components of educator evaluation program.

(1) A local school board in consultation with a joint committee established in Section 53G-11-506 shall adopt a reliable and valid educator and principal evaluation program that evaluates educators based on educator professional standards established by the state board and includes:

(a) a systematic annual evaluation of all provisional, probationary, and career educators;

(b) use of multiple lines of evidence, including:

(i) self-evaluation;

(ii) student and parent input;

(iii) for an administrator, employee input;

(iv) a reasonable number of supervisor observations to ensure adequate reliability;

(v) evidence of professional growth and other indicators of instructional improvement based on educator professional standards established by the state board;

(vi) for a teacher in kindergarten through grade 3, fluency in and implementation of the science of reading, as that term is defined in Section 53G-10-306;

(vii) for a principal of a school that includes kindergarten through grade 3, effective implementation of the science of reading, as that term is defined in Section 53G-10-306, within the school; and

(viii) student academic growth data, including, in kindergarten through grade 3, student performance and academic progress on the benchmark reading assessment described in Section 53E-4-307;

(c) a summative evaluation that differentiates among levels of performance; and

(d) for an administrator, the effectiveness of evaluating employee performance in a school or school district for which the administrator has responsibility.

(2)

(a) An educator evaluation program described in Subsection (1) may include a reasonable number of peer observations.

(b) An educator evaluation program described in Subsection (1) may not use end-of-level assessment scores in educator evaluation.