in the plan.
(2) Identifies employer resources that will be provided
to an employee to help the employee improve. Resources may
include, but shall not be limited to, mentoring, coaching,
recommendations for professional development and intensive
supervision based on the contents of the rating tool provided
for under this subarticle.
"Principal." Includes a building principal, an assistant
principal, a vice principal, a supervisor of special education
or a director of vocational education.
"Regulatory Review Act." The act of June 25, 1982 (P.L.633,
No.181), known as the Regulatory Review Act.
Section 1138.2. State rating tool.
In determining whether a professional employee shall be
dismissed for unsatisfactory teaching performance as provided
for in section 1122(a), and in rating professional employees and
temporary professional employees, each professional employee and
temporary professional employee shall be rated through the use
of a rating tool approved by the department in consultation with
education experts, parents of school-age children enrolled in a
public school, teachers and administrators, including research
and collaboration conducted by the department.
Section 1138.3. Classroom teachers.
(a) Evaluation with building-level data.--Beginning in the
2021-2022 school year, the evaluation of the effectiveness of a
professional employee serving as a classroom teacher in a
building where annual building-level data is made available by
the department shall be weighted and calculated accordingly:
(1) Comprehensive classroom observation and practice
models that are related to student achievement, which shall
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