NRS391.465. Establishment of statewide performance evaluation system by State Board.

      1.  The State Board shall, based upon the recommendations of the Teachers and Leaders Council of Nevada submitted pursuant to NRS 391.460, adopt regulations establishing a statewide performance evaluation system which incorporates multiple measures of an employee’s performance.

      2.  The statewide performance evaluation system must:

      (a) Require that an employee’s overall performance is determined to be:

             (1) Highly effective;

             (2) Effective;

             (3) Minimally effective; or

             (4) Ineffective.

      (b) Include the criteria for making each designation identified in paragraph (a).

      (c) Except as otherwise provided in subsection 9 of NRS 391.3125 and subsection 8 of NRS 391.3127, require that pupil achievement data account for at least 50 percent of the evaluation.

      (d) Prescribe the pupil achievement data that must be used as part of the evaluation system pursuant to paragraph (c).

      (e) Include an evaluation of whether the teacher, or administrator who provides primarily administrative services at the school level and who does not provide primarily direct instructional services to pupils, regardless of whether the probationary administrator is licensed as a teacher or administrator, including, without limitation, a principal and vice principal, employs practices and strategies to involve and engage the parents and families of pupils.

      (f) Include a process for peer evaluations of teachers by qualified educational personnel which is designed to provide assistance to teachers in meeting the standards of effective teaching, and includes, without limitation, conducting observations, participating in conferences before and after observations of the teacher and providing information and resources to the teacher about strategies for effective teaching. The regulations must include the criteria for school districts to determine which educational personnel are qualified to conduct peer reviews pursuant to the process.

      (Added to NRS by 2011, 3087; A 2013, 3158)