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(1) A local school board in consultation with a joint committee established in Section 53G-11-506 shall adopt a reliable and valid educator 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; and
(vi) student academic growth data;
(c) a summative evaluation that differentiates among four 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.