NASHVILLE – State Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman announced today he will ask the State Board of Education to streamline the state’s new teacher evaluation system.
“We have said from the beginning that we will listen and respond to feedback from educators on this evaluation model, and that is exactly what we’re doing,” Huffman said in a news release.
The “adjustment made sense, and, if approved, our evaluation system will be stronger because of it,” he said.
Huffmann had come under pressure from teachers and some lawmakers to alter the new evaluation process.
According to the department, the change allows principals to conduct two of the required in-class observations in succession, allowing principals to conduct just one pre- and post-conference meeting for the combined observation.