HOUSE DEMOCRATS News:SANTA FE ― Monday, the House of Representatives passed the Teacher and Principal Evaluation Act. House Bill 212, sponsored by House Majority Floor Leader, Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton (D-Albuquerque), moves New Mexico’s evaluation system toward meaningful measures that will ensure fair professional standards that will ensure the best educators for our students.
This important measure will replacethe former punitive teacher evaluation system that resulted in many teachers leaving the profession.
“Educators in every stage of their career want an evaluation system which is fair, evidence based, balanced, and provides meaningful feedback in order to grow as professionals,” House Majority Floor Leader, Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton (D-Albuquerque) said. “House Bill 212, the Teacher and Principal Evaluation Act, retains the valuable aspect of multiple measures giving teachers and principals useful feedback from different sources, while also providing meaningful feedback to educators that will help them continuously improve their practice.”
House Bill 212 will establish a new section of the Public School Code that will provide the framework for a new teacher and principal evaluation system. The bill would also direct the Public Education Department to appoint a committee made up of department staff, the Legislative Education Study Committee, school districts, charter schools, teacher representatives, and school principals. House Bill 212 would also require that the Public Education Department adopt or create a uniform, highly objective, research-based, easily measurable evaluation system that includes frameworks, standards, rubrics, and evaluation instruments for teacher and principal evaluations.
House Bill 212 now moves to the Senate for further consideration.
