Evaluation of licensed employees on their skills, abilities, and competence will be an ongoing process supervised by the building principals and conducted by approved evaluators. The goal of the formal evaluation of licensed employees, other than administrators, but including extracurricular employees, will be to improve the education program, to maintain licensed employees who meet or exceed the board's standards of performance, to clarify the licensed employee's role, to ascertain the areas in need of improvement, to clarify the immediate priorities of the board, and to develop a working relationship between the administrators and other employees.
The formal evaluation criteria will be in writing and approved by the board. The formal evaluation will provide an opportunity for the evaluator and the licensed employee to discuss the past year's performance and the future areas of growth. The formal evaluation will be completed by the evaluator, signed by the licensed employee and filed in the licensed employee's personnel file. This policy supports, and does not preclude, the ongoing informal evaluation of the licensed employee's skills, abilities and competence.
It will be the responsibility of the superintendent to ensure licensed employees are evaluated. New and probationary licensed employees will be evaluated at least twice each year.
Legal Reference: Iowa Code §§ 20.9; 279; 284; 294.
Aplington Community School District v. PERB, 392 N.W.2d 495 (
Saydel Education Association v. PERB, 333 N.W.2d 486 (
281 I.A.C. 12.3(4).
Cross Reference: 405.2 Licensed Employee Qualifications, Recruitment, Selection
405.9 Licensed Employee Probationary Status
Approved: 11/01/2004
Reviewed: 11/19/2007, 12/19/2011, 01/23/2017
Revised: 05/20/2019, 06/20/2022
