T-PESS
PRINCIPAL EVALUATION SYSTEM
T-PESS Rationale
Essential to an effective human capital management strategy, the purposes of evaluating principals are to:
- serve as a measurement of leadership performance
- guide school leaders as they reflect upon and improve their effectiveness
- focus the goals and objectives of schools and districts as they support, monitor, and evaluate their principals.
- guide professional development for principals
- serve as a tool in developing coaching and mentoring programs for principals
Personify Continuous Growth & Improvement
Guide Self-Reflection
Improve Leadership Quality
Evaluation System Process
- Orientation
- Self-Assessment/Goal Setting
- Pre-evaluation Conference
- Mid-year Progress Meeting
- Consolidated Performance Assessment
- End of year Performance Discussion
- Final Evaluation/Goal Setting
Orientation: Completed by August 1, 2016
To clarify the expectations and process for T-PESS
Self-Assessment & Goal Setting: Completed by August 19, 2016
To reflect on past performance, feedback from supervisors and colleagues and benchmark performance against the criteria in the evaluation rubric.
To consider past performance and current self-assessment in setting manageable, meaningful, and measurable performing goals.
Pre-Evaluation Conference: Completed by September 9, 2016
Make sure that the performance goals accurately reflect the appropriate goals, and discuss leadership responsibilities.
Mid-Year Progress: Completed by December 16, 2016
Collaborative and collegial dialogue to discuss progress toward individual goal attainment.
Consolidated Performance Assessment: Completed and submitted to appraiser prior to final meeting
The principal will synthesize the information in preparation for a consolidated performance assessment and review of performance throughout the year. A brief summary of the artifacts and data should be provided to the appraiser in advance of the End-of-year Performance Discussion.
End-of-Year Performance Discussion
To finalize the annual evaluation process of the principal by reflecting back on the self-assessment by reviewing the consolidated performance assessment and the appraiser's summary rating form
Final Evaluation & Goal Setting: Completed by February 17, 2017
The principal and appraiser will generate goals and a plan for accomplishing the goals that are based on the summary ratings from the previous year.