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Michigan has an innovative and comprehensive system of assessments to measure student achievement in learning our state content standards.
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
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Legislation requires that student growth and assessment data must account for 20% of the annual year-end educator evaluation.
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According to educator evaluation law, districts may conduct evaluations biennially (every other year with one non-evaluated year in between) or triennially (every third year with two non-evaluated years in between) for any non-probationary teacher that has been rated as highly effective or effective on the three most recent consecutive year-end evaluations.
Administrators that have been rated as highly effective or effective on the three most recent consecutive year-end evaluations may have evaluations conducted biennially.
Districts will be setting policy through collective bargaining on the implementation of exemptions as part of their evaluation systems.
| Examples | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Example A | Highly Effective | Highly Effective | Highly Effective |
| Example B | Effective | Effective | Effective |
| Example C | Highly Effective or Effective | Highly Effective or Effective | Highly Effective or Effective |
| Example D | Highly Effective | Highly Effective | Highly Effective Exemption |
| Example E | Highly Effective | Highly Effective Exemption | Highly Effective |
| Example F | Highly Effective Exemption | Highly Effective | Highly Effective Exemption |
ISDs and LEAs are required to develop an individualized development plan for any teacher in the first year of the probationary period (first full year of employment) or who received a rating of needing support or developing on the most recent annual year-end evaluation. A midyear progress report is also required.
ISDs and LEAs must provide training to teachers on the observation tool(s) used in the performance evaluation system and how each observation tool is used. Additionally, ISDs and LEAs shall ensure that rater reliability training is provided to all evaluators.
An annual Educator Effectiveness Ratings Data Appeals Window will be open each year from September 1 to December 1. The Data Appeals Window will allow authorized personnel from districts and PSAs to correct inaccurate ratings from the five most recent years in REP.
Educator Effectiveness Label Data Appeals Resources
ISDs and LEAs must post on its public website information about the evaluation tool(s) in use for evaluation of teachers and administrators. “Postings and Assurances” should be made available under the transparency mitten section of the ISD’s or LEA’s web site.
This guidance defines decision points within the evaluation system design process to support district planning and collective bargaining processes.
This guidance provides a list of requirements districts can review to support compliance with specific components in law.
This guidance provides a summary of changes in law.
Since 2018, the State School Aid Act has provided funding for MDE to contract SAS® EVAAS to develop value-added reports to all districts and public school academies. These reports are designed to allow additional insight into student performance on state assessments by including diagnostic information and measures of academic growth made in a selected grade and subject.
Additionally, in fiscal years 2023 and 2024, the State School Aid Act funding included requirements that MDE make data publicly available on an external website that provides student growth metrics at the district and school level by grade and subject. The development of the site was provided by the MI-EVAAS value-added reporting platform and the public facing website was launched in March 2024 with state assessment student growth data available through the 2022-23 academic year.
In fiscal year 2025, the State School Aid Act did not allocate funding for MDE to contract SAS® EVAAS to provide value-added reports to all districts and public school academies. Therefore, there will not be reports developed for the state assessments for the 2023-24 academic year.
School district users will find that the login-restricted website will no longer be accessible, however the publicly available external site will continue to display prior reports with state assessment student growth data available through the 2022-23 academic year.
For the most updated state assessment student performance information including the 2023-24 academic year, Michigan districts and public school academies can securely access student growth reports in the dynamic reports section of the MDE Secure Site. Additionally, publicly accessible student growth reports can be found on MISchoolData.org.
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