Gov. Snyder Signs Law to Help Students, Teachers Improve

Gov. Snyder Stands with Students, Teachers in Signing Educator Evaluation and Support Law

Last week, Governor Rick Snyder signed Senate Bill 103 into law, which will help establish a critical framework for providing Michigan educators with high-quality feedback and support to help improve teaching and learning for Michigan students.

We were proud to stand with the Governor and legislature as Michigan takes an important step toward becoming a top ten education state, recognizing that the critical and challenge work of implementation lies ahead.

Now the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) will need to play an unprecedented leadership role in systems change, oversight and ensuring the new system is providing sophisticated feedback to teachers, improving instruction across all districts and dramatically raising student achievement.

Local districts have struggled with developing strong growth data and reliable evaluation ratings. The MDE should fill the expertise void by providing local districts with at least one common reliable growth measure, a voluntary second growth measure that districts can utilize, a rubric that districts can use to help them evaluate educators more fairly and consistently, and training on the use of data and research-based observations.

The leadership of Sen. Phil Pavlov (R, St. Clair Township), Rep. Amanda Price (R, Park Township), Rep. Adam Zemke (D, Ann Arbor), Sen. Margaret O’Brien (R, Portage) and Rep. Lisa Lyons (R, Alto) was critical to the development of the newly proposed system.

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