EVALUATION OF SCHOOL COUNSELORS. Professional school counselors offer students access to high-quality services that support students’ academic, career and social/emotional development. The Board evaluates school counselors in accordance with State law and the standards-based statewide counselor evaluation framework adopted by the State Board of Education (SBOE). The framework is aligned with the Ohio Standards for School Counselors. The Board directs the Superintendent/designee to implement this policy in accordance with State law. The policy becomes operative on July 1, 2017, and prevails over any conflicting provisions of collective bargaining agreements entered into or renewed with an effective date on or after July 1, 2017. Annually, the Board shall submit to the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) a report regarding implementation of this policy. The name of, or any personally identifiable information about, any counselor reported in compliance with this provision cannot be required. Effectiveness Rating School counselors shall be assigned an effectiveness rating of Accomplished, Skilled, Developing or Ineffective. Each school counselor shall be evaluated based on multiple factors including performance on all areas identified by the Ohio Standards for School Counselors and the ability to produce positive student outcomes using metrics in order to determine the holistic final summative rating of effectiveness according to ODE requirements. The choice of metrics for student outcomes shall be determined by the administration and will include information from the school or school district’s report card when appropriate.
EVALUATION OF SCHOOL COUNSELORS. Note: This part of this article applies only to those counselors who are subject to the standards- based statewide counselor evaluation framework which is aligned with the Ohio Standards for School Counselors and adopted by the State Board of Education (SBOE) per the requirements of sections 3319.113, 3319.61 and 3302.03 of the Ohio Revised Code.
EVALUATION OF SCHOOL COUNSELORS. The Board agrees to evaluate its school counselors in accordance with the law and the Ohio School Counselor Evaluation System (OSCES), as such laws and governing regulations may be amended from time-to-time. All timelines, procedures and rights outlined for teacher evaluations in Article 10, Sections 10.9 and 10.13 shall apply to school counselor evaluations. For the metrics of student outcomes, each school counselor shall pre- determine, with their evaluators, which metrics will be used for their evaluation.
EVALUATION OF SCHOOL COUNSELORS. The Board of Education authorizes the evaluation of school counselors in accordance with State law and the standards-based statewide counselor evaluation framework adopted by the State Board of Education (SBOE). The evaluation framework is aligned with the Ohio Standards for School Counselors.
