SPRING 2015
State administers
new assessments
AUGUST 2011
Task Force
releases nal
report and
recommendations
TEACHER EVALUATION
POLICY IN NEW MEXICO:
Where is New Mexico in implementing
teacher eectiveness policies?
THE NATIONAL PICTURE
NEW MEXICO’S IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE
APRIL 2016
APRIL 2011
Executive order creating New Mexico Effective Teaching Task Force,
charged with presenting recommendations that include measures
of student achievement representing 50% of evaluation
DECEMBER 2015
Injunction bars schools
from using teacher
evaluation system for
personnel decisions
2010 2011 2012 2013
2014
2015
OCTOBER 2010
College and
career-ready
standards
adopted
2013-14
All districts must implement
effectiveness evaluation
system
FEBRUARY
2012
ESEA waiver
granted
APRIL 2012
Governor directs Public
Education Department
to move forward with
implementation of new
teacher evaluation
system
NEW MEXICO
STATE TEACHER EVALUATION POLICIES (2015)
Annual evaluations for all teachers
Student achievement as evaluation criterion
Evaluations factor into tenure decisions
Teachers are eligible for dismissal for ineffectiveness
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
some
measures (8)
43
preponderant
criterion (16)
signicant
criterion (19)
27
23
28
For more information
about New Mexico
and other states’ teacher
eectiveness policies, NCTQ’s
2015 New Mexico State Teacher
Policy Yearbook is immediately
available for free download at:
www.nctq.org/statepolicy
TEACHER
EVALUATIONS
BASED ON
STUDENT
GROWTH
Improvement
Plans
Tenure
Reporting
of Aggregate
Teacher
Ratings
Professional
Development
Compensation
Dismissal
Layoffs
Student
Teaching
Placements
Licensure
Reciprocity
Licensure
Advancement
Prep
Program
Accountability
DOES NEW MEXICO CONNECT TEACHER EVALUATIONS TO RELATED POLICY ISSUES?
NEW MEXICO’S EVALUATION SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
APRIL 2016
EVALUATION SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
State criteria or framework for district-designed evaluation system.
Evaluation plans must include measures of student achievement growth worth fty percent. For teachers
with a standards-based assessment, the growth component must be comprised of the standard-based
assessment (thirty-ve percent) and additional department-approved assessments (fteen percent).
Classroom observations are required.
Teachers in New Mexico are awarded tenure automatically after a three-year probationary period.
If, after a ninety-day remediation period a teacher rated minimally effective or ineffective has not made
progress, the teacher is eligible for dismissal.
Evaluation System Structure
Use of achievement data/student
growth in teacher evaluations
Observations
Tenure Policy
Dismissal Policy
New Mexico has made important strides in developing
high-quality evaluations of teacher effectiveness
grounded in student growth and achievement and has
articulated some important teacher policies linked to
new teacher evaluations. But more can be done to
“connect the dots” — ensuring that evaluation results
are used to guide teacher policy statewide in ways that
will further the quality of teaching and learning for all.