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Kentucky law change prompts Bullitt County to update evaluation plan; summative cycles extend to five years for tenured teachers
Summary
After the legislature passed House Bill 48, district staff told the board they will update the certified evaluation plan: teachers and other certified employees with continuing service (tenure) will be summatively evaluated every five years instead of every three, while formative observations and annual growth plans will continue.
Bullitt County administrators told the Board of Education they will update the district’s certified evaluation plan to reflect changes enacted by the legislature in House Bill 48 (the Red Tape Reduction Act), which extended the summative evaluation cycle for teachers with continuing service.
What changed: Presenters said the primary statutory change shifts tenured (continuing-service) certified staff from a three‑year summative evaluation cycle to a five‑year cycle. The district described the change as coming from House Bill 48 and said it is intended to reduce paperwork; district staff emphasized that annual formative observations, site visits for administrators and yearly professional growth plans remain in place.
How the district will implement it: District staff said the district’s existing planning, observation, pre/post conference and multiple-evidence framework (teachers using the Danielson framework; principals using the Professional Standards for Educational Leaders, PSEL) will remain. The district will continue to require all certified employees to complete a professional growth plan each year, and all summative evidence must be completed and signed by May 1 each year. The district also described a 50/50 committee (50% teachers, 50% administrators) that reviews the certified evaluation plan before KDE submission.
Timeline: Staff said the updated plan must go to the district’s 50/50 committee, then to the board, and then be submitted to the Kentucky Department of Education; the administration plans to bring the updated certified evaluation plan to the board for approval at the board’s regular meeting later in the month.
Attribution: Thea, who presented the specific changes and timelines, cited House Bill 48 and described how the district’s matrix for summative cycles (previously three years) will be extended to five years for those with continuing service. District leaders repeatedly emphasized that the change affects the timing of summative evaluations only and does not remove formative observations or required annual professional growth work.
