TDOE staff outline TNPortfolio deadlines, upload rules and peer-review hiring

Tracy Riddle, Director of Educator Effectiveness at the Tennessee Department of Education, told district administrators during a state webinar that the TNPortfolio platform will require districts to meet an educator-submission deadline of May 5 and that teacher scores and a samples report will be released after June 23, 2025.

Riddle said administrators should monitor several new reports in the platform (Reports, View Teacher Submissions, Manage Teacher Collections and Rubrics) and explained how portfolio-status labels work. "If you see this status not started, that means that the teacher has not uploaded any student work," Riddle said. She urged hosts to verify roster and login status, and to use the View Teacher Submissions tab to inspect attached student artifacts.

The guidance focused on four operational areas administrators will need to manage: report navigation and portfolio-status definitions; rules for editing collections or standards; video and file-upload requirements; and peer-review hiring, training and pay. Riddle summarized platform rules for collection changes: administrators can edit a teacher's chosen collection or rubric only before the…