Tennessee Department of Education staff outline steps to finalize 2023–24 educator evaluations and partial-year exemptions

Amy Floyd, Tennessee Department of Education staff, led a remote guidance session explaining steps Tennessee administrators must take to finalize 2023–24 educator evaluations and how to identify partial-year exemptions.

Floyd said, "Today, we're gonna talk about finalizing 23 24 evaluations," and walked attendees through signing procedures, missing-data fixes, how to mark partial-year exemptions (PYE) in TNCompass, and where districts should update local education agency (LEA) contact information.

The session matters because completion of evaluation records triggers LOE generation for educators and determines which staff receive an evaluation score for the school year. Department staff said administrators must sign LOEs so the system can complete the form and notify educators for acknowledgement.

Floyd explained the signature step in detail: administrators enter their PIN and click the "complete form" button. "Once the administrator puts their PIN number in and clicks the complete form button, it will pop up another window ... and ask you a question," she said, describing the on-screen prompt that allows educators to acknowledge or decline the LOE. If an educator declines or is unavailable (for example, on leave…