Tennessee DOE office hour: how districts should finalize 2023–24 evaluations, mark partial‑year exemptions in TNCompass

Amy Floyd, director of data and district support at the Tennessee Department of Education, told district evaluation configurators during a department office‑hour session that administrators must complete and PIN 2023–24 evaluations in TNCompass before educators can sign them and that educators who do not provide 120 days of instruction should be marked as receiving a partial‑year exemption (PYE).

The guidance explained the administrator PIN workflow in TNCompass: an administrator enters their PIN on the educator’s evaluation page and clicks “complete the form.” If the educator is unavailable to sign, the administrator can select a reason—such as “declined,” “on leave,” “no longer employed,” or “signature on file”—and save that status so the educator’s record shows why a signature is missing.

Why this matters: marking and pinning evaluations correctly in TNCompass determines whether a local observation evaluation (LOE) will generate and whether pacing and other reporting features appear for an educator. For educators marked…