LCO No. 289 1 of 1 General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5891 January Session, 2025 LCO No. 289 Referred to Committee on EDUCATION Introduced by: REP. HOWARD, 43 rd Dist. AN ACT CONCERNING REVISIONS TO THE CONNECTICUT GUIDELINES FOR EDUCATOR EVALUATION. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: That section 10-151b of the general statutes be amended to require the 1 Department of Education to revise Section 2 of the Connecticut 2 Guidelines for Educator Evaluation to establish a tiered program of 3 evaluation so that teachers who are rated as proficient or exemplary 4 need not be formally evaluated on an annual basis, and teachers who 5 are rated as developing or below standard will continue to be evaluated 6 annually. 7 Statement of Purpose: To allow educators who are rated as exemplary or proficient to continue to use their teaching hours focused on classroom instruction and student development by not requiring annual evaluations for such high- achieving educators, and providing educators with continuing support who have not yet reached exemplary and proficient evaluation ratings.