A. The teachers in the public schools of a school division shall be employed and placed in appropriate schools by the school board upon recommendation of the division superintendent. In placing teachers, school boards shall fill positions with licensed instructional personnel qualified in the relevant subject areas.
B. School boards shall adopt employment policies and practices designed to promote the employment and retention of highly qualified teachers and to effectively serve the educational needs of students. Such policies shall include, but need not be limited to, incentives for excellence in teaching, including financial support for teachers attending professional development seminars or those seeking and obtaining national certification.
C. School boards shall develop a procedure for use by division superintendents and principals in evaluating teachers that is appropriate to the tasks performed and addresses, among other things, student academic progress and the skills and knowledge of instructional personnel, including, but not limited to, instructional methodology, classroom management, and subject matter knowledge.
Teachers employed by local school boards who have achieved continuing contract status shall be formally evaluated at least once every three years and more often as deemed necessary by the principal, and they shall be evaluated informally during each year in which they are not formally evaluated. Any teacher who has achieved continuing contract status who receives an unsatisfactory formal evaluation and who continues to be employed by the local school board shall be formally evaluated in the following year. The evaluation shall be maintained in the employee's personnel file.
Each local superintendent shall annually certify divisionwide compliance with the provisions of this section to the Department.
Code 1950, § 22-203; 1980, c. 559; 1996, c. 186; 1999, cc. 831, 1030, 1037; 2006, c. 373; 2013, cc. 588, 650.
Structure Code of Virginia
Chapter 15 - Teachers, Officers and Employees
§ 22.1-289.1. Teacher compensation; biennial review required
§ 22.1-289.2. Compensation of public school employees called to active duty military service
§ 22.1-290. Board authorized to award teaching scholarship loans
§ 22.1-290.02. Traineeships for education of special education personnel
§ 22.1-290.1. Clinical faculty programs
§ 22.1-290.2. Teacher, other instructional personnel, and support staff shortages; data
§ 22.1-291.1. Planning time for school teachers
§ 22.1-291.1:1. School counselors; staff time
§ 22.1-291.3. Notice of duty to report child abuse or neglect
§ 22.1-291.4. Bullying and abusive work environments prohibited
§ 22.1-292. Penalties on officers and teachers
§ 22.1-292.1. Violations related to secure mandatory tests
§ 22.1-295. Employment of teachers
§ 22.1-295.2. Employment discrimination prohibited
§ 22.1-296.1. Data on convictions for certain crimes and child abuse and neglect required; penalty
§ 22.1-296.2. Fingerprinting required; reciprocity permitted
§ 22.1-296.3. Certain private school employees subject to fingerprinting and criminal records checks
§ 22.1-296.4. Child abuse and neglect data required
§ 22.1-297. Assignment of teachers, principals and assistant principals by superintendent
§ 22.1-298.2. Regulations governing education preparation programs
§ 22.1-298.3. Students with autism spectrum disorders; training required of personnel
§ 22.1-298.4. Teacher preparation programs; learning disabilities
§ 22.1-298.6. Mental health awareness training
§ 22.1-298.7. Teachers and other licensed school board employees; cultural competency training
§ 22.1-299. License required of teachers; provisional licenses; exceptions
§ 22.1-299.2. National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund
§ 22.1-299.4. Teach for America license
§ 22.1-299.5. Waiver of teacher licensure requirements; trade and industrial education programs
§ 22.1-299.6. Career and technical education; three-year licenses
§ 22.1-299.7. Microcredential program; certain STEM subjects
§ 22.1-300. Tuberculosis certificate
§ 22.1-301. Costs of medical examinations and of furnishing medical records
§ 22.1-303. Probationary terms of service for teachers
§ 22.1-303.1. Immunity from civil liability for certain individuals
§ 22.1-305. Nonrenewal of contract of probationary teacher
§ 22.1-305.1. Mentor teacher programs
§ 22.1-305.2. Advisory Board on Teacher Education and Licensure
§ 22.1-307. Dismissal of teacher; grounds
§ 22.1-308. Grievance procedure
§ 22.1-311. Hearing before school board, hearing officer, or fact-finding panel
§ 22.1-313. Decision of school board; generally
§ 22.1-314. Decision of school board; issue of grievability; appeal
§ 22.1-315. Grounds and procedure for suspension
§ 22.1-316. Agreement entered into and enacted into law; form of agreement
§ 22.1-317. Superintendent of Public Instruction to be "designated state official."
§ 22.1-318. Filing and publication of contracts made pursuant to Agreement