Effective - 28 Aug 2009
168.749. Eligibility for stipends, criteria. — 1. Beginning with school year 2010-11, teachers who elect to participate in the teacher choice compensation package shall be eligible for stipends based on the following criteria:
(1) Score on a value-added test instrument or instruments. Such instruments shall be defined as those which give a reliable measurement of the skills and knowledge transferred to students during the time they are in a teacher's classroom and shall be selected by the school district from one or more of the following assessments:
(a) A list of recognized value-added instruments developed by the department of elementary and secondary education;
(b) Scores on the statewide assessments established under section 160.518 may be used for this purpose, and the department of elementary and secondary education shall develop a procedure for identifying the value added by teachers that addresses the fact that not all subjects are tested at all grade levels each year under the state assessment program;
(c) Scores on annual tests required by the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization of 2002 for third through eighth grade may be used as value-added instruments if found appropriate after consideration and approval by the state board of education;
(d) A district may choose an instrument after a public hearing of the district board of education on the matter, with the reasons for the selection entered upon the minutes of the meeting; provided, however, that this option shall not be available to districts after scores are established for paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of this subdivision;
(2) Evaluations by principals or other administrators with expertise to evaluate classroom performance;
(3) Evaluations by parents and by students at their appropriate developmental level.
Model instruments for these evaluations shall be developed or identified by the department of elementary and secondary education. Districts may use such models, may use other existing models, or may develop their own instruments. A district that develops its own instrument shall not use that instrument as its sole method of evaluation.
2. The department of elementary and secondary education shall develop criteria for determining eligibility for stipend increments, including a range of target scores on assessments for use by the districts. The test-score options listed in subdivision (1) of subsection 1 of this section shall be given higher weight than the evaluation options listed in subdivisions (2) and (3) of subsection 1 of this section. The decision of individual districts about the qualifications for each increment based on the evaluations listed in subdivisions (2) and (3) of subsection 1 of this section and for value-added instruments for which target scores have not been developed by the department of elementary and secondary education may address the district's unique characteristics but shall require demonstrably superior performance on the part of the teacher, based primarily on improved student achievement while taking into account classroom demographics including but not limited to students' abilities, special needs, and class size.
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(L. 2009 S.B. 291)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XI - Education and Libraries
Chapter 168 - Personnel — Teachers and Others
Section 168.024 - Local business externship, count as contact hours of professional development.
Section 168.025 - Teacher externships, requirements — rulemaking authority — sunset provision.
Section 168.037 - Web-based survey, substitute teachers, purpose — survey completion and contents.
Section 168.081 - Teaching or acting as school administrator without certificate prohibited.
Section 168.102 - Short title.
Section 168.104 - Definitions.
Section 168.106 - Indefinite contract, what affects.
Section 168.108 - Contract, form of — requirements.
Section 168.110 - Contract modification, when — what provisions.
Section 168.112 - Modification or termination, how.
Section 168.114 - Board may terminate, grounds for.
Section 168.116 - Termination by board — notice — charges.
Section 168.118 - Termination hearing, procedure, costs.
Section 168.120 - Appeal by teacher, procedure.
Section 168.122 - Leaves of absence, board may establish policy — retention of permanent status.
Section 168.126 - Probationary teachers, how terminated — notice, contents — reemployed, how.
Section 168.128 - Teacher records, how maintained — evaluations, how performed and maintained.
Section 168.129 - Board member exempt from civil liability resulting from charges against teacher.
Section 168.130 - Teachers not to participate in management of school board election, campaign.
Section 168.151 - Solicitation of or payment by teacher of expenses of school prohibited, penalty.
Section 168.181 - Business manager and clerical help may be employed in certain districts — duties.
Section 168.205 - Superintendent, school districts may share, when — additional state aid.
Section 168.232 - Consequences of dissolution of St. Louis special school district.
Section 168.271 - Probationary period for employees — discharge during (metropolitan districts).
Section 168.303 - Job-sharing rules to be adopted by board, job sharing defined.
Section 168.400 - Programs established for public school personnel — contents.
Section 168.407 - Principal-administrator academy program for school leaders.
Section 168.409 - Fees and costs for assessment center and academy.
Section 168.505 - Teacher receiving career pay not to affect district base pay.
Section 168.510 - Disqualified from participating in career plan, grounds.
Section 168.530 - Reimbursement by department for coordinator, when.
Section 168.745 - Compensation package created — fund created.
Section 168.747 - Eligibility for compensation package.
Section 168.749 - Eligibility for stipends, criteria.
Section 168.750 - Rulemaking authority.
Section 168.770 - Library information and technology program recognized — rulemaking authority.