House Journal: Page 1930: Monday, May 7, 2001
28 9. Page 5, line 33, by inserting after the word
29 "teacher" the following: "mentoring and".
30 10. Page 6, by inserting after line 12 the
31 following:
32 "___. A beginning teacher shall be informed by the
33 school district, prior to the beginning teacher's
34 participation in a mentoring and induction program, of
35 the criteria upon which the beginning teacher shall be
36 evaluated and of the evaluation process utilized by
37 the school district."
38 11. Page 9, line 23, by striking the figure "(3)"
39 and inserting the following: "(2)".
40 12. Page 11, lines 14 and 15, by striking the
41 words and figures "starting July 1, 2001," and
42 inserting the following: ", preceding participation,
43 as set forth in section 284.4".
44 13. Page 13, line 20, by striking the word
45 "model" and inserting the following: "models".
46 14. Page 14, line 10, by inserting after the
47 figure "2." the following: "a."
48 15. Page 14, by inserting after line 22 the
49 following:
50 "b. However, an administrator licensed in
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1 accordance with section 272.2, subsection 13,
2 paragraph "a", shall not be eligible to enroll in the
3 evaluator training program."
4 16. By striking page 15, line 8, through page 16,
5 line 7, and inserting the following:
6 "Sec. . NEW SECTION. 284.11 PILOT PROGRAM FOR
7 TEAM-BASED VARIABLE PAY FOR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.
8 1. It is the intent of the general assembly to
9 create a statewide team-based variable pay program to
10 reward individual attendance centers for improvement
11 in student achievement. A pilot program is
12 established to give Iowa school districts with one or
13 more participating attendance centers the opportunity
14 to explore and demonstrate successful methods to
15 implement team-based variable pay. The department
16 shall develop and administer the pilot program. Each
17 school district approved by the department to
18 participate in the pilot program shall administer
19 valid and reliable standardized assessments at the
20 beginning and end of the school year to demonstrate
21 growth in student achievement.
22 2. All licensed practitioners employed at a
23 participating attendance center that has demonstrated
24 improvement in student achievement shall share in a
25 cash award. However, the school district is
26 encouraged to extend cash awards to other staff
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