                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EMPLOYMENT OF TEACHERS (§ 22.1-295)

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&#8217;s personnel file.
			Each local superintendent shall annually certify divisionwide compliance with
the provisions of this section to the Department.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 22-203; 1980, c. 559; 1996, c. 186; 1999, cc. 831, 1030,
1037; 2006, c. 373; 2013, cc. 588, 650.