Filed as: ARSD 24:57 (Teacher Performance Standards and Evaluation)
This package has had no recorded movement since August 18, 2025 and was never filed with the Secretary of State. State law sets no deadline for finishing a noticed rule, so it remains legally pending — but is inactive in practice.
South Dakota school districts will have more flexibility in how they measure teacher effectiveness under updated evaluation standards, beginning with the 2025-26 school year. Student learning objectives—specific growth targets teachers set—will become optional rather than required, allowing districts to use other methods to assess student growth. All districts must now score teachers on component 3d (Using Assessment in Instruction) as part of their evaluation process, and the rules modernize outdated federal education law references and clarify language throughout the evaluation framework.
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CANCELED------- The effect of the rules will be to revise teacher evaluations by making student learning objectives optional, require the scoring of component 3d (Using Assessment in Instruction), revise outdated timelines, and clarify and update language. The reason for adopting the proposed rules is to provide South Dakota school districts with more flexibility in how they assess teacher effectiveness in relation to student growth while ensuring formative assessments are utilized to elicit evidence of student learning.
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