The Three Buckets

#1 Classroom Teachers #2 Principals #3 Nonteaching Professional Employees

Classroom Teacher – “professional employe or temporary employe who provides direct instruction to students related to a specific subject or grade level” Principal – “a building principal, an assistant principal, a vice principal or a director of vocational education” Nonteaching Professional Employee – “an educational specialist or professional employe or temporary professional employe who provides services other than classroom instruction” Source:

To be considered a teaching professional, you must be able to answer yes to the following two questions: 1) Are you working under your instructional certification? 2) Do you provide direct instruction to students? (i.e. Do you plan, teach, & assess the instruction?) If your answer yes to #1, but no to #2, you are a nonteaching professional. 4

Dental Hygienist Elementary School Counselor Home and School Visitor Instructional Technology Specialist Secondary School Counselor School Nurse School Psychologist 5

Gifted Teachers Special Education Teachers ESL Teachers Reading Specialists Early Childhood & Early Intervention Teachers Career Technology Education Teachers Speech Language Pathologists School Librarians 6

Not Under the Authority of PDE Use of Nonteaching Instrument Will Be a Local Decision for the Following: Occupational Therapist Physical Therapist Social Workers Behavior Specialists 7

Source: Educator Effectiveness Administrative Manual from Elective Data/SLO = 35% for teachers with no PVAAS Data

Source: Educator Effectiveness Administrative Manual from required, but TBD SLOs optional SLOs required

Anticipated to be 20% SPP Source: Educator Effectiveness Administrative Manual from