Connecticut § 10-145r - Survey on reading instruction.

§ 10-145r. Survey on reading instruction.

Sec. 10-145r. Survey on reading instruction. For the school year commencing July 1, 2014, and biennially thereafter, the local or regional board of education that employs a certified individual who holds an initial, provisional or professional educator certificate with an early childhood nursery through grade three or an elementary endorsement in a position requiring such an endorsement in kindergarten to grade three, inclusive, shall require each such certified individual to take a survey on reading instruction, developed by the Department of Education that is based on the reading instruction examination approved by the State Board of Education on April 1, 2009, or a comparable reading instruction examination with minimum standards that are equivalent to the examination approved by the State Board of Education on April 1, 2009. The department shall design such survey in a manner that identifies the strengths and weaknesses of such certified individuals in reading instruction practices and knowledge on an individual, school and district level. Such survey shall be administered at no financial cost to such certified individual. The results of such survey shall be confidential and shall not be included as part of any summative ratings for performance evaluations, conducted pursuant to section 10-151b, and not be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, as defined in section 1-200, except such results shall be (1) distributed to such certified individual and the supervisor of such certified individual who is responsible for designing and facilitating the program of professional development conducted pursuant to section 10-148b for such certified individual, and (2) used for the purpose of improving reading instruction by developing student learning objectives and teacher practice goals that will be included in the professional development conducted pursuant to section 10-148b for such certified individuals.

(P.A. 12-116, S. 6; P.A. 13-245, S. 13; P.A. 17-101, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 12-116 effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 13-245 replaced “each school year thereafter” with “biennially thereafter”, replaced provisions re practice version of reading instruction examination with provisions re survey on reading instruction and made technical and conforming changes, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 17-101 deleted “and in a manner that protects the anonymity of such certified individual” re administration of survey, added “be confidential” re results of survey, added Subdiv. (1) re distribution of survey results, designated existing provision re results to be used for purpose of improving reading instruction as Subdiv. (2), and made technical and conforming changes, effective July 1, 2017.