If you have completed your NIE Goal Setting Conference and Mid-Year Conference, be sure that you have finalized ALL components to generate the overall green check. If the green check does not appear, a component may be incomplete! 

• NIE Partial Plans – Please ensure that the Goal Setting Conference is completed within 30 working days of hire/contract start date. The Mid-Year Conference is not required for NIE partial plans and will not appear as a container to complete.

NIE Deadlines 

End of Year Conferences

• Central Office - June 17

According to Tennessee State Board of Education Policy5.201, all educators must be evaluated annually by a certified evaluator.

For SY2022-23, there are two methods offered in attaining TEM Certification:

1. Returning Observers - Self-Paced (Canvas)
   • TIER I (Self-Paced): Conducted a minimum of one instructional evaluation during the 21-22 school year AND has been certified for three (3) consecutive years.
   • TIER II (Self-Paced): Certified sometime within the last 1 -2 years (school years 2020-21, 2021-22)
2. New Observers - Virtually (Two-day session in Teams
   • TIER III (Virtual Class): Administrators who have never conducted a formal TEM observation. Course numbers and date information can be found HERE.

TIER I and TIER II participants have been placed in their prospective courses. The course is now live in your Canvas dashboard.

Note: If you are participating in the self-paced courses, you must complete the coursework and calibration by July 29.

Questions/Concerns? Email:eps@scsk12.org.

Have you completed at least two courses within the STAR12 platform? If not, don’t miss out on the thousands of FREE e-learning professional development courses offered by STAR12!  

Please Note: Access to specific learning courses will depend on your STAR12 account type.  

• If this is your first time logging in OR you do not remember your login password:
• Go to MySTAR12.com
• Enter your SCS email address, then
• Click “forgot password.”
• As Access accounts are limited, inactivity may result in loss of STAR12 access.

Please Note: PLZ will close soon after the deadline above as our office prepares to meet the State mandatory deadline for MSCS evaluation uploads in TN Compass.

• June 8 - ILDs