HGEA, DOE Reach Agreement on Principal Evaluations

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The Hawaii Department of Education and Hawaii Government Employees Association reached an agreement today on a new multi-tiered evaluation system for public school principals.

Months in the works, the system will rate principals half on student outcomes and half on principal leadership practice, which includes five categories ranging from school culture to planning.

Both sides were celebrating the news:

“This was truly a collaborative effort by HGEA and DOE teams with a goal towards raising the bar in school leadership,” Superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi said in a DOE release.

“The (Comprehensive Evaluation System for School Administrators) is an extraordinary accomplishment,” said HGEA Unit 6 President Francine Honda, CESSA committee member and Kailua High School principal, in an HGEA release. “Principals helped to initiate and create an evaluation system that recognizes the unique needs of the school community, the complexities of school improvement and an annual and cumulative five-year evaluation process.”


This at a time when the Hawaii State Teachers Association is stuck in contract negotiations with the state over a new teacher evaluation system. Maybe HSTA can talk to HGEA and figure out how it was able to reach its agreement on principal evaluations.


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