Monday, April 21, 2025
Dear Educator Effectiveness (EE) Coordinator,
What’s In This Email:
- Final Notice: Required 2024-25 WI EE System Evaluation Survey Due May 5
- Don’t Lose Access! Upcoming Deadline to Download Records from
Frontline Platform - June 30 - Refreshed WI EE Policy Resource Available
Final Notice: Required 2024-25 WI EE System Evaluation Survey Due May 5
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has extended the deadline until Monday, May 5, to facilitate additional responses to this mandatory Wisconsin Educator Effectiveness (EE) System annual survey. In total, DPI estimates that the current response rate statewide is about 47 percent, or below half.
Participate in the Annual EE Evaluation Survey Now!
Participation in the annual survey is required as a condition of receiving the grant and required as compliance monitoring with the WI EE System. The survey is anonymous, meaning DPI does not know what districts have completed the survey or what they said. The survey is also an important opportunity for state model districts to provide us with feedback to inform the future of the system. This year, we added a small section with questions specifically for state model districts to gather feedback on system changes already implemented and potential future changes.
As a reminder, DPI does not know which districts have already responded and cannot check whether they completed the survey. Districts can check by attempting to open the survey. If the individual has already completed the survey from their computer on behalf of the district, then the Qualtrics form will not allow them to complete the survey again.
Only one response is needed per district or independent charter school. If another staff member at the district or school has already completed the survey, there is no need to complete the survey again.
The survey first went out to all EE Grant program coordinator contacts on Monday, March 10. Then, the EdLeaders Dispatch from the DPI to all public school administrators on March 14.
How to take the survey:
- Assign one person to take the survey for the school district or independent charter school. Districts and independent charters only need to submit the survey once.
- Open the Qualtrics survey using the link above.
- Answer questions from the perspective of the whole school district or charter school based on overall practice and policy. Please note that the language of the questions may not match local EE model terminology, like the names of EE conferences (planning session versus “beginning of the year”) or the names of observations (“mini-observations” versus “rapid-cycle”). In these cases, respondents should give the response closest to their local policies or model.
- Submit the survey. Make a note locally that the survey has been completed.
If you have questions, please reach out to the LEAD Team or Jacob Hollnagel, Education Consultant.
Don’t Lose Access! Upcoming Deadline to Download Records from Frontline June 30
This is a quick reminder that staff of districts or independent charter schools using the state model of the Wisconsin Educator Effectiveness (EE) System will lose access to the Frontline Education platform on June 30, 2025.
DPI will no longer contract with Frontline Education (or another vendor) to provide an electronic employee evaluation management platform once the current statewide contract expires at the end of this fiscal year. Local education agencies may choose to enter into a direct contract with Frontline Education for the 25-26 school year to maintain their access and support their local EE System implementation.
Requirements, Details, & Resources
Our Documentation of Evaluation Process and EE Record-Keeping Options webpages provide details about:
Your record-keeping options
Required documentation elements
The free DPI downloadable process forms in Google and Microsoft formats
The portion of the EE grant that you will keep locally to support EE
Additional resources
Download Files Before June 30
Local administrations should download their records out of Frontline before losing access at end of June. Frontline system administrators can download archived files in bulk using the Archived Forms Export tool in the platform. We recommend completing this in batches (perhaps one year of records at a time) over the next few months, instead of all at once.
This deadline should also be communicated to staff who may wish to download files for their individual, personal records.
Refer to the Required Documentation Elements resource to determine the records to be kept as evidence of compliance with EE System requirements.
Other Supports
- 2024-25 Finalization & Rollover Guide—instructions on finalization of the 2024-25 forms whether continuing or discontinuing use of the platform.
- Our online Help Center—which has supported you with how-to’s for the Frontline platform—will transfer into a support center for the DPI downloadable forms and record-keeping management.
- Contact the DPI LEAD team with any questions through our online form or our email DPIEducator.Effectiveness@dpi.wi.gov.
Refreshed WI EE Policy Resource Available
The Licensing, Educator Advancement and Development Team (LEAD) recently refreshed the WI EE System Policy Guide.
If you are looking for information about the laws, regulations, and policies that underpin the WI EE System or how the system affects other aspects of state education policy, then this guide is for you.
Check out the refreshed WI EE System Policy Guide
The refreshed guide is condensed, but contains more information about the WI EE System policies, including incorporating our other guidance related to flexibilities, documentation requirements, and the EE Grant.