Rebekah Emmerling is the Educator Evaluation Unit Manager in the Michigan Department of Education, Office of Educator Talent. Rebekah worked seventeen years in Michigan?s K-12 public education system before joining MDE, OET in the fall of 2016. Her career in k-12 began as a high school business teacher and included assistant principalships, a building principalship and many years in central office positions. Rebekah participated in the MCEE Educator Evaluation Pilot program and implemented evaluation systems under legislative requirements as a building and central office level administrator prior to joining the Educator Evaluation Unit last fall.