Common use of ALTERNATIVE EVALUATION TRACK PROCEDURES Clause in Contracts

ALTERNATIVE EVALUATION TRACK PROCEDURES. 1. After a permanent teacher or non-teaching personnel who has completed two or more successful and sequential performance evaluations (where all six categories of the evaluation instrument were rated “Proficient”) the individual evaluatee may elect, with the approval of the site principal, to pursue an alternative evaluation track, called the Professional Options Plan (POP). If a principal declines, the Assistant Superintendent, Human Resources, or designee, and TANLA President, or designee, will determine a viable solution. 2. The POP is a process that is employee-centered, encourages peer sharing and support and includes voluntary self-assessment and goal-setting. The administrator and teacher share the joint responsibility for developing the POP. Any projects must align with District goals, standards, and objectives. a. Each permanent teacher and permanent non-teaching person shall first decide whether they wish to be evaluated under the Professional Option Plan procedures. The evaluator shall provide the teacher or non-teaching person with a district developed form to sign and date indicating their wish to be evaluated through the Alternative Evaluation Track procedures. b. Each teacher shall privately complete the District-provided Teacher Self-Appraisal Guide to prepare to participate in the end-of-the-year assessment of the POP. c. In addition, each permanent teacher electing to use POP during the school year shall agree to use the District-provided draft document entitled, “What All Teachers Should Know And Be Able to Do” and the draft Professional Teaching Standards for their subject area/grade level, if available, to assist in formulating professional growth goals for the school year. d. Prior to the initial participation in POP the permanent teacher or non-teaching person, will attend a District provided information training session, for no more than one hour, after school, at a central location, on one day. This information training session will occur during the first twenty (20) student instructional days of each new school year. e. On or before the thirtieth (30) student instructional day of the school year, the permanent teacher or non-teaching person and the supervisor will cooperatively establish the evaluatee’s annual goals, reducing them to writing, mutually dated, and signed by both parties. The District will provide the form for accomplishing this task. f. No later than thirty (30) student instructional days prior to the final student day, the evaluatee and the evaluator shall meet to analyze and discuss employee-gathered-data related to the accomplishment of the established annual goals. g. The rating evaluator may, following the meeting in Section J, 2, f, above, decide to move the permanent teacher or non-teaching person back to the Regular Evaluation Track Procedures for the successive school year. This decision, if made, must be communicated to the evaluatee, in writing, no later than thirty (30) calendar days before the last school day scheduled on the Master Calendar of the evaluation year, per Ed Code 44663(a). h. POP shall not be used as a basis for determining that a permanent teacher’s or non-teaching person’s overall performance is unsatisfactory nor as a probable cause for non-renewal of an employee contract under applicable law. Information from the Professional Options Plan may not be used as a basis to determine if a permanent teacher’s or non-teaching person’s performance is unsatisfactory in subsequent evaluations done under the provisions of the Regular Evaluation Track Procedure.

ALTERNATIVE EVALUATION TRACK PROCEDURES. 1. After a permanent teacher or non-teaching non‐teaching personnel who has completed two or more successful and sequential performance evaluations (where all six categories of the evaluation instrument were rated “Proficient”) the individual evaluatee may elect, with the approval of the site principal, to pursue an alternative evaluation track, called the Professional Options Plan (POP). If a principal declines, the Assistant Superintendent, Human Resources, or designee, and TANLA President, or designee, will determine a viable solution. 2. The POP is a process that is employee-centeredemployee‐centered, encourages peer sharing and support and includes voluntary self-assessment self‐assessment and goal-settinggoal‐setting. The administrator and teacher share the joint responsibility for developing the POP. Any projects must align with District goals, standards, and objectives. a. Each permanent teacher and permanent non-teaching non‐teaching person shall first decide whether they wish to be evaluated under the Professional Option Plan procedures. The evaluator shall provide the teacher or non-teaching non‐teaching person with a district developed form to sign and date indicating their wish to be evaluated through the Alternative Evaluation Track procedures. b. Each teacher shall privately complete the District-provided District‐provided Teacher Self-Appraisal Self‐Appraisal Guide to prepare to participate in the end-of-the-year end‐of‐the‐year assessment of the POP. c. In addition, each permanent teacher electing to use POP during the school year shall agree to use the District-provided District‐provided draft document entitled, “What All Teachers Should Know And Be Able to Do” and the draft Professional Teaching Standards for their subject area/grade level, if available, to assist in formulating professional growth goals for the school year. d. Prior to the initial participation in POP the permanent teacher or non-teaching non‐teaching person, will attend a District provided information training session, for no more than one hour, after school, at a central location, on one day. This information training session will occur during the first twenty (20) student instructional days of each new school year. e. On or before the thirtieth (30) student instructional day of the school year, the permanent teacher or non-teaching non‐teaching person and the supervisor will cooperatively establish the evaluatee’s annual goals, reducing them to writing, mutually dated, and signed by both parties. The District will provide the form for accomplishing this task. f. No later than thirty (30) student instructional days prior to the final student day, the evaluatee and the evaluator shall meet to analyze and discuss employee-gathered-data employee‐gathered‐data related to the accomplishment of the established annual goals. g. The rating evaluator may, following the meeting in Section J, 2, f, above, decide to move the permanent teacher or non-teaching non‐teaching person back to the Regular Evaluation Track Procedures for the successive school year. This decision, if made, must be communicated to the evaluatee, in writing, no later than thirty (30) calendar days before the last school day scheduled on the Master Calendar of the evaluation year, per Ed Code 44663(a). h. POP shall not be used as a basis for determining that a permanent teacher’s or non-teaching non‐teaching person’s overall performance is unsatisfactory nor as a probable cause for non-renewal non‐renewal of an employee contract under applicable law. Information from the Professional Options Plan may not be used as a basis to determine if a permanent teacher’s or non-teaching non‐teaching person’s performance is unsatisfactory in subsequent evaluations done under the provisions of the Regular Evaluation Track Procedure.

ALTERNATIVE EVALUATION TRACK PROCEDURES. 1. After a permanent teacher or non-teaching personnel non‐teaching personnel, who has completed two or more successful and sequential performance evaluations (where all six categories of the evaluation instrument were rated “Proficient”) the individual evaluatee may elect, with the approval of the site principal, to pursue an alternative evaluation track, called the Professional Options Plan (POP). If a principal declines, the Assistant Superintendent, Human Resources, or designee, and TANLA President, or designee, will determine a viable solution. 2. The POP is a process that is employee-centeredemployee‐centered, encourages peer sharing and support and includes voluntary self-assessment self‐assessment and goal-settinggoal‐setting. The administrator and teacher share the joint responsibility for developing the POP. Any projects must align with District goals, standards, and objectives. a. Each permanent teacher and permanent non-teaching person non‐teaching person, shall first decide whether they wish to be evaluated under the Professional Option Plan procedures. The evaluator shall provide the teacher or non-teaching non‐teaching person with a district developed form to sign and date indicating their wish to be evaluated through the Alternative Evaluation Track procedures. b. Each teacher shall privately complete the District-provided District‐provided Teacher Self-Appraisal Self‐Appraisal Guide to prepare to participate in the end-of-the-year end‐of‐the‐year assessment of the POP. c. In addition, each permanent teacher electing to use POP during the school year shall agree to use the District-provided District‐provided draft document entitled, “What All Teachers Should Know And Be Able to Do” and the draft Professional Teaching Standards for their subject area/grade level, if available, to assist in formulating professional growth goals for the school year. d. Prior to the initial participation in POP the permanent teacher or non-teaching non‐teaching person, will attend a District provided information training session, for no more than one hour, after school, at a central location, on one day. This information training session will occur during the first twenty (20) student instructional days of each new school year. e. On or before the thirtieth (30) student instructional day of the school year, the permanent teacher or non-teaching non‐teaching person and the supervisor will cooperatively establish the evaluatee’s annual goals, reducing them to writing, mutually dated, dated and signed by both parties. The District will provide the form for accomplishing this task. f. No later than thirty (30) student instructional days prior to the final student day, the evaluatee and the evaluator shall meet to analyze and discuss employee-gathered-data employee‐gathered‐data related to the accomplishment of the established annual goals. g. The rating evaluator may, following the meeting in Section J, 2, fXxxxxxx X,0,x, above, decide to move the permanent teacher or non-teaching non‐teaching person back to the Regular Evaluation Track Procedures for the successive school year. This decision, if made, must be communicated to the evaluatee, in writing, no later than thirty (30) calendar days before the last school day scheduled on the Master Calendar of the evaluation year, per Ed Code 44663(a). h. POP shall not be used as a basis for determining that a permanent teacher’s or non-teaching non‐teaching person’s overall performance is unsatisfactory nor as a probable cause for non-renewal non‐renewal of an employee contract under applicable law. Information from the Professional Options Plan may not be used as a basis to determine if a permanent teacher’s or non-teaching non‐teaching person’s performance is unsatisfactory in subsequent evaluations done under the provisions of the Regular Evaluation Track Procedure.