Common use of District/Local Office Clause in Contracts

District/Local Office. The district/local office has the overall responsibility of advocacy, training and proper implementation of the IQMS. - The District/local office has a responsibility with regard to the development and arrangement of professional development programmes in accordance with identified needs of educators and its own improvement plan. - The district manager has a responsibility to moderate evaluation results of schools in his/her district/circuit in order to ensure consistency. In cases where the evaluation results of a school are not consistent with the school’s general level of performance or where the district/circuit manager has reason to believe that the evaluation at a particular school was either too strict or too lenient, he/she must refer the results back to the school for reconsideration. - The district/local office must ensure that the evaluation results of schools are captured and processed in time to ensure successful implementation of salary and grade progression. - The district/local office should ensure that the implementation process in schools is monitored on an ongoing basis.