Formal CAST. Formal CAST may occur if: ● Informal CAST proved unsuccessful. ● An educator’s performance in the use of Xxxxxxx elements is declining in effectiveness. ● An educator’s most recent overall evaluation rating has led to at least two needs improvement and/or unsatisfactory in the past three (3) years. ● An educator has earned or is earning a GPA equivalent of 2.499 or lower in his / her work in Part I (16) Xxxxxxx element-use and in completion of the Part II (deliberate practice) element in the past two (2) years. ● An educator who finds difficulty in the regular accomplishment of one (or more) of the following: ○ Planning and delivering his / her standards-based lessons with Xxxxxxx elements that serve to stimulate and augment student learning and/or engagement in the educator’s classroom. ○ Establishing an orderly environment of clear expectations that include regular progress- monitoring feedback to students. ○ Connecting students’ prior learning, new content and knowledge, appropriate skills and strategies, and higher-order-thinking to the lesson. ○ Engaging students of diverse interests and abilities. When the evaluator assigns the educator to formal CAST help, he/she notifies the educator in writing (see APPENDIX) and the following team forms to provide clear expectations, support, and structure: ● The educator ● The evaluator (chair) ● Educator coach or lead teacher or program planner ● Peer teacher-mentor ● A professional development resource person ● CFEA president or designee ● An HR representative (facilitator) The team authors the plan with marked reliance upon the evaluator and educator for its formal generation. The HR representative will record notes for each meeting, focused on the documented level of progress by the educator. Benchmarks for expectation and accomplishment are written into the plan. As long as the educator is accomplishing the benchmarks, successfully and in a timely way, that educator is satisfying the conditions of the plan and is moving toward exit from the plan. Educator- demonstrations of meeting goals in the plan may include: ● Referencing standards in lesson preparation. ● Including Xxxxxxx-elements in lesson preparation. ● Developing detailed lesson plans in advance of presentation. ● Setting learning goals, expected for students. ● Generating and examining data, based on assessments. ● Reviewing observation-data and anecdotal evidence prepared by the evaluator and provided on a regular basis (see sample form in APPEN...
Formal CAST. 34 10.12.3 Highly Formal CAST 90 35 10.13 No Renewal Right 37 ARTICLE XI – NOTICE OF NON-RENEWAL 38 ARTICLE XII – PERSONNEL FILES 39 ARTICLE XIII – WORKDAYS AND HOURS 40 13.1 Length of Workday 40 13.2 Faculty Meetings 40 13.3 Meeting-Free Day 40
Formal CAST. Formal CAST may occur if: ● Informal CAST proved unsuccessful. ● An instructional staff’s performance in the use of instructional strategies is declining in effectiveness. ● An instructional staff’s most recent overall evaluation rating has led to at least two needs improvement and/or unsatisfactory in the past three (3) years. ● An instructional staff has earned or is earning a GPA equivalent of 2.499 or lower in Part I instructional practice-use and in completion of the Part II (deliberate practice) in the past two
