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Teachers who received an interim or year end evaluation with an overall Does Not Meet Standards rating within 50 school days from the end of the school year shall receive a followup evaluation by November 15 of the subsequent school year.

5.Interim evaluations are those that, at a minimum, are 20 (except between the first and second evaluation of a school year, which must be 30) school days apart. If the responsible administrator has adjudged a teacher overall Does Not Meet Standards on at least four (4) interim evaluations within a twelve (12) month period, during which the teacher is present, or on at least two (2) interim evaluations plus an end-of-year evaluation, the responsible administrator may initiate termination by recommending to the Superintendent that such teacher be terminated. Interim evaluations with an overall rating of Does Not Meet Standards need not occur in consecutive months.

An end-of-year evaluation with an overall Does Not Meet Standards rating must be preceded by at least two interim evaluations with an overall Does Not Meet Standards rating during that school year.

A teacher may be removed from the classroom, dismissed, or suspended for just cause prior to the completion of the prescriptive period specified in this paragraph.

At the last observation before the evaluation -> Give written notice that it is the last observation for that evaluation.

At least 30 school days during which a teacher is present and no more than 60 school days during which the teacher is present after issuance of the FIRST evaluation in a school year with an overall Does Not Meet Standards rating. Time between subsequent evaluations is 20-50 days, in which the teacher is present. -> Complete next Evaluation Document(s) until teacher receives a Meets or Exceeds Standards evaluation or until four Does Not Meet Standards evaluations have been given. Forward each subsequent Does Not Meet Standards evaluation to Human Resources.

A teacher who received an interim or year-end evaluation with an overall rating of Does Not Meet Standards during the prior school year is given a letter signed by the Superintendent warning the teacher that his or her employment may be terminated this school year if the teacher’s job performance does not improve. A sample letter is attached as Appendix A.

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At the end of the last observation before the evaluation, the principal/headmaster must let the teacher know in writing that it is the last observation. (A sample notice is attached as Appendix C.) This notice must be given whether the last observation is formal or informal. Formal observation = an observation for the purpose of evaluation

A principal/headmaster who decides, based on informal observation(s), that a teacher will be evaluated when not originally scheduled should give the teacher a memo stating both that the teacher will be evaluated that year and the reasons why.

Copies of the following information must be submitted to the Office of Labor Relations in order to move forward with a recommendation for termination:

4. All written notices stating that an observation is the last one before an evaluation

7. Every syllabus, lesson plan, evidence of planning, etc. submitted to you by the teacher

13. The letter from the Superintendent warning the teacher that his or her employment may be terminated based on unsatisfactory performance