Updated Leave Policy We will be adding one personal day for all employees for 2014-15. This will make a total of three personal days. This requires a policy update and will be included in annual policy updates this summer. Updated Classified Unused Sick Days Compensation This is part of the retirement policy and will allow classified employees to be paid for a portion of their sick days when they retire. This will also require a policy update and will be included in the annual policy updates this summer. Updated Employee Contract A statement has been to employee contracts allowing the Board sole discretion during the course of a school year, due to unique and extreme circumstances, give consideration for the number of contract days to be the equivalent of hours completed during a school term. We worked with our school board attorney on the language. Hopefully this will not be needed, but we wanted to be prepared. Application of Waiver for Homebound Students This was presented to the Board in April. KDE requested some additional information be added regarding ECE students, and that has been done. Bennie Stephens Classified and Certified Evaluation Plans The Classified Committee met and voted to keep the Classified Evaluation Plan the same as last year. The Certified Evaluation Plan has undergone several changes. Within the plan there are conditions which have to be covered under our old plan that we have this year as we transaction to the new PGES Plan. Some of the changes include how tenured personnel are evaluated. Currently they are evaluated every year and this will be changed to a Summative Evaluation every three years. There are other requirements that must be met yearly for tenured teachers. Non-tenured teachers will continue to be evaluated yearly. Principals in every school have worked with this process as a pilot this year. This is a very complex plan. Jamie Moss He was not present for this meeting, as he is attending Safe Crisis Management for SCM Instructor Certification. In his absence, Jamie Howard shared information with the board regarding the renewal of the 2014-15 Music Therapy Contact. The contract is with Lorinda Jones & Associates. This is a routine contract. Jamie Howard The 2014-15 Green River Regional Educational Cooperative (GRREC) membership is up for renewal. This is also a routine contact.
Updated Leave Policy We will be adding one personal day for all employees for 2014-15. This will make a total of three personal days. This requires a policy update and will be included in annual policy updates this summer. Updated Classified Unused Sick Days Compensation This is part of the retirement policy and will allow classified employees to be paid for a portion of their sick days when they retire. This will also require a policy update and will be included in the annual policy updates this summer. Updated Employee Contract A statement has been to employee contracts allowing the Board sole discretion during the course of a school year, due to unique and extreme circumstances, give consideration for the number of contract days to be the equivalent of hours completed during a school term. We worked with our school board attorney on the language. Hopefully this will not be needed, but we wanted to be prepared. Application of Waiver for Homebound Students This was presented to the Board in April. KDE requested some additional information be added regarding ECE students, and that has been done. Bennie Stephens Classified and Certified Evaluation Plans The Classified Committee met and voted to keep the Classified Evaluation Plan the same as last year. The Certified Evaluation Plan has undergone several changes. Within the plan there are conditions which have to be covered under our old plan that we have this year as we transaction to the new PGES Plan. Some of the changes include how tenured personnel are evaluated. Currently they are evaluated every year and this will be changed to a Summative Evaluation every three years. There are other requirements that must be met yearly for tenured teachers. Non-tenured teachers will continue to be evaluated yearly. Principals in every school have worked with this process as a pilot this year. This is a very complex plan. Jamie Moss He was not present for this meeting, as he is attending Safe Crisis Management for SCM Instructor Certification. In his absence, Jamie Howard shared information with the board regarding the renewal of the 2014-15 Music Therapy Contact. The contract is with Lorinda Jones & Associates. This is a routine contract. Jamie Howard The 2014-15 Green River Regional Educational Cooperative (GRREC) membership is up for renewal. This is also a routine contact.
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