CREA Agreement 2011-13 - Caesar Rodney School District

2. Current paraprofessionals within a building shall be offered the opportunity for
reassignment before any position with the same building is classified as a vacancy and
posted as such. All requests for reassignment within the building will be considered before
any new personnel are hired or assigned.
3. Paraprofessionals within the building shall notify the principal of their interest in
reassignment by submitting a written request for reassignment to any desired position,
which may become open for the next school year not later than April 1. Requests for
reassignment shall include the position that the paraprofessional desires to be reassigned
in the order of preference.
ARTICLE XIII - PART I
TEACHER EVALUATION
A. 1. The District shall follow recommendations and guidelines set forth in the state-mandated
performance appraisal system.
2. All monitoring or observation of the work performance of a teacher shall be conducted
openly and with full knowledge of the teacher. The use of eavesdropping, public address,
audio systems and similar surveillance devices shall be strictly prohibited.
3. Teachers shall be evaluated only by persons sanctioned by the State Department of
Education.
4. Unannounced classroom observations associated with the state-mandated appraisal
system shall not be conducted on the day preceding Thanksgiving, Winter, or Spring
Breaks, nor on the days following a teacher absence of three or more consecutive days.
5. Employees will be given at least two days advanced notice of pre-observation conferences
for announced observations.
B. 1. A teacher shall have the right, upon request, to review the contents of his/her personnel file
and building site file, except for confidential documents as determined by the person in
charge of said file and removed by that person in the presence of the teacher, and to
receive a reasonable number of copies at Board expense of any documents contained
therein. A teacher shall be entitled to have a representative of the Association during such
review. At least once every two (2) years, a teacher shall have the right to indicate those
documents and/or other materials in his/her file which he/she believes to be obsolete or
otherwise inappropriate to retain. Said documents shall be reviewed by the Superintendent
or his designee and if, in fact, they are obsolete or otherwise inappropriate to retain, they
shall be destroyed. Any documents identified as confidential (in Section, B.1. above) and
which are removed before review by the teacher, will be identified by category (i.e.,
personal references, professional reference, teacher college placement file).
The Director of Human Resources will arrange a review of a teacher’s file within three (3)
working days from the receipt of the request. In the event that the Director is unable to
schedule the review within three days, the Superintendent shall appoint an appropriate
designee to complete the review. The employee may initial and date each page of the
personnel file in the presence of the Human Resources Director or designee.
2. No material derogatory to an employee's conduct, service, character or personality shall be
placed in his/her personnel file unless the employee has had an opportunity to review the
material. The teacher shall acknowledge that he/she has had the opportunity to review
such material by affixing his/her signature to the copy to be filed with the expressed
understanding that such signature in no way indicates agreement with the contents thereof.
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