Holliday C-2 School District

P. O. Box 7038

Holliday, Missouri 65258

(660) 266-3412

Fax (660) 266-3029

 

Carol Ann Hall                         Megan Day                            Julie A. Ensor

Administrator                          Secretary                                Bookkeeper

 

CAREER LADDER

Plan of Action

 


 

The Holliday C-2 School District Career Ladder Plan

            The Holliday C-2 School District is committed to providing a successful educational experience for all students.  Educational excellence is dependent largely on the skill, talent and dedication of educators.  The purpose of the Career Ladder Program is to enhance the educational experience of students by recognizing and rewarding productive, effective educators.  The Holliday C-2 School District has developed a School Improvement Plan, a Curriculum Development Plan, a Professional Development Plan and participates in the Missouri School Improvement Program in order to facilitate and improve the educational experience for all students. 

All Career Ladder responsibilities will be academic in nature and shall directly and obviously relate to the improvement of programs and services for students as outlined in the Holliday C-2 School Improvement Plan, Curriculum Development Plan, Professional Development Plan, the Missouri School Improvement Program or other instructional improvement in the Holliday C-2 School District and the teacher’s Career Development Plan (CDP) will associate each Career Ladder responsibility with either a designated plan or other instructional improvement.  In order to coordinate these activities, the School District will conduct a meeting consisting of the chairpersons of committees involved, the superintendent, patrons and school board members for the purpose of coordinating activities and exchanging ideas.  This meeting will be held annually, prior to February 15.

The Holliday C-2 School District shall award qualified participating teachers supplemental pay in an amount to be specified annually not to exceed $1500 for Stage I, $3,000 for Stage II, or $5,000 for Stage III.  This supplemental pay shall be in addition to the salary normally accorded the teacher by the teacher by the district’s salary schedule.

In order to participate a Holliday C-2 educator shall meet the following qualifications prior to participation:

Stage I / Stage II / Stage III

Stage I

A.    Five (5) years teaching experience in the Missouri public schools.

B.    On the Performance Based Teacher Evaluation – the educator shall have performed at the expected level or above on all criteria on the most recent final evaluation instrument of the PBTE.

C.    Be serving on not less than regular length full time contract.

D.   Have appropriate certification except upon good cause shown.

E.    Have developed a Career Development Plan (CDP) that contains responsibilities that the educator will assume in order to receive his/her Career Ladder supplemental pay.  The educator will complete a minimum of 2 responsibilities and a minimum of 60 hours.  The educator shall relate each responsibility to an identified plan or other instructional improvement on Form C.  This plan will be typed and be prepared on the forms supplied at the end of this plan.

Stage II

A.     Successful completion of the Stage I CDP.  To qualify for Stage II, a teacher shall have completed a CDP and two (2) years of service on Stage I of the Career Ladder.  One year of service on the previous stage may be waived by the local Board of Education based upon a total of seven (7) years teaching in the public schools.

B.    On the Performance Based Teacher Evaluation – the educator shall have performed at the expected level or above on all criteria and above the expected level on at least 10% of the criteria on the most recent final evaluation instrument of the PBTE.  One of the criteria that is above the expected level shall be in the instructional process area for teachers and librarians, guidance counseling process area for counselors and the process area most closely related to specific job performance as it relates to students ofr school psychological examiners, parents as teachers educators, school psychologists, special education diagnosticians and speech pathologists.  In order to identify such performance, the following process may be employed:

1.    At the beginning of the year preceding movement to Stage II, the Career Ladder educator will identify, in collaborations with that educator’s evaluator, those criteria on which the teacher feels he/she is performing and will continue to perform above the level of expectation.

2.    The process for documenting these criteria will clearly specify the behaviors to be evaluated, the manner in which they will be evaluated and the evaluation criteria to be employed.

3.    During the school year, the educator will be evaluated through the formative evaluation process with respect to the identified criteria.

4.    At the conclusion of the school year, the teacher will be evaluated through the final evaluation instrument with respect to the identified criteria.  This will occur prior to the administrator signing Form A certifying that the educator meets all requirements for participation in the Career Ladder on Stage II.

Note:  Unless the teacher’s performance is being evaluated through the district’s regular cycle, evaluation shall be conducted only on the specific criteria.

C.    Be serving on not less than a regular length full time contract.

D.   Have appropriate certification except upon good cause shown.

E.    Have developed a Career Development Plan (CDP) that contains responsibilities that the educator will assume in order to receive his/her Career Ladder supplemental pay.  The educator will complete a minimum of 3 responsibilities and a minimum of 90 hours.  The educator shall relate each responsibility to an identified plan or other instructional improvement on form C.  This plan will be typed and be prepared on the forms supplied at the end of this plan.

Stage III

A.    Successful completion of the Stage II CDP.  To qualify for Stage III, a teacher shall have completed a CDP and three (3) years of service on Stage II of the Career Ladder.  Two years of service on the previous stage may be waived by the local Board of Education based upon a total of ten (10) years teaching in public schools.

B.    On the Performance Based Teacher Evaluation – the educator shall have performed at the expected level above on all of the criteria and above the expected level on 15% of the criteria on the most recent final evaluation instrument of the PBTE.  One of the criteria that is above the expected level shall be in the Instructional Process Area for teachers and librarians, the Guidance-Counseling Process Area for counselors and the process area most closely related to specific job performance as it relates to students ofr school psychological examiners, parents as teachers educators, school psychologists, special education diagnosticians and speech pathologists.  In order to identify such performance, the following process may be employed:

1.    At the beginning of the year preceding movement to Stage III, the Career Ladder educator will identify, in collaboration with that educator’s evaluator, those criteria on which the teacher feels she/he is performing and will continue to perform above the level of expectation.

2.    The process for documenting these criteria will clearly specify the behaviors to be evaluated, the manner in which they will be evaluated and the evaluation criteria to be employed.

3.    During the school year, the educator will be evaluated through the formative evaluation instrument with respect to the identified criteria.

4.    At the conclusion of the school year, the teacher will be evaluated through the final evaluation instrument with respect to the identified criteria.  This will occur prior to the administrator signing Form A certifying that the educator meets all requirements for participation on Career Ladder Stage III.

NOTE:  Unless the teacher’s performance is being evaluated through the district’s regular cycle, evaluation shall be conducted only on the specific criteria.

C.    Be serving on not less than a regular full-time contract.

D.   Have appropriate certification except upon good cause shown.

E.    Have developed a Career Development Plan (CDP) that contains responsibilities that the educator will assume in order to receive his/her Career Ladder supplemental pay.  The educator will complete a minimum of four responsibilities and a minimum of 120 hours.  The educator shall relate each responsibility to an identified plan or other instructional improvement on Form C.  This plan will be typed and be prepared on the forms supplied at the end of this plan.

Acceptable responsibilities are non-compensated activities that are not a part of a participant’s regular contract and involve extended day activities.  Responsibilities shall not be church affiliated.  Responsibilities must be directly and obviously related to the improvement of programs and services for students as outlined in the Holliday C-2 School improvement Plan, Curriculum Development Plan, Professional Development Plan, Missouri School Improvement Program or other instructional improvement.

          The Holliday C-2 shall have a Career Ladder Review Committee.  Three teachers will be selected by the other teachers to participate on this committee.  The mission of this committee is to review CDP’s of educators participating in the Career Ladder, evaluate final verifications for Career Ladder Responsibilities and recommend to the board approval for payment.

          The Holliday C-2 District teachers selected five teachers to participate in the development of the DCLP.  One administrator, one parent, and one board member also served on the committee to develop the DCLP.

          The Holliday C-2 District shall organize an assessment committee.  This committee will consist of educators, administrators and patrons.  This committee will annually assess the success of the DCLP.  They will report to the board each year at the regular May board meeting regarding the benefits for school and students, and teacher interest and participation.

          The Holliday C-2 PBTE evaluators have been trained and will continue to be trained in the execution of the PBTE.  This training includes knowledge of effective teaching, formative observation, cumulative evaluation and assistance to teachers in the improvement of instruction.

          Any educator who is denied participation in the Career Ladder Program due to the PBTE or any decision made by the Career Ladder Review Committee shall have the right of appeal.  The appeal procedures shall include:

A.    An opportunity to have the decision reviewed by the authority/committee rendering the initial decision.

B.    An opportunity to have the decision rendered in “A” reviewed by the superintendent

C.    An opportunity to have the decision rendered in “B” reviewed by the local board of education.

Appeal procedures shall be implemented in a timely fashion.  All decisions made with respect to a teacher’s application to and placement on any stage of the Career Ladder shall be based on the qualifications for that stage as stated in this Holliday C-2 Career Ladder Plan.

          An educator entering the Holliday C-2 District may apply to participate on any Career Ladder stage for which he/she is qualified provided that the Holliday C-2 program has advanced to that stage.  The standard is:

Stage            Dollars          Hours           Minimum # of Responsibilities

I                  $1500           60                                   2

II                 $3000           90                                   3

III                $5000           120                                  4

 

If the amount for any stage decreases the hours will be decreased proportionately.  The minimum number of responsibilities may be decreased only by a letter from the participant explaining the request and petitioning the Career Ladder Committee and the committee’s approval of that request.


 

Career Ladder Plan Form A

 

Career Ladder Level:         _______ I              _______ II             _______ III

 

Date:  ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­__________________________________________________________

 

Name: __________________________________________________________

 

Qualifications

___     Five years teaching in Missouri Public Schools, Stage I

___     Seven Years teaching in Missouri Public Schools, Stage II

___     Ten Years teaching in the public schools, Stage III

___     Regular length, Full-Time Contract

___     Appropriate Certification

___     PBTE – Meets expected level on all criteria – Stage I

___     PBTE – meets expected level on all criteria and exceeds on 10% with at least one of the criteria in the area of educator’s discipline as it relates to students – Stage II.

___     PBTE – meets expected level on all criteria and exceeds on 15%, with at least one of the criteria in the area of educator’s discipline as it relates to students – Stage III.

___     Stages II and III:  Completion of Career Development for previous level

 

 

I certify that the above educator meets all requirements for participation on the Career

Ladder Stage indicated.

 

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Administrator Signature


 

ResponsibilitiesForm B

 

Summary Sheet

 

List responsibilities to be accepted on Career Ladder Stage ______.

 

 

 

Approved                                  Responsibility                                      Verified

 

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Responsibility PlanForm C

(To be completed for each responsibility)

Name:  ________________________________________________

1.     Responsibility  __________________________________________________

2.    Check identified area:

___    District School Improvement

___    District Curriculum Development Plan

___    District Professional Development Plan

___    Missouri School Improvement Program

___    Instructional Improvement

Explain how this responsibility relates to identified area.

___________________________________________________________________

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3.    Specific action to be completed for designated responsibility.

___________________________________________________________________

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4.    Projected final completion date and procedure for verification.

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5.    Estimated number of hours required to complete this responsibility.

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Career Ladder Responsibility LogForm D

Name: _____________________________________________________

Responsibility: _______________________________________________

 

Date             Description                                Begin Time:            End Time:

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I verify that the above information is accurate.

 

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Educator’s Signature