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Supporting All Employees - Classified

Advisory Committee Meeting November 3, 2011

Welcome & Perspective

 Superintendent’s Annual Meeting  We Believe

 How do these relate to classified employees?  What should classified employees take from these? Supporting All Employees - Classified

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Talent Management Office

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SAE – Classified – TETF/Classified Comparison

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Evaluation

TETF RECOMMENDATION CLASSIFIED RECOMMENDATION

 Evaluations should include multiple

measures or data points

 Same  Increase the number of rating

categories (gradations) available

 There are currently 3 categories:

below, meets, and exceeds standards – increase to 4 to align with certificated

 Evaluations should have real

ramifications

 Same  Professional development and

support must be tied to feedback from evaluation

 Same

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Differentiated Compensation/ Career Pathways

TETF RECOMMENDATION CLASSIFIED RECOMMENDATION

 Develop career pathways that

promote effective teachers and effective teaching

 Career lattices are in place – align

with classification specifications, examination criteria, and performance evaluation

 Restructure professional

development incentives in a way that advances effective teaching and benefits student

 Professional development should

align with evaluation and employee growth plan

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Differentiated Compensation/ Career Pathways (cont.)

TETF RECOMMENDATION CLASSIFIED RECOMMENDATION

 Create incentives and conditions that

attract effective teachers to and retain effective teachers in high needs schools and/or positions

 Same for classified employees  Explore the use of direct financial

rewards for effective teaching if and

• nly if it is done in concert with the

three previous recommendations

 If employees as school sites are

rewarded for student outcomes, classified employees at the sites should benefit as well

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Tenure

TETF RECOMMENDATION CLASSIFIED RECOMMENDATION

 The tenure decision should be a

deliberate action, rather than a default result

 Probation or determination that

employee is at journey-level

 Create a tenure decision window of

at least 2 years and up to the initial 4 years of an employee’s probationary period

 Depending on classification

complexity, the same should apply for journey-level status

 Move the tenure decision point from

the current March 15th deadline to the end of the school year

 Not applicable

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Tenure (cont.)

TETF RECOMMENDATION CLASSIFIED RECOMMENDATION

 Streamline the dismissal process for

tenured employees without abrogating due process provisions

 Same (journey-level, rather than

tenure)

 Implement recurring re‐examination

• f tenured teachers for progression

along their respective career paths

 Same (journey-level, rather than

tenure)

 Use non‐re‐election data to inform

recruitment and selection methods and decisions

 Same (with data for not allowing

employee to move to journey-level)

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Legislation

TETF RECOMMENDATION CLASSIFIED RECOMMENDATION

 Develop a five‐year Legislative

Action Plan to fund California schools competitively

 Same – aligned to certificated  The Commission on Professional

Competence should be eliminated or amended

 Not applicable  The probation period should be

extended

 Same

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Legislation (cont.)

TETF RECOMMENDATION CLASSIFIED RECOMMENDATION

 Revise layoff criteria to include

quality measures, and high needs schools and positions

 Same  The permanent teacher hearing

process in the case of layoffs should be amended

 Same/similar  Amend the existing law to allow

evidence of successful passage of the PRAXIS or other deemed equivalent examination to substitute for the California Subject Examination for Teachers (CSET)

 Not applicable

Legislative/Policy Issues

 Review legislative agenda - certificated

 Successes  Lessons learned/next steps

 How should classified proceed

 Makeup of committee  Where to start Supporting All Employees - Classified

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SAE – Classified – TETF/Classified Comparison

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Support Mechanisms

TETF RECOMMENDATION CLASSIFIED RECOMMENDATION

 Develop and support teacher leaders  Allow classified employees to

become masters in their classifications without becoming supervisors/managers

 Implement a seamless, common

structure aligned to evaluation to support teachers once tenured

 Same  Institute a comprehensive,

coordinated, and accessible professional growth structure aligned to clear standards of practice (e.g., California Standards for the Teaching Profession)

 Same, as applicable

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Support Mechanisms (cont.)

TETF RECOMMENDATION CLASSIFIED RECOMMENDATION

 Require intensive instructional

support for every novice (probationary) teacher during the induction phase of their LAUSD teaching career aligned to evaluation to support effective teaching

 Not directly applicable, but some

process can be developed for new employees

 Strengthen voluntary and

involuntary exit processes

 Same

Survey of Classified Employees

 Survey all 38,000 classified employees  Purposes

 Do employees feel supported?  If not, where are the gaps?  Communicate this initiative  Develop focus groups that can help guide this work

 Small group discussion

 Engaging classified employees  Engaging other stakeholder groups Supporting All Employees - Classified

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Closing Remarks

 Next steps/next meeting

 District competencies  Survey results  Tentatively – Thursday, December 8, 2011 Supporting All Employees - Classified

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For More Information

 Supporting All Employees Blog:

 http://lausdcpm.blogspot.com/

 Supporting All Employees Website:

 http://sae.lausd.net/

 Heidi Hrowal, Program & Policy Development Advisor

 heidi.hrowal@lausd.net  (213) 241-4683 Supporting All Employees - Classified

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