Common use of Short Form Evaluation Clause in Contracts

Short Form Evaluation. After an employee has four years of satisfactory Long Form evaluations, at least two of which must be in the Lakewood School District, under the Long Form process as outlined in ARTICLE VII, Section 7.4, an administrator may use a Short Form of evaluation as allowed by current state law. The regular Long Form Evaluation Process shall be followed at least once every five (5) years and an employee or evaluator may request that the regular evaluation process be conducted in any given year. The Short Form of evaluation shall be consistent with the following: 1. Placement on the Short Form Process requires mutual agreement by both the employee and evaluator. 2. If the Short Form process is to be used, the employee shall be notified in writing prior to the beginning of the process. 3. The evaluator and employee shall choose one (1) of the two (2) options below for the short form process. a. Completion of the Short Form Evaluation (Appendix R or S) based on one observation of no less than 30 consecutive minutes during the school year with a written summary. b. A final written evaluation report (Appendix R or S) based on evaluation criteria herein and two (2) observation periods during the school year totaling at least sixty (60) minutes without a written summary of such observations being prepared. 4. The Short Form evaluation process may not be used as a basis for determining that an employee's work is less than satisfactory, nor as probable cause of the non-renewal of an employee's contract under current state law. 5. The supervisor may decide to move the employee to the regular Long Form evaluation process after the Short Form process has begun, provided that the decision is made and communicated to the employee in writing, including the reason(s) for the decision, no later than March 1. 6. Any employee with a “Needs Improvement” or "Unsatisfactory", in their overall Long Form evaluation, or any of the criteria, in the previous four (4) years will not be eligible for the Short Form Process. 7. The evaluator will select those employees to be placed on the Short Form process, in compliance with paragraphs 1 – 6 of Section 7.5.