Common use of Short Form Clause in Contracts

Short Form. i. After an employee has four (4) consecutive years of long form evaluations with no "unsatisfactory" and/or "needs improvement" marks, the District may use the short form of evaluation. The evaluator must have been the teacher's immediate (evaluating) supervisor for a minimum of two complete contract years prior to short form evaluation use. ii. The short form of evaluation shall include either (1) a thirty (30) minute observation during the school year with a written summary or (2) a final annual written evaluation based on the criteria in subsection 1 of RCW 28A.67.065 and based on at least two (2) observation periods during the school year totaling at least sixty (60) minutes without a written summary of such observations being prepared. No teacher shall receive short form evaluations more than four (4) consecutive years. The short form evaluation process may not be used as a basis for determining that an employee's work is "unsatisfactory" under subsection (1) RCW 28A.67.065 nor as probable cause for the nonrenewal of an employee's contract. (2008) iii. The evaluator will notify any teacher within the first thirty (30) days of any contract period if he/she will be evaluated as described in this short form evaluation process. iv. The short form evaluation report form is included in Addendum A of this Agreement.