Last Minute Contract Non-Renewal

You may be in danger of non-renewal if:

• Your PDAS was just scheduled even though no one else's is scheduled
• You have a flurry of recent write-ups from your campus administrator

Although there are many things that provide warning of impending non-renewal, a frequent occurrence at this time of year is a frantic attempt by campus administrators to create sufficient documentation to suuport a non-renewal of teachers that they wish to get rid of. 

School districts generally require legal review, or at least review by the Human Resources department, of the file of any teacher that a principal would like to propose for non-renewal.  If there is not sufficient documentation of deficiencies, the principal will be told no - at which point many principals suddenly become very diligent in documenting every single little thing they can find, in an attempt to get their non-renewal recommendation to meet legal and district criteria. 

So if you know your principal has been a bit unhappy with you, and you suddenly find yourself bombarded with paper, prepare yourself for the possibility of non-renewal.  This is the time to respond to each and every memo, to improve every single deficiency you are told of, and to have a frank conversation with your principal about your status and how you can improve it.

Comments

[Dave]

"This is the time to respond to each and every memo, to improve every single deficiency you are told of, and to have a frank conversation with your principal about your status and how you can improve it."

I'd prefer the phrasing "You know all those things you did/didn't do that showed your principal that you aren't a valuable member of the teaching staff? If you want to keep your job, stop/start doing them."

[coach outlet malls]

To offer a different perspective, I'm not sure that economics of transportation will ever drive us to become Locavores. Oil is but a sparse fraction of the cost of transport and distribution.
To me it is all about community and a healthy lifestyle. I would much prefer buying local even at higher cost because of the value to our community. And if we can get local volume over the threshold of economies of scale, then will be self sustaining. Unfortunately, Locavorism today is really on the fringe. In business terms, we need more market share - and then the economics will work too.

[emma ferguson]

It is sad to see the word "create" documentation. It happened to me, a false documentation was created, I even had a perfect PDAS and never had a complain from parents.
The budget cuts problems began, the hidden HR list was created and there went the probationary teachers, regardless if they were good or not...and no attorney will help me so...my life is pretty much destroyed after 17 years of excellent teaching..teaching career is the worth from all professional careers! Now with a nonrenewal, no one is offering me a teaching job in 2012, when school district began hiring again