Staff Responsibilities
Staff members WILL:
• Be prepared with subject knowledge, methods, and materials.
• Meet the diverse needs of each student.
• Model behavior expected of students.
• Hold high expectations for all students and themselves.
• Provide a safe, positive and equitable learning environment.
Staff members WILL NOT:
• Give up on any student.
• Have unreasonable expectations.
• Use corporal punishment except to restrain student from harming himself/herself or others.
• Use language that is degrading, sexist or improper.
• Degrade a student or another staff member in public.
Staff members are EXPECTED to:
• Be in the school from 8:30 am to 3:55 p.m. (3:35 p.m. on Fridays) Certified staff members will be expected to remain in the building during lunch and planning periods. If a certified staff member must leave the campus during the school day for a compelling reason, then permission may be granted by their principal.
• Be responsible.
• Use appropriate humor.
• Be respectful to students and fellow faculty members.
• Attend all teacher’s meetings, in-services, and parent/teacher conferences on a timely basis.
• Speak positively to the public about school, school policies, and school personnel.
• Take proper care of school property and to lock doors and shut windows at the end of the school day.
• Demand respect from students for school, school property, faculty members, and themselves.
• Demand proper behavior from students on school-sponsored activities.
• Dress in an appropriate manner for your profession while demonstrating your school spirit by dressing appropriately for “special” days.
Supervise sporting events as scheduled.
Staff members MUST
• Report to their principal/superintendent suspected child abuse whether sexual, emotional, and physical or neglect.
Administrators and Teachers Should EXPECT
• A mutual understanding of policies and procedures and consequences for noncompliance
• A willingness to work within the chain of command
• A professional demeanor and mutual professional respect
• A commitment to the concept of a learning community
• A personal philosophy of learning and teaching that is evident in everything we do
• A sense of ownership with the vision, mission and goals of the district
• A belief in the power of change and the positive force that change can be in the classroom, building and district
• A comprehension of best practices in education
• A hunger for lifelong learning
• A communication model that builds on trust, respects differences of opinion and is open and honest.