The CEO shall not fail to employ top quality personnel, treat staff as respected professionals, and evaluate staff meaningfully and fairly.

Accordingly, the CEO may not:

1. Fail to attract and maintain top quality staff, considering compensation plans and other factors, by:

1. Attracting and hiring the most highly qualified and best-suited candidates for employment.
2. Retaining and nurturing top quality staff.
3. Developing compensation and benefit plans that reward employees consistent with statute, with the applicable marketplace, with organizations of comparable size and type, and within available and projected resources.
4. Cooperatively examining alternative compensation mechanisms and related opportunities, in partnership with affected staff, through collective bargaining where applicable.

2. Cause or allow conditions, procedures, actions or decisions which are unlawful, unethical, unsafe, disrespectful, unnecessarily disruptive, undignified or in violation of Board policy by:

1. Failing to assure an organizational culture that conforms with the following values:

• recognition of the fundamental role played by staff in the achievement and well-being of students;
• open and honest communication in all written and interpersonal interaction;
• respect for others and their opinions;
• focus on common organizational goals as expressed in Board Ends policies;
• commitment to the integrity and the positive image of the district, its leaders and staff.

2. Failing to maintain an organizational culture of respect, dignity and courtesy that does not tolerate any behaviors, actions or attitudes by parents or guests that hinders the performance or well-being of staff.
3. Operating without written personnel policies which:

• Clearly state rules and procedures for staff and volunteers;
• Provide for effective handling of complaints;
• Include adequate job descriptions for all staff positions;
• Include an effective personnel performance evaluation system;
• Protect against illegal discrimination and harassment;
• Provide for appropriate due process.

4. Failing to protect confidential information.
5. Failing to make reasonable background inquiries and checks prior to hiring any paid personnel or utilizing the services of any volunteers who have unsupervised contact with students.
6. Failing to honor the terms of negotiated agreements with staff.
7. Failing to provide staff with an opportunity to become familiar with the provisions of this policy.

3. Fail to ensure that all staff members are qualified and trained to perform the responsibilities assigned to them.
4. Fail to develop an evaluation system that guides and relates employee skill development and performance to achieve the Board’s Ends policies and complies with the Board’s organizational limitations policies, by:

1. Failing to develop and administer an evaluation system for all academic and administrative personnel that is designed to:

• Improve instruction;
• Measure and document excellent performance and unsatisfactory performance based on valid and reliable evidence;
• Assist teachers and administrators to link their performance with multiple measures of student achievement and well-being;
• Assure that instructional time is used to students’ maximum advantage.

2. Failing to develop and administer an effective evaluation system for classified personnel.
3. Failing to provide to the Board an annual report, as a part of the annual internal monitoring report, on the effectiveness of the evaluation system and its alignment with the Board’s Ends policies.

Adopted:
07.07.03

Revised:
11.06.06
01.22.07

Monitoring Method:          Internal Report
Monitoring Frequency:     Annually in September

Lake Washington School District Board of Directors