Progressive Staff Discipline and Accountability

Theme #3 - It is frustrating slow - Often medical leaves can slow the process. Some principals are worried about staff members going on leave if they try to grow staff and deal with issues which can lead to avoiding the issue. - Lack of historical documentation can cause the process to start years after the initial concerns were noticed. - Unions can put breaks on and often advocate for a slower process. -

Theme #2: Documentation, Documentation, Documentation - Key practice - Follow up with the email. Historical issues need to be documented in emails. Save the email and add it to the pdf. - Before stronger letters are sent, People Services leaders are requiring proof of lower level before high levels. - Sometimes the personnel file is clean but the Principal is “done” with the staff or the community is done with the teacher. It is difficult to tell the principal that we are starting at stage one.

Theme #1 - Administrative Procedures Some key conversations included: - We spoke about the entry level for . It is important for lower level concerns to be addressed in conversation with a follow up email. Some school divisions use a more formal letter of “counsel” as the first step and this does not go into the personnel file. - Some concerns were raised about principals writing letters without consulting People Services ahead of time. Some divisions have this clear in APs and some do not have APs in this. - Discussions were had about whether it is worthwhile to have an AP or not. Does it become to restrictive?