GCJ ©
PROFESSIONAL  STAFF  PROBATIONARY 
AND  CONTINUING  STATUS

Probationary teacher means a certificated teacher who is not a continuing teacher.

Continuing teacher means:

●  a certificated teacher who has been and is currently employed by the District for the major portion of three (3) consecutive school years, and;

●  who has not been designated in the lowest performance classification for the previous school year or who has not regained continuing status after being designated as a probationary teacher. 

A continuing teacher becomes a probationary teacher in the school year following having been designated in the lowest performance classification and shall remain a probationary teacher until that teacher's performance classification is designated in either of the two (2) highest performance classifications.

Administrators are not covered under the terms of the teacher appointment and evaluation statutes and do not gain credit toward continuing status.

Adopted:  August 13, 2013

LEGAL REF.: 
A.R.S. 
15-501
15-502
15-536
15-538.01
15-539
15-544
15-546
15-547
A.G.O. 
I78-150
I78-286
I80-113
I83-131
I84-048

CROSS REF.: 
GCO - Evaluation of Professional Staff Members