GCK
PROFESSIONAL  STAFF  ASSIGNMENTS
AND  TRANSFERS

Assignments

The Superintendent will determine all professional staff assignments.  Such assignments shall be based on the needs of the District.  In addition, no right to school, grade, or subject assignment shall be inferred from the standard teacher's contract.

Transfers

The procedure for assignment and transfer of professional staff members will be based on the needs of the instructional program.  Assignments may be changed to serve the best interests of the District and students.

A teacher who has been employed by the District for the major portion of three (3) or more consecutive school years and who is currently designated in the lowest performance classification for two (2) consecutive school years shall not be transferred as a teacher to another school in the District unless the District has issued a preliminary notice of inadequacy of classroom performance and approved a performance improvement plan for the teacher and the Governing Board has approved the new placement as in the best interests of the pupils in the school.  Following a transfer under this provision, a teacher who continues to be designated in one of the two lowest performance classifications shall not be permitted to transfer to another school.  A teacher shall not be transferred more than once under the provisions of this paragraph.

The transfer of teacher from one school to another school within the District shall take into consideration the needs of the pupils in the District and the current distribution of teachers across all of the four (4) performance classifications adopted by the State Board of Education.

Adopted:  September 4, 2013