Peak to Peak Procedure for Non-returning Teachers

While it is a primary focus at Peak to Peak to ensure that our excellent staff returns year after year, the Peak to Peak community works hard to ensure a positive experience for teachers who decide to leave our school. We realize that people’s situations change over time and new opportunities may come up, and we wish departing staff the best in their new endeavors. At the same time, we work to ensure that our returning staff and students are protected from rumors and uncertainty. Therefore the BLT has designed the following procedure which, once approved, will be added to our overall personnel procedures.

² Once a teacher has made the decision to not return, he/she will communicate it to the appropriate principal.

² The principal will then communicate it to the board of directors, which has overall personnel responsibility for the school, and HOD, which conducts the hiring and organizational development activities on behalf of the school.

² Each year, at the end of April, and again at the end of May, administration will issue communication informing the community of each non-returning teacher.

§ The non-returning teacher may write a two to three sentence entry about his/her future plans to be included in this communication.

§ The communication will be sent to the Peak to Peak community via group email and the Speak to Peak newsletter.

§ Non-returning teachers will not send out any other notifications.

Additional Guidelines

² Non-returning teachers will maintain positive relations with students and the rest of the Peak to Peak community through the end of their employment period.

² No rumors should be spread. If a colleague tells you of plans not to return please encourage that colleague to talk to their principal.

² If a teacher tells a board or HOD member of plans not to return the board or HOD member will also encouraged the teacher to talk to the appropriate principal.

² All teachers must follow the procedures for checking in school materials at the end of the year.

Peak to Peak’s research-based hiring procedures were based on best practices for hiring and organizational development and have evolved over the years as conditions have warranted and as the school has grown. To ensure a pool of highly-qualified candidates, HOD will routinely post jobs on the web. This may be done in advance of specific knowledge of any particular opening, and no conclusion about any particular person or position should be drawn from these postings.