Re: growth plan/TINA
    Posted by: This sounds like an EastTxSteve question on 2/14/15
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    Are you following the ARD and IEP paperwork?
    Are you a member of one of the Texas teacher organizations - have
    you talked with them?
    What sway does your specialist/coordinator have with the admin?

    On 2/04/15, stressed wrote:
    > At this point it is just a threat. However I plan on leaving
    > anyway. I can't stay at a school where they listen to an IA
    who's
    > new and never been in a Elementary school before over an
    > experienced teacher and a behavior specialist. I've just never
    > heard of anybody getting hired after they were put on a growth
    > plan. I feel sick to my stomach all the time, worrying that my
    > IA will run up to the office for anything and they will
    instantly
    > tell him he's right and that I'm wrong and I will be in trouble
    > again. However none of them have any spec ed behavior
    experience
    > and my specialist and coordinator are telling me I'm doing
    > excellent. I have an internal battle daily. Do it their way and
    > my kids suffer. Do it the way I was trained and the behavior
    > specialist way and get in trouble.
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > On 2/04/15, PsyGuy wrote:
    >> Well yes and no.
    >>
    >> Legally, and technically as long as your certificate is valid
    > of
    >> course you can get hired.
    >> The practical aspect is much more "grey". It really depends
    > what
    >> your district does as far as record keeping and what your
    >> potential district does as for as verification. Districts are
    > loath to
    >> provide anything more than a service record, and PDAS.
    >> However, Texas law allows them to send anything not
    >> specifically excluded by law, most districts know they wont
    get
    >> much so when they call HR they just ask if the person is
    > eligible
    >> for rehire. The other issue is what your districts policy and
    > more
    >> importantly your work practice is regarding a TINA or Growth
    >> plan. You have two files basically a district file at central
    > office
    >> and a campus file with your principal. Whats in your campus
    > file
    >> may very well never see the light of day or be
    copied/forwarded
    >> to the district. So if your principal put you on a growth plan
    > and
    >> just filed it in their office you be a non issue. If they sent
    > it to
    >> the district office it might never be requested or commented
    > on.
    >>
    >> The other issue is what are you going to do for a reference,
    > your
    >> principal wont give you one likely and if a potential
    principal
    >> calls them up there really isnt anything you can do if they
    say
    >> you were put on a growth plan, since its true.
    >>
    >> It sounds like this was a threat, and not an actual growth
    > plan?
    >>
    >> I dont know how to advise you without more information. If you
    >> wait it out and the school non-renews you, then youll have to
    >> mark "non-renewed" on your applications from here on out. If
    >> you resign youll give up any benefits and unemployment youd
    >> be entitled too, and theres still nothing to stop your
    > principal
    >> from bad mouthing you.
    >>
    >> On 2/01/15, stressed wrote:
    >>> Can you get hired at another district if you were on a growth
    >>> plan at your last district? What about the need for a
    >>> principal recommendation? I teach a in a special education
    >>> behavioral unit and my IA has been running to my principal
    >>> telling him there's not enough disapline in my class ( keep
    >>> in mind he was a drill Sergeant in the military for 20 years.
    >>> He has told me that he knows more about my kids and how ti
    >>> deal with them than my behavior specialist. They threatened
    >>> me with a growth plan.


    Posts on this thread, including this one

  • growth plan/TINA, 2/01/15, by stressed.
  • Re: growth plan/TINA, 2/02/15, by Randy.
  • Re: growth plan/TINA, 2/02/15, by randy again.
  • Re: growth plan/TINA, 2/02/15, by stressed.
  • Re: growth plan/TINA, 2/04/15, by PsyGuy.
  • Re: growth plan/TINA, 2/04/15, by stressed.
  • Re: growth plan/TINA, 2/14/15, by This sounds like an EastTxSteve question.
  • Re: growth plan/TINA, 2/14/15, by PsyGuy.
  • Re: growth plan/TINA, 2/17/15, by EasTexSteve.
  • Re: growth plan/TINA, 2/17/15, by PsyGuy.
  • Re: growth plan/TINA, 2/25/15, by EasTexSteve.
  • Re: growth plan/TINA, 3/04/15, by PsyGuy.
  • Re: growth plan/TINA, 3/22/15, by EasTexSteve.
  • Re: growth plan/TINA, 3/23/15, by PsyGuy.
  • Re: growth plan/TINA, 3/30/15, by EasTexSteve.
  • Re: growth plan/TINA, 3/30/15, by PsyGuy.
  • Re: growth plan/TINA, 3/31/15, by EasTexSteve.