Education Minnesota-Roseville and the District 623 School Board mutually agree to the following:
1. All teachers will participate in the District 623 ATPPS plan.
2. The negotiated salary schedule will define base pay for all teachers in District 623.
Teachers will advance through the salary schedule based on performance judged to be at district standard. Movement of one “Performance Increment” (formerly referred to as “step”) will be based on principal/supervisors’ judgment of performance at district standards.
In addition to base salary, teachers will earn up to $2,000 variable pay for performance in the following areas:
$300 if their site attains its ATPPS achievement goal
$300 if their PLC Team attains its achievement goal
$300 for completion of the Individual Growth and Development Plan
$1,100 for performance at district standard as judged by principal/supervisor
Part time teachers will be eligible to receive $1,100 X their assigned FTE (see District Website for guidelines for Part-Time and Partial Year Teachers.)
A teacher who fails to meet the provisions of “2-b-iii.” or “2-b-iv.” of the variable pay components will have the option to appeal to LMC, appeals process will be outlined in the ATPPS plan. Appeals must be filed by August 15th of the current school year.
ATPPS Lead Teacher will receive a stipend of $1660 (see District Website for Guidelines for Lead Teacher Stipends)
3. During the year a teacher is assigned to an assistance team, the teacher will not receive $1,100 for performance at standard. If the teacher begins the next year, while still assigned to an assistance team, the teacher will receive a portion of the $1,100 for performance pro-rated from the date the teacher returned to standard. Assistance phase documents will specify the date the teacher is placed on assistance and the date the teacher is determined to be at standard.
4. During the time a teacher is assigned to an assistance team, they will not receive their performance increment until they are judged to be performing at standard. If the teacher begins the next year, while still assigned to an assistance team, the teacher will receive the performance increment pro-rated from the date they return to standard.
5. A probationary teacher will not receive performance pay if the district chooses not to renew their contract due to documented below-standard performance.
6. Raw data from peer observations conducted by the lead teacher or a trained member of the evaluation team will not be shared with a teacher’s administrator or used to determine ATPPS variable pay for performance at standard ($1100), unless a teacher elects to provide this information to their supervising administrator. Documentation from individual observations conducted by teacher evaluators will not become part of an individual’s personnel file.
7. All schools will implement the ISD 623 ATPPS plan as approved by the Minnesota Department of Education.
Proposed changes to the approved plan will be brought before the ISD 623 ATPPS Oversight Committee for consideration. The Oversight Committee will forward recommended changes to LMC for approval.
8. The “variable pay” component and the support positions of Lead Teacher and Teacher Observer are funded from Alternative Teacher Pay Legislation. As the funding changes, the variable pay and support positions will be changed in relation to the funding.
9. The District ATPPS Coordinator will share at LMC an ATPPS budget outline for all schools implementing ATPPS by December 31st of each school year.
10.If state funding for ATPPS is eliminated:
District evaluation system will revert to Roseville Area Schools Teacher Growth, Development and Evaluation System.
Teachers will gain steps under the current contract regardless of employee assistance status.
This addendum will expire at the conclusion of the school year in which the funding ends.
11. Details of the ISD 623 ATPPS Plan are available on the District Website.