TO:                  All Administrators and Program Managers

FROM:             Lois Rockney, Chief Business Officer

                        Teresa Rogers, Executive Director, Human Resources

RE:                   “The Discipline Process” Workshop

Ö       Are you familiar with progressive discipline and do you know when to use it?

Ö       Do you follow the “Seven Tests of Just Cause” when analyzing whether or not to discipline an employee?

Ö       Do you know how to effectively and legally gather information about an allegation?

Ö       Do you know when a union business representative should attend a meeting with you and an employee?

If your response to any of the above questions was “no” or if you are not sure about these issues and terms, the Human Resource Department will be presenting a workshop that will give you the information and confidence you need to handle discipline issues.

Through an interactive process utilizing case studies, you will gain solid understanding of how to approach difficult issues such as:

·         A staff member may have inappropriately grabbed a student; or

·         A teacher everyone knows cannot teach (but nothing has been done about it).

Attendees will receive a hands-on manual that walks you step-by-step through the discipline process, defines common terms, and provides sample letters and forms utilized in the investigative and discipline process.

Perhaps most importantly, learn about the “process” of discipline that will help demystify what you as a supervisor need to do when difficult issues arise.

Here’s where and when:

Date:    Tuesday, January 15, 2008, and Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Time:    8:30 a.m. – Noon

Place:   360 Colborne, Rooms J & K

R.S.V.P. using one of the following options:

Enroll via PD Express.  Here is how: 

Go to SPPS Web page, click on “Staff”

Click on PD Express

User Name is your Employee ID #

Password:  staff

Click on “Courses”, and click on “Course Catalog”

View courses in list or calendar format

To register, click on a course and follow the instructions to register.

Email peggy.oneill@spps.org, and include your phone number and indicate which date you will attend the workshop.  If you have questions, call Peggy O’Neill at 767-8228.