Val-Ed survey- some staff did not originally receive the survey email because it went to spam, but eventually it did get sorted out. Artie sent some reminders and is still awaiting some returns.  Due to close on Fri. April 16th.

Feedback was that some faculty struggled to answer some questions with "I don't know" and John Steinberg responded to explain about how Val-Ed algorithms and how they handle those.  Peter Cohen expressed concerns regarding how some of the questions are now actually in Matt Cronin's job description.  James Rogers expressed concern about how some staff expressed that they didn't know how to answer some questions, for example about Special Ed.  John shared that this Val-Ed survey is standardized nationally and is geared for one Superintendent and several principals.  We can make a survey ourselves as we have done in the past and may want to do that for next year if the Board wants this committee to.  It is also now possible to edit the Val-Ed one which we can also explore for next year.

Action item for next year: Make the surveys more "user-friendly" and also provide more information ahead of time to the faculty and staff.  Perhaps a training presentation similar to the one we do for the BoT.

The data will be ready for John Steinberg by April 16th to synthesize and he will review it with Peter Cohen prior to presenting it to the Board on April 27th.

No new updates.  The goal is for the handbook to be finished by June.

No new updates.  The goal is for the handbook to be finished by June.

No new membership.

Disciplinary Action Policy Review- Artie presented a draft for this committee to review to be added to the Faculty/Staff Handbook regarding employee failure to perform or misconduct. We reviewed some of the language.  We will continue to discuss it at the next meeting as well as the other Grievance Procedure which outlines steps and people to work with which also needs to be updated.

Next meeting date: Tuesday, May 11, 2021