Handbook Basics
This document provides a resource book, establishes guidelines, and outlines expectations for behavior.
What is the Employee Handbook?
This is the minimum number of hours teachers are expected to work, including planning periods.
What is 40 hours?
Maintaining this is crucial in all matters relating to students and coworkers.
What is confidentiality?
All employees are required to report student complaints of bullying to this person.
Who is their supervisor?
Non-exempt employees receive this for time that exceeds their scheduled hours.
What is compensated time (comp time for salary, hourly wages for hourly personnel)?
All staff, including administrators, teachers, custodians, and substitutes, are required to be trained on this document
Who should be trained on the Employee Handbook?
This is the required advanced notice for personal discretionary leave.
What is 3 days?
This is why employees should never transport students in their personal vehicles.
What is the risk of personal liability?
This type of conduct, that occurs over social media, exploits an imbalance of power and interferes with a student's education or substantially disrupts school operations.
What is cyberbullying (or bullying)?
All flex account users must do this annually during open enrollment.
What is re-enroll?
Employees are expected to read the handbook and abide by these three things defined or referenced in the document.
What are standards, policies, and procedures?
This is the maximum number of consecutive discretionary leave days an employee can take.
What is 3 days?
Employees are prohibited from knowingly communicating with students through this type of social network page.
What is a personal social network page?
This act protects district employees who make good faith reports of violations of law by the district to an appropriate law enforcement authority.
What is the Texas Whistleblower Act?
This is the maximum amount for a Flexible Spending Account for dependent care.
What is $5,000?
Employees will receive the handbook in electronic format or can view a hard copy in these two locations.
What are department/campus offices?
This type of leave may not be taken on state-mandated testing days, before or after a holiday, or on staff development days.
What is discretionary leave?
Failure to report suspected child abuse resutles in this.
What is a Class a misdemeanor?
This Texas Education code prohibits employees, visitors, and students from bringing firearms, knives, clubs, tasers, or stun guns onto school premises or school-sponsored activities.
What is TEC 37.0815?
Unauthorized fundraisers or failing to appropriately document money exchange between teacher/staff and student would be considered this.
What is financial impropriety?
Changes in district policies may do these three things to the information summarized in this book.
What are supersede, modify, or render obsolete?
Non-duty days must be used within this many months from the date awarded, or else they may be relinquished or paid out depending on employee status.
What is eighteen months?
This is the timeframe an employee must notify their supervisor of any arrest
What is 3 calendar days?
An employee with a license to carry a handgun may transport or store it in a locked vehicle in a district parking area, provided it is stored properly and not in this.
What is plain view?
Items purchased from donations must be tracked, barcoded (except perishables), and remain at the campus/department even when the employee does this.
What is ceases employment and leaves the campus/district?