Yesterday, November 3, 2011, we held our second Supporting All Employees – Classified Advisory Committee Meeting.  We discussed our plans going forward.  Our primary focus right now is ensuring that we have the supports in place to provide classified staff with the opportunities to develop and grow in their positions before we launch our performance appraisal process.  We discussed the recommendations from the Teacher Effectiveness Task Force that the LAUSD worked with over a year ago.  While many of the recommendations of that committee were intended to be specific to teachers, many apply to classified employees as well.  We will be aligning with many of the recommendations on our work for classified staff.  Click here for the agenda, and here for the presentation.

As an initial analysis, we plan to launch a brief survey to all 38,000 classified employees in the LAUSD late next week.  We want to find out how familiar folks are with the supports that we already have in place.  Additionally, we will ask staff to self-identify themselves if they are interested in joining focus groups throughout the District to help us improve our support mechanisms.  The survey will be available here once we launch.