It is the mission of the administrator to provide assistance to personnel needing improvement in the performance of their professional responsibilities. This assistance will be provided in a manner that respects the individual's professionalism, dignity, and worth, while insuring the delivery of effective instructional services to students.
 
The Broward County School District's Major System Priority #6 - Attracting, Retaining and Training the Best Teachers, Principals, and Support Personnel - states, "To provide a quality education to all students, we must ensure that our employees, especially teachers and principals, are the finest in the nation. To accomplish this, we must have a compensation and fringe benefits program that is attractive to prospective and current employees. We must also fully develop the abilities of our employees through human resource development and training."

Appraisal, training, and development activities are available to assist employees to refine and/or expand their expertise as needs arise. These activities are guided by the fact that the employer-employee relationship must be mutually beneficial in order for performance to be maintained at a high level of effectiveness.

From time to time, an employee's performance may fall below a level recognized as effective. This can occur for many reasons including skill deficiencies, resource deficiencies, changes in supervision, changes in the employee's attitude, changes in the performance incentives, or as a result of the employee's personal life events. It is the responsibility of the administrator to make skillfull interventions when performance problems occur. These interventions must be timely, appropriate and proactive. A persistent performance problem with one employee can impact students, parents, coworkers, and administrators. Clearly, when the performance of one individual is less than effective, the activities of others are influenced.

Broward's administrators are required to TAKE ACTION to resolve performance problems.

In order to assist you in TAKING ACTION, this site was initiated. It is intended for use as a ready reference regarding suggested steps to take in various performance/misconduct related situations. It includes statutes, regulations, contractual and policies related to the employee performance, appraisal, and professional standards. As always, the Department of Professional Standards & Special Investigation Unit and/or Employee Relations will support and guide your efforts.