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Summer School Employment

Current certificated and classified district employees apply for Summer Program assignment on-line; all applicants use the same form. It is very important that you enter your Employee ID number correctly, this can be found on your check stub or by contacting Human Resources. The deadline for submitting the electronic application is May 3, 2010. Positions/employment for summer assignment will be dependent on student enrollment. Should a class be canceled due to low enrollment, the teacher assigned to teach that class will lose his/her summer school assignment but will be paid for time in that assignment up until the date the class is canceled.

Summer Assignment Hiring

The deadline for submitting the electronic application is May 3, 2010. If you are hired for a summer assignment, you will be notified by May 27, 2010. Refer to the collective bargaining agreement for an explanation of complete hiring criteria. Satisfactory evaluations for the past three years, to include the 2009/2010 school year, will be considered in making staffing decisions for summer school. An individual accepting a summer school assignment is committing to the full assignment. No planned absences, except for the specific days of the NEA convention plus reasonable travel days, when the employee has identified a substitute who has the approval of the program supervisor and is available for the entire absence, will be approved during the summer school assignment. All summer school teachers in the high school credit-retrieval summer school program understand that they are required to use standards-based instruction and standards-based grading practices. Grade books must reflect standards-based grading practices. Grading systems must be approved by the designated administrator for summer school prior to the first day of summer school in order for hiring to be approved.

Positions may be available in the following programs:

Title 1/LAP – (Call Title I/LAP at x1111 if you have questions.)

  • Elementary Science Camp:   August 2-19     M–TH     Entering 3rd, 4th, 5th Graders
    Staff Day  8:30 AM-12:30 PM       Required Staff Training Day:  July 27, 9:00 AM-3:00 PM
    Requirements for teaching Elementary Science Camp:
    1. Experience teaching  3rd, 4th and/or 5th grades
    2. Attended  3rd, 4th and/or 5th grade Foss Science Training
    3. Experience teaching 3rd, 4th and/or 5th grade Foss Science Kits
  • Transition Summer School:  August 2-19  M-TH
    • Experience teaching 6th and /or 9th grade in the past 5 years
    • 5th to 6th Grade Transition   Staff Hours  8:00 AM -12:00 PM
    • 8th to 9th Grade Transition   Staff Hours  7:30 AM -12:30 PM

Extended School Year (ESY) (Special Education) Requirement: Teaching Special Ed the last 5 years.
(Call Special Education, Vanessa Tucker, at x1225 if you have questions.)

  • Elementary, Middle and High School    June 28 – July 29    M-TH each week
    Training is required before summer school starts:  Certificated – 6 hours    Classified – 3 Hours

English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL)(If you have questions, call x1415.)

  • High School  - June 30-August 5     Staff /8:00 AM-1:00 PM     Students /8:30 AM-12:30 PM
  • Elementary and Middle - July 6 – July 29     Staff /8:30 AM-12:30 PM     Students/9:00 AM-12:00 PM
  • Transition  5th to 6tth Grade & 8th to 9th Grade – Aug. 2-19  Staff/8:30 AM-12:30 PM  Students/9:00AM-12:00 PM

Indian Education (If you have questions, call x1846)

Requirements:  Recent experience working/teaching with Native American students.
  • Elementary & Middle School  June 21 – July 1  Staff /8:30 AM-12:30 PM  Students/9:00 AM- 12:00 PM

High School Credit Retrieval  (If you have questions, call x5141.)p  Certificated HS teachers only.

Requirement:  Collection of Evidence and Standards-based Instruction experience or training.
  • Grades 9-12    June 30-July 29  M-TH   8:30 a.m. – 1:30 or 2:30 p.m. (Student times) Staff meeting June 29.

Compensation for all summer assignments

Teachers will be paid the certificated extra work rate of pay; classified staff will be paid their regular hourly wages. All summer pay is subject to deductions for FICA, Medicare, industrial insurance, retirement, and federal withholding.

Superintendent Arthur O. Jarvis, Ed.D., ajarvis@tacoma.k12.wa.us
Central Administration Building, P.O. Box 1357, Tacoma, WA 98401-1357, 253.571.1000
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