Keep These in a Safe Place!
Maintain an easily accessible personal file(s) at home or at school that contain important documents such as:
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Licenses and/or certificates
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Diplomas
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Transcripts of credits and degrees
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Record of job-related seminars, workshops and conferences
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Letters of appointment or hire
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Employee contracts, including any supplemental contracts
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Record of hire from the employer's official minutes (Board meeting minutes)
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Record of accumulated sick leave and other leave days (personal, vacation)
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Copy of assignment schedule
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Log of tax-deductible job-related expenses
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Copies of insurance policies
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Information from the retirement system
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Yearly salary notice provided by the employer
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Documentation of commendations, awards, and honors
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Employee salary or wage schedule; pay stubs
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All evaluation records
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Letters to and from parents and students
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Letters to and from administrators/supervisors and department heads
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District policies on student discipline, suspension, expulsion, corporal punishment
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Record of disciplinary methods used in handling student problems, including date and witnesses involved
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Record of assaults, violence or workplace thefts
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Written personal reconstruction of events surrounding student injuries
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School calendar
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Fringe benefit information; records on insurance claims