Complete, up-to-date sample staff notification language
Designed for school building use, OSBA model staff handbook provides the basis for a school’s handbook. The model includes both sample language and information regarding legal notices and local public charter school information.
The fully annotated Model Public Charter School Staff Handbook includes
- Statements and notices required by law
- Editorial notes on how to use this information
- Suggestions on how to correlate items with Board policy
Model Public Charter School Staff Handbook sample pages (15k pdf) – Preview a small sample of pages from OSBA’s Model Staff Handbook.
Public charter schools may purchase this publication with a Memorandum of Understanding from their sponsor. After purchase, this material is available online through the OSBA portal. An annual revision (reflects only revisions from the previous year) is available if a handbook was purchased the previous year.
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Contents of the Model Public Charter School Staff Handbook
Staff Organization
General Information
- Board Members
- Board Meetings/Communications
- Building Hours
- Community Use of Building
- Public Charter School Office Hours
Staff Operations
- Federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)/Oregon Family Leave Act (OFLA)/Military Family Leave Act (MFLA)/Oregon Military Family Leave Act (OMFLA)
- Abuse of a Child Reporting
- Animals in Public charter School Facilities
- Breaks
- Care/Use of Public Charter School Property
- Cash in Public Charter School Buildings
- Checkout Child
- Classroom Security
- Communicable Disease/Bloodborne Pathogens/Infection Control Procedures
- Complaints
- Computer Use
- Conferences
- Contracts and Compensation
- Copyright
- Criminal Records Checks/Fingerprinting
- Bulletin/Announcements/Email
- Discipline and Discharge
- Drug-free Workplace
- Emergency Closures
- Emergency Procedures and Disaster Plans
- Employee Assistance Program
- Evaluation of Staff
- Fair Labor Standards Act
- Fund Raising
- Gifts and Solicitations
- Grievances Guest Speakers/Controversial Speakers
- Hazing/Harassment/Intimidation/Bullying/menacing
- Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPPA)
- Identification Badges
- Injury/Illness Reports
- Inventory
- Job Sharing
- Keys
- Lesson Plans
- License Requirements
- Mail and Delivery Services
- Materials Distribution
- Meetings
- Mother Friendly Workplace
- Parental Rights/Surveys
- Participation in Political Activities
- Personal Communication Devices and Social Media
- Personal Property
- Personnel Records
- Petty Cash
- Prep Periods/Instructional Staff Planning Time
- Progress Reports
- Purchase Orders
- Release of General Staff Information
- Research/Copyrights and Patents
- Resignation of Staff
- Retirement
- Safety Committee
- Security System
- Sexual Conduct (Reporting Requirements)
- Sexual Harassment
- Site Council Materials
- Staff Conduct
- Staff Development
- Staff Dress and Grooming
- Staff Ethics
- Staff Health and Safety
- Staff Involvement in Community Activities
- Staff Involvement in Decision Making
- Staff/Parent Relations
- Staff Room
- Sunshine/Hospitality Committee
- Supervision of Students
- Teaching about Religion
- Telephones
- Tobacco-Free Environment
- Tutoring
- Use of Private Vehicles for District Business
- Volunteers
- Weapons
- Workplace Harassment
Student Operational Procedures
- Assemblies Assignment of Students to Classes
- Chaperones
- Class Interruptions
- Communicable Diseases/Students with HIV, HBV, AIDs
- Corporal Punishment
- Drug, Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention, Health Education
- Emergency Drills
- Feature Films/Videos
- Field Trips and Special Events
- Flag Salute
- Grading
- Human Sexuality, HIV, AIDs, HBV & HCV, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Health Education
- Homework
- Make-up Work
- Media Access to Students
- Medications – Nonprescription and Prescription
- Nonschool-Sponsored Study and Athletic Tours/Trips/Competitions
- Program Exemptions
- Release Time for Religious Instruction
- Restrain and Seclusion
- Resuscitation
- Retention of Students
- Senior Trips
- Student Activity Funds
- Student Conduct
- Student Detention
- Student Discipline
- Student Dismissal Precautions
- Student/Parent Handbook
- Student Performances
- Student Transportation in Private Vehicles
- Student Withdrawal from School
- Visitors
Special Programs
- Assessment Programs
- Bilingual Education (English Language Learners)
- Breakfast/Lunch Programs
- Crisis Prevention/Response Program
- Health Services Programs
- Homebound Instruction
- Home Tutoring Services
- Library/Media Support Services
- Migrant Education
- Pregnant/Parenting Student Programs
- Special Education Services
- Talented and Gifted Programs
- Title I Programs
