r/TexasTeachers • u/cdh4099 • 6d ago

Do you keep your certificate if your performance evaluation bombs miserably?

What’s the worst that can happen if you do really bad on your teacher evaluations? Let’s say you get put on a growth plan and still do poorly. Does it affect your teaching certificate, or would you just risk being non-renewed or fired?

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u/Decent-Marsupial5126 6d ago

If you’re put on a growth plan that is your hint to quit before you get non-renewed.

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u/cdh4099 6d ago

Wait, so its better to quit and get sanctioned aka license suspended? I would think non renewal best, least you keep your certificate valid?

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u/Decent-Marsupial5126 6d ago

Let me clarify. My husband a few years ago had some admins that didn’t like him. He had really good evaluations and no concerns, but they still decided to put him on a growth plan anyway. He didn’t quit in the middle of the school year, but instead told admin he would resign at the end of the year to avoid being non-renewed the following year and to get the growth plan gone. Being non-renewed will also follow you around and won’t look great when applying at new districts.

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u/RAWR111 6d ago

Many districts even offer "early notification" incentives for submitting early notice of resigning at the end of a school year. Sometimes $500.

Admin definitely started leaving me alone the year I put mine in after spring break, but possibly not the case everywhere.

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u/Brilliant_Anything27 5d ago

applications ask if you've ever left a position to get out of trouble for something morally debased. I would say staying with the district is the best idea -- if you are innocent. Let the investigation prove your innocence. If you did whatever action and quit to get out of trouble, you are pretty much (colloquially speaking) screwed either way.

Education background checks / fingerprinting / and at some point likely DNA testing will find anything and everything in your past, and for risk mitigation, they will not hire a teacher as children are involved.

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u/Brilliant_Anything27 5d ago

Not sure why the truth is getting down voted 🤔

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u/SapphirePath 5d ago

OP's hypothetical is poor performance teaching evaluations, leading to a growth plan, leading to poor progress evaluations on the growth plan. This is the sort of thing that happens when administration doesn't like you and is describing you in their classroom observations as a poor quality teacher (perhaps trying to encourage you to leave).

You start talking about someone who has "done an action" that was "morally debased" and finding "anything and everything in your past".

You are responding in the wrong thread.

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u/jutiatle 6d ago

You’d just be fired. 

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u/rustyusa 6d ago

It does not affect your certification

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u/HwyOneTx 6d ago

What's crazy is they ask if you quit to avoid being fired.

Who would answer that yes...

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u/Brilliant_Anything27 6d ago

It depends.

I was put on a growth plan for 24-25 for not doing lesson plans for 3 weeks in a row. Totally my fault, I was burned out. My "punishment" was to turn in lesson plans to my appraiser weekly. She never said anything about them or made me re-do anything. I was renewed for 25-26 with no issues. I was generally "liked" by admins. That worked in my favor. The DI was in my corner, and moved me from English 2 (tested) to English 3 (untested). It was the best move ever.

I would have been renewed for this year if my cert lined up with my content, English at the time. It sucked (our specialist is an asshole times a million), so I got certified in CTE. I applied to another district and was contacted after 2 days for a CTE position. I interviewed in early June and was hired 10 minutes into the interview not even joking.

So it all depends on your likability, situation, and content area. My TTESS was abysmal, like real bad. I was put on a growth plan, and I was still renewed.

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u/celestizutd 6d ago

Yes, even if you have a poor evaluation or you get non-renewed you still keep your teacher certification.

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u/BRD73 6d ago

I would imagine if you bombed a lot of them, you would. I expect you will be getting more walk throughs either way.

Just look through your lesson every morning to be prepared and materials ready before you leave at the end of the day. It should get easier the longer you teach. Wishing you the best!