Review the following information:

According to the Teacher Service Record guidelines, the actual experience should be recorded by September 1 of the school year meaning that the current school year is not included in the total years of service.

Example 1:

John graduated in 2021. He began working at the LEA in August 2021. As of Sept 1, 2021, he has not yet completed a year of service so his record will indicate zero years of experience for 2021-2022.

Example 2:

Amy worked as a certified teacher’s aide in 2012-2013, 2013-2014, and 2014-2015. Then, she earned a degree and teaching certificate and began working as a teacher during her years of service. Section 53. 1021, Section M indicates that Amy can receive up to two years of creditable service applied for salary increment purposes. Amy should have eight years of experience on the 2022 row of her service record (2013 does not count toward service, 2014 = 0, 2015 = 1, 2016 = 2….2022 = 8) and she should be on step 9 for salary purposes (only two years of credit for aide job, not three) for 2023. She will be on step 10 for 2023-2024. We recommend adding a note indicating that she was given two years of credit for salary increment purposes and therefore was paid on step 8 for 2022.

The following is a list of fields from the Service Record tab and the corresponding fields in ASCENDER.