Plan Time. Professional Employees assigned full-time to a secondary school (7-12) will have at least one period each day for the purpose of planning, preparation and evaluation of instructional activities. Professional Employees assigned full-time teaching responsibilities in elementary schools (Pre-K-6), including librarians will have at least two-hundred thirty (230) minutes per week within the regular student contact hours, excluding recess, for the purpose of planning, preparation, and evaluation of instructional activities. To be counted as part of planning time, a minimum of 20 continuous minutes must be scheduled.
Plan Time. In each building, a Pre-K or K-6 Teacher Scheduling Committee will jointly develop a building schedule prior to the conclusion of the school year to meet all instructional needs and maximize continuous plan time utilizing existing resources. The Building Principal will request volunteer representatives from each grade level, special education, and special areas. The principal shall ensure that at least two members of the committee are WNEA representatives. If the committee does not have two members who are representatives of the WNEA, the WNEA shall appoint additional members to bring the total WNEA representation to two members. The committee will make available to the building staff the proposed schedule for the next school year no later than two weeks prior to the last scheduled day of school. Staff will be encouraged to provide input and suggest improvements to the proposed schedule during the preview/evaluation period. Feedback will be given to the respective representatives. The Principal will review all the recommendations of the committee before finalizing the master schedule. The committee will re-evaluate the building schedule within the first 10 working days of the school year. Committee Work Time: Scheduling Committee members will be compensated with the Teacher Training stipend rate in the current Master Agreement when requested to work outside their contract time. The following will apply to teacher plan time:
Plan Time. The work day for each employee working in a full-time teacher, teaching coordinator or teacher, Deaf or Blind School position shall include a minimum of forty-five (45) consecutive minutes of planning/conference time daily. Said employees who are required to utilize such plan time by the employing agency to perform duties other than planning or conferences shall receive additional compensation for the time they are required to perform non-planning duties during the scheduled forty-five (45) minute period at base rate of pay. When an employee's daily plan time exceeds forty-five (45) consecutive minutes, said employee may be required to perform duties other than planning or conferences with no additional compensation.
Plan Time. 1. Elementary: Kindergarten through grade five (5) employees shall have scheduled no less than two-hundred-twenty-five (225) minutes per week (except early release and conference days) for planning purposes, which time shall be in blocks of no less than thirty (30) minutes per regular school day as scheduled by the District.
Plan Time. Professional employees assigned full-time to a secondary school (7-
Plan Time. In the event an administrator wishes to use a grade level’s common planning time for a PLC meeting the follow procedure will be utilized:
Plan Time. Each part-time licensed/certified employee will be allocated plan time proportional to his/her contracted FTE while otherwise following the same parameters as applied to the assignment of plan time for full- time educators in a corresponding assignment.
Plan Time. Every certified staff member, except nurses shall be guaranteed an average of 200 minutes of preparation time per normally scheduled week within the student attendance day with reasonable efforts being made to schedule one preparation period per day of twenty-five (25) consecutive minutes. For classroom teachers, at least 25 minutes per week must be dedicated to grade level collaboration, professional learning communities, MTSS, PBIS, Common Core, Technology Training, or another initiative.
Plan Time. Individual plan time is important for educators to prepare for professional responsibilities which include planning, preparation, evaluation of instructional activities and maintaining parent/family communication. It is recognized that on occasion administrative meetings may occur during individual plan time which is the exception and not the rule. Unless a variance is approved by Professional Council, all elementary educators assigned to teach full-time in an elementary program will normally have 270 minutes of plan time per A-E rotation or Monday through Friday for early childhood educators. In general, elementary plan time will be scheduled in blocks of at least 30 minutes. The time between 8:00-8:20 and 3:40-4:00 is not counted as plan time. All bargaining unit members whose primary responsibility is not instructing students will have time commensurate with this policy in varied time increments for purposes of documenting, evaluating and completing work related activities. (Policy GBZCC) When programs/assemblies and parties occur during regularly scheduled plan time, Art, Music, PE, Computer and Library classes are not required to be rescheduled. If a program/assembly or party occurs during a classroom teacher’s plan time, two things may occur: Request the specials’ teacher supervise students during plan time, or If a teacher must relinquish their plan time, compensation will be provided at coverage rate. Class Kindergarten through Grade 5 Physical Education 30 min. twice/A-E rotation General Music 30 min. twice/A-E rotation Library 30 min. twice/A-E rotation Computer Lab (CLA) 30 min. twice/A-E rotation Art 60 min. per A-E rotation Classroom guidance instruction is not included in individual plan time and the classroom teacher is not required to stay in the classroom during counselor time.
Plan Time. Each building principal and/or primary evaluator (if different) shall meet with the building faculty and individual Professional Employees as necessary to schedule plan time that incorporates the following guidelines.
