Common use of After School Meetings Clause in Contracts

After School Meetings. (1) Unit members may be required to remain after school for approximately one hour to attend each of the following staff meetings: (a) Superintendent’s Staff Meetings- No more than four (4) per year, to be conducted by the Superintendent or his/her designee to address issues that affect the district or the level (elementary, middle, or high) as a whole. However, said meetings do not need to be convened in a single location. (b) Two days each month building meeting called by the school principal or the principal’s designee. (c) One day each month for any one of the following: Department meetings, grade level meeting, or special group meetings as authorized by the Superintendent, Department Head, School Principal, or their designees. (d) Unit members taking graduate courses vital to their program, which cannot be obtained at any other time in conflict with after school meetings, may request permission to be excused from after school meetings. (2) Except in cases of emergencies, agendas will be prepared and distributed to all unit members at least one day prior to the meeting. (3) Unit members shall attend one scheduled Open House per year in the school to which they are assigned and shall be available for two evenings each school year for parental conferences, as necessary, for those parents who are unable to meet with the unit members during the school day. Such evenings shall be scheduled well in advance, but not on vacations, holidays or weekends. A unit member shall not be required to attend if the unit member and a parent have scheduled no parental conference or requested by a parent through the administration. Any specific plans for evening parent conferences will be discussed and developed with the SEA prior to placement on the official school calendar voted on by the BOE.

After School Meetings. (1) Unit members may be required to remain after school for approximately one hour to attend each of the following staff meetings: (a) Superintendent’s Staff Meetings- No more than four (4) per year, to be conducted by the Superintendent or his/her designee to address issues that affect the district or the level (elementary, middle, or high) as a whole. However, said meetings do not need to be convened in a single location. (b) Two days each month building meeting called by the school principal or the principal’s designee. (c) One day each month for any one of the following: Department meetings, grade level meeting, or special group meetings as authorized by the Superintendent, Department Head, School Principal, or their designees. (d) (Unit members taking graduate courses vital to their program, which cannot be obtained at any other time in conflict with after school meetings, may request permission to be excused from after school meetings. (2) Except in cases of emergencies, agendas will be prepared and distributed to all unit members at least one day prior to the meeting. (3) Unit members shall attend one scheduled Open House per year in the school to which they are assigned and shall be available for two evenings each school year for parental conferences, as necessary, for those parents who are unable to meet with the unit members during the school day. Such evenings shall be scheduled well in advance, but not on vacations, holidays or weekends. A unit member shall not be required to attend if the unit member and a parent have scheduled no parental conference or requested by a parent through the administration. Any specific plans for evening parent conferences will be discussed and developed with the SEA prior to placement on the official school calendar voted on by the BOE.