Common use of COACHING VACANCIES Clause in Contracts

COACHING VACANCIES. In order to be eligible for selection for a particular coaching position, a teacher must be qualified for the coaching position. 1. Coaching positions, except those that are vacant, will no longer be posted annually. A coach who is satisfactorily filling a coaching position and who wishes to continue to do so will serve in the coaching position the following school year. 2. When there is a coaching vacancy at a school, the coaching position will be posted citywide in order for a qualified teacher at any school across the city to have the opportunity to apply. a. If no qualified candidate is available from within the bargaining unit, the vacant coaching position will be open to a qualified applicant not employed by the School District. b. When a qualified, nonemployee coach has been hired from outside the School District to fill a coaching position, pursuant to Section 2.a. above, he/she shall be able to continue in the coaching position in succeeding school years so long as his/her service in the coaching position is satisfactory. Should such a coach subsequently leave coaching employment or be terminated, that coaching position shall again be internally posted citywide as a vacant coaching position. 3. In filling a coaching vacancy with a teacher from a school other than the school in which the vacancy exists, the teacher’s travel time from his/her home school to the school where the coaching position is open shall continue to be a consideration. 4. If a teacher is transferred involuntarily, he/she will be permitted to retain his/her coaching assignment at the original school if his/her schedule at the new school need not be altered in order for the assignment to be fulfilled. 5. Selections should be made to avoid having an eligible teacher appointed to more than one (1) coaching position in any season. This provision will not apply if other eligible applicants are not available for a coaching position. 6. The Board continues to have the right to utilize any previously existing additional criteria, if any, that properly apply to the filling of coaching vacancies.

COACHING VACANCIES. ‌ In order to be eligible for selection for a particular coaching position, a teacher must be qualified for the coaching position. 1. Coaching positions, except those that are vacant, will no longer be posted annually. A coach who is satisfactorily filling a coaching position and who wishes to continue to do so will serve in the coaching position the following school year. 2. When there is a coaching vacancy at a school, the coaching position will be posted citywide in order for a qualified teacher at any school across the city to have the opportunity to apply. a. If no qualified candidate is available from within the bargaining unit, the vacant coaching position will be open to a qualified applicant not employed by the School District. b. When a qualified, nonemployee coach has been hired from outside the School District to fill a coaching position, pursuant to Section 2.a. above, he/she shall be able to continue in the coaching position in succeeding school years so long as his/her service in the coaching coach- ing position is satisfactory. Should such a coach subsequently leave coaching employment or be terminated, that coaching position shall again be internally posted citywide as a vacant coaching position.position.‌ 3. In filling a coaching vacancy with a teacher from a school other than the school in which the vacancy exists, the teacher’s travel time from his/her home school to the school where the coaching position is open shall continue to be a consideration. 4. If a teacher is transferred involuntarily, he/she will be permitted to retain his/her coaching assignment at the original school if his/her schedule at the new school need not be altered in order for the assignment to be fulfilled. 5. Selections should be made to avoid having an eligible teacher appointed to more than one (1) coaching position in any season. This provision will not apply if other eligible applicants are not available for a coaching position. This provision shall not be applied to prevent teachers from continuing in the same coaching position(s) which they held in the 1982-83 school year. 6. The Board continues to have the right to utilize any previously existing additional criteria, if any, that properly apply to the filling of coaching vacancies.