Collaboration Time. The District shall provide a minimum of ten (10) minutes of time for elementary classroom paraprofessionals and the teacher to whom the paraprofessional is assigned, to confer prior to the start of the school day. If it is not possible to schedule 10 minutes prior to the start of the day, the District will attempt, if possible, to schedule 10 minutes at the end of the school day. The parties understand that if neither of the options listed above is possible to schedule, the parties involved shall work out a mutually agreeable alternative time.
Collaboration Time. 1. The District and the Federation support educators to work in collaboration with colleagues during collaboration time.
2. Collaboration involves a team of educators committed to working together and collaborating in ongoing processes of collective inquiry and action research to improve teaching and learning.
3. A collaborative team should have something professional in common. What they have in common depends on the school. Members could share content, students, or roles including all support and related services personnel.
4. Ultimately, the goal is to deepen the content knowledge and pedagogical skills of all educators to continuously revise instructional strategies in response to evidence of student learning. The focus and the conversation should rise from the group of educators. Members should ensure equity of voice within the group.
5. Principals may request documentation from collaboration meetings. Documentation may include agendas, minutes, or product creations. The documentation provided will be based on the structure and the desire of the collaboration group.
6. Individual preparation time shall be considered separate and exclusive from collaboration time.
7. Community School Coordinators shall be granted monthly collaboration time as a whole group.
Collaboration Time. The District and the Association believe that it is important for paraeducators to receive necessary student information regarding students in order to provide appropriate support. Time will be provided by the building administrator for paraeducators working 20 hours or more to collaborate with staff regarding students. Appropriate staff and paraeducators will collaborate to address student safety and learning needs as per FERPA and other state and federal guidelines, including but not limited to the student’s individual educational plan, health care plans, behavior plans and other relevant data.
Collaboration Time. 1. The District and the Federation support educators to work in collaboration with colleagues during collaboration time.
2. Collaboration involves a team of educators committed to working together and collaborating in ongoing processes of collective inquiry and action research in order to improve teaching and learning.
3. A collaborative team should have something professional in common. What they have in common depends on the school. Members could share content, students, or roles including all support and related services personnel.
4. Ultimately, the goal is to deepen the content knowledge and pedagogical skills of all educators in order to continuously revise instructional strategies in response to evidence of student learning. The focus and the conversation should rise from the group of educators. Members should ensure equity of voice within the group.
5. Individual preparation time shall be considered separate and exclusive from collaboration time.
Collaboration Time. Any assigned collaboration time in middle schools shall fall within the regularly scheduled school day and be available to all teachers equitably.
Collaboration Time. The first early release Wednesday per month, except for August and June, will be designated as collaboration time with team members. This collaboration time will be teacher driven. Each collaboration group shall turn in the minutes recorded and a sign-in of those present.
Collaboration Time. Teachers shall meet on campus for team collaboration from dismissal time until the end of the normal student day. “Team collaboration” is defined as a meeting for the purpose of joint planning for instruction, review and analysis of student achievement data, and sharing instructional strategies to maximize student learning. “Teams” are both horizontal (teachers from the same grade level) and vertical (teachers from multiple grade levels). Special education and resource teachers meet as teams or participate in other team meetings. With at least five days notification to school principal, teams may meet to collaborate with a team or teams at another site.
Collaboration Time. The Administration and team leaders will develop a schedule of collaboration time to articulate to the building staff at the beginning of the year for planning purposes. An attempt will be made to provide equitable opportunities for both District/building initiatives and specific teacher-initiated collaboration. An agenda for teacher-initiated collaboration must be submitted to the building administrator for prior approval. A K-6 study committee consisting of three (3) administrators, and seven (7) members selected by GEA President, will convene to develop recommendations to the Superintendent by November 1, 2022 for implementation of scheduled Collaboration Time by the 2023-24 school year.
Collaboration Time. 1) The memorandum of Understanding currently in existence incorporated into this agreement for the 2013-2014 school year. [from the May 9, 2013 Tentative Agreement]
Collaboration Time. Definition: Collaboration is when the educators of an inclusive learning community work together to plan quality classroom instruction in order to promote student success. Collaboration includes creating formative and summative assessments, discussing student concerns, planning interventions or enrichment, and analyzing student data. Research shows significant learning gains may be achieved if time is provided for educators to work together to discuss lesson planning, assessments of students and interventions or enrichment of lessons. ● Late Start time ○ Once every quarter, on a common date to be determined when the late start calendar is established, the principal/designee has the opportunity to direct collaboration time. For remaining collaboration time, the time will be classroom teacher driven and student need focused. The principal may require components of collaboration to be shared with him/her and the school administrative team. If the building principals has identified a documented or data-based need for a particular collaboration team or the building as a whole, the principal may direct additional collaboration time. The district will provide a 2-hour late start at the elementary, middle and high school levels to provide collaboration time for teachers. These late starts will be scheduled no less than eight
