Common use of CONDITIONS OF WORK Clause in Contracts

CONDITIONS OF WORK. 10.1.1 The normal work day for teachers shall be not more than eight (8) hours, including lunch. Except as noted in 10.1.1.1, teachers shall normally be required to report to work no earlier than thirty (30) minutes prior to the beginning of the student instructional day and shall normally be required to remain no later than twenty (20) minutes after the end of the student instructional day. Teachers may be required to attend, either before or after the work day, functions related to the activities of the school including parent conferences, IEP, meetings, and staff meetings at no additional compensation. If the State Board of Education or Legislature mandates a change in the student instructional day, the teacher work day shall be extended accordingly. 10.1.1.1 On days designated by the District as “Late Start” or “Early Release” for purposes of creating embedded collaboration time for staff, teachers will report or be released at the normal time, but students will arrive later or be dismissed earlier to allow for the additional staff collaboration time. The student instructional day will be adjusted accordingly to compensate for the embedded collaboration time to ensure that total instructional hours for the school year meet state requirements. 10.1.2 The teacher work year shall consist of not more than one hundred eighty (180) days, or equivalent hours, as follows: one hundred seventy-five (175) days shall be for instruction and five (5) days shall be for professional activities, unless otherwise provided by law and/or regulations of the State Department of Education. In addition, teachers new to the district shall be required to attend two (2) orientation days. Those teachers who do not complete records and other end-of-the-year check-out requirements within the one hundred eighty (180) scheduled days, or equivalent hours, will be obligated to work extra days until the check-out procedure is completed. Teachers with extra duty contracts shall work beyond the regular work year whenever necessary in order to fulfill the responsibilities of the extra duty assignment. Each individual teacher's contract will specify the number of work days required for that teacher's assignment. Teachers may check out after student dismissal on the last day of student attendance, if check- out responsibilities have been completed. Principals will be available for teacher check-out at least two (2) hours beyond the end of the defined teacher work day. 10.1.3 Individual teacher contracts shall be issued to all teachers within sixty (60) days after the salary schedule has been approved for the current school year. In the event that a delay is necessary, the Association will be notified immediately. 10.1.4 The Board will endeavor to modify the hours of the school day in order to permit faculty meetings to be held during the regular school day. 10.1.5 Principals will provide teachers 24 hour advance notification of regularly scheduled faculty meetings with the exception of unforeseen emergency circumstances. 10.1.6 Each teacher shall have no less than twenty-five (25) consecutive minutes each school day for a lunch period during which the teacher shall be given no duties. However, in buildings where staff assignments permit, the building principal will, if possible, provide a thirty (30) minute lunch period with no assigned duties. After providing all teachers an opportunity for input, the principal of each elementary school shall establish a schedule assigning teachers to lunch periods and to planning periods in an equitable manner. 10.1.7 The Board of Education shall direct administrators, where building staff assignments permit, to provide teachers in grades Pre-K through Five planning time of at least forty (40) minutes per school day, and each secondary teacher one (1) class period per school day. When time allows, principals will provide teachers with ample, advance notification of known assemblies or special activities that will take place during plan times. 10.1.8 Teachers who are directed by the building administrator to use their planning period to supervise instructional classes or when a substitute is not available will be reimbursed at the rate of $15.00 per period. Teachers will be compensated for a maximum of one (1) planning period per day. Teachers who are required to integrate a second class into their schedule due to unavailability of a substitute will be paid at the rate of a certified substitute. Teachers who are required to integrate a portion of a class into their schedule due to unavailability of a substitute will be paid a proportionate amount of the certified substitute pay rate not to be less than $15.00. 10.1.9 Teachers shall be accountable for the maintenance and completion of all records as required by the Board. 10.1.10 Except for lunch period, unassigned time of a teacher shall be devoted primarily to instructional duties. 10.1.11 Teachers shall accept non-teaching duty assignments when these duties are deemed necessary for the proper functioning of the school. Such duty assignments shall be held to the minimum number necessary to provide adequate supervision of students as determined by the building principal. After the regular teacher workday, extra-curricular duties will be performed by appropriate teacher volunteers, whenever possible. However, teachers performing duties at athletic events after the regular school day will be compensated according to a rate established by the Board of Education. 10.1.12 Teachers shall be accountable for school materials, equipment and facilities assigned to them. 10.1.13 The Board of Education and the Broken Arrow Education Association jointly recognize the importance of teacher participation in Parent Teacher Association meetings and fund-raising activities. Teachers are expected to attend these activities; however, building principals should be flexible when circumstances necessitate a teacher absence. Prior notice should be given to the principal as early as possible. 10.1.14 Teachers will be responsible for the supervision of school property and the supervision of students, when involved in school activities, wherever they may be, at whatever time. 10.1.15 Professional improvement of teachers in the Broken Arrow Public Schools shall be the plan developed by the local Professional Development Committee as directed by guidelines of the State Department of Education and adopted by the Broken Arrow Board of Education. 10.1.15.1 Teachers who are required by district administrators to attend professional development outside the one hundred, eighty (180) contracted days shall be compensated at the rate of fifteen dollars ($15.00) per hour of training. If the professional development is required and a stipend is provided, the greater of the stipend or hourly rate will be the amount compensated to the employee. If teachers cannot attend at the required time, due to reasons outlined in the leave provisions of this agreement, the district can provide an alternate opportunity or excuse the absence. Appropriate evidence concerning the cause of absence may be required by the principal, immediate supervisor, or the Human Resources department. 10.1.16 During the school year, the Tulsa Teacher/Leader Effectiveness Observation and Evaluation System will be used as the evaluation program for teachers not in a supervisory capacity. Continued use of this evaluation program will be subject to negotiations. 10.1.16.1 The Professional Learning Focus (PL Focus) shall be completed for each educator and meet the following requirements: 10.1.16.2 Be introduced and explained to participants at the beginning of the year (individually or as a group). 10.1.16.3 Be established, collaboratively by the teacher and evaluator, by the end of the first quarter of the current school year. This may be done in person or electronically. 10.1.16.4 Be documented on the state department PL Focus template. 10.1.16.5 Shall not be dictated by the evaluator. The idea is to allow the teacher to actively engage with learning practices that are evidence-based, research practices that correlate with increased student achievement and meet the professional improvement needs of each participant. 10.1.16.6 Shall not be tied directly to a TLE domain. 10.1.17 Neither student nor teacher standardized test results shall be part of the criteria used for the appraisal of teacher performance, unless use of such material is prescribed by statute or by regulations of the State Department of Education. 10.1.18 All teachers of Broken Arrow Public Schools will be admitted to home athletic events upon presentation of their (ID) employee badge. 10.1.19 Positions requiring days added to the employee’s regular contract will be compensated at a base daily contract rate for each additional day added. 10.1.20 District-wide student discipline policies shall be compiled into one (1) document to be placed in each building's teacher handbook. The Safe School Committee at each school site will annually review the site's discipline policies and make recommendations to the principal for consideration. The Safe School Committee will obtain input from the teaching staff prior to developing those recommendations. The minutes of the meetings and the final report will be made available to teaching staff and parents. If a principal has actual knowledge that a student has been suspended or adjudicated for an assault against a teacher or weapons/firearms violation with intent to injure, the principal will make a reasonable effort to notify the teachers in whose classes the student is enrolled and security personnel assigned to the building. Any teacher or security officer notified shall keep this information confidential and will not discuss it with others. When a student who has assaulted a teacher returns to school, a team consisting of the affected teacher, an administrator and counselor shall meet and determine a re-entry plan and placement. 10.1.21 Each building site will develop a lock down policy. This policy will be communicated to all faculty and staff, and placed in teacher handbook. 10.1.22 The Board shall not require that teachers pay for instructional materials from their personal funds. 10.1.23 When a teacher receives a fee waiver certificate(s) from a university, they have the right to keep the certificate(s), which shall only be used toward tuition for the staff member’s personal advanced education, or to donate the certificate(s) to the District. The District will disperse fee waiver certificates it receives based on guidelines set by the Tuition Reimbursement Committee. 10.1.24 No certified staff member shall be subjected to random drug or alcohol testing except in accordance with state or federal law. Suspected drug and/or alcohol use will be subject to Board policy.

CONDITIONS OF WORK. 10.1.1 The normal work day for teachers shall be not more than eight (8) hours, including lunch. Except as noted in 10.1.1.1, teachers shall normally be required to report to work no earlier than thirty (30) minutes prior to the beginning of the student instructional day and shall normally be required to remain no later than twenty (20) minutes after the end of the student instructional day. Teachers may be required to attend, either before or after the work day, functions related to the activities of the school including parent conferences, IEP, meetings, and staff meetings at no additional compensation. If the State Board of Education or Legislature mandates a change in the student instructional day, the teacher work day shall be extended accordingly. 10.1.1.1 On days designated by the District as “Late Start” or “Early Release” for purposes of creating embedded collaboration time for staff, teachers will report or be released at the normal time, but students will arrive later or be dismissed earlier to allow for the additional staff collaboration time. The student instructional day will be adjusted accordingly to compensate for the embedded collaboration time to ensure that total instructional hours for the school year meet state requirements. 10.1.2 The teacher work year shall consist of not more than one hundred eighty (180) days, or equivalent hours, as follows: one hundred seventy-five (175) days shall be for instruction and five (5) days shall be for professional activities, unless otherwise provided by law and/or regulations of the State Department of Education. In addition, teachers new to the district shall be required to attend two five (25) orientation days. Those teachers who do not complete records and other end-of-the-year check-out requirements within the one hundred eighty (180) scheduled days, or equivalent hours, will be obligated to work extra days until the check-out procedure is completed. Teachers with extra duty contracts shall work beyond the regular work year whenever necessary in order to fulfill the responsibilities of the extra duty assignment. Each individual teacher's contract will specify the number of work days required for that teacher's assignment. Teachers may check out after student dismissal on the last day of student attendance, if check- out responsibilities have been completed. Principals will be available for teacher check-out at least two (2) hours beyond the end of the defined teacher work day. 10.1.3 Individual teacher contracts shall be issued to all teachers within sixty (60) days after the salary schedule has been approved for the current school year. In the event that a delay is necessary, the Association will be notified immediately. 10.1.4 The Board will endeavor to modify the hours of the school day in order to permit faculty meetings to be held during the regular school day. 10.1.5 Principals will provide teachers 24 hour advance notification of regularly scheduled faculty meetings with the exception of unforeseen emergency circumstances. 10.1.6 Each teacher shall have no less than twenty-five (25) consecutive minutes each school day for a lunch period during which the teacher shall be given no duties. However, in buildings where staff assignments permit, the building principal will, if possible, provide a thirty (30) minute lunch period with no assigned duties. After providing all teachers an opportunity for input, the principal of each elementary school shall establish a schedule assigning teachers to lunch periods and to planning periods in an equitable manner. 10.1.7 The Board of Education shall direct administrators, where building staff assignments permit, to provide teachers in grades Pre-K through Five planning time of at least forty (40) minutes per school day, and each secondary teacher one (1) class period per school day. When time allows, principals will provide teachers with ample, advance notification of known assemblies or special activities that will take place during plan times. 10.1.8 Teachers who are directed by the building administrator to use their planning period to supervise instructional classes or when a substitute is not available will be reimbursed at the rate of $15.00 per period. Teachers will be compensated for a maximum of one (1) planning period per day. Teachers who are required to integrate a second class into their schedule due to unavailability of a substitute will be paid at the rate of a certified substitute. Teachers who are required to integrate a portion of a class into their schedule due to unavailability of a substitute will be paid a proportionate amount of the certified substitute pay rate not to be less than $15.00. 10.1.9 Teachers shall be accountable for the maintenance and completion of all records as required by the Board. 10.1.10 Except for lunch period, unassigned time of a teacher shall be devoted primarily to instructional duties. 10.1.11 Teachers shall accept non-teaching duty assignments when these duties are deemed necessary for the proper functioning of the school. Such duty assignments shall be held to the minimum number necessary to provide adequate supervision of students as determined by the building principal. After the regular teacher workday, extra-curricular duties will be performed by appropriate teacher volunteers, whenever possible. However, teachers performing duties at athletic events after the regular school day will be compensated according to a rate established by the Board of Education. 10.1.12 Teachers shall be accountable for school materials, equipment and facilities assigned to them. 10.1.13 The Board of Education and the Broken Arrow Education Association jointly recognize the importance of teacher participation in Parent Teacher Association meetings and fund-raising activities. Teachers are expected to attend these activities; however, building principals should be flexible when circumstances necessitate a teacher absence. Prior notice should be given to the principal as early as possible. 10.1.14 Teachers will be responsible for the supervision of school property and the supervision of students, when involved in school activities, wherever they may be, at whatever time. 10.1.15 Professional improvement of teachers in the Broken Arrow Public Schools shall be the plan developed by the local Professional Development Committee as directed by guidelines of the State Department of Education and adopted by the Broken Arrow Board of Education. 10.1.15.1 Teachers who are required by district administrators to attend professional development outside the one hundred, eighty (180) contracted days shall be compensated at the rate of fifteen dollars ($15.00) per hour of training. If the professional development is required and a stipend is provided, the greater of the stipend or hourly rate will be the amount compensated to the employee. If teachers cannot attend at the required time, due to reasons outlined in the leave provisions of this agreement, the district can provide an alternate opportunity or excuse the absence. Appropriate evidence concerning the cause of absence may be required by the principal, immediate supervisor, or the Human Resources department. 10.1.16 During the school year, the Tulsa Teacher/Leader Effectiveness Observation and Evaluation System will be used as the evaluation program for teachers not in a supervisory capacity. Continued use of this evaluation program will be subject to negotiations. 10.1.16.1 The Professional Learning Focus (PL Focus) shall be completed for each educator and meet the following requirements: 10.1.16.2 Be introduced and explained to participants at the beginning of the year (individually or as a group). 10.1.16.3 Be established, collaboratively by the teacher and evaluator, by the end of the first quarter of the current school year. This may be done in person or electronically. 10.1.16.4 Be documented on the state department PL Focus template. 10.1.16.5 Shall not be dictated by the evaluator. The idea is to allow the teacher to actively engage with learning practices that are evidence-based, research practices that correlate with increased student achievement and meet the professional improvement needs of each participant. 10.1.16.6 Shall not be tied directly to a TLE domain. 10.1.17 Neither student nor teacher standardized test results shall be part of the criteria used for the appraisal of teacher performance, unless use of such material is prescribed by statute or by regulations of the State Department of Education. 10.1.18 All teachers of Broken Arrow Public Schools will be admitted to home athletic events upon presentation of their (ID) employee badge. 10.1.19 Positions requiring days added to the employee’s regular contract will be compensated at a base daily contract rate for each additional day added. 10.1.20 District-wide student discipline policies shall be compiled into one (1) document to be placed in each building's teacher handbook. The Safe School Committee at each school site will annually review the site's discipline policies and make recommendations to the principal for consideration. The Safe School Committee will obtain input from the teaching staff prior to developing those recommendations. The minutes of the meetings and the final report will be made available to teaching staff and parents. If a principal has actual knowledge that a student has been suspended or adjudicated for an assault against a teacher or weapons/firearms violation with intent to injure, the principal will make a reasonable effort to notify the teachers in whose classes the student is enrolled and security personnel assigned to the building. Any teacher or security officer notified shall keep this information confidential and will not discuss it with others. When a student who has assaulted a teacher returns to school, a team consisting of the affected teacher, an administrator and counselor shall meet and determine a re-entry plan and placement. 10.1.21 Each building site will develop a lock down policy. This policy will be communicated to all faculty and staff, and placed in teacher handbook. 10.1.22 The Board shall not require that teachers pay for instructional materials from their personal funds. 10.1.23 When a teacher receives a fee waiver certificate(s) from a university, they have the right to keep the certificate(s), which shall only be used toward tuition for the staff member’s personal advanced education, or to donate the certificate(s) to the District. The District will disperse fee waiver certificates it receives based on guidelines set by the Tuition Reimbursement Committee. 10.1.24 No certified staff member shall be subjected to random drug or alcohol testing except in accordance with state or federal law. Suspected drug and/or alcohol use will be subject to Board policy.

CONDITIONS OF WORK. 10.1.1 The normal work day for teachers shall be not more than eight (8) hours, including lunch. Except as noted in 10.1.1.1, teachers shall normally be required to report to work no earlier than thirty (30) minutes prior to the beginning of the student instructional day and shall normally be required to remain no later than twenty (20) minutes after the end of the student instructional day. Teachers may be required to attend, either before or after the work day, functions related to the activities of the school including parent conferences, IEP, meetings, and staff meetings at no additional compensation. If the State Board of Education or Legislature mandates a change in the student instructional day, the teacher work day shall be extended accordingly. 10.1.1.1 On days designated by the District as “Late Start” or “Early Release” for purposes of creating embedded collaboration time for staff, teachers will report or be released at the normal time, but students will arrive later or be dismissed earlier to allow for the additional staff collaboration time. The student instructional day will be adjusted accordingly to compensate for the embedded collaboration time to ensure that total instructional hours for the school year meet state requirements. 10.1.2 The teacher work year shall consist of not more than one hundred eighty (180) days, or equivalent hours, as follows: one hundred seventy-five (175) days shall be for instruction and five (5) days shall be for professional activities, unless otherwise provided by law and/or regulations of the State Department of Education. In addition, teachers new to the district shall be required to attend two (2) orientation days. Those teachers who do not complete records and other end-of-the-year check-out requirements within the one hundred eighty (180) scheduled days, or equivalent hours, will be obligated to work extra days until the check-out procedure is completed. Teachers with extra duty contracts shall work beyond the regular work year whenever necessary in order to fulfill the responsibilities of the extra duty assignment. Each individual teacher's contract will specify the number of work days required for that teacher's assignment. Teachers may check out after student dismissal on the last day of student attendance, if check- out responsibilities have been completed. Principals will be available for teacher check-out at least two (2) hours beyond the end of the defined teacher work day. 10.1.3 Individual teacher contracts shall be issued to all teachers within sixty (60) days after the salary schedule has been approved for the current school year. In the event that a delay is necessary, the Association will be notified immediately. 10.1.4 The Board will endeavor to modify the hours of the school day in order to permit faculty meetings to be held during the regular school day. 10.1.5 Principals will provide teachers 24 hour ample, advance notification of regularly scheduled faculty meetings with the exception of unforeseen emergency circumstancesmeetings. 10.1.6 Each teacher shall have no less than twenty-five twenty (2520) consecutive minutes each school day for a lunch period during which the teacher shall be given no duties. However, in buildings where staff assignments permit, the building principal will, if possible, provide a thirty twenty-five (3025) minute lunch period with no assigned duties. After providing all teachers an opportunity for input, the principal of each elementary school shall establish a schedule assigning teachers to lunch periods and to planning periods in an equitable manner. 10.1.7 The Board of Education shall direct administrators, where building staff assignments permit, to provide teachers in grades Pre-K through Five planning time of at least forty (40) minutes per school day, and each secondary teacher one (1) class period per school day. When time allows, principals will provide teachers with ample, advance notification of known assemblies or special activities that will take place during plan times. 10.1.8 Teachers who are directed by the building administrator to use their planning period to supervise instructional classes or when a substitute is not available will be reimbursed at the rate of $15.00 per period. Teachers will be compensated for a maximum of one (1) planning period per day. Teachers who are required to integrate a second class into their schedule due to unavailability of a substitute will be paid at the rate of a certified substitute. Teachers who are required to integrate a portion of a class into their schedule due to unavailability of a substitute will be paid a proportionate amount of the certified substitute pay rate not to be less than $15.00. 10.1.9 Teachers shall be accountable for the maintenance and completion of all records as required by the Board. 10.1.10 Except for lunch period, unassigned time of a teacher shall be devoted primarily to instructional duties. 10.1.11 Teachers shall accept non-teaching duty assignments when these duties are deemed necessary for the proper functioning of the school. Such duty assignments shall be held to the minimum number necessary to provide adequate supervision of students as determined by the building principal. After the regular teacher workday, extra-curricular duties will be performed by appropriate teacher volunteers, whenever possible. However, teachers performing duties at athletic events after the regular school day will be compensated according to a rate established by the Board of Education. 10.1.12 Teachers shall be accountable for school materials, equipment and facilities assigned to them. 10.1.13 The Board of Education and the Broken Arrow Education Association jointly recognize the importance of teacher participation in Parent Teacher Association meetings and fund-raising activities. Teachers are expected to attend these activities; however, building principals should be flexible when circumstances necessitate a teacher absence. Prior notice should be given to the principal as early as possible. 10.1.14 Teachers will be responsible for the supervision of school property and the supervision of students, when involved in school activities, wherever they may be, at whatever time. 10.1.15 Professional improvement of teachers in the Broken Arrow Public Schools shall be the plan developed by the local Professional Development Committee as directed by guidelines of the State Department of Education and adopted by the Broken Arrow Board of Education. 10.1.15.1 Teachers who are required by district administrators to attend professional development outside the one hundred, eighty (180) contracted days shall be compensated at the rate of fifteen dollars ($15.00) per hour of training. If the professional development is required and a stipend is provided, the greater of the stipend or hourly rate will be the amount compensated to the employee. If teachers cannot attend at the required time, due to reasons outlined in the leave provisions of this agreement, the district can provide an alternate opportunity or excuse the absence. Appropriate evidence concerning the cause of absence may be required by the principal, immediate supervisor, or the Human Resources department. 10.1.16 During the school year, the Tulsa Teacher/Leader Effectiveness Observation and Evaluation System will be used as the evaluation program for teachers not in a supervisory capacity. Continued use of this evaluation program will be subject to negotiations. 10.1.16.1 The Professional Learning Focus (PL Focus) shall be completed for each educator and meet the following requirements: 10.1.16.2 Be introduced and explained to participants at the beginning of the year (individually or as a group). 10.1.16.3 Be established, collaboratively by the teacher and evaluator, by the end of the first quarter of the current school year. This may be done in person or electronically. 10.1.16.4 Be documented on the state department PL Focus template. 10.1.16.5 Shall not be dictated by the evaluator. The idea is to allow the teacher to actively engage with learning practices that are evidence-based, research practices that correlate with increased student achievement and meet the professional improvement needs of each participant. 10.1.16.6 Shall not be tied directly to a TLE domain. 10.1.17 Neither student nor teacher standardized test results shall be part of the criteria used for the appraisal of teacher performance, unless use of such material is prescribed by statute or by regulations of the State Department of Education. 10.1.18 All teachers of Broken Arrow Public Schools will be admitted to home athletic events upon presentation of their (ID) employee badge. 10.1.19 Positions requiring days added to the employee’s regular contract will be compensated at a base daily contract rate for each additional day added. 10.1.20 District-wide student discipline policies shall be compiled into one (1) document to be placed in each building's teacher handbook. The Safe School Committee at each school site will annually review the site's discipline policies and make recommendations to the principal for consideration. The Safe School Committee will obtain input from the teaching staff prior to developing those recommendations. The minutes of the meetings and the final report will be made available to teaching staff and parents. If a principal has actual knowledge that a student has been suspended or adjudicated for an assault against a teacher weapons or weapons/firearms violation with intent to injure, the principal will make a reasonable effort to notify the teachers in whose classes the student is enrolled and security personnel assigned to the building. Any teacher or security officer notified shall keep this information confidential and will not discuss it with others. When a student who has assaulted a teacher returns to school, a team consisting of the affected teacher, an administrator and counselor shall meet and determine a re-entry plan and placement. 10.1.21 Each building site will develop a lock down policy. This policy will be communicated to all faculty and staff, and placed in teacher handbook. 10.1.22 The Board shall not require that teachers pay for instructional materials from their personal funds. 10.1.23 When a teacher receives a fee waiver certificate(s) from a university, they have the right to keep the certificate(s), which shall only be used toward tuition for the staff member’s personal advanced education, or to donate the certificate(s) to the District. The District will disperse fee waiver certificates it receives based on guidelines set by the Tuition Reimbursement Committee. 10.1.24 No certified staff member shall be subjected to random drug or alcohol testing except in accordance with state or federal law. Suspected drug and/or alcohol use will be subject to Board policy.