CONTRACTS AND COMPENSATION. 1. It is the desire of the Tahlequah Education Association and the Tahlequah Board of Education that supplemental compensation (extra duty payment) be equitable for all members of the Bargaining Unit. 2. Supplemental compensation (extra duty payment): Compensation for any professional assignment voluntarily accepted by a member of the Bargaining Unit in addition to that member's primary teaching responsibility. Supplemental compensation for grant projects shall be subject to the availability and limitations of grant funds. 3. Primary teaching responsibility - instructional activities including regularly scheduled preparation time performed during the work day. 4. The contractual work day for all members of the Bargaining Unit shall be no longer than seven and one-half (7 1/2) consecutive hours or until the hallways are cleared of a majority of the students. Up to two (2) professional days per contractual work year may be scheduled not to exceed eight (8) consecutive hours with the agreement of the Association Executive Committee; provided, a minimum of thirty (30) days prior notice shall be provided to all teachers required to attend such professional development meeting/training, when possible. Actual school day beginning and school day ending times will be determined administratively and provided to teachers. (July 2010) 5. Preparation time - for each member of the Bargaining Unit will consist of no less than two hundred twenty-five (225) minutes with an attempt to continue a weekly plan time of two hundred fifty (250) minutes per five-day week at the elementary and middle school levels, or one regular class period per day at the High School unless other agreement is reached by teacher and administrator. (July 2013) 6. The contractual work year for all members of the Bargaining Unit employed on ten
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