Duty Day. A. Except as otherwise provided in this Contract, the employee duty day shall be seven hours and 30 minutes including a duty-free lunch, or 37 ½ hours per week total. B. As part of an ongoing program of school improvement, and in recognition of individual schools’ needs to be given increased responsibility for site-based decision making, the parties agree to the following relating to the employee duty day: 1. The duly elected Faculty Advisory Committee and the administrator, with input from the school staff may mutually agree on scheduling arrangements for teachers to include, teaching load(s), student contact time, planning time, duty time, extended-duty assignments, compensatory time, coverage of classes in lieu of using substitutes, scheduling of elementary teachers, the use of flexible time blocks, common planning time, end of course testing schedules, scheduling of special area teachers and the implementation of any mandated school wide programs which affect any of the provisions found in this article. At the end of each school year, each teacher may submit scheduling preferences for elementary special area teachers to this process for consideration. 2. Such agreements shall be conditioned upon a majority vote of support by secret ballot of those voting from the faculty, reduced to writing and distributed to each teacher at the school. The agreement(s) shall remain in effect until the end of the school year. The FAC shall conduct the election. The faculty shall receive notice of the election in writing at least two duty days prior to the voting. The voting period shall extend for up to two duty days. The most senior Association Representative shall be present at ballot counting. If there is no Association Representative, the administrator shall contact the Association President/designee prior to the ballot counting so that s/he may be present to observe. 3. In the absence of mutual agreement, the following provisions shall apply to those areas where such agreement cannot be reached: a. When an emergency situation arises, an extended duty assignment beyond the regular duty day may be made. When such becomes necessary, volunteers shall be sought first. If no one volunteers, consideration shall be given to the employees’ personal commitments which cannot be rescheduled. Employees so assigned shall be allowed to take an equal amount of time off during non-student contact time, within ten duty days or at a time mutually agreeable between the teacher and the
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Duty Day. A. Except as otherwise provided in this Contract, the employee duty day shall be seven hours and 30 minutes including a duty-free lunch, or 37 ½ hours per week total.
B. As part of an ongoing program of school improvement, and in recognition of individual schools’ needs to be given increased responsibility for site-based decision making, the parties agree to the following relating to the employee duty day:
1. The duly elected Faculty Advisory Committee and the administrator, with input from the school staff may mutually agree on scheduling arrangements for teachers to include, teaching load(s), student contact time, planning time, duty time, extended-duty assignments, compensatory time, coverage of classes in lieu of using substitutes, scheduling of elementary teachers, the use of flexible time blocks, common planning time, end of course testing schedules, scheduling of special area teachers and the implementation of any mandated school wide programs which affect any of the provisions found in this article. At the end of each school year, each teacher may submit scheduling preferences for elementary special area teachers to this process for consideration.
2. Such agreements shall be conditioned upon a majority vote of support by secret ballot of those voting from the faculty, reduced to writing and distributed to each teacher at the school. The agreement(s) shall remain in effect until the end of the school year. The FAC shall conduct the election. The faculty shall receive notice of the election in writing at least two duty days prior to the voting. The voting period shall extend for up to two duty days. The most senior Association Representative shall be present at ballot counting. If there is no Association Representative, the administrator shall contact the Association President/designee prior to the ballot counting so that s/he may be present to observe.
3. In the absence of mutual agreement, the following provisions shall apply to those areas where such agreement cannot be reached:
a. When an emergency situation arises, an extended duty assignment beyond the regular duty day may be made. When such becomes necessary, volunteers shall be sought first. If no one volunteers, consideration shall be given to the employees’ personal commitments which cannot be rescheduled. Employees so assigned shall be allowed to take an equal amount of time off during non-student contact time, within ten duty days or at a time mutually agreeable between the teacher and thethe principal. Employees may receive time off for voluntarily participating in school activities occurring outside of their regular workday.
b. When a medical or legal appointment involving the employee or a member of his/her immediate family, or a school-related conference involving the employee’s dependent, is required that cannot be scheduled outside the employee duty day, or when an employee attending in-service or college classes needs reasonable commuting time, an employee may be allowed to leave at the end of the regular student day, provided acceptable arrangements to accommodate duty or other school activities have been made and are communicated.
c. When a personal emergency results in an employee either having to arrive late or leave early, the employee shall be charged with appropriate leave, only when the absence exceeds one-quarter day and/or requires the use of a substitute.
d. No teacher shall be assigned responsibility for students for more than three continuous hours.
e. Except as may be provided elsewhere in this Contract, assigned instructional responsibility shall be based upon approximately 25.5 hours per week, except in post-secondary schools and Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten classes where it shall be based upon no more than 30 hours per week. In the secondary schools, assignments to a supervised study hall or non-compensated extra-curricular activity during school hours shall be considered assigned instructional responsibility, however passing time shall not.
f. In the event supervision of students, both within and/or outside of the regular student day, is required, assignments shall be rotated on an equitable basis to the extent possible.
g. Administrators will cooperate with employees in making arrangements for a break in either the morning or afternoon. Employees needing to use the restroom may call the office at any time of the day to receive relief without a delay.
h. Elementary teachers shall have an average daily planning time of 60 minutes, at least 45 of which shall be contiguous. Middle and high school teachers shall have a contiguous daily planning time equal to a student academic period or 50 minutes, whichever is less. The parties recognize that in some cases, contiguous planning time may need to be temporarily adjusted due to unanticipated circumstances. Post-secondary teachers shall have an average daily planning time of at least 50 minutes, at least 35 of which shall be contiguous. Planning time shall be used for purposes of preparation, which may also include conferences with parents, administrators, or other teachers, and/or giving special assistance to students. A teacher shall not be restricted to remain in a particular area of the school during his/her planning time; however, this provision does not apply to common planning time. A reasonable effort shall be made by the administrator to provide a special area for planning. Schools shall provide a common planning time once a week for instruction. Teachers who assume additional teaching or duty assignments or have rotational assigned supervision during the student day may not necessarily be guaranteed the planning time outlined above.
C. The Board agrees to provide substitute teachers for art, music, and physical education teachers and media specialists. No teacher shall be used as a substitute for another teacher except in cases of emergency or unforeseen circumstances. The District shall maintain a substitute pool for the filling of vacancies due to absenteeism. The District will provide a long-term certified substitute for non-classroom certified personnel who are on a long-term leave, where possible. Upon written request from the Union, the District will notify the Union of the reason for not providing a long-term certified substitute within twenty (20) duty days of the written request.
1. In cases of non-emergency, teachers cannot be required to substitute for another teacher. In cases of emergency, teachers may be required to substitute for another teacher, however, classified staff and non-classroom teachers should be used to cover classes prior to resorting to splitting classes.
2. The definition of emergency is a sudden unexpected happening; an unforeseen occurrence or condition; perplexing contingency or complication of circumstances; a sudden or unexpected occasion for action; exigency; pressing necessity. Emergency is an unforeseen combination of circumstances that calls for immediate action without time for full deliberation. Examples include, but are not limited to, a sudden unexpected and severe medical event at school, or when a teacher has a family crisis during the school day requiring his/her immediate attention.
3. It is not an emergency when:
a. a teacher arrives late due to reasons such as illness, car problems, or traffic and misses less than a quarter day of work;
b. a teacher needs one or two periods of class coverage to attend meetings on campus and other events, such as picture days, awards ceremonies and giving guest lectures in colleagues’ classes;
c. a teacher leaves early due to a doctor’s appointment;
d. a Xxxxx Services substitute arrives after the start of a work day; or
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Duty Day. A. Except as otherwise provided in this Contract, the employee duty day shall be seven hours and 30 minutes including a duty-free lunch, or 37 ½ hours per week total.
B. As part of an ongoing program of school improvement, and in recognition of individual schools’ needs to be given increased responsibility for site-based decision making, the parties agree to the following relating to the employee duty day:
1. The duly elected Faculty Advisory Committee and the administrator, with input from the school staff may mutually agree on scheduling arrangements for teachers to include, teaching load(s), student contact time, planning time, duty time, extended-duty assignments, compensatory time, coverage of classes in lieu of using substitutes, scheduling of elementary teachers, the use of flexible time blocks, common planning time, end of course testing schedules, scheduling of special area teachers and the implementation of any mandated school wide programs which affect any of the provisions found in this article. At the end of each school year, each teacher may submit scheduling preferences for elementary special area teachers to this process for consideration.
2. Such agreements shall be conditioned upon a majority vote of support by secret ballot of those voting from the faculty, reduced to writing and distributed to each teacher at the school. The agreement(s) shall remain in effect until the end of the school year. The FAC shall conduct the election. The faculty shall receive notice of the election in writing at least two duty days prior to the voting. The voting period shall extend for up to two duty days. The most senior Association Representative shall be present at ballot counting. If there is no Association Representative, the administrator shall contact the Association President/designee prior to the ballot counting so that s/he may be present to observe.
3. In the absence of mutual agreement, the following provisions shall apply to those areas where such agreement cannot be reached:
a. When an emergency situation arises, an extended duty assignment beyond the regular duty day may be made. When such becomes necessary, volunteers shall be sought first. If no one volunteers, consideration shall be given to the employees’ personal commitments which cannot be rescheduled. Employees so assigned shall be allowed to take an equal amount of time off during non-student contact time, within ten duty days or at a time mutually agreeable between the teacher and thethe principal. Employees may receive time off for voluntarily participating in school activities occurring outside of their regular workday.
b. When a medical or legal appointment involving the employee or a member of his/her immediate family, or a school-related conference involving the employee’s dependent, is required that cannot be scheduled outside the employee duty day, or when an employee attending in-service or college classes needs reasonable commuting time, an employee may be allowed to leave at the end of the regular student day, provided acceptable arrangements to accommodate duty or other school activities have been made and are communicated.
c. When a personal emergency results in an employee either having to arrive late or leave early, the employee shall be charged with appropriate leave, only when the absence exceeds one-quarter day and/or requires the use of a substitute.
d. No teacher shall be assigned responsibility for students for more than three continuous hours.
e. Except as may be provided elsewhere in this Contract, assigned instructional responsibility shall be based upon approximately 25.5 hours per week, except in post-secondary schools and Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten classes where it shall be based upon no more than 30 hours per week. In the secondary schools, assignments to a supervised study hall or non-compensated extra-curricular activity during school hours shall be considered assigned instructional responsibility, however passing time shall not.
f. In the event supervision of students, both within and/or outside of the regular student day, is required, assignments shall be rotated on an equitable basis to the extent possible.
g. Administrators will cooperate with employees in making arrangements for a break in either the morning or afternoon. Employees needing to use the restroom may call the office at any time of the day to receive relief without a delay.
h. Elementary teachers shall have an average daily planning time of 60 minutes, at least 45 of which shall be contiguous. Middle and high school teachers shall have a contiguous daily planning time equal to a student academic period or 50 minutes, whichever is less. The parties recognize that in some cases, contiguous planning time may need to be temporarily adjusted due to unanticipated circumstances. Post-secondary teachers shall have an average daily planning time of at least 50 minutes. Planning time shall be used for purposes of preparation, which may also include conferences with parents, administrators, or other teachers, and/or giving special assistance to students. A teacher shall not be restricted to remain in a particular area of the school during his/her planning time; however, this provision does not apply to common planning time. A reasonable effort shall be made by the administrator to provide a special area for planning. Schools shall provide a common planning time once a week for instruction. Teachers who assume additional teaching or duty assignments or have rotational assigned supervision during the student day may not necessarily be guaranteed the planning time outlined above.
C. The Board agrees to provide substitute teachers for art, music, and physical education teachers and media specialists. No teacher shall be used as a substitute for another teacher except in cases of emergency or unforeseen circumstances. The District shall maintain a substitute pool for the filling of vacancies due to absenteeism.
1. In cases of non-emergency, teachers cannot be required to substitute for another teacher. In cases of emergency, teachers may be required to substitute for another teacher, however, classified staff and non-classroom teachers should be used to cover classes prior to resorting to splitting classes.
2. The definition of emergency is a sudden unexpected happening; an unforeseen occurrence or condition; perplexing contingency or complication of circumstances; a sudden or unexpected occasion for action; exigency; pressing necessity. Emergency is an unforeseen combination of circumstances that calls for immediate action without time for full deliberation. Examples include, but are not limited to, a sudden unexpected and severe medical event at school, or when a teacher has a family crisis during the school day requiring his/her immediate attention.
3. It is not an emergency when:
a. a teacher arrives late due to reasons such as illness, car problems, or traffic and misses less than a quarter day of work;
b. a teacher needs one or two periods of class coverage to attend meetings on campus and other events, such as picture days, awards ceremonies and giving guest lectures in colleagues’ classes;
c. a teacher leaves early due to a doctor’s appointment;
d. a Kelly Services substitute arrives after the start of a work day; or
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Duty Day. A. Except as otherwise provided in this Contract, the employee duty day shall be seven hours and 30 minutes including a duty-free lunch, or 37 ½ hours per week total.
B. As part of an ongoing program of school improvement, and in recognition of individual schools’ needs to be given increased responsibility for site-based decision making, the parties agree to the following relating to the employee duty day:
1. The duly elected Faculty Advisory Committee and the administrator, with input from the school staff may mutually agree on scheduling arrangements for teachers to include, teaching load(s), student contact time, planning time, duty time, extended-duty assignments, compensatory time, coverage of classes in lieu of using substitutes, scheduling of elementary teachers, the use of flexible time blocks, common planning time, end of course testing schedules, scheduling of special area teachers and the implementation of any mandated school wide programs which affect any of the provisions found in this article. At the end of each school year, each teacher may submit scheduling preferences for elementary special area teachers to this process for consideration.
2. Such agreements shall be conditioned upon a majority vote of support by secret ballot of those voting from the faculty, reduced to writing and distributed to each teacher at the school. The agreement(s) shall remain in effect until the end of the school year. The FAC shall conduct the election. The faculty shall receive notice of the election in writing at least two duty days prior to the voting. The voting period shall extend for up to two duty days. The most senior Association Representative shall be present at ballot counting. If there is no Association Representative, the administrator shall contact the Association President/designee prior to the ballot counting so that s/he may be present to observe.
3. In the absence of mutual agreement, the following provisions shall apply to those areas where such agreement cannot be reached:
a. When an emergency situation arises, an extended duty assignment beyond the regular duty day may be made. When such becomes necessary, volunteers shall be sought first. If no one volunteers, consideration shall be given to the employees’ personal commitments which cannot be rescheduled. Employees so assigned shall be allowed to take an equal amount of time off during non-student contact time, within ten duty days or at a time mutually agreeable between the teacher and thethe principal. Employees may receive time off for voluntarily participating in school activities occurring outside of their regular workday.
b. When a medical or legal appointment involving the employee or a member of his/her immediate family, or a school-related conference involving the employee’s dependent, is required that cannot be scheduled outside the employee duty day, or when an employee attending in-service or college classes needs reasonable commuting time, an employee may be allowed to leave at the end of the regular student day, provided acceptable arrangements to accommodate duty or other school activities have been made and are communicated.
c. When a personal emergency results in an employee either having to arrive late or leave early, the employee shall be charged with appropriate leave, only when the absence exceeds one-quarter day and/or requires the use of a substitute.
d. No teacher shall be assigned responsibility for students for more than three continuous hours.
e. Except as may be provided elsewhere in this Contract, assigned instructional responsibility shall be based upon approximately 25.5 hours per week, except in post-secondary schools and Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten classes where it shall be based upon no more than 30 hours per week. In the secondary schools, assignments to a supervised study hall or non-compensated extra-curricular activity during school hours shall be considered assigned instructional responsibility, however passing time shall not.
f. In the event supervision of students, both within and/or outside of the regular student day, is required, assignments shall be rotated on an equitable basis to the extent possible.
g. Administrators will cooperate with employees in making arrangements for a break in either the morning or afternoon.
h. Elementary teachers shall have an average daily planning time of 60 minutes, at least 45 of which shall be contiguous. Middle and high school teachers shall have a contiguous daily planning time equal to a student academic period or 50 minutes, whichever is less. The parties recognize that in some cases, contiguous planning time may need to be temporarily adjusted due to unanticipated circumstances. Post-secondary teachers shall have an average daily planning time of at least 50 minutes. Planning time shall be used for purposes of preparation, which may also include conferences with parents, administrators, or other teachers, and/or giving special assistance to students. A teacher shall not be restricted to remain in a particular area of the school during his/her planning time; however, this provision does not apply to common planning time. A reasonable effort shall be made by the administrator to provide a special area for planning. Schools shall provide a common planning time once a week for instruction. Teachers who assume additional teaching or duty assignments or have rotational assigned supervision during the student day may not necessarily be guaranteed the planning time outlined above.
C. The Board agrees to provide substitute teachers for art, music, and physical education teachers and media specialists. No teacher shall be used as a substitute for another teacher except in cases of emergency or unforeseen circumstances. The District shall maintain a substitute pool for the filling of vacancies due to absenteeism.
D. Media centers in all schools shall observe a flexible schedule.
E. The Board shall encourage class sizes consistent with District goals, the nature of different subject matter, instructional objectives, the requirements of different instructional processes, the capacities of the physical facilities, state laws and regulations, and the special needs of students.
1. If an individual teacher feels a class has an excessive number of students, s/he may request a meeting with the administrator who will discuss the issue with the teacher and attempt to resolve it.
2. If the matter cannot be resolved within two weeks at the school level, it shall be referred by the administrator to the appropriate associate superintendent who will within two weeks assess the situation and make a final decision as to whether an adjustment in class size should be made. Said decision will be communicated to the teacher and will state the reasons.
3. If district-wide ratios for students to social workers not assigned to schools exceed the prior year’s ratio, the designated lead social workers may request a meeting with the Superintendent or designee to discuss the issues and attempt to resolve them.
4. If the district-wide ratios for students to school psychologists not assigned to schools exceed the prior year’s ratio, the designated lead school psychologist may request a meeting with the Superintendent or designee to discuss the issues and attempt to resolve them.
F. Employees shall check (√) in and out upon arrival and departure from their work site.
G. On the day before a scheduled holiday, the employee duty day shall end at the close of the student day. Non-school based personnel may leave 30 minutes before the end of their regular day. If the day before the Winter and/or Spring Holiday period for school based teachers is a non-student contact day, it shall be 6.5 hours in length.
H. The parties recognize the importance of employees’ participation in school-related activities, such as open house, PTA, and other school functions, which occur outside of normal working hours and flex time may be used for affected teachers. The administrator may require attendance at the school’s annual open house.
I. On election days, employees whose duty day usually begins 45 minutes or more before the student day who wish to vote before the duty day begins, may opt for reporting to work 15 minutes before the student day. In the alternative, employees may leave at the end of the student day for purposes of voting.
X. Xx employee, other than an itinerant employee, who is required to leave his/her work site in the performance of assigned duties, shall leave with his/her administrator a daily itinerary, so that the employee can be reached throughout the duty day. An itinerant employee shall provide a weekly schedule to the administrator of each school s/he serves during the week. The schedule shall include a duty-free lunch, planning time (if applicable) and travel time. Each itinerant teacher shall be assigned a private space to provide instruction.
K. Employees may, with the approval of the administrator, take part in activities outside the school building which are of interest to their present and prospective students. These activities shall include, but are not limited to, liaison activities with community and social agencies, vocational/educational guidance workshops, parental contact, exceptional education home visits, and job and educational placement activities.
L. Middle and senior high school teachers shall not be required to teach more than two subject areas.
M. Employees shall be scheduled for a minimum of 25 minutes for lunch, which shall be within the scheduled lunch periods for students except on field trips on in unplanned emergencies. On student contact days, in work locations where there is no lunchroom or in job assignments which permit flexible lunch schedules, an employee may be given approximately one hour for lunch by mutual agreement with his/her administrator. In such cases, the workday for the employee may be proportionately extended to provide for equity with other employees, without violating this Contract. On any non-student contact day, employees shall have a lunch period of one hour which may be off site.
N. An employee may leave the work site, upon receiving permission, during his /her planning time and duty-free lunch. No reasonable request shall be denied.
O. When post –secondary courses are taught in three-hour blocks and students are given a break, teachers shall be entitled to the same break.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Duty Day. A. Except as otherwise provided in this Contract, the employee duty day shall be seven hours and 30 minutes including a duty-free lunch, or 37 ½ hours per week total.
B. As part of an ongoing program of school improvement, and in recognition of individual schools’ needs to be given increased responsibility for site-based decision making, the parties agree to the following relating to the employee duty day:
1. The duly elected Faculty Advisory Committee and the administrator, with input from the school staff may mutually agree on scheduling arrangements for teachers to include, teaching load(s), student contact time, planning time, duty time, extended-duty assignments, compensatory time, coverage of classes in lieu of using substitutes, scheduling of elementary teachers, the use of flexible time blocks, common planning time, end of course testing schedules, scheduling of special area teachers and the implementation of any mandated school wide programs which affect any of the provisions found in this article. At the end of each school year, each teacher may submit scheduling preferences for elementary special area teachers to this process for consideration.
2. Such agreements shall be conditioned upon a majority vote of support by secret ballot of those voting from the faculty, reduced to writing and distributed to each teacher at the school. The agreement(s) shall remain in effect until the end of the school year. The FAC shall conduct the election. The faculty shall receive notice of the election in writing at least two duty days prior to the voting. The voting period shall extend for up to two duty days. The most senior Association Representative shall be present at ballot counting. If there is no Association Representative, the administrator shall contact the Association President/designee prior to the ballot counting so that s/he may be present to observe.
3. In the absence of mutual agreement, the following provisions shall apply to those areas where such agreement cannot be reached:
a. When an emergency situation arises, an extended duty assignment beyond the regular duty day may be made. When such becomes necessary, volunteers shall be sought first. If no one volunteers, consideration shall be given to the employees’ personal commitments which cannot be rescheduled. Employees so assigned shall be allowed to take an equal amount of time off during non-student contact time, within ten duty days or at a time mutually agreeable between the teacher and thethe principal. Employees may receive time off for voluntarily participating in school activities occurring outside of their regular workday.
b. When a medical or legal appointment involving the employee or a member of his/her immediate family, or a school-related conference involving the employee’s dependent, is required that cannot be scheduled outside the employee duty day, or when an employee attending in-service or college classes needs reasonable commuting time, an employee may be allowed to leave at the end of the regular student day, provided acceptable arrangements to accommodate duty or other school activities have been made and are communicated.
c. When a personal emergency results in an employee either having to arrive late or leave early, the employee shall be charged with appropriate leave, only when the absence exceeds one-quarter day and/or requires the use of a substitute.
d. No teacher shall be assigned responsibility for students for more than three continuous hours.
e. Except as may be provided elsewhere in this Contract, assigned instructional responsibility shall be based upon approximately 25.5 hours per week, except in post-secondary schools and Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten classes where it shall be based upon no more than 30 hours per week. In the secondary schools, assignments to a supervised study hall or non-compensated extra-curricular activity during school hours shall be considered assigned instructional responsibility, however passing time shall not.
f. In the event supervision of students, both within and/or outside of the regular student day, is required, assignments shall be rotated on an equitable basis to the extent possible.
g. Administrators will cooperate with employees in making arrangements for a break in either the morning or afternoon. Employees needing to use the restroom may call the office at any time of the day to receive relief without a delay.
h. Elementary teachers shall have an average daily planning time of 60 minutes, at least 45 of which shall be contiguous. Middle and high school teachers shall have a contiguous daily planning time equal to a student academic period or 50 minutes, whichever is less. The parties recognize that in some cases, contiguous planning time may need to be temporarily adjusted due to unanticipated circumstances. Post-secondary teachers shall have an average daily planning time of at least 50 minutes, at least 35 of which shall be contiguous. Planning time shall be used for purposes of preparation, which may also include conferences with parents, administrators, or other teachers, and/or giving special assistance to students. A teacher shall not be restricted to remain in a particular area of the school during his/her planning time; however, this provision does not apply to common planning time. A reasonable effort shall be made by the administrator to provide a special area for planning. Schools shall provide a common planning time once a week for instruction. Teachers who assume additional teaching or duty assignments or have rotational assigned supervision during the student day may not necessarily be guaranteed the planning time outlined above.
C. The Board agrees to provide substitute teachers for art, music, and physical education teachers and media specialists. No teacher shall be used as a substitute for another teacher except in cases of emergency or unforeseen circumstances. The District shall maintain a substitute pool for the filling of vacancies due to absenteeism. The District will provide a long-term certified substitute for non-classroom certified personnel who are on a long-term leave, where possible. Upon written request from the Union, the District will notify the Union of the reason for not providing a long-term certified substitute within twenty (20) duty days of the written request.
1. In cases of non-emergency, teachers cannot be required to substitute for another teacher. In cases of emergency, teachers may be required to substitute for another teacher, however, classified staff and non-classroom teachers should be used to cover classes prior to resorting to splitting classes.
2. The definition of emergency is a sudden unexpected happening; an unforeseen occurrence or condition; perplexing contingency or complication of circumstances; a sudden or unexpected occasion for action; exigency; pressing necessity. Emergency is an unforeseen combination of circumstances that calls for immediate action without time for full deliberation. Examples include, but are not limited to, a sudden unexpected and severe medical event at school, or when a teacher has a family crisis during the school day requiring his/her immediate attention.
3. It is not an emergency when:
a. a teacher arrives late due to reasons such as illness, car problems, or traffic and misses less than a quarter day of work;
b. a teacher needs one or two periods of class coverage to attend meetings on campus and other events, such as picture days, awards ceremonies and giving guest lectures in colleagues’ classes;
c. a teacher leaves early due to a doctor’s appointment;
d. a Kelly Services substitute arrives after the start of a work day; or
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Duty Day. A. Except as otherwise provided in this Contract, the employee duty day shall be seven hours and 30 minutes including a duty-free lunch, or 37 ½ hours per week total.
B. As part of an ongoing program of school improvement, and in recognition of individual schools’ needs to be given increased responsibility for site-based decision making, the parties agree to the following relating to the employee duty day:
1. The duly elected Faculty Advisory Committee and the administrator, with input from the school staff may mutually agree on scheduling arrangements for teachers to include, teaching load(s), student contact time, planning time, duty time, extended-duty assignments, compensatory time, coverage of classes in lieu of using substitutes, scheduling of elementary teachers, the use of flexible time blocks, common planning time, end of course testing schedules, scheduling of special area teachers and the implementation of any mandated school wide programs which affect any of the provisions found in this article. At the end of each school year, each teacher may submit scheduling preferences for elementary special area teachers to this process for consideration.
2. Such agreements shall be conditioned upon a majority vote of support by secret ballot of those voting from the faculty, reduced to writing and distributed to each teacher at the school. The agreement(s) shall remain in effect until the end of the school year. The FAC shall conduct the election. The faculty shall receive notice of the election in writing at least two duty days prior to the voting. The voting period shall extend for up to two duty days. The most senior Association Representative shall be present at ballot counting. If there is no Association Representative, the administrator shall contact the Association President/designee prior to the ballot counting so that s/he may be present to observe.
3. In the absence of mutual agreement, the following provisions shall apply to those areas where such agreement cannot be reached:
a. When an emergency situation arises, an extended duty assignment beyond the regular duty day may be made. When such becomes necessary, volunteers shall be sought first. If no one volunteers, consideration shall be given to the employees’ personal commitments which cannot be rescheduled. Employees so assigned shall be allowed to take an equal amount of time off during non-student contact time, within ten duty days or at a time mutually agreeable between the teacher and thethe principal. Employees may receive time off for voluntarily participating in school activities occurring outside of their regular workday.
b. When a medical or legal appointment involving the employee or a member of his/her immediate family, or a school-related conference involving the employee’s dependent, is required that cannot be scheduled outside the employee duty day, or when an employee attending in-service or college classes needs reasonable commuting time, an employee may be allowed to leave at the end of the regular student day, provided acceptable arrangements to accommodate duty or other school activities have been made and are communicated.
c. When a personal emergency results in an employee either having to arrive late or leave early, the employee shall be charged with appropriate leave, only when the absence exceeds one-quarter day and/or requires the use of a substitute.
d. No teacher shall be assigned responsibility for students for more than three continuous hours.
e. Except as may be provided elsewhere in this Contract, assigned instructional responsibility shall be based upon approximately 25.5 hours per week, except in post-secondary schools and Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten classes where it shall be based upon no more than 30 hours per week. In the secondary schools, assignments to a supervised study hall or non-compensated extra-curricular activity during school hours shall be considered assigned instructional responsibility, however passing time shall not.
f. In the event supervision of students, both within and/or outside of the regular student day, is required, assignments shall be rotated on an equitable basis to the extent possible.
g. Administrators will cooperate with employees in making arrangements for a break in either the morning or afternoon.
h. Elementary teachers shall have an average daily planning time of 60 minutes, at least 45 of which shall be contiguous. Middle and high school teachers shall have a contiguous daily planning time equal to a student academic period or 50 minutes, whichever is less. The parties recognize that in some cases, contiguous planning time may need to be temporarily adjusted due to unanticipated circumstances. Post-secondary teachers shall have an average daily planning time of at least 50 minutes. Planning time shall be used for purposes of preparation, which may also include conferences with parents, administrators, or other teachers, and/or giving special assistance to students. A teacher shall not be restricted to remain in a particular area of the school during his/her planning time; however, this provision does not apply to common planning time. A reasonable effort shall be made by the administrator to provide a special area for planning. Schools shall provide a common planning time once a week for instruction. Teachers who assume additional teaching or duty assignments or have rotational assigned supervision during the student day may not necessarily be guaranteed the planning time outlined above.
C. The Board agrees to provide substitute teachers for art, music, and physical education teachers and media specialists. No teacher shall be used as a substitute for another teacher except in cases of emergency or unforeseen circumstances. The District shall maintain a substitute pool for the filling of vacancies due to absenteeism.
D. Media centers in all schools shall observe a flexible schedule.
E. The Board shall encourage class sizes consistent with District goals, the nature of different subject matter, instructional objectives, the requirements of different instructional processes, the capacities of the physical facilities, state laws and regulations, and the special needs of students.
1. If an individual teacher feels a class has an excessive number of students, s/he may request a meeting with the administrator who will discuss the issue with the teacher and attempt to resolve it.
2. If the matter cannot be resolved within two weeks at the school level, it shall be referred by the administrator to the appropriate associate superintendent who will within two weeks assess the situation and make a final decision as to whether an adjustment in class size should be made. Said decision will be communicated to the teacher and will state the reasons.
3. If district-wide ratios for students to social workers not assigned to schools exceed the prior year’s ratio, the designated lead social workers may request a meeting with the Superintendent or designee to discuss the issues and attempt to resolve them.
F. Employees shall check (√) in and out upon arrival and departure from their work site.
G. On the day before a scheduled holiday, the employee duty day shall end at the close of the student day. Non-school based personnel may leave 30 minutes before the end of their regular day. If the day before the Winter and/or Spring Holiday period for school based teachers is a non-student contact day, it shall be 6.5 hours in length.
H. The parties recognize the importance of employees’ participation in school-related activities, such as open house, PTA, and other school functions, which occur outside of normal working hours and flex time may be used for affected teachers. The administrator may require attendance at the school’s annual open house.
I. On election days, employees whose duty day usually begins 45 minutes or more before the student day who wish to vote before the duty day begins, may opt for reporting to work 15 minutes before the student day. In the alternative, employees may leave at the end of the student day for purposes of voting.
X. Xx employee, other than an itinerant employee, who is required to leave his/her work site in the performance of assigned duties, shall leave with his/her administrator a daily itinerary, so that the employee can be reached throughout the duty day. An itinerant employee shall provide a weekly schedule to the administrator of each school s/he serves during the week. The schedule shall include a duty-free lunch, planning time (if applicable) and travel time. Each itinerant teacher shall be assigned a private space to provide instruction.
K. Employees may, with the approval of the administrator, take part in activities outside the school building which are of interest to their present and prospective students. These activities shall include, but are not limited to, liaison activities with community and social agencies, vocational/educational guidance workshops, parental contact, exceptional education home visits, and job and educational placement activities.
L. Middle and senior high school teachers shall not be required to teach more than two subject areas.
M. Employees shall be scheduled for a minimum of 25 minutes for lunch, which shall be within the scheduled lunch periods for students except on field trips on in unplanned emergencies. On student contact days, in work locations where there is no lunchroom or in job assignments which permit flexible lunch schedules, an employee may be given approximately one hour for lunch by mutual agreement with his/her administrator. In such cases, the workday for the employee may be proportionately extended to provide for equity with other employees, without violating this Contract. On any non-student contact day, employees shall have a lunch period of one hour which may be off site.
N. An employee may leave the work site, upon receiving permission, during his /her planning time and duty-free lunch. No reasonable request shall be denied.
O. When post –secondary courses are taught in three-hour blocks and students are given a break, teachers shall be entitled to the same break.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Duty Day. A. Except as otherwise provided in this Contract, the employee duty day shall be seven hours and 30 minutes including a duty-free lunch, or 37 ½ hours per week total.
B. As part of an ongoing program of school improvement, and in recognition of individual schools’ needs to be given increased responsibility for site-based decision making, the parties agree to the following relating to the employee duty day:
1. The duly elected Faculty Advisory Committee and the administrator, with input from the school staff may mutually agree on scheduling arrangements for teachers to include, teaching load(s), student contact time, planning time, duty time, extended-duty assignments, compensatory time, coverage of classes in lieu of using substitutes, scheduling of elementary teachers, the use of flexible time blocks, common planning time, end of course testing schedules, scheduling of special area teachers and the implementation of any mandated school wide programs which affect any of the provisions found in this article. At the end of each school year, each teacher may submit scheduling preferences for elementary special area teachers to this process for consideration.
2. Such agreements shall be conditioned upon a majority vote of support by secret ballot of those voting from the faculty, reduced to writing and distributed to each teacher at the school. The agreement(s) shall remain in effect until the end of the school year. The FAC shall conduct the election. The faculty shall receive notice of the election in writing at least two duty days prior to the voting. The voting period shall extend for up to two duty days. The most senior Association Representative shall be present at ballot counting. If there is no Association Representative, the administrator shall contact the Association President/designee prior to the ballot counting so that s/he may be present to observe.
3. In the absence of mutual agreement, the following provisions shall apply to those areas where such agreement cannot be reached:
a. When an emergency situation arises, an extended duty assignment beyond the regular duty day may be made. When such becomes necessary, volunteers shall be sought first. If no one volunteers, consideration shall be given to the employees’ personal commitments which cannot be rescheduled. Employees so assigned shall be allowed to take an equal amount of time off during non-student contact time, within ten duty days or at a time mutually agreeable between the teacher and thethe principal. Employees may receive time off for voluntarily participating in school activities occurring outside of their regular workday.
b. When a medical or legal appointment involving the employee or a member of his/her immediate family, or a school-related conference involving the employee’s dependent, is required that cannot be scheduled outside the employee duty day, or when an employee attending in-service or college classes needs reasonable commuting time, an employee may be allowed to leave at the end of the regular student day, provided acceptable arrangements to accommodate duty or other school activities have been made and are communicated.
c. When a personal emergency results in an employee either having to arrive late or leave early, the employee shall be charged with appropriate leave, only when the absence exceeds one-quarter day and/or requires the use of a substitute.
d. No teacher shall be assigned responsibility for students for more than three continuous hours.
e. Except as may be provided elsewhere in this Contract, assigned instructional responsibility shall be based upon approximately 25.5 hours per week, except in post-secondary schools and Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten classes where it shall be based upon no more than 30 hours per week. In the secondary schools, assignments to a supervised study hall or non-compensated extra-curricular activity during school hours shall be considered assigned instructional responsibility, however passing time shall not.
f. In the event supervision of students, both within and/or outside of the regular student day, is required, assignments shall be rotated on an equitable basis to the extent possible.
g. Administrators will cooperate with employees in making arrangements for a break in either the morning or afternoon.
h. Elementary teachers shall have an average daily planning time of 60 minutes, at least 45 of which shall be contiguous. Middle and high school teachers shall have a contiguous daily planning time equal to a student academic period or 50 minutes, whichever is less. The parties recognize that in some cases, contiguous planning time may need to be temporarily adjusted due to unanticipated circumstances. Post-secondary teachers shall have an average daily planning time of at least 50 minutes. Planning time shall be used for purposes of preparation, which may also include conferences with parents, administrators, or other teachers, and/or giving special assistance to students. A teacher shall not be restricted to remain in a particular area of the school during his/her planning time; however, this provision does not apply to common planning time. A reasonable effort shall be made by the administrator to provide a special area for planning. Schools shall provide a common planning time once a week for instruction. Teachers who assume additional teaching or duty assignments or have rotational assigned supervision during the student day may not necessarily be guaranteed the planning time outlined above.
C. The Board agrees to provide substitute teachers for art, music, and physical education teachers and media specialists. No teacher shall be used as a substitute for another teacher except in cases of emergency or unforeseen circumstances. The District shall maintain a substitute pool for the filling of vacancies due to absenteeism.
D. Media centers in all schools shall observe a flexible schedule.
E. The Board shall encourage class sizes consistent with District goals, the nature of different subject matter, instructional objectives, the requirements of different instructional processes, the capacities of the physical facilities, state laws and regulations, and the special needs of students.
1. If an individual teacher feels a class has an excessive number of students, s/he may request a meeting with the administrator who will discuss the issue with the teacher and attempt to resolve it.
2. If the matter cannot be resolved within two weeks at the school level, it shall be referred by the administrator to the appropriate associate superintendent who will within two weeks assess the situation and make a final decision as to whether an adjustment in class size should be made. Said decision will be communicated to the teacher and will state the reasons.
3. If district-wide ratios for students to social workers not assigned to schools exceed the prior year’s ratio, the designated lead social workers may request a meeting with the Superintendent or designee to discuss the issues and attempt to resolve them.
4. If the district-wide ratios for students to school psychologists not assigned to schools exceed the prior year’s ratio, the designated lead school psychologist may request a meeting with the Superintendent or designee to discuss the issues and attempt to resolve them.
F. Employees shall check (√) in and out upon arrival and departure from their work site.
G. On the day before a scheduled holiday, the employee duty day shall end at the close of the student day. Non-school based personnel may leave 30 minutes before the end of their regular day. If the day before the Winter and/or Spring Holiday period for school based teachers is a non-student contact day, it shall be 6.5 hours in length.
H. The parties recognize the importance of employees’ participation in school-related activities, such as open house, PTA, and other school functions, which occur outside of normal working hours and flex time may be used for affected teachers. The administrator may require attendance at the school’s annual open house.
I. On election days, employees whose duty day usually begins 45 minutes or more before the student day who wish to vote before the duty day begins, may opt for reporting to work 15 minutes before the student day. In the alternative, employees may leave at the end of the student day for purposes of voting.
J. An employee, other than an itinerant employee, who is required to leave his/her work site in the performance of assigned duties, shall leave with his/her administrator a daily itinerary, so that the employee can be reached throughout the duty day. An itinerant employee shall provide a weekly schedule to the administrator of each school s/he serves during the week. The schedule shall include a duty-free lunch, planning time (if applicable) and travel time. Each itinerant teacher shall be assigned a private space to provide instruction.
K. Employees may, with the approval of the administrator, take part in activities outside the school building which are of interest to their present and prospective students. These activities shall include, but are not limited to, liaison activities with community and social agencies, vocational/educational guidance workshops, parental contact, exceptional education home visits, and job and educational placement activities.
L. Middle and senior high school teachers shall not be required to teach more than two subject areas.
M. Employees shall be scheduled for a minimum of 25 minutes for lunch, which shall be within the scheduled lunch periods for students except on field trips on in unplanned emergencies. On student contact days, in work locations where there is no lunchroom or in job assignments which permit flexible lunch schedules, an employee may be given approximately one hour for lunch by mutual agreement with his/her administrator. In such cases, the workday for the employee may be proportionately extended to provide for equity with other employees, without violating this Contract. On any non-student contact day, employees shall have a lunch period of one hour which may be off site.
N. An employee may leave the work site, upon receiving permission, during his /her planning time and duty-free lunch. No reasonable request shall be denied.
O. When post –secondary courses are taught in three-hour blocks and students are given a break, teachers shall be entitled to the same break.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Duty Day. A. Except as otherwise provided in this Contract, the employee duty day shall be seven hours and 30 minutes including a duty-free lunch, or 37 ½ hours per week total.
B. As part of an ongoing program of school improvement, and in recognition of individual schools’ needs to be given increased responsibility for site-based decision making, the parties agree to the following relating to the employee duty day:
1. The duly elected Faculty Advisory Committee and the administrator, with input from the school staff may staff, shall mutually agree on scheduling arrangements for teachers to include, but not be limited to, teaching load(s), student contact time, planning time, duty time, middle school IMPACT classes, extended-duty assignments, compensatory time, coverage of classes in lieu of using substitutes, scheduling of elementary teachers, the use of flexible time blocks, common planning time, end of course testing schedules, scheduling of special area teachers and the implementation of any mandated school wide programs which affect any of the provisions found in this article. At the end of each school year, each teacher may submit scheduling preferences for elementary special area teachers to this process for consideration.
2. Such agreements shall be conditioned upon a 60% majority vote of support by secret ballot of those voting from the faculty, reduced to writing and distributed annually to each teacher at on the schoolschool staff with a copy to the Association. The agreement(s) shall remain in effect until the end of the school year. The FAC shall conduct the election. The faculty shall receive notice of the election in writing at least two duty days prior to the voting. The voting period shall extend for up to two duty days. The most senior Association Representative shall be present at ballot counting. If there is no Association Representative, the administrator shall contact the Association President/designee prior to the ballot counting so that s/he may be present to observea 60% majority vote of support for a change.
3. In the absence of mutual agreement, the following provisions shall apply to those areas where such agreement cannot be reached:
a. When an emergency situation arises, an extended duty assignment beyond the regular duty day may be made. When such becomes necessary, volunteers shall be sought first. If no one volunteers, consideration shall be given to the employees’ personal commitments which cannot be rescheduled. Employees so assigned shall be allowed to take an equal amount of time off during non-student contact time, within ten duty days or at a time mutually agreeable between the teacher and thethe principal. Employees may receive time off for voluntarily participating in school activities occurring outside of their regular workday.
b. When a medical or legal appointment involving the employee or a member of his/her immediate family, or a school-related conference involving the employee’s dependent, is required that cannot be scheduled outside the employee duty day, or when an employee attending in-service or college classes needs reasonable commuting time, an employee may be allowed to leave at the end of the regular student day, provided acceptable arrangements to accommodate duty or other school activities have been made and are communicated.
c. When a personal emergency results in an employee either having to arrive late or leave early, the employee shall be charged with appropriate leave, only when the absence exceeds one-quarter day and/or requires the use of a substitute.
d. No teacher shall be assigned responsibility for students for more than three continuous hours.
e. Except as may be provided elsewhere in this Contract, assigned instructional responsibility shall be based upon approximately 25.5 hours per week, except in post-secondary schools where it shall be based upon no more than 30 hours per week. In the secondary schools, assignments to a supervised study hall or non- compensated extra-curricular activity during school hours shall be considered assigned instructional responsibility, however passing time shall not.
f. In the event supervision of students, both within and/or outside of the regular student day, is required, assignments shall be rotated on an equitable basis to the extent possible.
g. Administrators will cooperate with employees in making arrangements for a break in either the morning or afternoon.
h. Elementary teachers shall have an average daily planning time of 60 minutes, at least 45 of which shall be contiguous. Middle and high school teachers shall have a contiguous daily planning time equal to a student academic period or 50 minutes, whichever is less. The parties recognize that in some cases, contiguous planning time may need to be temporarily adjusted due to unanticipated circumstances. Post-secondary teachers shall have an average daily planning time of at least 50 minutes. Planning time shall be used for purposes of preparation, which may also include conferences with parents, administrators, or other teachers, and/or giving special assistance to students. A teacher shall not be restricted to remain in a particular area of the school during his/her planning time. A reasonable effort shall be made by the administrator to provide a special area for planning. Schools shall be encouraged to provide a common planning time once a week for instructional teams. Teachers who assume additional teaching or duty assignments or have rotational assigned supervision during the student day may not necessarily be guaranteed the planning time outlined above.
C. The Board agrees to provide substitute teachers for art, music, and physical education teachers and media specialists. No teacher shall be used as a substitute for another teacher except in cases of emergency or unforeseen circumstances. The District shall maintain a substitute pool for the filling of vacancies due to absenteeism.
D. Media centers in all schools shall observe a flexible schedule.
E. The Board shall encourage class sizes consistent with District goals, the nature of different subject matter, instructional objectives, the requirements of different instructional processes, the capacities of the physical facilities, state laws and regulations, and the special needs of students.
1. If an individual teacher feels a class has an excessive number of students, s/he may request a meeting with the administrator who will discuss the issue with the teacher and attempt to resolve it.
2. If the matter cannot be resolved within two weeks at the school level, it shall be referred by the administrator to the appropriate associate superintendent who will within two weeks assess the situation and make a final decision as to whether an adjustment in class size should be made. Said decision will be communicated to the teacher and will state the reasons.
F. Employees shall check ( ) in and out upon arrival and departure from their work site.
G. On the day before a scheduled holiday, the employee duty day shall end at the close of the student day. Non-school based personnel may leave 30 minutes before the end of their regular day. If the day before the Winter and/or Spring Holiday period for school based teachers is a non student contact day, it shall be 6.5 hours in length.
H. The parties recognize the importance of employees’ participation in school-related activities, such as open house, PTA, and other school functions, which occur outside of normal working hours. The administrator may require attendance at the school’s annual open house, utilizing flex time for affected teachers.
I. On election days, employees whose duty day usually begins 45 minutes or more before the student day who wish to vote before the duty day begins, may opt for reporting to work 15 minutes before the student day. In the alternative, employees may leave at the end of the student day for purposes of voting.
X. Xx employee, other than an itinerant employee, who is required to leave his/her work site in the performance of assigned duties, shall leave with his/her administrator a daily itinerary, so that the employee can be reached throughout the duty day. An itinerant employee shall provide a weekly schedule to the administrator of each school s/he serves during the week. The schedule shall include a duty-free lunch, planning time (if applicable) and travel time. Each itinerant teacher shall be assigned a private space to provide instruction.
K. Employees may, with the approval of the administrator, take part in activities outside the school building which are of interest to their present and prospective students. These activities shall include, but are not limited to, liaison activities with community and social agencies, vocational/educational guidance workshops, parental contact, exceptional education home visits, and job and educational placement activities.
L. Middle and senior high school teachers shall not be required to teach more than two subject areas.
M. Employees shall be scheduled for a minimum of 25 minutes for lunch, which shall be within the scheduled lunch periods for students except on field trips on in unplanned emergencies. On student contact days, in work locations where there is no lunchroom or in job assignments which permit flexible lunch schedules, an employee may be given approximately one hour for lunch by mutual agreement with his/her administrator. In such cases, the workday for the employee may be proportionately extended to provide for equity with other employees, without violating this Contract. On any non-student contact day, employees shall have a lunch period of one hour which may be off site.
N. An employee may leave the work site, upon receiving permission, during his /her planning time and duty-free lunch. No reasonable request shall be denied.
O. When post-secondary courses are taught in three-hour blocks and students are given a break, teachers shall be entitled to the same break. In schools where administrators have not been able to facilitate breaks, teachers may utilize at least ten minutes of their planning time or a reasonable amount of student passing time as a duty-free break.
P. Irregular Scheduling
1. The parties recognize that certain post-secondary, district-level and/or special programs may require variations in scheduling. Such irregular scheduling shall be voluntary and may be used when insufficient student enrollment exists, based on current program standards, to justify a regular assignment of an employee.
a. Current program standards shall be a minimum of ten students in vocational and 16 students in adult general education classes. Exceptions to the current standards may be considered on an individual program basis.
b. When a need for an irregular schedule exists, the administrator shall meet with the affected employee at least ten duty days prior to said assignment. Volunteers shall be sought first. When certification and job experience are equal, preference shall be given to the most senior employee who volunteers. If no volunteers are available, then the administrator shall select the least senior qualified employee eligible for a teaching assignment in the affected area. The affected employee may request a review of other options which might modify the need for split shifts.
c. An employee who is assigned an irregular schedule shall be informed of the reason for and the specific duration of the assignment. Within 45 student contact days, the program will be re-evaluated. The duration may be extended because of specific program needs for the remainder of the school year. There shall be no expectation of such extended hours from year to year. If sufficient enrollment then exists, the employee shall be returned to a regular schedule.
2. Employees other than those on split shifts, who work flexible hours within the regular work day shall be given compensatory time so that they do not work in excess of 37½ hours per week. If the work week is extended beyond 37½ hours in order not to disrupt the quality of a program, the excess hours shall be accrued under the provisions of Section B.3.a.
Q. Required meetings or other required activities relating to the Teacher Induction Program normally shall not be scheduled so as to infringe upon teacher planning time or lunch of either the peer teacher or the beginning teacher. Arrangements shall be made to relieve these teachers of student contact time or other required duties for a period equal to that utilized in required meetings or activities relating to the Teacher Induction Program.
R. If district-wide committees/task forces or School Advisory Councils on which teachers serve, schedule their meetings during a part of or all of the duty day, teachers shall be given release time to attend.
S. Workdays shall be used primarily for grading and planning, and other requirements shall not exceed approximately one hour. Grades shall not be required more than one hour prior to the close of the day.
T. Teachers shall attend faculty meetings as called by the administrator. Any meetings called to solicit funds from teachers shall be pre-announced as to the meeting’s purpose and teacher attendance shall be voluntary. Faculty meetings shall be called for specific reasons, and except during preplanning and post-planning, shall not exceed approximately one hour per week except for emergencies. Scheduled faculty meetings during preplanning will be reasonable in length so as not to significantly impede the teachers’ time for preparation for the coming school year.
U. Physical education teachers who are routinely responsible for multiple classes and are regularly provided assistance shall be assured of similar support in the event of absenteeism.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Duty Day. A. Except as otherwise provided in this Contract, the employee duty day shall be seven hours and 30 minutes including a duty-free lunch, or 37 ½ hours per week total.
B. As part of an ongoing program of school improvement, and in recognition of individual schools’ needs to be given increased responsibility for site-based decision making, the parties agree to the following relating to the employee duty day:
1. The duly elected Faculty Advisory Committee and the administrator, with input from the school staff may mutually agree on scheduling arrangements for teachers to include, teaching load(s), student contact time, planning time, duty time, extended-extended- duty assignments, compensatory time, coverage of classes in lieu of using substitutes, scheduling of elementary teachers, the use of flexible time blocks, common planning time, end of course testing schedules, scheduling of special area teachers and the implementation of any mandated school wide programs which affect any of the provisions found in this article. At the end of each school year, each teacher may submit scheduling preferences for elementary special area teachers to this process for consideration.
2. Such agreements shall be conditioned upon a majority vote of support by secret ballot of those voting from the faculty, reduced to writing and distributed to each teacher at the school. The agreement(s) shall remain in effect until the end of the school year. The FAC shall conduct the election. The faculty shall receive notice of the election in writing at least two duty days prior to the voting. The voting period shall extend for up to two duty days. The most senior Association Representative shall be present at ballot counting. If there is no Association Representative, the administrator shall contact the Association President/designee President prior to the ballot counting so that s/he may be present to observe.
3. In the absence of mutual agreement, the following provisions shall apply to those areas where such agreement cannot be reached:
a. When an emergency situation arises, an extended duty assignment beyond the regular duty day may be made. When such becomes necessary, volunteers shall be sought first. If no one volunteers, consideration shall be given to the employees’ personal commitments which cannot be rescheduled. Employees so assigned shall be allowed to take an equal amount of time off during non-student contact time, within ten duty days or at a time mutually agreeable between the teacher and thethe principal. Employees may receive time off for voluntarily participating in school activities occurring outside of their regular workday.
b. When a medical or legal appointment involving the employee or a member of his/her immediate family, or a school-related conference involving the employee’s dependent, is required that cannot be scheduled outside the employee duty day, or when an employee attending in-service or college classes needs reasonable commuting time, an employee may be allowed to leave at the end of the regular student day, provided acceptable arrangements to accommodate duty or other school activities have been made and are communicated.
c. When a personal emergency results in an employee either having to arrive late or leave early, the employee shall be charged with appropriate leave, only when the absence exceeds one-quarter day and/or requires the use of a substitute.
d. No teacher shall be assigned responsibility for students for more than three continuous hours.
e. Except as may be provided elsewhere in this Contract, assigned instructional responsibility shall be based upon approximately 25.5 hours per week, except in post-secondary schools and Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten classes where it shall be based upon no more than 30 hours per week. In the secondary schools, assignments to a supervised study hall or non-compensated extra-curricular activity during school hours shall be considered assigned instructional responsibility, however passing time shall not.
f. In the event supervision of students, both within and/or outside of the regular student day, is required, assignments shall be rotated on an equitable basis to the extent possible.
g. Administrators will cooperate with employees in making arrangements for a break in either the morning or afternoon.
h. Elementary teachers shall have an average daily planning time of 60 minutes, at least 45 of which shall be contiguous. Middle and high school teachers shall have a contiguous daily planning time equal to a student academic period or 50 minutes, whichever is less. The parties recognize that in some cases, contiguous planning time may need to be temporarily adjusted due to unanticipated circumstances. Post-secondary teachers shall have an average daily planning time of at least 50 minutes. Planning time shall be used for purposes of preparation, which may also include conferences with parents, administrators, or other teachers, and/or giving special assistance to students. A teacher shall not be restricted to remain in a particular area of the school during his/her planning time; however, this provision does not apply to common planning time. A reasonable effort shall be made by the administrator to provide a special area for planning. Schools shall provide a common planning time once a week for instruction. Teachers who assume additional teaching or duty assignments or have rotational assigned supervision during the student day may not necessarily be guaranteed the planning time outlined above.
C. The Board agrees to provide substitute teachers for art, music, and physical education teachers and media specialists. No teacher shall be used as a substitute for another teacher except in cases of emergency or unforeseen circumstances. The District shall maintain a substitute pool for the filling of vacancies due to absenteeism.
D. Media centers in all schools shall observe a flexible schedule.
E. The Board shall encourage class sizes consistent with District goals, the nature of different subject matter, instructional objectives, the requirements of different instructional processes, the capacities of the physical facilities, state laws and regulations, and the special needs of students.
1. If an individual teacher feels a class has an excessive number of students, s/he may request a meeting with the administrator who will discuss the issue with the teacher and attempt to resolve it.
2. If the matter cannot be resolved within two weeks at the school level, it shall be referred by the administrator to the appropriate associate superintendent who will within two weeks assess the situation and make a final decision as to whether an adjustment in class size should be made. Said decision will be communicated to the teacher and will state the reasons.
3. If district-wide ratios for students to social workers not assigned to schools exceed the prior year’s ratio, the designated lead social workers may request a meeting with the Superintendent or designee to discuss the issues and attempt to resolve them.
F. Employees shall check (√) in and out upon arrival and departure from their work site.
G. On the day before a scheduled holiday, the employee duty day shall end at the close of the student day. Non-school based personnel may leave 30 minutes before the end of their regular day. If the day before the Winter and/or Spring Holiday period for school based teachers is a non-student contact day, it shall be 6.5 hours in length.
H. The parties recognize the importance of employees’ participation in school-related activities, such as open house, PTA, and other school functions, which occur outside of normal working hours and flex time may be used for affected teachers. The administrator may require attendance at the school’s annual open house.
I. On election days, employees whose duty day usually begins 45 minutes or more before the student day who wish to vote before the duty day begins, may opt for reporting to work 15 minutes before the student day. In the alternative, employees may leave at the end of the student day for purposes of voting.
J. An employee, other than an itinerant employee, who is required to leave his/her work site in the performance of assigned duties, shall leave with his/her administrator a daily itinerary, so that the employee can be reached throughout the duty day. An itinerant employee shall provide a weekly schedule to the administrator of each school s/he serves during the week. The schedule shall include a duty-free lunch, planning time (if applicable) and travel time. Each itinerant teacher shall be assigned a private space to provide instruction.
K. Employees may, with the approval of the administrator, take part in activities outside the school building which are of interest to their present and prospective students. These activities shall include, but are not limited to, liaison activities with community and social agencies, vocational/educational guidance workshops, parental contact, exceptional education home visits, and job and educational placement activities.
L. Middle and senior high school teachers shall not be required to teach more than two subject areas.
M. Employees shall be scheduled for a minimum of 25 minutes for lunch, which shall be within the scheduled lunch periods for students except on field trips on in unplanned emergencies. On student contact days, in work locations where there is no lunchroom or in job assignments which permit flexible lunch schedules, an employee may be given approximately one hour for lunch by mutual agreement with his/her administrator. In such cases, the workday for the employee may be proportionately extended to provide for equity with other employees, without violating this Contract. On any non-student contact day, employees shall have a lunch period of one hour which may be off site.
N. An employee may leave the work site, upon receiving permission, during his /her planning time and duty-free lunch. No reasonable request shall be denied.
O. When post –secondary courses are taught in three-hour blocks and students are given a break, teachers shall be entitled to the same break.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Duty Day. A. Except as otherwise provided in this Contract, the employee duty day shall be seven hours and 30 minutes including a duty-free lunch, or 37 ½ hours per week total.
B. As part of an ongoing program of school improvement, and in recognition of individual schools’ needs to be given increased responsibility for site-based decision making, the parties agree to the following relating to the employee duty day:
1. The duly elected Faculty Advisory Committee and the administrator, with input from the school staff may staff, shall mutually agree on scheduling arrangements for teachers to include, but not be limited to, teaching load(s), student contact time, planning time, duty time, middle school IMPACT classes, extended-duty assignments, compensatory time, coverage of classes in lieu of using substitutes, scheduling of elementary teachers, the use of flexible time blocks, common planning time, end of course testing schedules, scheduling of special area teachers and the implementation of any mandated school wide programs which affect any of the provisions found in this article. At the end of each school year, each teacher may submit scheduling preferences for elementary special area teachers to this process for consideration.
2. Such agreements shall be conditioned upon a 60% majority vote of support by secret ballot of those voting from the faculty, reduced to writing and distributed annually to each teacher at on the schoolschool staff with a copy to the Association. The agreement(s) shall remain in effect until the end of the school year. The FAC shall conduct the election. The faculty shall receive notice of the election in writing at least two duty days prior to the voting. The voting period shall extend for up to two duty days. The most senior Association Representative shall be present at ballot counting. If there is no Association Representative, the administrator shall contact the Association President/designee prior to the ballot counting so that s/he may be present to observea 60% majority vote of support for a change.
3. In the absence of mutual agreement, the following provisions shall apply to those areas where such agreement cannot be reached:
a. When an emergency situation arises, an extended duty assignment beyond the regular duty day may be made. When such becomes necessary, volunteers shall be sought first. If no one volunteers, consideration shall be given to the employees’ personal commitments which cannot be rescheduled. Employees so assigned shall be allowed to take an equal amount of time off during non-student contact time, within ten duty days or at a time mutually agreeable between the teacher and thethe principal. Employees may receive time off for voluntarily participating in school activities occurring outside of their regular workday.
b. When a medical or legal appointment involving the employee or a member of his/her immediate family, or a school-related conference involving the employee’s dependent, is required that cannot be scheduled outside the employee duty day, or when an employee attending in-service or college classes needs reasonable commuting time, an employee may be allowed to leave at the end of the regular student day, provided acceptable arrangements to accommodate duty or other school activities have been made and are communicated.
c. When a personal emergency results in an employee either having to arrive late or leave early, the employee shall be charged with appropriate leave, only when the absence exceeds one-quarter day and/or requires the use of a substitute.
d. No teacher shall be assigned responsibility for students for more than three continuous hours.
e. Except as may be provided elsewhere in this Contract, assigned instructional responsibility shall be based upon approximately 25.5 hours per week, except in post-secondary schools where it shall be based upon no more than 30 hours per week. In the secondary schools, assignments to a supervised study hall or non- compensated extra-curricular activity during school hours shall be considered assigned instructional responsibility, however passing time shall not.
f. In the event supervision of students, both within and/or outside of the regular student day, is required, assignments shall be rotated on an equitable basis to the extent possible.
g. Administrators will cooperate with employees in making arrangements for a break in either the morning or afternoon.
h. Elementary teachers shall have an average daily planning time of 60 minutes, at least 45 of which shall be contiguous. Middle and high school teachers shall have a contiguous daily planning time equal to a student academic period or 50 minutes, whichever is less. The parties recognize that in some cases, contiguous planning time may need to be temporarily adjusted due to unanticipated circumstances. Post-secondary teachers shall have an average daily planning time of at least 50 minutes. Planning time shall be used for purposes of preparation, which may also include conferences with parents, administrators, or other teachers, and/or giving special assistance to students. A teacher shall not be restricted to remain in a particular area of the school during his/her planning time. A reasonable effort shall be made by the administrator to provide a special area for planning. Schools shall be encouraged to provide a common planning time once a week for instructional teams. Teachers who assume additional teaching or duty assignments or have rotational assigned supervision during the student day may not necessarily be guaranteed the planning time outlined above.
C. The Board agrees to provide substitute teachers for art, music, and physical education teachers and media specialists. No teacher shall be used as a substitute for another teacher except in cases of emergency or unforeseen circumstances. The District shall maintain a substitute pool for the filling of vacancies due to absenteeism.
D. Media centers in all schools shall observe a flexible schedule.
E. The Board shall encourage class sizes consistent with District goals, the nature of different subject matter, instructional objectives, the requirements of different instructional processes, the capacities of the physical facilities, state laws and regulations, and the special needs of students.
1. If an individual teacher feels a class has an excessive number of students, s/he may request a meeting with the administrator who will discuss the issue with the teacher and attempt to resolve it.
2. If the matter cannot be resolved within two weeks at the school level, it shall be referred by the administrator to the appropriate associate superintendent who will within two weeks assess the situation and make a final decision as to whether an adjustment in class size should be made. Said decision will be communicated to the teacher and will state the reasons.
F. Employees shall check () in and out upon arrival and departure from their work site.
G. On the day before a scheduled holiday, the employee duty day shall end at the close of the student day. Non-school based personnel may leave 30 minutes before the end of their regular day. If the day before the Winter and/or Spring Holiday period for school based teachers is a non student contact day, it shall be 6.5 hours in length.
H. The parties recognize the importance of employees’ participation in school-related activities, such as open house, PTA, and other school functions, which occur outside of normal working hours. The administrator may require attendance at the school’s annual open house, utilizing flex time for affected teachers.
I. On election days, employees whose duty day usually begins 45 minutes or more before the student day who wish to vote before the duty day begins, may opt for reporting to work 15 minutes before the student day. In the alternative, employees may leave at the end of the student day for purposes of voting.
J. An employee, other than an itinerant employee, who is required to leave his/her work site in the performance of assigned duties, shall leave with his/her administrator a daily itinerary, so that the employee can be reached throughout the duty day. An itinerant employee shall provide a weekly schedule to the administrator of each school s/he serves during the week. The schedule shall include a duty-free lunch, planning time (if applicable) and travel time. Each itinerant teacher shall be assigned a private space to provide instruction.
K. Employees may, with the approval of the administrator, take part in activities outside the school building which are of interest to their present and prospective students. These activities shall include, but are not limited to, liaison activities with community and social agencies, vocational/educational guidance workshops, parental contact, exceptional education home visits, and job and educational placement activities.
L. Middle and senior high school teachers shall not be required to teach more than two subject areas.
M. Employees shall be scheduled for a minimum of 25 minutes for lunch, which shall be within the scheduled lunch periods for students except on field trips on in unplanned emergencies. On student contact days, in work locations where there is no lunchroom or in job assignments which permit flexible lunch schedules, an employee may be given approximately one hour for lunch by mutual agreement with his/her administrator. In such cases, the workday for the employee may be proportionately extended to provide for equity with other employees, without violating this Contract. On any non-student contact day, employees shall have a lunch period of one hour which may be off site.
N. An employee may leave the work site, upon receiving permission, during his /her planning time and duty-free lunch. No reasonable request shall be denied.
O. When post-secondary courses are taught in three-hour blocks and students are given a break, teachers shall be entitled to the same break. In schools where administrators have not been able to facilitate breaks, teachers may utilize at least ten minutes of their planning time or a reasonable amount of student passing time as a duty-free break.
P. Irregular Scheduling
1. The parties recognize that certain post-secondary, district-level and/or special programs may require variations in scheduling. Such irregular scheduling shall be voluntary and may be used when insufficient student enrollment exists, based on current program standards, to justify a regular assignment of an employee.
a. Current program standards shall be a minimum of ten students in vocational and 16 students in adult general education classes. Exceptions to the current standards may be considered on an individual program basis.
b. When a need for an irregular schedule exists, the administrator shall meet with the affected employee at least ten duty days prior to said assignment. Volunteers shall be sought first. When certification and job experience are equal, preference shall be given to the most senior employee who volunteers. If no volunteers are available, then the administrator shall select the least senior qualified employee eligible for a teaching assignment in the affected area. The affected employee may request a review of other options which might modify the need for split shifts.
c. An employee who is assigned an irregular schedule shall be informed of the reason for and the specific duration of the assignment. Within 45 student contact days, the program will be re-evaluated. The duration may be extended because of specific program needs for the remainder of the school year. There shall be no expectation of such extended hours from year to year. If sufficient enrollment then exists, the employee shall be returned to a regular schedule.
2. Employees other than those on split shifts, who work flexible hours within the regular work day shall be given compensatory time so that they do not work in excess of 37½ hours per week. If the work week is extended beyond 37½ hours in order not to disrupt the quality of a program, the excess hours shall be accrued under the provisions of Section B.3.a.
Q. Required meetings or other required activities relating to the Teacher Induction Program normally shall not be scheduled so as to infringe upon teacher planning time or lunch of either the peer teacher or the beginning teacher. Arrangements shall be made to relieve these teachers of student contact time or other required duties for a period equal to that utilized in required meetings or activities relating to the Teacher Induction Program.
R. If district-wide committees/task forces or School Advisory Councils on which teachers serve, schedule their meetings during a part of or all of the duty day, teachers shall be given release time to attend.
S. Workdays shall be used primarily for grading and planning, and other requirements shall not exceed approximately one hour. Grades shall not be required more than one hour prior to the close of the day.
T. Teachers shall attend faculty meetings as called by the administrator. Any meetings called to solicit funds from teachers shall be pre-announced as to the meeting’s purpose and teacher attendance shall be voluntary. Faculty meetings shall be called for specific reasons, and except during preplanning and post-planning, shall not exceed approximately one hour per week except for emergencies. Scheduled faculty meetings during preplanning will be reasonable in length so as not to significantly impede the teachers’ time for preparation for the coming school year.
U. Physical education teachers who are routinely responsible for multiple classes and are regularly provided assistance shall be assured of similar support in the event of absenteeism.
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Duty Day. A. Except as otherwise provided in this Contract, the employee duty day shall be seven hours and 30 minutes including a duty-free lunch, or 37 ½ hours per week total.
B. As part of an ongoing program of school improvement, and in recognition of individual schools’ needs to be given increased responsibility for site-based decision making, the parties agree to the following relating to the employee duty day:
1. The duly elected Faculty Advisory Committee and the administrator, with input from the school staff may mutually agree on scheduling arrangements for teachers to include, teaching load(s), student contact time, planning time, duty time, extended-duty assignments, compensatory time, coverage of classes in lieu of using substitutes, scheduling of elementary teachers, the use of flexible time blocks, common planning time, end of course testing schedules, scheduling of special area teachers and the implementation of any mandated school wide programs which affect any of the provisions found in this article. At the end of each school year, each teacher may submit scheduling preferences for elementary special area teachers to this process for consideration.
2. Such agreements shall be conditioned upon a majority vote of support by secret ballot of those voting from the faculty, reduced to writing and distributed to each teacher at the school. The agreement(s) shall remain in effect until the end of the school year. The FAC shall conduct the election. The faculty shall receive notice of the election in writing at least two duty days prior to the voting. The voting period shall extend for up to two duty days. The most senior Association Representative shall be present at ballot counting. If there is no Association Representative, the administrator shall contact the Association President/designee President prior to the ballot counting so that s/he may be present to observe.
3. In the absence of mutual agreement, the following provisions shall apply to those areas where such agreement cannot be reached:
a. When an emergency situation arises, an extended duty assignment beyond the regular duty day may be made. When such becomes necessary, volunteers shall be sought first. If no one volunteers, consideration shall be given to the employees’ personal commitments which cannot be rescheduled. Employees so assigned shall be allowed to take an equal amount of time off during non-student contact time, within ten duty days or at a time mutually agreeable between the teacher and the
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Duty Day. A. Except as otherwise provided in this Contract, the employee The teacher duty day shall be seven 7 hours and 30 35 minutes, exclusive of the lunch period. Teachers shall be responsible for no more than 5 hours 45 minutes including a duty-free lunch, or 37 ½ hours of instructional time per week totalduty day.
B. As part Administrative staff may call the faculty to faculty meetings as it is deemed warranted but not excessively. Each meeting will not extend the professional duty day by more than thirty (30) minutes. Teachers will be compensated at the rate of an ongoing program twenty ($20) dollars per hour or fraction thereof for time when a faculty meeting exceeds the duty day by more than thirty (30) minutes.
C. In turn, once a month on the regularly scheduled Association meeting, all teachers will be required to stay only fifteen (15) minutes past the departure of students so that they may attend the Association meetings. The Teachers Association shall provide the meeting schedule to the superintendent prior to September 1 each school improvementyear. Changes may be made upon agreement of the superintendent.
D. Unless otherwise directed by administrative staff, and in recognition of individual schools’ needs to be given increased responsibility for site-based decision makingthe event that it is announced that school will start late, the parties agree duty day for each teacher shall begin one (1) hour prior to the following relating announced starting time and shall end 30 minutes after the student day based on the schedule established for that day.
E. The teacher’s duty day will include planning time equivalent to an average of 50 minutes per day during an instructional week.
F. For durations of one week or less, teachers may be asked by the employee duty day:
1. The duly elected Faculty Advisory Committee and administration to cover the administrator, with input from the school staff may mutually agree on scheduling arrangements for teachers to include, teaching load(s), student contact time, planning time, duty time, extended-duty assignments, compensatory time, coverage class of classes a colleague in lieu of using substitutes, scheduling of elementary teachersa planning period. If the teacher agrees to forego his/her planning period, the use teacher will be compensated at the rate of flexible time blocks$30 per class period.
G. When it is expected that a teacher will be teaching extra class(es) due to staff shortages, common planning the teacher will be compensated as indicated on the “extra assignment related to primary teaching area.” Teachers who teach extra class(es) due to staff shortages, instead of hiring additional staff, will be compensated at a rate of 1/6 of their own base contract daily rate per day for the length of the assignment.
H. Not more than 5 times per school year, classes will begin 2 hours late to allow for the staff to participate in planned staff development activities. Teachers shall report to work at the usual time, end and the activities shall conclude no later than 9:30 a.m., with the school day commencing at 10:00 a.m. These dates shall be determined through a dialogue with the teachers’ association, and be scheduled not later than September 1. Each teacher shall be notified in writing of course testing schedulesthe dates of the activities.
I. In the event that a major schedule change is proposed to the Board, scheduling the matter will be considered for first reading (information only) at a regularly scheduled Board of special area Education meeting. Any proposed changes to the length and number of class periods shall be provided to affected teachers and the implementation Association president at the same time the Board is delivered their official packet, prior to the Board meeting. Following the Board meeting in which the first reading was conducted, the Association shall conduct an election among the affected teachers. The proposed change shall be considered for final approval (action item) no earlier than the next regularly scheduled Board meeting to allow for input from affected teachers. The election shall be conducted by the Association in a manner identical to that used to ratify the Negotiated Agreement. All teachers who teach at least one class in the affected building will be considered eligible to vote. A list of any mandated school wide programs which affect any those who receive ballots will be maintained by the Association for not less than 3 years. Voting will be kept confidential. The President of the provisions found in this article. At Association will communicate the end of each school year, each teacher may submit scheduling preferences for elementary special area teachers to this process for consideration.
2. Such agreements shall be conditioned upon a majority vote of support by secret ballot of those voting from the faculty, reduced to writing and distributed to each teacher at the school. The agreement(s) shall remain in effect until the end results of the school year. The FAC shall conduct election to the Superintendent within 24 hours of the close of the election. The faculty shall receive notice In the event that 2/3 or more of the election in writing at least two duty days prior affected teachers indicate by written ballot that they are opposed to the voting. The voting period shall extend for up to two duty days. The most senior Association Representative shall be present at ballot counting. If there is no Association Representativesuggested change, the administrator shall contact change can only be made through negotiations with the Association President/designee prior to the ballot counting so that s/he may be present to observeTeachers Association.
3. In the absence of mutual agreement, the following provisions shall apply to those areas where such agreement cannot be reached:
a. When an emergency situation arises, an extended duty assignment beyond the regular duty day may be made. When such becomes necessary, volunteers shall be sought first. If no one volunteers, consideration shall be given to the employees’ personal commitments which cannot be rescheduled. Employees so assigned shall be allowed to take an equal amount of time off during non-student contact time, within ten duty days or at a time mutually agreeable between the teacher and the
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Duty Day. A. Except as otherwise provided in this Contract, (a) The length of the employee duty day workday for all full-time members of the unit shall be seven six (6) hours and 30 minutes including thirty (30) minutes, exclusive of a duty-duty free lunch, lunch period. The schedule for the workday shall be set by the principal or 37 ½ hours per week totalimmediate supervisor.
B. As part (b) Vanden teachers teach five (5) periods of an ongoing program instruction. Golden West teachers teach six (6) periods of school improvement, instruction.
(c) Vanden teachers who have a first period teaching assignment will not have a last period teaching assignment and in recognition of individual schools’ needs to be given increased responsibility for site-based decision making, vice versa unless mutually agreed upon by the parties agree to teacher and the following relating to the employee duty dayadministrator.
(d) Based on District need:
1. The duly elected Faculty Advisory Committee Secondary teachers may voluntarily teach one (1) additional section at a prorated per diem amount, not including any additional amounts for health and the administrator, with input from the school staff may mutually agree on scheduling arrangements for teachers to include, teaching load(s), student contact time, planning time, duty time, extended-duty assignments, compensatory time, coverage of classes welfare contributions or in lieu of using substitutes, scheduling of elementary teachers, the use of flexible time blocks, common planning time, end of course testing schedules, scheduling of special area teachers and the implementation of any mandated school wide programs which affect any of the provisions found in this article. At the end of each school year, each teacher may submit scheduling preferences for elementary special area teachers to this process for considerationamounts.
2. Such agreements All secondary teachers will be notified of the opportunity to volunteer for the additional sections by memo to their site mailbox. There shall be conditioned upon a majority vote of support by secret ballot of those voting from the faculty, reduced to writing and distributed to each teacher at the school. The agreement(s) shall remain in effect until the end of the school year. The FAC shall conduct the election. The faculty shall receive least two working days’ notice of the election in writing at least two duty days prior opportunity to the votingapply. The voting period notice shall extend for up include a statement to two duty days. The most senior Association Representative shall be present at ballot counting. If there is no Association Representative, notify prospective applicants of the administrator shall contact the Association President/designee prior to the ballot counting so that s/he may be present to observeSTRS limitations on such employment.
3. A list will be generated from those that volunteer and that list will be retained in the Principal’s Office for at least 3 years. A new list will be established at the beginning of each year.
4. Teachers will be selected from the list based upon possession of the appropriate credential(s), ability of the site master schedule to accommodate the section, experience of the teacher in that subject matter area, and other criteria stated by the site principal in the notice.
5. In the absence of mutual agreementsubsequent years, the following provisions shall apply to those areas where such agreement canotherwise qualified teachers who have not be reached:
a. When previously taught an emergency situation arises, an extended duty assignment beyond the regular duty day may be made. When such becomes necessary, volunteers shall be sought first. If no one volunteers, consideration additional section shall be given to the employees’ personal commitments which cannot be rescheduledpreference over those that have.
6. Employees so assigned The additional sections shall be allowed offered as one-semester contracts with no guarantee of subsequent sections in that year or any other year. In the event a qualified teacher is found during the semester, the contract will be cancelled immediately. These conditions of employment will be explained to take an equal amount all teachers who are offered extra sections.
7. It is the intent of time off during non-student contact timethe parties that such sections be used to accommodate unexpected growth, within ten duty days or at a time mutually agreeable between shortages in difficult to find subject areas, and short- term district needs. It is not the teacher and theintent that it be used to supplant the need for additional staffing.
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Duty Day. A. Except as otherwise provided in this Contract, the employee duty day shall be seven hours and 30 minutes including a duty-free lunch, or 37 ½ hours per week total.
B. As part of an ongoing program of school improvement, and in recognition of individual schools’ needs to be given increased responsibility for site-based decision making, the parties agree to the following relating to the employee duty day:
1. The duly elected Faculty Advisory Committee and the administrator, with input from the school staff may mutually agree on scheduling arrangements for teachers to include, teaching load(s), student contact time, planning time, duty time, extended-duty assignments, compensatory time, coverage of classes in lieu of using substitutes, scheduling of elementary teachers, the use of flexible time blocks, common planning time, end of course testing schedules, scheduling of special area teachers and the implementation of any mandated school wide programs which affect any of the provisions found in this article. At the end of each school year, each teacher may submit scheduling preferences for elementary special area teachers to this process for consideration.
2. Such agreements shall be conditioned upon a majority vote of support by secret ballot of those voting from the faculty, reduced to writing and distributed to each teacher at the school. The agreement(s) shall remain in effect until the end of the school year. The FAC shall conduct the election. The faculty shall receive notice of the election in writing at least two duty days prior to the voting. The voting period shall extend for up to two duty days. The most senior Association Representative shall be present at ballot counting. If there is no Association Representative, the administrator shall contact the Association President/designee prior to the ballot counting so that s/he may be present to observe.
3. In the absence of mutual agreement, the following provisions shall apply to those areas where such agreement cannot be reached:
a. When an emergency situation arises, an extended duty assignment beyond the regular duty day may be made. When such becomes necessary, volunteers shall be sought first. If no one volunteers, consideration shall be given to the employees’ personal commitments which cannot be rescheduled. Employees so assigned shall be allowed to take an equal amount of time off during non-student contact time, within ten duty days or at a time mutually agreeable between the teacher and thethe principal. Employees may receive time off for voluntarily participating in school activities occurring outside of their regular workday.
b. When a medical or legal appointment involving the employee or a member of his/her immediate family, or a school-related conference involving the employee’s dependent, is required that cannot be scheduled outside the employee duty day, or when an employee attending in-service or college classes needs reasonable commuting time, an employee may be allowed to leave at the end of the regular student day, provided acceptable arrangements to accommodate duty or other school activities have been made and are communicated.
c. When a personal emergency results in an employee either having to arrive late or leave early, the employee shall be charged with appropriate leave, only when the absence exceeds one-quarter day and/or requires the use of a substitute.
d. No teacher shall be assigned responsibility for students for more than three continuous hours.
e. Except as may be provided elsewhere in this Contract, assigned instructional responsibility shall be based upon approximately 25.5 hours per week, except in post-secondary schools and Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten classes where it shall be based upon no more than 30 hours per week. In the secondary schools, assignments to a supervised study hall or non-compensated extra-curricular activity during school hours shall be considered assigned instructional responsibility, however passing time shall not.
f. In the event supervision of students, both within and/or outside of the regular student day, is required, assignments shall be rotated on an equitable basis to the extent possible.
g. Administrators will cooperate with employees in making arrangements for a break in either the morning or afternoon. Employees needing to use the restroom may call the office at any time of the day to receive relief without a delay.
h. Elementary teachers shall have an average daily planning time of 60 minutes, at least 45 of which shall be contiguous. Middle and high school teachers shall have a contiguous daily planning time equal to a student academic period or 50 minutes, whichever is less. The parties recognize that in some cases, contiguous planning time may need to be temporarily adjusted due to unanticipated circumstances. Post-secondary teachers shall have an average daily planning time of at least 50 minutes. Planning time shall be used for purposes of preparation, which may also include conferences with parents, administrators, or other teachers, and/or giving special assistance to students. A teacher shall not be restricted to remain in a particular area of the school during his/her planning time; however, this provision does not apply to common planning time. A reasonable effort shall be made by the administrator to provide a special area for planning. Schools shall provide a common planning time once a week for instruction. Teachers who assume additional teaching or duty assignments or have rotational assigned supervision during the student day may not necessarily be guaranteed the planning time outlined above.
C. The Board agrees to provide substitute teachers for art, music, and physical education teachers and media specialists. No teacher shall be used as a substitute for another teacher except in cases of emergency or unforeseen circumstances. The District shall maintain a substitute pool for the filling of vacancies due to absenteeism.
1. In cases of non-emergency, teachers cannot be required to substitute for another teacher. In cases of emergency, teachers may be required to substitute for another teacher, however, classified staff and non-classroom teachers should be used to cover classes prior to resorting to splitting classes.
2. The definition of emergency is a sudden unexpected happening; an unforeseen occurrence or condition; perplexing contingency or complication of circumstances; a sudden or unexpected occasion for action; exigency; pressing necessity. Emergency is an unforeseen combination of circumstances that calls for immediate action without time for full deliberation. Examples include, but are not limited to, a sudden unexpected and severe medical event at school, or when a teacher has a family crisis during the school day requiring his/her immediate attention.
3. It is not an emergency when:
a. a teacher arrives late due to reasons such as illness, car problems, or traffic and misses less than a quarter day of work;
b. a teacher needs one or two periods of class coverage to attend meetings on campus and other events, such as picture days, awards ceremonies and giving guest lectures in colleagues’ classes;
c. a teacher leaves early due to a doctor’s appointment;
d. a Xxxxx Services substitute arrives after the start of a work day; or
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Duty Day. A. Except as otherwise provided in this Contract, the employee The teacher duty day shall be seven 7:35AM-3:40PM, exclusive of the lunch period. Teachers shall be responsible for no more than 5 hours and 30 45 minutes including a duty-free lunch, of instructional time per duty day. In instances of day care or 37 ½ hours per week totalother extenuating circumstances 7:35 contracted arrival time may be amended with building principal approval.
B. As part Administrative staff may call the faculty to faculty meetings as it is deemed warranted but not excessively. Each meeting will not extend the professional duty day by more than thirty (30) minutes. Teachers will be compensated at the rate of an ongoing program twenty ($20) dollars per hour or fraction thereof for time when a faculty meeting exceeds the duty day by more than thirty (30) minutes.
C. In turn, once a month on the regularly scheduled Association meeting, all teachers will be required to stay only fifteen (15) minutes past the departure of students so that they may attend the Association meetings. The Teachers Association shall provide the meeting schedule to the superintendent prior to September 1 each school improvementyear. Changes may be made upon agreement of the superintendent.
D. Unless otherwise directed by administrative staff, and in recognition of individual schools’ needs to be given increased responsibility for site-based decision makingthe event that it is announced that school will start late, the parties agree duty day for each teacher shall begin one (1) hour prior to the following relating announced starting time and shall end 30 minutes after the student day based on the schedule established for that day.
E. The teacher’s duty day will include planning time equivalent to an average of 50 minutes per day during an instructional week.
F. For durations of one week or less, teachers may be asked by the employee duty day:
1. The duly elected Faculty Advisory Committee and administration to cover the administrator, with input from the school staff may mutually agree on scheduling arrangements for teachers to include, teaching load(s), student contact time, planning time, duty time, extended-duty assignments, compensatory time, coverage class of classes a colleague in lieu of using substitutes, scheduling of elementary teachersa planning period. If the teacher agrees to forego his/her planning period, the use teacher will be compensated at the rate of flexible time blocks$30 per class period.
G. When it is expected that a teacher will be teaching extra class(es) due to staff shortages, common planning the teacher will be compensated as indicated on the “extra assignment related to primary teaching area.” Teachers who teach extra class(es) due to staff shortages, instead of hiring additional staff, will be compensated at a rate of 1/6 of their own base contract daily rate per day for the length of the assignment.
H. Not more than 5 times per school year, classes will begin 2 hours late to allow for the staff to participate in planned staff development activities. Teachers shall report to work at the usual time, end and the activities shall conclude no later than 9:30 a.m., with the school day commencing at 10:00 a.m. These dates shall be determined through a dialogue with the teachers’ association, and be scheduled not later than September 1. Each teacher shall be notified in writing of course testing schedulesthe dates of the activities.
I. In the event that a major schedule change is proposed to the Board, scheduling the matter will be considered for first reading (information only) at a regularly scheduled Board of special area Education meeting. Any proposed changes to the length and number of class periods shall be provided to affected teachers and the implementation Association president at the same time the Board is delivered their official packet, prior to the Board meeting. Following the Board meeting in which the first reading was conducted, the Association shall conduct an election among the affected teachers. The proposed change shall be considered for final approval (action item) no earlier than the next regularly scheduled Board meeting to allow for input from affected teachers. The election shall be conducted by the Association in a manner identical to that used to ratify the Negotiated Agreement. All teachers who teach at least one class in the affected building will be considered eligible to vote. A list of any mandated school wide programs which affect any those who receive ballots will be maintained by the Association for not less than 3 years. Voting will be kept confidential. The President of the provisions found in this article. At Association will communicate the end of each school year, each teacher may submit scheduling preferences for elementary special area teachers to this process for consideration.
2. Such agreements shall be conditioned upon a majority vote of support by secret ballot of those voting from the faculty, reduced to writing and distributed to each teacher at the school. The agreement(s) shall remain in effect until the end results of the school year. The FAC shall conduct election to the Superintendent within 24 hours of the close of the election. The faculty shall receive notice In the event that 2/3 or more of the election in writing at least two duty days prior affected teachers indicate by written ballot that they are opposed to the voting. The voting period shall extend for up to two duty days. The most senior Association Representative shall be present at ballot counting. If there is no Association Representativesuggested change, the administrator shall contact change can only be made through negotiations with the Association President/designee prior to the ballot counting so that s/he may be present to observeTeachers Association.
3. In the absence of mutual agreement, the following provisions shall apply to those areas where such agreement cannot be reached:
a. When an emergency situation arises, an extended duty assignment beyond the regular duty day may be made. When such becomes necessary, volunteers shall be sought first. If no one volunteers, consideration shall be given to the employees’ personal commitments which cannot be rescheduled. Employees so assigned shall be allowed to take an equal amount of time off during non-student contact time, within ten duty days or at a time mutually agreeable between the teacher and the
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Samples: Negotiated Agreement
Duty Day. A. Except as otherwise provided in this Contract, the employee duty day shall be seven hours and 30 minutes including a duty-free duty‐free lunch, or 37 ½ hours per week total.
B. As part of an ongoing program of school improvement, and in recognition of individual schools’ needs to be given increased responsibility for site-based site‐based decision making, the parties agree to the following relating to the employee duty day:
1. The duly elected Faculty Advisory Committee and the administrator, with input from the school staff may staff, shall mutually agree on scheduling arrangements for teachers to include, but not be limited to, teaching load(s), student contact time, planning time, duty time, extended-duty middle school IMPACT classes, extended‐duty assignments, compensatory time, coverage of classes in lieu of using substitutes, scheduling of elementary teachers, the use of flexible time blocks, common planning time, end of course testing schedules, scheduling of special area teachers and the implementation of any mandated school wide programs which affect any of the provisions found in this articleabove. At the end of each school year, each teacher may submit scheduling preferences for elementary special area teachers to this process for considerationteachers.
2. Such agreements shall be conditioned upon a majority vote strong level of support by secret ballot of those voting from the faculty, reduced to writing and distributed annually to each teacher at on the schoolschool staff with a copy to the Association. The agreement(s) shall remain in effect until the end of the school year. The FAC shall conduct the election. The faculty shall receive notice of the election in writing at least two duty days prior to the voting. The voting period shall extend for up to two duty days. The most senior Association Representative shall be present at ballot counting. If there is no Association Representative, the administrator shall contact the Association President/designee prior to the ballot counting so that s/he may be present to observea strong level of support for a change.
3. In the absence of mutual agreement, the following provisions shall apply to those areas where such agreement cannot be reached:
a. When an emergency situation arises, an extended duty assignment beyond the regular duty day may be made. When such becomes necessary, volunteers shall be sought first. If no one volunteers, consideration shall be given to the employees’ personal commitments which cannot be rescheduled. Employees so assigned shall be allowed to take an equal amount of time off during non-student non‐student contact time, within ten duty days or at a time mutually agreeable between the teacher and thethe principal. Employees may receive time off for voluntarily participating in school activities occurring outside of their regular workday.
b. When a medical or legal appointment involving the employee or a member of his/her immediate family, or a school‐related conference involving the employee’s dependent, is required that cannot be scheduled outside the employee duty day, or when an employee attending in‐service or college classes needs reasonable commuting time, an employee may be allowed to leave at the end of the regular student day, provided acceptable arrangements to accommodate duty or other school activities have been made and are communicated.
c. When a personal emergency results in an employee either having to arrive late or leave early, the employee shall be charged with appropriate leave, only when the absence exceeds one‐quarter day and/or requires the use of a substitute.
d. No teacher shall be assigned responsibility for students for more than three continuous hours.
e. Except as may be provided elsewhere in this Contract, assigned instructional responsibility shall be based upon approximately 25.5 hours per week, except in post‐ secondary schools where it shall be based upon no more than 30 hours per week. In the secondary schools, assignments to a supervised study hall or non‐compensated extra‐curricular activity during school hours shall be considered assigned instructional responsibility, however passing time shall not.
f. In the event supervision of students, both within and/or outside of the regular student day, is required, assignments shall be rotated on an equitable basis to the extent possible.
g. Administrators will cooperate with employees in making arrangements for a break in either the morning or afternoon.
h. Elementary teachers shall have an average daily planning time of 60 minutes, at least 45 of which shall be contiguous. Middle and high school teachers shall have a contiguous daily planning time equal to a student academic period or 50 minutes, whichever is less. The parties recognize that in some cases, contiguous planning time may need to be temporarily adjusted due to unanticipated circumstances. Post‐ secondary teachers shall have an average daily planning time of at least 50 minutes. Planning time shall be used for purposes of preparation, which may also include conferences with parents, administrators, or other teachers, and/or giving special assistance to students. A teacher shall not be restricted to remain in a particular area of the school during his/her planning time. A reasonable effort shall be made by the administrator to provide a special area for planning. Schools shall be encouraged to provide a common planning time once a week for instructional teams. Teachers who assume additional teaching or duty assignments or have rotational assigned supervision during the student day may not necessarily be guaranteed the planning time outlined above.
C. The Board agrees to provide substitute teachers for art, music, and physical education teachers and media specialists. No teacher shall be used as a substitute for another teacher except in cases of emergency or unforeseen circumstances. The District shall maintain a substitute pool for the filling of vacancies due to absenteeism.
D. Media centers in all schools shall observe a flexible schedule.
E. The Board shall encourage class sizes consistent with District goals, the nature of different subject matter, instructional objectives, the requirements of different instructional processes, the capacities of the physical facilities, state laws and regulations, and the special needs of students.
1. If an individual teacher feels a class has an excessive number of students, s/he may request a meeting with the administrator who will discuss the issue with the teacher and attempt to resolve it.
2. If the matter cannot be resolved within two weeks at the school level, it shall be referred by the administrator to the appropriate associate superintendent who will within two weeks assess the situation and make a final decision as to whether an adjustment in class size should be made. Said decision will be communicated to the teacher and will state the reasons.
F. Employees shall check (√) in and out upon arrival and departure from their work site.
G. On the day before a scheduled holiday, the employee duty day shall end at the close of the student day. Non‐school based personnel may leave 30 minutes before the end of their regular day. If the day before the Winter and/or Spring Holiday period for school based teachers is a non student contact day, it shall be 6.5 hours in length.
H. The parties recognize the importance of employees’ participation in school‐related activities, such as open house, PTA, and other school functions, which occur outside of normal working hours. The administrator may require attendance at the school’s annual open house, utilizing flex time for affected teachers.
I. On election days, employees whose duty day usually begins 45 minutes or more before the student day who wish to vote before the duty day begins, may opt for reporting to work 15 minutes before the student day. In the alternative, employees may leave at the end of the student day for purposes of voting.
X. Xx employee, other than an itinerant employee, who is required to leave his/her work site in the performance of assigned duties, shall leave with his/her administrator a daily itinerary, so that the employee can be reached throughout the duty day. An itinerant employee shall provide a weekly schedule to the administrator of each school s/he serves during the week. The schedule shall include a duty‐free lunch, planning time (if applicable) and travel time. Each itinerant teacher shall be assigned a private space to provide instruction.
K. Employees may, with the approval of the administrator, take part in activities outside the school building which are of interest to their present and prospective students. These activities shall include, but are not limited to, liaison activities with community and social agencies, vocational/educational guidance workshops, parental contact, exceptional education home visits, and job and educational placement activities.
L. Middle and senior high school teachers shall not be required to teach more than two subject areas.
M. Employees shall be scheduled for a minimum of 25 minutes for lunch, which shall be within the scheduled lunch periods for students except on field trips on in unplanned emergencies. On student contact days, in work locations where there is no lunchroom or in job assignments which permit flexible lunch schedules, an employee may be given approximately one hour for lunch by mutual agreement with his/her administrator. In such cases, the workday for the employee may be proportionately extended to provide for equity with other employees, without violating this Contract. On any non‐student contact day, employees shall have a lunch period of one hour which may be off site.
N. An employee may leave the work site, upon receiving permission, during his /her planning time and duty‐free lunch. No reasonable request shall be denied.
O. When post‐secondary courses are taught in three‐hour blocks and students are given a break, teachers shall be entitled to the same break. In schools where administrators have not been able to facilitate breaks, teachers may utilize at least ten minutes of their planning time or a reasonable amount of student passing time as a duty‐free break.
P. Irregular Scheduling
1. The parties recognize that certain post‐secondary, district‐level and/or special programs may require variations in scheduling. Such irregular scheduling shall be voluntary and may be used when insufficient student enrollment exists, based on current program standards, to justify a regular assignment of an employee.
a. Current program standards shall be a minimum of ten students in vocational and 16 students in adult general education classes. Exceptions to the current standards may be considered on an individual program basis.
b. When a need for an irregular schedule exists, the administrator shall meet with the affected employee at least ten duty days prior to said assignment. Volunteers shall be sought first. When certification and job experience are equal, preference shall be given to the most senior employee who volunteers. If no volunteers are available, then the administrator shall select the least senior qualified employee eligible for a teaching assignment in the affected area. The affected employee may request a review of other options which might modify the need for split shifts.
c. An employee who is assigned an irregular schedule shall be informed of the reason for and the specific duration of the assignment. Within 45 student contact days, the program will be re‐evaluated. The duration may be extended because of specific program needs for the remainder of the school year. There shall be no expectation of such extended hours from year to year. If sufficient enrollment then exists, the employee shall be returned to a regular schedule.
2. Employees other than those on split shifts, who work flexible hours within the regular work day shall be given compensatory time so that they do not work in excess of 37½ hours per week. If the work week is extended beyond 37½ hours in order not to disrupt the quality of a program, the excess hours shall be accrued under the provisions of Section B.3.a.
Q. Required meetings or other required activities relating to the Teacher Induction Program normally shall not be scheduled so as to infringe upon teacher planning time or lunch of either the peer teacher or the beginning teacher. Arrangements shall be made to relieve these teachers of student contact time or other required duties for a period equal to that utilized in required meetings or activities relating to the Teacher Induction Program.
R. If district‐wide committees/task forces or School Advisory Councils on which teachers serve, schedule their meetings during a part of or all of the duty day, teachers shall be given release time to attend.
S. Workdays shall be used primarily for grading and planning, and other requirements shall not exceed approximately one hour. Grades shall not be required more than one hour prior to the close of the day.
T. Teachers shall attend faculty meetings as called by the administrator. Any meetings called to solicit funds from teachers shall be pre‐announced as to the meeting’s purpose and teacher attendance shall be voluntary. Faculty meetings shall be called for specific reasons, and except during preplanning and post‐planning, shall not exceed approximately one hour per week except for emergencies. Scheduled faculty meetings during preplanning will be reasonable in length so as not to significantly impede the teachers’ time for preparation for the coming school year.
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