Elementary and Intermediate Planning Time. Elementary and Intermediate planning time shall be at least four hundred (400) minutes per week, based on a five (5) day week, free of meetings and/or duties. No more the twenty percent (20%), or eighty (80) minutes, of the weekly planning time will be for PLCs to collaborate in order to sustain the common instructional decision making. Professional discretion will be used to allow for flexibility in planning times when the need is communicated to all parties involved. The remaining time would be used for teacher-directed collaboration and planning for their daily operations with the classroom, except under extenuating circumstances that include, but are not limited to, staff shortage and required student supervision in which case the administration will make every effort to provide the maximum amount of minutes available as the master schedule allows. The Association President or designee and Superintendent or designee may reconvene annually in January to make adjustment to planning time as needed.
Elementary and Intermediate Planning Time. Elementary and Intermediate planning time shall be at least four hundred (400) minutes per week, based on a five (5) day week, free of meetings and/or duties except under extenuating circumstances.
