Common use of Elementary Common Planning Clause in Contracts

Elementary Common Planning. a. Effective 2015-2016 each elementary teacher, (including Art, Music, Media, Physical Education, Coaches and Guidance Counselors) shall be provided a minimum of two resource/planning periods per week of not less than 45 minutes. b. One of the planning periods each week shall be used for administratively directed professional activities and one shall be used for teacher initiated professional activities. Such resource/planning periods shall be in addition to the non-student planning time before the student day. c. Additional resource periods, if any, shall be used for teacher initiated professional activities, unless otherwise approved by the waiver process. d. By May 15 of each year, the principal shall engage the school’s Shared Decision Making Team (through the Shared Decision-Making process), to include representation from the school’s resource teachers, regarding the use of the administratively directed time and shall submit a plan to the district’s Human Resources department indicating how the time will be used. e. The district shall provide each school with funds to hire supervisory personnel to cover teacher duty during planning time before school and stand cafeteria duty. When the school’s supervision schedule requires teachers to rotate after school to cover student dismissals, such schedules shall be made in an equitable manner, on a rotating basis, and shall include all instructional personnel. f. If the district’s budget allocation for a given academic year falls below the minimum of two resources per week and PT funding for personnel to cover morning and cafeteria duty, this provision shall not be in effect. g. If teachers are assigned morning duty, this provision shall not be in effect.

Elementary Common Planning. a. Effective 2015-2016 each elementary teacher, (including Art, Music, Media, Physical Education, Coaches Coaches, ESE and Guidance CounselorsCertified School counselor) shall be provided a minimum of two resource/planning periods per week of not less than 45 minutes. b. One of the planning periods each week shall be used for administratively directed professional activities and one shall be used for teacher initiated professional activities. Such resource/planning periods shall be in addition to the non-student planning time before the student day. c. Additional resource periods, if any, shall be used for teacher initiated professional activities, unless otherwise approved by the waiver process. d. By May 15 of each year, the principal shall engage the school’s Shared Decision Making Team (through the Shared Decision-Making process), to include representation from the school’s resource teachers, regarding the use of the administratively directed time and shall submit a plan to the district’s Human Resources department indicating how the time will be used. e. The district shall provide each school with funds to hire supervisory personnel to cover teacher duty during planning time before school and stand cafeteria duty. When the school’s supervision schedule requires teachers to rotate after school to cover student dismissals, such schedules shall be made in an equitable manner, on a rotating basis, and shall include all instructional personnel. f. If the district’s budget allocation for a given academic year falls below the minimum of two resources per week and PT funding for personnel to cover morning and cafeteria duty, this provision shall not be in effect. g. If teachers are assigned morning duty, this provision shall not be in effect.

Elementary Common Planning. a. Effective 2015-2016 each elementary teacher, (including Art, Music, Media, Physical Education, Coaches and Guidance CounselorsCoaches, ESE, etc.) shall be provided a minimum of two resource/planning periods per week of not less than 45 minutes. b. One of the planning periods each week shall be used for administratively directed professional activities and one shall be used for teacher initiated professional activities. Such resource/planning periods shall be in addition to the non-student planning time before the student day. c. Additional resource periods, if any, shall be used for teacher initiated professional activities, unless otherwise approved by the waiver process. d. By May 15 of each year, the principal shall engage the school’s Shared Decision Making Team (through the Shared Decision-Making process), to include representation from the school’s resource teachers, regarding the use of the administratively directed time and shall submit a plan to the district’s Human Resources department indicating how the time will be used. e. The district shall provide each school with funds to hire supervisory personnel to cover teacher duty during planning time before school and stand cafeteria duty. When the school’s supervision schedule requires teachers to rotate after school to cover student dismissals, such schedules shall be made in an equitable manner, on a rotating basis, and shall include all instructional personnel. f. If the district’s budget allocation for a given academic year falls below the minimum of two resources per week and PT funding for personnel to cover morning and cafeteria duty, this provision shall not be in effect. g. If teachers are assigned morning duty, this provision shall not be in effect.