Elementary Preparation Release Teachers. 9.5.1 Elementary preparation release teachers are defined as physical education, general music, instrumental music, choral music, fine arts, and computer lab specialists providing preparation time for regular classroom elementary teachers. 9.5.2 Elementary preparation release teachers shall be assigned up to twenty-nine (29) sections per week. 9.5.2.1 A section is a single 1st through 6th grade class. The number of students per section shall not exceed the number of students registered in the class for which they are providing preparation time. (Any Special Day student who regularly attends that class is excluded from the limit.) 9.5.2.1.1 Preparation sections involving the performing arts and general music may be blended during the same preparation section time period. With the music/performing arts teacher permission, the section class size limit may be increased, but not exceed forty (40) students. 9.5.2.2 If a member is required to travel to different sites in a day, the member shall have their number of sections per week reduced by one (1) section for each additional site to which the member travels. 9.5.2.2.1 Every effort shall be made to limit the number of unit members required to travel to other sites within a year. 9.5.2.2.2 If itinerant unit members must travel between sites, members at the affected site shall be asked to volunteer. If there are no volunteers, the least senior member shall be selected to travel. 9.5.3 Sections shall consist of fifty (50) minute blocks for forty-five (45) minute preps. They shall be arranged so that elementary preparation teachers have time between classes.
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