Emergency Class Coverage Clause Samples

Emergency Class Coverage. Each school site will utilize a shared decision-making process to determine a protocol for how classrooms will be covered when an emergency occurs requiring the regularly assigned unit member to be absent. Emergency shall be defined as an unforeseen occasion for which a substitute would normally be provided, but is not available. Equitable rotation of responsibility and compensation (money or time) shall be considered through shared decision- making. Each site will use the Shared Decision-Making model to determine emergency class coverage at the beginning of each year.

Emergency Class Coverage. A. The parties agree that, when the administration is unable to secure a substitute teacher, any member of the bargaining unit shall accept assignment in the substitute position during his/her unassigned period(s), if in the judgment of the administration, the best interests of the pupils will be served by making such assignment. B. Such assignments shall be made on a rotating basis by free period. Where possible, teachers will be assigned their discipline. C. Any member of the bargaining unit that substitutes more than ten (10) periods a year will be paid 1/900 of his/her base pay for each period beyond ten (10) except when he/she substitutes for a teacher who is absent for the whole day for whom a substitute has not been procured, in which case he/she will be paid 1/900 of his/her base pay for each period he/she substitutes.

Emergency Class Coverage. Bargaining unit members who accept such a teaching assignment as a long term replacement instructor shall be paid a stipend commensurate with their current salary and contractual teaching obligations.

Emergency Class Coverage. 1. Each school site will utilize a shared decision-making process, as verified by a PFT representative, to determine a protocol for how classrooms will be covered when an emergency occurs requiring the regularly assigned unit member to be absent. Equitable rotation of responsibility shall be included in the plan. Sites shall complete their plans and submit them to the District Office by October 1st of each school year. 2. Emergency shall be defined as an unforeseen occasion for which a substitute would normally be provided, but is not available. 3. In the event that a substitute teacher is not available, secondary teachers who use their prep period to teach additional students will receive $125 for each period. 4. Teachers in a TK-6 or TK-8 setting who teach additional students because a substitute teacher is not available will be equitably apportioned $375. 5. Days and apportionment shall be tracked and recorded at the site and shall be paid on the supplemental payroll.

Emergency Class Coverage. The language of Article IV Section E.1. shall apply, and additionally, the following procedures will be used in the event that a teaching assistant is needed to cover classes: Elementary or Intermediate Level: Teaching assistants will be included, without additional compensation, in the rotation of special area teachers who are sometimes called upon to cover classes. At times, on an elementary or intermediate level, it may become necessary to cancel art, music, band, gym, health, library, etc. in order to cover for a regular classroom teacher who is absent. Teaching assistants on the elementary and intermediate level will be added to the rotation of teachers who may have their regular assignments (art, music, band, gym, health, library, etc.) changed on a day when there are not enough substitutes. If it is necessary to schedule teaching assistants at a time which does not allow for their weekly 200 minutes of preparation time, they will be compensated based on the applicable hourly rate as defined in Article IV Section E.

Emergency Class Coverage. The District will make every effort to secure a substitute to cover a teacher’s absence from class, even using an absent teacher’s substitute during the absent teacher’s preparation period. If a current certified employee agrees to cover another teacher’s class during their preparation period or other designated non-instructional time for an emergency or sick leave with less than 24 hour notice, the employee will be compensated at 1.5 their hourly rate for that class coverage. This provision only applies to forfeited preparation period or other designated non-instructional time. Members always maintain the right to decline a request to fill in as an ‘emergency substitute’. Absent employees must notify their building’s Office Manager when emergency substitute is needed.

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