Common use of Experience Credit for Placement on Salary Schedule Clause in Contracts

Experience Credit for Placement on Salary Schedule. Any new educator employed for at least the last complete semester of the school year will receive a full step on the salary schedule, if a step is granted. Effective as of the 2022-2023 school year, the Board shall grant experience credit as follows: (1) year for each full year of out of district experience up to ten (10) years of experience for all educators. • The district and the Association agree that, effective for the 2022-2023 school year, special programs teachers (teachers of students with significant support needs, structured learning services or affective needs), audiologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, school nurses, school psychologists, school social workers, and speech language pathologists shall receive experience credit for each full year of previous experience and are not limited to ten (10) years as described in Appendix A, Item 3. • Additionally, one (1) step for each full year, as described in this Appendix, of service in the district as a contracted certified, classified, in-building substitute, and/or administrative employee for educators beginning a new certified contract or returning to a certified contract effective the 2022-2023 school year. This experience may have been acquired: (a) in a state-accredited or licensed public or non- public school, including pre-school, elementary, secondary, or university levels, or (b) a combination of the above. A school shall be considered accredited only if officially accredited by a state Department of Education, a territorial accrediting association, one of the regional accrediting associations (i.e. Northwest), or schools operated by the United States and in foreign countries when the school has been accredited by a recognized agency of the United States. Nurses shall advance on the salary schedule in the same manner as above for experience as either a school nurse or a public health nurse. The Board shall grant experience credit for out-of-district teaching experience in the following manner: One full year of experience shall be granted for a minimum of 90 or more days for a total of four (4) or more hours each day in a continuous assignment in a given school year. The Board shall grant experience credit for in-district experience to educators re-employed after a break in district employment on the basis of one (1) full year of experience for 90 or more days for a total of four (4) or more hours each day in a continuous assignment in a given school year. This shall be done in conjunction with any other experience credit as described in the previous paragraph. After the educator’s appropriate initial horizontal placement by the district on the salary schedule, the educator has up to ninety (90) days to provide the district additional official transcripts and/or documentation earned prior to the first day of employment to support further salary advancement. This shall be retroactive to the educator’s contract date. An educator who submits documentation to the district of dual degrees conferred on the same date shall be placed on the salary schedule at the BA level. The employee shall provide the district with documentation that identifies the minimum number of hours/courses required for the first degree in order to determine the number of hours beyond the first degree. Only those years served while the educator held a state certificate/license or the nurse held a state license will be counted. Responsibility for verification of outside experience shall rest with the individual educator or nurse and be subject to regulations for verification as formulated by the Board. The Board shall place the certified/licensed employee on the step of the salary schedule appropriate to the number of years taught in the situations mentioned above. The employee will then advance on the salary schedule in the normal manner. An educator shall be placed on the salary schedule following the guidelines above if they have not worked as a certified educator in the district previously. An educator who has worked previously as a certified educator in the district shall be placed as a new employee according to current placement rules only after a break in service has occurred. A break in service is defined as when an educator’s resignation or non-renewal has been acted upon by the Board of Education and the educator did not work thirty or more contract days as a certified educator. Situations on experience credit that may arise for which language is not clearly applicable will be jointly reviewed by the Chief Human Resources Officer and the Association President and a mutual decision made.

Experience Credit for Placement on Salary Schedule. Any new educator teacher employed for at least the last complete semester of the school year will receive a full step on the salary schedule, if a step is granted. Effective as of the 2022-2023 school year, the Board shall grant experience credit as follows:. (1) year for each full year of out of district experience up to ten (10) years of experience for all educators. • The district and the Association agree that, effective for the 2022-2023 school year, special programs teachers (teachers of students with significant support needs, structured learning services or affective needs), audiologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, school nurses, school psychologists, school social workers, and speech language pathologists shall receive experience credit for each full year of previous experience and are not limited to ten (10) years as described in Appendix A, Item 3. • Additionally, one (1) step for each full year, as described in this Appendix, of service in the district as a contracted certified, classified, in-building substitute, and/or administrative employee for educators beginning a new certified contract or returning to a certified contract effective the 2022-2023 school yearexperience. This experience may have been acquired: (a) in a state-accredited or licensed public or non- non-public school, including pre-school, elementary, secondary, or university levels, or (b) a combination of the above. A school shall will be considered accredited only if officially accredited by a state Department of Education, a territorial accrediting association, one of the regional accrediting associations (i.e. Northwest), or schools operated by the United States and in foreign countries when the school has been accredited by a recognized agency of the United States. Nurses shall advance will be advanced on the salary schedule in the same manner as above for experience as either a school nurse or a public health nurse. Certified educators hired in the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 school years shall be granted experience credit as described above effective August 1, 2020. The Board shall grant experience credit for out-of-district teaching experience in the following manner: One full year of experience shall will be granted for a minimum of 90 or more days for a total of four (4) or more hours each day in a continuous assignment in a given school year. The Board shall grant experience credit for in-district experience to educators teachers re-employed after a break in district employment on the basis of one (1) full year of experience for 90 or more days for a total of four (4) or more hours each day in a continuous assignment in a given school year. This shall be done in conjunction with any other experience credit as described in the previous paragraph. After the educator’s appropriate initial horizontal placement by the paragraph with a maximum of ten (10) total steps granted for any combination of in-district on the salary schedule, the educator has up to ninety (90) days to provide the and out-of-district additional official transcripts and/or documentation earned prior to the first day of employment to support further salary advancement. This shall be retroactive to the educator’s contract date. An educator who submits documentation to the district of dual degrees conferred on the same date shall be placed on the salary schedule at the BA level. The employee shall provide the district with documentation that identifies the minimum number of hours/courses required for the first degree in order to determine the number of hours beyond the first degreeexperience. Only those years served while the educator teacher held a state certificate/license or the nurse held a state license will be counted. Responsibility for verification of outside experience shall rest with the individual educator teacher or nurse and be subject to regulations for verification as formulated by the BoardBoard of Education. The Board shall place the certified/licensed employee on the step of the salary schedule appropriate to the number of years taught in the situations mentioned above. The employee will then advance on the salary schedule in the normal manner. An educator shall be placed on the salary schedule following the guidelines above if they have not worked as a certified educator in the district previously. An educator who has worked previously as a certified educator in the district shall be placed as a new employee according to current placement rules only after a break in service has occurred. A break in service is defined as when an educator’s resignation or non-renewal has been acted upon by the Board of Education and the educator did not work thirty or more contract days as a certified educator. Situations on experience credit that may arise for which language is not clearly applicable will be jointly reviewed by the Chief Human Resources Officer and the Association DTEA President and a mutual decision made.

Experience Credit for Placement on Salary Schedule. Any new educator employed for at least the last complete semester of the school year will receive a full step on the salary schedule, if a step is granted. Effective as of the 2022-2023 school year, the Board shall grant experience credit as follows: (1) year for each full year of out of district experience up to ten (10) years of experience for all educators. • The district and the Association agree that, effective for the 2022-2023 school year, special programs teachers (teachers of students with significant support needs, structured learning services or affective needs), audiologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, school nurses, school psychologists, school social workers, and speech language pathologists shall receive experience credit for each full year of previous experience and are not limited to ten (10) years as described in Appendix A, Item 3. • Additionally, one (1) step for each full year, as described in this Appendix, of service in the district as a contracted certified, classified, in-building substitute, and/or administrative employee for educators beginning a new certified contract or returning to a certified contract effective the 2022-2023 school year. This experience may have been acquired: (a) in a state-accredited or licensed public or non- public school, including pre-school, elementary, secondary, or university levels, or (b) a combination of the above. A school shall be considered accredited only if officially accredited by a state Department of Education, a territorial accrediting association, one of the regional accrediting associations (i.e. Northwest), or schools operated by the United States and in foreign countries when the school has been accredited by a recognized agency of the United States. Nurses shall advance on the salary schedule in the same manner as above for experience as either a school nurse or a public health nurse. The Board shall grant experience credit for out-of-district teaching experience in the following manner: One full year of experience shall be granted for a minimum of 90 or more days for a total of four (4) or more hours each day in a continuous assignment in a given school year. The Board shall grant experience credit for in-district experience to educators re-employed after a break in district employment on the basis of one (1) full year of experience for 90 or more days for a total of four (4) or more hours each day in a continuous assignment in a given school year. This shall be done in conjunction with any other experience credit as described in the previous paragraph. After the educator’s appropriate initial horizontal placement by the district on the salary schedule, the educator has up to ninety (90) days to provide the district additional official transcripts and/or documentation earned prior to the first day of employment to support further salary advancement. This shall be retroactive to the educator’s contract date. An educator who submits documentation to the district of dual degrees conferred on the same date shall be placed on the salary schedule at the BA level. The employee shall provide the district with documentation that identifies the minimum number of hours/courses required for the first degree in order to determine the number of hours beyond the first degree. Only those years served while the educator held a state certificate/license or the nurse held a state license will be counted. Responsibility for verification of outside experience shall rest with the individual educator or nurse and be subject to regulations for verification as formulated by the Board. The Board shall place the certified/licensed employee on the step of the salary schedule appropriate to the number of years taught in the situations mentioned above. The employee will then advance on the salary schedule in the normal manner. An educator shall be placed on the salary schedule following the guidelines above if they have not worked as a certified educator in the district previously. An educator who has worked previously as a certified educator in the district shall be placed as a new employee according to current placement rules only after a break in service has occurred. A break in service is defined as when an educator’s resignation or non-renewal has been acted upon by the Board of Education and the educator did not work thirty or more contract days as a certified educator. Situations on experience credit that may arise for which language is not clearly applicable will be jointly reviewed by the Chief Human Resources Officer and the Association President and a mutual decision made.

Experience Credit for Placement on Salary Schedule. Any new educator employed for at least the last complete semester of the school year will receive a full step on the salary schedule, if a step is granted. Effective as of the 2022-2023 school year, the Board shall grant experience credit as follows:. (1) year for each full year of out of district experience up to ten (10) years of experience for all educators. • The district and the Association agree that, effective for the 2022-2023 school year, special programs teachers (teachers of students with significant support needs, structured learning services or affective needs), audiologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, school nurses, school psychologists, school social workers, and speech language pathologists shall receive experience credit for each full year of previous experience and are not limited to ten (10) years as described in Appendix A, Item 3. • Additionally, one (1) step for each full year, as described in this Appendix, of service in the district as a contracted certified, classified, in-building substitute, and/or administrative employee for educators beginning a new certified contract or returning to a certified contract effective the 2022-2023 school yearexperience. This experience may have been acquired: (a) in a state-accredited or licensed public or non- non-public school, including pre-school, elementary, secondary, or university levels, or (b) a combination of the above. A school shall be considered accredited only if officially accredited by a state Department of Education, a territorial accrediting association, one of the regional accrediting associations (i.e. Northwest), or schools operated by the United States and in foreign countries when the school has been accredited by a recognized agency of the United States. Nurses shall advance on the salary schedule in the same manner as above for experience as either a school nurse or a public health nurse. Certified educators hired in the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 school years shall be granted experience credit as described above effective August 1, 2020. The Board shall grant experience credit for out-of-district teaching experience in the following manner: One full year of experience shall be granted for a minimum of 90 or more days for a total of four (4) or more hours each day in a continuous assignment in a given school year. The Board shall grant experience credit for in-district experience to educators re-employed after a break in district employment on the basis of one (1) full year of experience for 90 or more days for a total of four (4) or more hours each day in a continuous assignment in a given school year. This shall be done in conjunction with any other experience credit as described in the previous paragraphparagraph with a maximum of ten (10) total steps granted for any combination of in-district and out-of-district experience. After the educator’s appropriate initial horizontal placement by the district on the salary schedule, the educator has up to ninety (90) days to provide the district additional official transcripts and/or documentation earned prior to the first day of employment to support further salary advancement. This shall be retroactive to the educator’s contract date. An educator who submits documentation to the district of dual degrees conferred on the same date shall be placed on the salary schedule at the BA level. The employee shall provide the district with documentation that identifies the minimum number of hours/courses required for the first degree in order to determine the number of hours beyond the first degree. Only those years served while the educator held a state certificate/license or the nurse held a state license will be counted. Responsibility for verification of outside experience shall rest with the individual educator or nurse and be subject to regulations for verification as formulated by the Board. The Board shall place the certified/licensed employee on the step of the salary schedule appropriate to the number of years taught in the situations mentioned above. The employee will then advance on the salary schedule in the normal manner. An educator shall be placed on the salary schedule following the guidelines above if they have not worked as a certified educator in the district previously. An educator who has worked previously as a certified educator in the district shall be placed as a new employee according to current placement rules only after a break in service has occurred. A break in service is defined as when an educator’s resignation or non-renewal has been acted upon by the Board of Education and the educator did not work thirty or more contract days as a certified educator. Situations on experience credit that may arise for which language is not clearly applicable will be jointly reviewed by the Chief Human Resources Officer and the Association President and a mutual decision made.

Experience Credit for Placement on Salary Schedule. Any new educator teacher employed for at least the last complete semester of the school year will receive a full step on the salary schedule, if a step is granted. Effective as of the 2022-2023 school year, the Board shall grant experience credit as follows:. (1) year for each full year of out of district experience up to ten (10) years of experience for all educators. • The district and the Association agree that, effective for the 2022-2023 school year, special programs teachers (teachers of students with significant support needs, structured learning services or affective needs), audiologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, school nurses, school psychologists, school social workers, and speech language pathologists shall receive experience credit for each full year of previous experience and are not limited to ten (10) years as described in Appendix A, Item 3. • Additionally, one (1) step for each full year, as described in this Appendix, of service in the district as a contracted certified, classified, in-building substitute, and/or administrative employee for educators beginning a new certified contract or returning to a certified contract effective the 2022-2023 school yearexperience. This experience may have been acquired: (a) in a state-accredited or licensed public or non- non-public school, including pre-pre- school, elementary, secondary, or university levels, or (b) a combination of the above. A school shall will be considered accredited only if officially accredited by a state Department of Education, a territorial accrediting association, one of the regional accrediting associations (i.e. Northwest), or schools operated by the United States and in foreign countries when the school has been accredited by a recognized agency of the United States. Nurses shall advance will be advanced on the salary schedule in the same manner as above for experience as either a school nurse or a public health nurse. The Board shall grant experience credit for out-of-district teaching experience in the following manner: One full year of experience shall will be granted for a minimum of 90 or more days for a total of four (4) or more hours each day in a continuous assignment in a given school year. The Board shall grant experience credit for in-district experience to educators teachers re-employed after a break in district employment on the basis of one (1) full year of experience for 90 or more days for a total of four (4) or more hours each day in a continuous assignment in a given school year. This shall be done in conjunction with any other experience credit as described in the previous paragraph. After the educator’s appropriate initial horizontal placement by the paragraph with a maximum of ten (10) total steps granted for any combination of in-district on the salary schedule, the educator has up to ninety (90) days to provide the and out-of-district additional official transcripts and/or documentation earned prior to the first day of employment to support further salary advancement. This shall be retroactive to the educator’s contract date. An educator who submits documentation to the district of dual degrees conferred on the same date shall be placed on the salary schedule at the BA level. The employee shall provide the district with documentation that identifies the minimum number of hours/courses required for the first degree in order to determine the number of hours beyond the first degreeexperience. Only those years served while the educator teacher held a state certificate/license or the nurse held a state license will be counted. Responsibility for verification of outside experience shall rest with the individual educator teacher or nurse and be subject to regulations for verification as formulated by the BoardBoard of Education. The Board shall place the certified/licensed employee on the step of the salary schedule appropriate to the number of years taught in the situations mentioned above. The employee will then advance on the salary schedule in the normal manner. An educator shall be placed on the salary schedule following the guidelines above if they have not worked as a certified educator in the district previously. An educator who has worked previously as a certified educator in the district shall be placed as a new employee according to current placement rules only after a break in service has occurred. A break in service is defined as when an educator’s resignation or non-renewal has been acted upon by the Board of Education and the educator did not work thirty or more contract days as a certified educator. Situations on experience credit that may arise for which language is not clearly applicable will be jointly reviewed by the Chief Human Resources Resource Officer and the Association DTEA President and a mutual decision made.

Experience Credit for Placement on Salary Schedule. Any new educator teacher employed for at least the last complete semester of the school year will receive a full step on the salary schedule, if a step is granted. Effective as of the 2022-2023 school year, the Board shall grant experience credit as follows:. (1) year for each full year of out of district experience up to ten (10) years of experience for all educators. • The district and the Association agree that, effective for the 2022-2023 school year, special programs teachers (teachers of students with significant support needs, structured learning services or affective needs), audiologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, school nurses, school psychologists, school social workers, and speech language pathologists shall receive experience credit for each full year of previous experience and are not limited to ten (10) years as described in Appendix A, Item 3. • Additionally, one (1) step for each full year, as described in this Appendix, of service in the district as a contracted certified, classified, in-building substitute, and/or administrative employee for educators beginning a new certified contract or returning to a certified contract effective the 2022-2023 school yearexperience. This experience may have been acquired: (a) in a state-accredited or licensed public or non- non-public school, including pre-school, elementary, secondary, or university levels, or (b) a combination of the above. A school shall will be considered accredited only if officially accredited by a state Department of Education, a territorial accrediting association, one of the regional accrediting associations (i.e. Northwest), or schools operated by the United States and in foreign countries when the school has been accredited by a recognized agency of the United States. Nurses shall advance will be advanced on the salary schedule in the same manner as above for experience as either a school nurse or a public health nurse. The Board shall grant experience credit for out-of-district teaching experience in the following manner: One full year of experience shall will be granted for a minimum of 90 or more days for a total of four (4) or more hours each day in a continuous assignment in a given school year. The Board shall grant experience credit for in-district experience to educators teachers re-employed after a break in district employment on the basis of one (1) full year of experience for 90 or more days for a total of four (4) or more hours each day in a continuous assignment in a given school year. This shall be done in conjunction with any other experience credit as described in the previous paragraph. After the educator’s appropriate initial horizontal placement by the paragraph with a maximum of ten (10) total steps granted for any combination of in-district on the salary schedule, the educator has up to ninety (90) days to provide the and out-of-district additional official transcripts and/or documentation earned prior to the first day of employment to support further salary advancement. This shall be retroactive to the educator’s contract date. An educator who submits documentation to the district of dual degrees conferred on the same date shall be placed on the salary schedule at the BA level. The employee shall provide the district with documentation that identifies the minimum number of hours/courses required for the first degree in order to determine the number of hours beyond the first degreeexperience. Only those years served while the educator teacher held a state certificate/license or the nurse held a state license will be counted. Responsibility for verification of outside experience shall rest with the individual educator teacher or nurse and be subject to regulations for verification as formulated by the BoardBoard of Education. The Board shall place the certified/licensed employee on the step of the salary schedule appropriate to the number of years taught in the situations mentioned above. The employee will then advance on the salary schedule in the normal manner. An educator shall be placed on the salary schedule following the guidelines above if they have not worked as a certified educator in the district previously. An educator who has worked previously as a certified educator in the district shall be placed as a new employee according to current placement rules only after a break in service has occurred. A break in service is defined as when an educator’s resignation or non-renewal has been acted upon by the Board of Education and the educator did not work thirty or more contract days as a certified educator. Situations on experience credit that may arise for which language is not clearly applicable will be jointly reviewed by the Chief Human Resources Officer and the Association DTEA President and a mutual decision made.