Faculty Meetings/Professional Development Hours. Attendance at staff meetings, conferences, professional development meetings, and the like, will be limited to four (4) meetings per month. There shall be no more than one (1) staff meeting during any week, the duration of which shall not exceed forty-five (45) minutes before the teachers’ first regularly scheduled assignment or after the teachers’ last regularly scheduled assignment. There shall be no staff meetings scheduled during the week of a particular building’s parent/teacher conferences and open houses. “Regularly scheduled assignment” shall mean teaching time and teacher preparation period. A total of thirty (30) professional development hours are required throughout the school year. Nineteen (19) hours will occur on the teacher PD day before Labor Day (6 hours), on Election Day (6.5 hours), and on MLK Jr. Day (6.5 hours). Eleven (11) hours will occur in the form of PLC meetings, minimally one (1) per month, September - June, with an additional hour in October (Halloween half-day, after students have been released). PLC meetings shall be documented utilizing the district-wide PLC form (see addendum). The WBSD shall make efforts to schedule professional development activities virtually and/or on-line when deemed appropriate and effective. A majority of the staff and administration may agree to hold consecutive professional development hours. Each hour will count as one (1) meeting. Emergency meetings may be called with the agreement of the local Association building representative. All staff meetings shall be on a regular schedule as jointly determined by the principal and the teaching staff. If no agreement can be jointly determined, only Tuesdays after the teachers’ last regularly scheduled assignment may be reserved for staff meetings. An agenda shall be given to each teacher. Teachers shall be excused from staff meetings without loss of compensation for emergencies or upon approval of the building principal. Annually required trainings that do not count as professional development (i.e. - OSHA requirements) shall take place during staff meetings.
Faculty Meetings/Professional Development Hours. Attendance at staff meetings, conferences, professional development meetings, and the like, will be limited to four (4) meetings per month. There shall be no more than one (1) staff meeting during any week, the duration of which shall not exceed forty-five (45) minutes before the teachers’ first regularly scheduled assignment or after the teachers’ last regularly scheduled assignment. There shall be no staff meetings scheduled during the week of a particular building’s parent/teacher conferences. “Regularly scheduled assignment” shall mean teaching time and teacher preparation period. A total of thirty (30) professional development hours are required throughout the school year. Twenty-seven (27) of the thirty (30) hours will be held during the student contact hours in the form of in-services. Three (3) hours will be held during professional development meetings. Professional development meetings must be one (1) hour in length and will count as one of the four (4) meetings per month. A majority of the staff and administration may agree to hold consecutive professional development hours. Each hour will count as one (1) meeting. Emergency meetings may be called with the agreement of the local Association building representative. All staff meetings shall be on a regular schedule as jointly determined by the principal and the teaching staff. If no agreement can be jointly determined, only Tuesdays after the teachers’ last regularly scheduled assignment may be reserved for staff meetings. An agenda shall be given to each teacher. Teachers shall be excused from staff meetings without loss of compensation for emergencies or upon approval of the building principal.
