Horizontal Movement on Schedule. If a higher level of training is achieved, teachers must complete, sign, and submit a Professional Growth/Horizontal Advancement Completion Form to their Principals for submission to the Office of Human Resources. The day the forms and documentation are received in the Office of Human Resources will be the effective date for change following approval by the Board. A change in the horizontal status of a teacher shall be subject to correction only until June 30 of the school year in which the credits were submitted. (Cross reference - Policy 4130, Professional Growth)
Horizontal Movement on Schedule. 1. Credit for contact hours or college credits, upon approval by the appropriate department supervisor, will be submitted to Human Resources for horizontal advancement on the salary schedule. Changes in salary will be effective on the first day of the month after the forms and documentation, complete and in good order, were received in the Office of Human Resources. Contact hours or college credit must be accumulated in an amount that equates to advancement on the salary schedule before being submitted to Human Resources.
2. Undergraduate courses qualify for horizontal advancement but only if they are taken and approved after the individual has been contracted by the District. An EdS degree will be considered a master’s degree for the purposes of Horizontal Advancement unless the EdS was earned subsequent to earning a master’s degree.
3. Effective August 1, 2023, all teachers shall be limited to move no more than one (1) lane (or two lanes if one of them is attainment of a degree) in a school year.
4. Any credits submitted for horizontal advancement must be earned after the date of the most advanced degree. Conversion to semester hours, as recognized on the schedule, is in accordance with the table below:
a. One (1) semester hour = fifteen (15) contact hours
b. One (1) CDE equivalent to a semester hour = fifteen (15) contact hours
5. Refer to Policy 4130, Professional Growth, for additional parameters and information regarding horizontal movement on the salary schedule.
Horizontal Movement on Schedule. If a higher level of training is achieved, teachers must complete, sign, and submit a Professional Growth/Horizontal Advancement Completion Form to their Principals for submission to the Office of Human Resources. The day the forms and documentation are received in the Office of Human
Horizontal Movement on Schedule. 14.3.1 In order to guarantee movement from one (1) class to another on the salary schedule, each unit member must receive approval for college credit which has been approved prior to the starting date of the course.
14.3.2 Unit members who do not follow the approval procedures set forth in this Article, including prior approval, are cautioned that there will be no guarantee of credit allowance and/or horizontal movement.
14.3.3 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article, no courses/units shall be eligible for approval if submitted more than three (3) years after the course work was completed.
14.3.4 Any college units earned during summer session, that are to be submitted for fulfilling unit requirements for placement on the current year’s salary schedule, must be completed prior to the first day of paid service for the school year and transcripts must be received in the District Office within thirty (30) days after the first day of the school year.
14.3.5 Horizontal movement on the salary schedule shall be affected in the school year after attaining the requirements for horizontal movement. Unit members may not move more than one (1) column on the salary schedule in any year, even if credits earned may allow a different column placement.
14.3.6 Master’s, Ph.D., Ed.D., or National Certification stipends will be paid in the school year after the requirements have been met.
