Common use of HOURS & AMOUNTS OF WORK‌ SECTION A. LENGTH OF THE SCHOOL DAY Clause in Contracts

HOURS & AMOUNTS OF WORK‌ SECTION A. LENGTH OF THE SCHOOL DAY. 1. All teachers shall be at school one-half hour before their regular school day begins. 2. Teachers shall remain on duty until fifteen minutes after the end of the regular school day. 3. There will be no signing in or signing out at any school in the district. 4. Teachers shall be available for conferences with parents or students by appointment and shall be available for regular school meetings. 5. One (1) special education and one (1) teacher at each area school shall remain on duty until the school bus unloads and/or loads, as the case may be, and leaves. 6. All special teachers of art, music, speech therapy, special education, etc., shall be on duty at the school in which they will be teaching that particular day, at the same time as outlined above. 7. The Board of Education and administration realize that there will be occasional exceptions due to such events as medical appointments, hair appointments, or other possible situations requiring some flexibility. Any such exceptions are to be cleared with the building principal before leaving thebuilding. 8. The staff at an individual or multiple buildings may opt for: a. extending their student contact time b. flexible scheduling of student contact time c. flexible scheduling of non-student contract time when 50% + 1 of those represented by the bargaining unit are in favor. 1) Voting will be done by secret ballot and is limited to one vote on each issue per nine months. 2) Sufficient time for thorough discussion of an issue should be provided for and amendments made before the vote is taken. 3) The voting will be supervised by the principal and two members of the bargaining unit who are members of Hays-NEA or selected by Hays-NEA. 4) All members of the bargaining unit that spend over 50% of their work day in the building will vote. The bargaining unit is defined to include all licensed professional personnel with the exception of administrators and OT/PT personnel. 5) Any member of the bargaining unit who does not spend over 50% of their work day at any work site will select, at the beginning of the school year, one of the sites at which they work as their home building. Those members of the bargaining unit will be allowed to vote only in their home building. 6) When shifting contact or contract time involves a collective change at more than one site, voting will be conducted per the current guidelines, but results of the vote tally from the sites involved will be combined. The combined favorable vote of those buildings must be 50%+1 of the possible votes at those sites. 7) The intent of the clause is to allow faculties to be innovative and creative in the use of both student contact and non-student contract time. It allows for individual or groups of buildings,should they elect to do so, to add to their student contact time or to rearrange it when it would benefit the students. It also provides a way for staff members to schedule as many school activities as possible during teacher contract time. The following examples are provided to help clarify the intent of the policy: Ex. 1: Xxxx High School has a basketball tournament and needs to clear the building and parking lot during the school day. The faculty could, by 50% + 1 vote, agree to extend student contact time by whatever number of minutes necessary to gain the time that is needed to release the students early on the day of the tournament.

HOURS & AMOUNTS OF WORK‌ SECTION A. LENGTH OF THE SCHOOL DAY. 1. All teachers shall be at school one-half hour before their regular school day begins. 2. Teachers shall remain on duty until fifteen minutes after the end of the regular school day. 3. There will be no signing in or signing out at any school in the district. 4. Teachers shall be available for conferences with parents or students by appointment and shall be available for regular school meetings. 5. One (1) special education and one (1) teacher at each area school shall remain on duty until the school bus unloads and/or loads, as the case may be, and leaves. 6. All special teachers of art, music, speech therapy, special education, etc., shall be on duty at the school in which they will be teaching that particular day, at the same time as outlined above. 7. The Board of Education and administration realize that there will be occasional exceptions due to such events as medical appointments, hair appointments, or other possible situations requiring some flexibility. Any such exceptions are to be cleared with the building principal before leaving thebuilding. 8. The staff at an individual or multiple buildings may opt for: a. extending their student contact time b. flexible scheduling of student contact time c. flexible scheduling of non-student contract time when 50% + 1 of those represented by the bargaining unit are in favor. 1) Voting will be done by secret ballot and is limited to one vote on each issue per nine months. 2) Sufficient time for thorough discussion of an issue should be provided for and amendments made before the vote is taken. 3) The voting will be supervised by the principal and two members of the bargaining unit who are members of HaysXxxx-NEA or selected by HaysXxxx-NEA. 4) All members of the bargaining unit that spend over 50% of their work day in the building will vote. The bargaining unit is defined to include all licensed professional personnel with the exception of administrators and OT/PT personnel. 5) Any member of the bargaining unit who does not spend over 50% of their work day at any work site will select, at the beginning of the school year, one of the sites at which they work as their home building. Those members of the bargaining unit will be allowed to vote only in their home building. 6) When shifting contact or contract time involves a collective change at more than one site, voting will be conducted per the current guidelines, but results of the vote tally from the sites involved will be combined. The combined favorable vote of those buildings must be 50%+1 of the possible votes at those sites. 7) The intent of the clause is to allow faculties to be innovative and creative in the use of both student contact and non-student contract time. It allows for individual or groups of buildings,should they elect to do so, to add to their student contact time or to rearrange it when it would benefit the students. It also provides a way for staff members to schedule as many school activities as possible during teacher contract time. The following examples are provided to help clarify the intent of the policy: Ex. 1: Xxxx High School has a basketball tournament and needs to clear the building and parking lot during the school day. The faculty could, by 50% + 1 vote, agree to extend student contact time by whatever number of minutes necessary to gain the time that is needed to release the students early on the day of the tournament.

HOURS & AMOUNTS OF WORK‌ SECTION A. LENGTH OF THE SCHOOL DAY. 1. All teachers teachers, with the exception of Xxxx High, shall be at school one-half hour before their regular school day begins. Hays High teachers shall arrive 23 minutes before their regular school day begins. 2. Teachers Teachers, with the exception of Hays High, shall remain on duty until fifteen minutes after the end of the regular school day. Xxxx High teachers shall remain on duty until eight minutes after the end of the regular school day. 3. There will be no signing in or signing out at any school in the district. 4. Teachers shall be available for conferences with parents or students by appointment and shall be available for regular school meetings. 5. One (1) special education and one (1) teacher at each area school shall remain on duty until the school bus unloads and/or loads, as the case may be, and leaves. 6. All special teachers of art, music, speech therapy, special education, etc., shall be on duty at the school in which they will be teaching that particular day, at the same time as outlined above. 7. The Board of Education and administration realize that there will be occasional exceptions due to such events as medical appointments, hair appointments, or other possible situations requiring some flexibility. Any such exceptions are to be cleared with the building principal before leaving thebuildingthe building. 8. The staff at an individual or multiple buildings may opt for: a. extending their student contact time b. flexible scheduling of student contact time c. flexible scheduling of non-student contract time when 50% + 1 of those represented by the bargaining unit are in favor. 1) Voting will be done by secret ballot and is limited to one vote on each issue per nine months. 2) Sufficient time for thorough discussion of an issue should be provided for and amendments made before the vote is taken. 3) The voting will be supervised by the principal and two members of the bargaining unit who are members of Hays-NEA or selected by Hays-NEA. 4) All members of the bargaining unit that spend over 50% of their work day in the building will vote. The bargaining unit is defined to include all licensed professional personnel with the exception of administrators and OT/PT personnel. 5) Any member of the bargaining unit who does not spend over 50% of their work day at any work site will select, at the beginning of the school year, one of the sites at which they work as their home building. Those members of the bargaining unit will be allowed to vote only in their home building. 6) When shifting contact or contract time involves a collective change at more than one site, voting will be conducted per the current guidelines, but results of the vote tally from the sites involved will be combined. The combined favorable vote of those buildings must be 50%+1 of the possible votes at those sites. 7) The intent of the clause is to allow faculties to be innovative and creative in the use of both student contact and non-student contract time. It allows for individual or groups of buildings,, should they elect to do so, to add to their student contact time or to rearrange it when it would benefit the students. It also provides a way for staff members to schedule as many school activities as possible during teacher contract time. The following examples are provided to help clarify the intent of the policy: Ex. 1: Xxxx Hays High School has a basketball tournament and needs to clear the building and parking lot during the school day. The faculty could, by 50% + 1 vote, agree to extend student contact time by whatever number of minutes necessary to gain the time that is needed to release the students early on the day of the tournament.

HOURS & AMOUNTS OF WORK‌ SECTION A. LENGTH OF THE SCHOOL DAY. 1. All teachers teachers, with the exception of Hays High, shall be at school one-half hour before their regular school day begins. Hays High teachers shall arrive 23 minutes before their regular school day begins. 2. Teachers Teachers, with the exception of Hays High, shall remain on duty until fifteen minutes after the end of the regular school day. Hays High teachers shall remain on duty until eight minutes after the end of the regular school day. 3. There will be no signing in or signing out at any school in the district. 4. Teachers shall be available for conferences with parents or students by appointment and shall be available for regular school meetings. 5. One One (1) special education and one (1) teacher at each area school shall remain on duty until the school bus unloads and/or loads, as the case may be, and leaves. 6. All special teachers of art, music, speech therapy, special education, etc., shall be on duty at the school in which they will be teaching that particular day, at the same time as outlined above. 7. The Board of Education and administration realize that there will be occasional exceptions due to such events as medical appointments, hair appointments, or other possible situations requiring some flexibility. Any such exceptions are to be cleared with the building principal before leaving thebuildingthe building. 8. The staff at an individual or multiple buildings may opt for: a. extending their student contact time b. flexible scheduling of student contact time c. flexible scheduling of non-student contract time when 50% + 1 of those represented by the bargaining unit are in favor. 1) Voting will be done by secret ballot and is limited to one vote on each issue per nine months. 2) Sufficient time for thorough discussion of an issue should be provided for and amendments made before the vote is taken. 3) The voting will be supervised by the principal and two members of the bargaining unit who are members of Hays-NEA or selected by Hays-NEA. 4) All members of the bargaining unit that spend over 50% of their work day in the building will vote. The bargaining unit is defined to include all licensed professional personnel with the exception of administrators and OT/PT personnel. 5) Any member of the bargaining unit who does not spend over 50% of their work day at any work site will select, at the beginning of the school year, one of the sites at which they work as their home building. Those members of the bargaining unit will be allowed to vote only in their home building. 6) When shifting contact or contract time involves a collective change at more than one site, voting will be conducted per the current guidelines, but results of the vote tally from the sites involved will be combined. The combined favorable vote of those buildings must be 50%+1 of the possible votes at those sites. 7) The intent of the clause is to allow faculties to be innovative and creative in the use of both student contact and non-student contract time. It allows for individual or groups of buildings,, should they elect to do so, to add to their student contact time or to rearrange it when it would benefit the students. It also provides a way for staff members to schedule as many school activities as possible during teacher contract time. The following examples are provided to help clarify the intent of the policy: Ex. 1: Xxxx Hays High School has a basketball tournament and needs to clear the building and parking lot during the school day. The faculty could, by 50% + 1 vote, agree to extend student contact time by whatever number of minutes necessary to gain the time that is needed to release the students early on the day of the tournament.

HOURS & AMOUNTS OF WORK‌ SECTION A. LENGTH OF THE SCHOOL DAY. 1. All teachers shall be at school one-half hour before their regular school day begins. 2. Teachers shall remain on duty until fifteen minutes after the end of the regular school day. 3. There will be no signing in or signing out at any school in the district. 4. Teachers shall be available for conferences with parents or students by appointment and shall be available for regular school meetings. 5. One (1) special education and one (1) teacher at each area school shall remain on duty until the school bus unloads and/or loads, as the case may be, and leaves. 6. All special teachers of art, music, speech therapy, special education, etc., shall be on duty at the school in which they will be teaching that particular day, at the same time as outlined above. 7. The Board of Education and administration realize that there will be occasional exceptions due to such events as medical appointments, hair appointments, or other possible situations requiring some flexibility. Any such exceptions are to be cleared with the building principal before leaving thebuilding. 8. The staff at an individual or multiple buildings may opt for: a. extending their student contact time b. flexible scheduling of student contact time c. flexible scheduling of non-student contract time when 50% + 1 of those represented by the bargaining unit are in favor. 1) Voting will be done by secret ballot and is limited to one vote on each issue per nine months. 2) Sufficient time for thorough discussion of an issue should be provided for and amendments made before the vote is taken. 3) The voting will be supervised by the principal and two members of the bargaining unit who are members of HaysXxxx-NEA or selected by HaysXxxx-NEA. 4) All members of the bargaining unit that spend over 50% of their work day in the building will vote. The bargaining unit is defined to include all licensed professional personnel with the exception of administrators and OT/PT personnel. 5) Any member of the bargaining unit who does not spend over 50% of their work day at any work site will select, at the beginning of the school year, one of the sites at which they work as their home building. Those members of the bargaining unit will be allowed to vote only in their home building. 6) When shifting contact or contract time involves a collective change at more than one site, voting will be conducted per the current guidelines, but results of the vote tally from the sites involved will be combined. The combined favorable vote of those buildings must be 50%+1 of the possible votes at those sites. 7) The intent of the clause is to allow faculties to be innovative and creative in the use of both student contact and non-student contract time. It allows for individual or groups of buildings,should they elect to do so, to add to their student contact time or to rearrange it when it would benefit the students. It also provides a way for staff members to schedule as many school activities as possible during teacher contract time. The following examples are provided to help clarify the intent of the policy: Ex. 1: Xxxx Hays High School has a basketball tournament and needs to clear the building and parking lot during the school day. The faculty could, by 50% + 1 vote, agree to extend student contact time by whatever number of minutes necessary to gain the time that is needed to release the students early on the day of the tournament.