Lane Placement on Salary Schedule. The following rules shall be applicable in determining placement of a teacher on the appropriate salary schedule:
Subd. 1. Germane: Credits to be considered for application on any lane of the salary schedule must be germane to the teaching assignment as determined by the school district or the act of teaching as determined by the Superintendent of Schools or required by the Minnesota Department of Eduction.
Lane Placement on Salary Schedule. All contract personnel will be placed on the proper lane on the salary schedule based on actual degree qualifications.
Lane Placement on Salary Schedule. Subd.
1. Professional Growth Committee: A committee composed of the superintendent, one administrator or Board member selected by the Board, the high school principal, elementary principal, a lower elementary teacher, an upper elementary teacher, a 6-8 teacher and a 9-12 teacher, said teachers to be appointed by the Executive Board of the Exclusive Representative shall determine if credits are acceptable to move from one salary category to another. Lane change credits shall be defined as semester credits and teachers earning other than semester credits shall have them prorated on a semester credit basis. This committee may also give prior approval to credits that a teacher anticipates using for movement to a higher salary category. The guidelines established by the Committee for granting approval of credits shall be distributed to the professional staff by June 1st of each year and shall be effective for the following school year.
Lane Placement on Salary Schedule. The following rules shall be applicable in determining placement of a teacher on the appropriate salary schedule:
Subd. 1. Germane: Credits to be considered for application on any lane of the salary schedule must be germane to the teaching assignment as determined by the School District. All credits, in order to be considered for application on the salary schedules, must have prior written approval from the Superintendent of the School District. For purposes of the application of the salary schedule, teachers shall be required to reimburse the School District the difference between continuing education credit and graduate credit as per other academic disciplines charged by universities or colleges if the continuing education course is taken in conjunction with workshops that may be funded by staff development monies.
Subd. 2. For teachers hired after December 31, 2007, individual contracts will be modified to reflect qualified lane changes once every year effective at the beginning of the school year, providing an official transcript of qualified credits is submitted to the Superintendent’s office no later than September 15th of each year. Credits submitted by official transcript after September 15th, even though otherwise qualifying, shall not be considered until the following school year. If an official transcript is not available by September 15th, other satisfactory evidence of successful completion of the course will be accepted pending receipt of the official transcript; however, any pay adjustment shall not be made until the official transcript is received. These teachers shall not advance more than one lane progression in any one school year. For teachers hired before December 31, 2007 individual contracts will be modified to reflect qualified lane changes twice every year. For a lane change to be effective at the beginning of the school year, an official transcript of qualified credits must be submitted to the Superintendent’s office no later than September 15. For a lane change to be effective at the middle of the school year, an official transcript of qualified credits must be submitted to the Superintendent’s office no later than January 15. DocuSign Envelope ID: 4C261AF0-21FB-4CC3-98AF-288330BCB596 assignment as approved by the School District and the degree program is approved in writing by the Superintendent.
