Meetings - Faculty and Other. 1. Teachers may be required to remain after the end of the regular workday without additional compensation, for the purpose of attending faculty or other professional meetings - twenty meetings per teacher per school year. Said meeting days shall be apportioned no more than four meetings per month on two calendar days notice to the faculty. Such meeting shall begin no later than 15 minutes after the student dismissal time and shall run for no more than 45 minutes.
2. Any meeting scheduled for more than 45 minutes requires 5 calendar days notice and must indicate the estimated length of said meeting. A written agenda must be given 3 calendar days prior to the meeting. No meeting will run past 4:30 P.M.
3. In the event of an extreme emergency a meeting can be called without the required days notice. In cases of emergency involving the health and safety of students and teachers, if additional time is needed students shall be dismissed early.
4. Meetings which take place after the regular in-school workday and which require attendance shall not be called on Fridays or on any day immediately preceding any holiday, or other day when teacher attendance is not required at school except in the case of emergency.
5. All teaching staff members may be required to attend two (2) evening "Open House Nights" during the course for each school year. The total number of conferences shall not exceed three (3).
Meetings - Faculty and Other. 1. There shall be no more than 25 meetings per school year. These meetings shall be held on Mondays except when an emergency arises. Such meetings shall be no longer than one hour in duration commencing 15 minutes after student dismissal. These meetings shall include faculty and all other meetings. There shall be no outside assignments or preparation for these meetings. The first Monday of each month shall be reserved for Association meetings. When the first Monday of the month is not a school day, one Monday each month shall be reserved for Association meetings.
2. No teacher shall be requested or required to serve as chairperson of any committee more than once in any three school year period. Such assignment shall be for one school year only.
3. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Association guarantees that its members shall complete assignments on T & E curriculum and state and federal mandates to the satisfaction of the Superintendent and Board of Education. The Superintendent shall provide at least 16 meetings for the purpose of satisfying the above stated guarantee. Should more than 16 meetings be required to satisfy the guarantee, the Association representatives shall indicate the need for more meetings at the earliest of the agreed meetings stated in Article XIV, F1. At that time, the Superintendent and Board of Education will assess the need for an extension of the 16 meetings.
4. Classroom teachers will no longer be responsible for maintaining state registers effective September 1984.
5. At the conclusion of the first marking period, all teachers will be required to attend parent-teacher conferences. These conferences shall be scheduled after school hours. Compensation for the mandatory participation in these conferences shall be at the hourly rate of $34.
6. All teachers will be required to attend one (1) Back-to-School Night per school year at no additional compensation. Early dismissal on Back-to-School Nights will be at 12:30 p.m.
