Planning and Conference Time. a. Each employee shall have a minimum of three hundred (300) minutes per week of planning and conference time. Two hundred twenty (220) (200) minutes of the three hundred (300) minutes minimum shall be set aside on the schedule exclusively for teacher directed planning. Employees shall not leave school grounds without prior approval of the building principal. Student supervision shall not be assigned during this conference and planning time, but professional staff meetings may be scheduled when a portion of this time is after student dismissal. b. The teacher work day at elementary buildings shall be scheduled in order to create a forty (40) minute block of planning and conference time during the elementary work day. The teacher will have one Teacher Based Team Meeting per week. Morning and afternoon duties shall be assigned in as equitable a manner as feasible. The division of those duties shall be established by a joint committee at each building, where applicable by grade level. Parent meetings which require the attendance of teachers may also be scheduled during this forty (40) minute block. c. The three hundred (300) minutes of planning and conference time shall be scheduled in time blocks of at least twenty (20) minutes, except for one block of time per day which may be less than twenty (20) minutes.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
