Professional Enrichment. 1. The Board and the Association take seriously the need for professional enrichment programs. With this in mind, in-services shall be planned by and funded by the Board with the program topic(s) announced early enough to permit professionals to prepare for meaningful participation. All participants in the program shall be given the opportunity to evaluate the educational merits of the program(s). The result of the evaluation shall be considered in future planning. 2. There may be four (4) start-of-school delay days during the course of each school year for purposes of in-service teacher collaboration in the district. One day's activities would be planned by the building administrators, one by the district continuous improvement committee, one by teachers, and one by a grade/department level group of employees. For purposes of this provision, teacher collaboration activity topics may include but are not limited to the following: a. schedules for team teaching; b. develop intervention goals and procedures; c. analyze proficiency data to use for the improvement of student proficiency scores; d. develop integrated units to meet proficiency outcomes; e. brainstorm ways to improve instruction; f. mentoring (team teaching); g. continuous improvement subcommittees; h. scheduling; i. update/coordinate special education meetings; j. any other activity deemed appropriate. 3. A Local Professional Development Committee (LPDC) for district employees shall be established in accordance with Article XVII. The annual stipend for the bargaining unit members serving on the LPDC shall be five hundred twenty-five dollars ($525.00).
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