Common use of Quality Improvement Teams Clause in Contracts

Quality Improvement Teams. The mission of each building Quality Improvement Team is to enhance student learning, promote equity of services, promote quality education, implement one District-identified goal/area of focus and implement building learning goals, ensure meaningful parental input and lead the building’s efforts to comply with State requirements for the benefit of the individual school as well as the District. The operation of each Quality Improvement Team in addressing local school and District needs shall be as follows: 1. The leadership of the Quality Improvement Team shall be shared equally between one (1) teacher and one (1) administration representative in each building. The role of the leadership of each Quality Improvement Team shall include but not be limited to developing agendas, allocating budget needs and facilitating communication among Quality Improvement Team members to support effective, collaborative decision-making. The assigning of specific roles or duties to individual Quality Improvement Team members shall be the sole responsibility of each school’s Quality Improvement Team. 2. Teacher participation on a Quality Improvement Team is entirely voluntary, but shall be restricted to tenured teachers only. Teachers shall not be evaluated with respect to their non-participation on the Quality Improvement Team. Teachers who participate on their building Quality Improvement Team may have such participation noted in their evaluation. 3. From the funds that are within each building’s Quality Improvement Team budget and as determined by the Quality Improvement Team members for that building and approved by the Superintendent, Quality Improvement Teams have an option, at the same rate as curriculum writing, to pay their members for time spent on professional activities outside the normal times for committee participation which are undertaken on behalf of and relating to Quality Improvement Team activities which are over and above the normal activities of members of the Quality Improvement Team. 4. The parties acknowledge that neither the Board of Education nor the school administrators waive their rights and responsibilities under the School Code of Illinois, and that PREA does not waive its statutory rights and obligation as the sole and exclusive bargaining representative of the District’s teachers for negotiations over terms and conditions of employment.

Quality Improvement Teams. The mission of each building Quality Improvement Team is to enhance student learning, promote equity of services, promote quality education, implement one District-identified goal/area of focus and implement building learning goals, ensure meaningful parental input and lead the building’s efforts to comply with State requirements for the benefit of the individual school as well as the District. The operation of each Quality Improvement Team in addressing local school and District needs shall be as follows: 1. The leadership of the Quality Improvement Team shall be shared equally between one (1) teacher and one (1) administration representative in each building. The role of the leadership of each Quality Improvement Team shall include but not be limited to developing agendas, allocating budget needs needs, and facilitating communication among Quality Improvement Team members to support effective, collaborative decision-making. The assigning of specific roles or duties to individual Quality Improvement Team members shall be the sole responsibility of each school’s Quality Improvement Team. 2. Teacher participation on a Quality Improvement Team is entirely voluntary, voluntary but shall be restricted to tenured teachers only. Teachers shall not be evaluated with respect to their non-participation on the Quality Improvement Team. Teachers who participate on their building Quality Improvement Team may have such participation noted in their evaluation. 3. From the funds that are within each building’s Quality Improvement Team budget and as determined by the Quality Improvement Team members for that building and approved by the Superintendent, Quality Improvement Teams have an option, at the same rate as curriculum writing, to pay their members for time spent on professional activities outside the normal times for committee participation which are undertaken on behalf of and relating to Quality Improvement Team activities which are over and above the normal activities of members of the Quality Improvement Team. 4. The parties Parties acknowledge that neither the Board of Education nor the school administrators waive their rights and responsibilities under the School Code of Illinois, and that PREA does not waive its statutory rights and obligation as the sole and exclusive bargaining representative of the District’s teachers for negotiations over terms and conditions of employment.