Common use of Salary Schedule Placement Requirements Clause in Contracts

Salary Schedule Placement Requirements. 13.2.1 Years of teaching experience outside the District, not exceeding five years, shall be considered years of teaching in the District. One year of this may be military experience, Peace Corps, VISTA, or national voluntary service experience. The sum of teaching experience under contract is used as the basis for step placement. Fractional parts that remain in the sum may be counted where such fraction constitutes: 75% or more of a whole year for service outside the district; or, in cases of fractions of outside added to fractions of inside experience such fractional part remaining in the total is treated the same as outside experience. 13.2.1.1 Effective July 1, 2018, initial salary schedule placement for Speech and Language Pathologists shall include all public and private years of employment as a Speech and Language Pathologist. If the District hires retired Teachers, the OVSD and OVTA agree to meet and negotiate the effects. 13.2.2 Units earned for horizontal advancement on the salary schedule refer to those units earned after the granting of the B.A. degree. Units taken before the granting of the B.A. shall be credited toward horizontal advancement provided those units are not counted toward the granting of the B.A. and do apply toward the fifth year credential. All units are deemed to be semester units. A unit of work is defined as one (1) semester hour of work. Quarter units are converted to semester units by multiplying the quarter units by two-thirds (2/3). The B.A. + 60 including M.A. requirement in column D refers to units earned after the granting of the B.A. degree, and the M.A. + 15 requirement in column D refers to those units earned after the granting of the M.A. degree. 13.2.3 The amount of credit for private school teaching experience will depend on whether or not the individual held a teaching credential. 13.2.4 Teachers who meet the requirements of the contract and who compete the District-specified procedures and timelines may be eligible to advance not more than two (2) columns on the salary schedule in any one (1) fiscal year, if warranted by unit accumulation. It shall be understood that the District shall allow annual column changes to take place twice each year for coursework completed prior to October 1 and February 1 of that year and verified not later than October 10 and February 10, respectively. In cases where the college or university is responsible for missing this deadline, the individual shall meet the deadline by filing an affidavit with the District until the official verification is forthcoming. 13.2.5 A Teacher with an earned Doctorate degree shall receive $1100 over and above placement on the salary schedule. 13.2.6 Effective July 1, 2019, teaching experience outside the Ocean View School District does count toward advancement to Steps 16, 20, and 24 on the Teachers Salary Schedule.