SITE COMMITTEES. Each location, as referenced above, shall have a site committee, consisting of three (3) classified employees and one (1) alternate classified employee and the President/Designee or Chief Human Resources Officer/Designee as appropriate. An ad hoc person, with expertise in training or curriculum development, may be appointed by the President/Chief Human Resources Officer. The classified committee shall be provided with reasonable release time. Any decisions of the site committee must be unanimous. Decisions that are not unanimous may be appealed by either side to the full Joint Central Committee for resolution.
SITE COMMITTEES. Each site will have a site professional and curriculum development committee. The site committee will be made up of all peer leaders at the site and others representing non-teaching staff, parents, and administrator so that the majority of each committee will be teachers. An Academy district coordinator and a curriculum facilitator will serve as non-voting members of each site committee. Each site committee will have an elected teacher chair. The site committee is charged with the responsibility to carry out planning, evaluating, reporting, and budgeting for all professional and curriculum development activities at the site. Necessary budgetary support for site professional and curriculum development activities should be allocated within site budgets. The site professional development committee must demonstrate to the school board the extent to which staff at the site has met the outcomes of the district professional development program. The board may withhold a portion of initial allocation of professional development revenue if the professional development outcomes are not being met.
SITE COMMITTEES. For the purposes of this article and for planning, evaluating, budgeting, and reporting, the following will be considered sites: “Lifelong Learning Center” (LLC), “Cedar Creek Community School” (CCCS), “East Bethel Community School” (EBCS), “St. Xxxxxxx Elementary” (SFE), “St. Xxxxxxx High School” SFHS, “St. Xxxxxxx Middle School” (SFMS), “Crossroads School and Vocational Center” (CSVC), and “Special Services”. “Special Services” elected peer leaders who represent teams having a majority housed in a single building will serve as a voting member of the Site Committee at that building.
SITE COMMITTEES. 1. When the duties/requirements of the site committee are defined by the various agencies of the State of Oregon, the S.E.A. will meet with the District to discuss optional guidelines under which the site committee(s) might be guided.
2. Professional educators who are elected to serve on a site committee will be provided release time from their assigned duties, compensated at the extended contract rate, or offered comp time. The method of compensation will be selected by the District.
SITE COMMITTEES. 1. Site committees established by the District shall adhere to state laws, school board policies (IFCA, IFCA-R), and the collective bargaining agreement. Participation on the committee shall be voluntary and shall not be used as an evaluative criterion.
2. The District will provide support to 21st Century School Councils within budgetary limitations through release time, scheduling adjustments, use of duty periods for council assignments or extra compensation, whichever is appropriate. The District will also provide appropriate staff in-service.
3. School councils which do not have duty periods to hold meetings shall have substitutes available for the equivalent of four (4) one-half (½) days per year for council business. Additionally, there will be three (3) district-wide student early release days per year for all staff to work on schools’ councils’ business. The dates for early release shall be established by the District. Grant monies will be used to provide further time and resources for schools’ councils’ business.
SITE COMMITTEES. For the purposes of this Article and for planning, evaluating, budgeting, and reporting, the following will be considered sites: Lifelong Learning Center (LLC), Cedar Creek Community School (CCCS), East Bethel Community School (EBCS), St. Xxxxxxx Elementary (SFE), St. Xxxxxxx High School SFHS, St. Xxxxxxx Middle School (SFMS), Crossroads School and Vocational Center (CSVC), and Special Services. Special services elected peer leaders who represent teams a majority of whom are housed in a single building will serve as a voting member of the site professional and curriculum development committee at that building.
SITE COMMITTEES. A. The District and the Association recognize the arrangements pursuant to which employees at individual schools are given increased responsibility for making decisions with regard to their day-to-day affairs (“site-based decisions-making arrangements”) can xxxxxx the collegial exchange of ideas and information that is necessary for effective professional practice, and can improve the educational process. Accordingly, in order to encourage the development and implementation of site-based decision-making arrangements in the District, the parties agree as follows:
1. Each building may establish a Site-Based Committee in accordance with relevant state statutes and administrative rules and District policies. Licensed representatives shall be elected by licensed teachers in the building. Persons so elected shall agree to serve a two-year term. A 3/4 majority of the unit members is required to recall an elected member.
2. The School Board may appropriate funds for use by the Committee in carrying out its responsibilities. The Committee may expend this money for its own operating expenses and/or to fund site-based decision-making arrangements at individual schools. Application may be made to the District for additional funds subject to availability.
3. The Committee, in cooperation with the District office, will, among its other functions, conduct during each school year a site-based decision-making orientation program, the purpose of which will be to explain the theory and practice of site-based decision making, and to provide training in the skills (e.g., group problem solving, consensus building) that are necessary to develop and implement effective site-based decision- making arrangements. This program will include a component for all administrators and employees.
4. Prior to the implementation of any major decision initiated by the site committee which effects either program or people, the Committee will secure, by secret ballot and under rules established by the Committee, a 3/4 (75%) agreement of the affected teachers.
5. The Site Committee shall be without power to alter or amend the collective bargaining agreement, State or Federal Law, Board Policy or Administrative Regulation or rules and regulations of any state agency without written waiver of the agency involved and the parties to this agreement.
6. The duties of a 21st Century School council shall include but not be limited to:
a. The development of plans to improve the professional growth of the s...
SITE COMMITTEES. The District may establish School Improvement and Professional Development Programs/Site- Based Decision-Making Programs/21st Century Schools Councils Programs as provided for under ORS 336.705 to 336.780, the Oregon Educational Act for the 21st Century, and/or as part of the District’s staff/curriculum development program.
1. Any Site Committee which is established as a component of such programs shall be composed as provided by law with teacher representatives selected in an election conducted by the Association or, if provided by law, by the Association itself.
2. No program plan/implementation that results from a Site Committee shall:
a. Violate any District policy unless approved by the School Board.
b. Violate any provision of the master Agreement unless mutually approved by the School Board and the Association.
c. Establish any past practice or precedent with regard to contract negotiations, contract administration and/or grievances.
3. The Superintendent and the President of the Association will meet periodically to discuss the matters related to site-based committee programs. The District will comply with any reasonable request from the Association for information regarding a proposed or implemented site-based decision-making program.
SITE COMMITTEES. Any program plan/implementation that results from a Site Council:
A. Shall not violate any District policy unless approved by the Board;
B. Shall not violate any provision of this Agreement unless mutually approved by the Board and the Association;
C. Shall set no past practice or precedent with regard to contract negotiations, contract administration and/or grievances.
SITE COMMITTEES. For the purposes of this Article and for planning, evaluating, budgeting, and reporting, the following will be considered sites: LLC, Cedar Creek, East Bethel, St. Xxxxxxx Elementary, St. Xxxxxxx High School, St. Xxxxxxx Middle School, Crossroads, and Special Services. Special services elected peer leaders who represent teams a majority of whom are housed in a single building will serve as a voting member of the site professional and curriculum development committee at that building.
