Staff Development Days. Effective July 1, 2014, the certification letter shall include four (4) or more paid staff development days.
Staff Development Days. The union will be consulted regarding the content of any Staff Development Days.
Staff Development Days. (i) It shall be the policy of the Board to provide two (2) paid staff development days per year for employees. These days will be held on the days designated as Teachers' Provincial and Teachers' District professional development days. Employees will be required to attend activities/programs organized on those days.
(ii) Programs for staff development days shall be organized by a joint committee of the Board and Union. The committee shall be comprised of four (4) representatives from each of the Board and the Union and shall be co-chaired by the parties on an annual basis.
(iii) There shall be established a Staff Development Fund and the Board contribution to this fund shall be seven thousand dollars ($7,000) per year. Monies unspent in any year shall accumulate on a year-to-year basis. The expenditure of these funds shall be upon the recommendation of the joint committee established in (f)(ii) above.
(iv) Where an employee is in attendance at a staff development day the hours of pay will be equal to the employee's regular daily hours of work, or the time of the in-service, whichever is the greater.
Staff Development Days. 1. Staff Development
a. The staff development program focus is to be on instructional methods, teaching strategies, and classroom management in an attempt to improve pupil performance, conflict resolution, intolerance and hatred prevention, and academic content in the core curriculum areas.
b. Staff Development days will be equivalent to 7.25 hours of service.
c. The District must pre-approve any activities credited for the Staff Development Program.
d. Professional Development/Teacher Collaboration Time Each Wednesday of the student calendar, all schools will be dismissed one hour earlier than regular dismissal to allow for professional development, data review, and collaborative academic planning for teachers. Each early release work-session shall run from fifteen (15) minutes after dismissal to the end of the duty day. Early release Wednesdays will be scheduled as follows:
Staff Development Days. 5.5.1 A participant is designated as a Member of the Bargaining Unit and must be present for the full staff development day.
5.5.2 Staff development will be scheduled annually on up to three full, mutually acceptable days outside of the normal duty days described in section 5.1 above by the association and the District.
5.5.2.1 Participants must sign in for each staff development day. Participants must sign-in prior to the beginning of each session, morning, and afternoon. Sign-in sheets will be available fifteen (15) minutes prior to each session's start time.
Staff Development Days. All staff development days will be scheduled within the 185 work year and eliminate per teacher state staff development reimbursement. There will be at least three 6.5 hour staff development opportunities for certificated staff who complete three 6.5 hour District authorized and documented staff development will receive a staff development participation/completion stipend. Two staff development days will be planned by the District and one will be planned by Site Administrators and Certificated Staff Representatives. For the site staff development day planning there will be a full faculty meeting agenda item.
Staff Development Days a. Staff development for each of these days will focus on instructional methods, including teaching strategies, classroom management and other training designed to improve pupil performance and academic content in the core curriculum.
b. The Staff Inservice Committee will be encouraged to use staff development days within the contractual year. These days shall include, but not be limited to:
(1) Planning and preparing the instructional program.
Staff Development Days. 1. When planned activities are scheduled by site or department for Classified employees on a Staff Development Day, employees are required to attend. Employees, whose site/department has a Staff Development Day and planned activities have not been scheduled to include Classified employees, have the options to work, take a vacation day, if accumulated, take a Personal Business Day (if available), take other Leaves of Absence as appropriate, comp time or take a days deduct.
a. On any teacher Non-Contract/Student Free Day/ or Student Free Day, a 180-day employee shall be entitled to take a vacation day (if accumulated), comp time, or an unpaid day if the day falls within their scheduled work year. This includes employees who have training dates added to their work-year but work directly with students.
Staff Development Days. Student Programs and Educational Support certificated staff previously eligible for staff development buyback will be provided staff development as follows:
Staff Development Days. The Employer shall provide, as part of a continuous program for the professional development of each employee in the unit, certain prescribed opportunities as described. The effect of this provision is that each person of the unit is eligible for workshops or in-service training that may be provided by the district.
Subsection 1. In-district workshops shall be designed through the cooperative efforts of the Bozeman Classified Employees Federation and District leadership. In particular, the design of such workshops shall be the responsibility of the President of BCEA or her/his designee and the Director of Human Resources or such other designee as may be appointed by the Superintendent. It is agreed that:
A. In-district workshops shall be designed in such a way that they shall focus on needs of the Bozeman Public Schools while allowing opportunities for cross-training and skills improvement of classified employees.
B. Such workshops shall be flexibly scheduled so as to preclude taking all critical classified personnel from a building at one time.
C. An attempt may be made to individualize workshops or in-service opportunities, where practical, to meet the differing needs of classified employees.
