TEACHING HOURS AND TEACHING LOAD. The School Committee and the Association recognize and agree that the teacher’s responsibility to his/her students and his/her profession generally entail the performance of duties and the expenditure of time beyond the regular work day, but that time and work schedules can and should be established. The work year of teachers, other than new personnel who may be required to attend additional orientation sessions, will begin no earlier than September 1st and will terminate no later than June 30th, but will in no event be less than one hundred eighty three (183) work days. The school calendar shall also include the scheduling of five (5) emergency/inclement weather days. (For payroll purposes, fractional amounts paid or deducted shall be at the rate of 1/183 per day.) Orientation days for other than new personnel shall be considered as scheduled work days. Any days above this limit shall be reimbursed at the 1/183 of the teacher’s contracted salary. The schedule for school hours for abnormal conditions of enrollment and housing is subject to modification by the School Committee providing that such modification will not increase the length of the teacher’s workday. Hours for normal conditions will be 7:20 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and under any conditions will not be more than a continuous six and one-half hour’s workday except for one hour per week for scheduled consultations with parents or administrative meeting times. Effective September 1, 2008, the teacher work day will be increased by ten (10) minutes, five (5) minutes in the morning and five (5) minutes in the afternoon (hours for normal conditions to be 7:15 a.m. to 3:35 p.m.), for a continuous workday of six hours and forty minutes, except for one hour per week for scheduled consultations with parents or administrative meeting times. A teacher at the Agawam High School shall be required to arrive at school five (5) minutes before the start of classes and shall not leave until five (5) minutes after classes conclude. A teacher at the Agawam Junior High School shall be required to arrive at school eight (8) minutes before the start of classes and shall not leave until five (5) minutes after classes conclude. Teachers at the Agawam Middle School, the elementary schools and the Early Childhood center shall be required to arrive at school ten (10) minutes before the start of classes and shall not leave until ten (10) minutes after classes conclude. It is recognized that procedure for detention, emergencies, and after school help will be continued. Attendance at evening meetings and social affairs, except for district back to school night and district parent conferences, shall be at the option of the teacher, but the School Committee and the Association encourage participation in such meetings as part of the teacher’s responsibility. District back to school night and district parent conferences shall take place only on regularly scheduled school days and shall not exceed three (3) per year for secondary schools and three (3) per year for elementary schools. Teachers at Agawam High School shall work a seven-period day with a six-day cycle. Teachers shall teach no more than thirty (30) periods within the six-day cycle and within the six-day cycle shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day and one (1) supervisory class per day except that teachers of art, music, consumer and health sciences, technical education, physical education, science laboratories, and the high school remedial reading teacher shall teach no more than the equivalent of six (6) periods per day and shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day with no supervisory class. The teaching of the equivalent of six (6) periods per day is permissible for teachers of art, music, consumer and health sciences, technical education, physical education, science laboratories, and the high school remedial teacher. Effective September 1, 1999, science laboratories will no longer be included among those areas which teachers may be assigned as a sixth teaching period; instead, science laboratories will be counted as one of the five teaching periods or equivalent permissible per day. The teacher’s lunch period shall be a minimum of twenty (20) minutes per day free from all duties. Teachers at Agawam Junior High School shall work a seven (7) period day with a six (6) day cycle. Teachers shall teach no more than thirty (30) periods within the six (6) day cycle and within the six (6) day cycle shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day and one (1) supervisory class per day except that teachers of art, music, family and consumer science, health, technical education, physical education, business, resource room, and reading shall teach no more than the equivalent of six (6) periods per day and shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day with no supervisory class. The teacher’s lunch period shall be a minimum of twenty (20) minutes per day free from all duties. Teachers at Agawam Middle School shall work a seven-period day with a five-day cycle. Teachers shall teach no more than twenty-five (25) periods within the five-day cycle and within the five-day cycle shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day and one (1) supervisory period per day except that teachers of Art, Music, Consumer and Health Sciences, Reading, Resource Room, Physical Education, and Technical Education shall teach no more than the equivalent of six (6) periods per day and shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day with no supervisory class. The teacher’s lunch period shall be a minimum of twenty (20) minutes per day free from all duties. For the 2007-2008 school year only, it is recognized that at the elementary schools the current work schedule shall continue. Elementary teachers shall be guaranteed four hundred (400) minutes of unassigned time in a three (3) week cycle. Kindergarten teachers shall be guaranteed five hundred (500) minutes of unassigned time in a three (3) week cycle. Early Childhood teachers shall be guaranteed at least five hundred (500) minutes of unassigned time in a three (3) week cycle. In addition, all elementary teachers shall have a minimum of twelve (12) personal hygiene periods of a minimum of fifteen (15) minutes each during a three (3) week cycle. There will be a one-half (1/2) hour of uninterrupted noon lunch period, free from all duties allotted to each elementary school teacher. Elementary teaches shall not be required to perform lunch duty or noon recess duty, and one-half of such time shall be devoted to student instruction, and the other one-half of such time shall be unassigned time. Teachers may leave school during lunch or unassigned periods. Principals may withhold this privilege with reason. The administration may establish reporting procedures for the absence of teachers from the building. The School Committee and the Association realize that a small class size is of advantage in the teaching process. Teachers who perform additional work not covered by this Agreement shall be paid at the rate of thirty ($30.00) dollars per hour. (This rate shall stay in effect for the life of this agreement). Additional work is at the discretion of the teacher. Travel expenses will be paid to employees to use their own motor vehicle in travel in connection with their job duties at the current Town Hall rate. (Effective September 1, 1993) Such travel may take place to and from facilities or residences other than schools, and such travel may be to communities outside the City of Agawam. A. Guidance Counselors shall work 189 days per year, they shall work six (6) days which shall normally be before the opening of school or after the close of school. Guidance Counselors shall be paid effective September 1, 2007 one thousand eight hundred four dollars ($1,804) over the teaching schedule; September 1, 2008 one thousand eight hundred seventy-six dollars ($1,876) September 1, 2009 – one thousand nine hundred forty-two dollars ($1,942). Guidance counselors will be released one day per month 2 hours earlier than the normally scheduled end of their workday and will hold office hours 2 hours in the evening between 6:00-8:00 p.m. for the purpose of conferencing with parents. Middle School, Junior High School and High School guidance counselors will schedule conference evenings and during alternate nights.
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TEACHING HOURS AND TEACHING LOAD. A. The School Committee and the Association recognize and agree that the teacher’s regular work year shall be seven (7) days beyond the length of the student’s school year.
1. In the event the School Board adopts a calendar, which exceeds 175 student days or requires teachers to work beyond the above agreed upon allotted work days beyond the student school year for other reasons, teachers shall be paid the per diem rate of their regular salary of the work year in which the additional days occur. Teachers will be notified of any such requirement at the time of the adoption of the school calendar whenever possible but in no case less than thirty (30) days prior to any required days. Inability to work on such days unless adopted as part of a school calendar shall not be subject to consumption of any type of leave nor be the basis for any evaluative or disciplinary action. Such days adopted, as part of the regular calendar shall be treated as all other days for purposes of absence and leave.
B. The teacher workday shall start fifteen (15) minutes before the student day and will conclude fifteen (15) minutes after the instructional day has ended.
C. Teachers have a professional responsibility to his/her attend I.E.P. meetings, meet with parents of students and his/her profession generally entail provide supplemental assistance to students as needed. Such responsibilities will be scheduled within the performance regular teacher workday whenever possible.
D. Teachers may be required to remain after the end of duties and the expenditure of time beyond the regular work day, but that time and work schedules can and should be established. The work year without additional compensation for the purpose of teachersattending faculty meetings; whenever possible, other than new personnel who may be required to attend additional orientation sessions, will begin no earlier than September 1st and will terminate no later than June 30th, but will in no event be less than one hundred eighty three such meetings shall not exceed (183) work days. The school calendar shall also include the scheduling of five sixty (5) emergency/inclement weather days. (For payroll purposes, fractional amounts paid or deducted shall be at the rate of 1/183 per day.) Orientation days for other than new personnel shall be considered as scheduled work days. Any days above this limit shall be reimbursed at the 1/183 of the teacher’s contracted salary. The schedule for school hours for abnormal conditions of enrollment and housing is subject to modification by the School Committee providing that such modification will not increase the length of the teacher’s workday. Hours for normal conditions will be 7:20 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and under any conditions will not be more than a continuous six and one-half hour’s workday except for one hour per week for scheduled consultations with parents or administrative meeting times. Effective September 1, 2008, the teacher work day will be increased by ten (10) minutes, five (560) minutes in the morning and five (5) minutes in the afternoon (hours for normal conditions to be 7:15 a.m. to 3:35 p.m.), for a continuous workday of six hours and forty minutesand, except for one hour per week for scheduled consultations with parents reasonable need or administrative meeting times. A teacher at the Agawam High School shall be required to arrive at school five (5) minutes before the start of classes and shall not leave until five (5) minutes after classes conclude. A teacher at the Agawam Junior High School shall be required to arrive at school eight (8) minutes before the start of classes and shall not leave until five (5) minutes after classes conclude. Teachers at the Agawam Middle School, the elementary schools and the Early Childhood center shall be required to arrive at school ten (10) minutes before the start of classes and shall not leave until ten (10) minutes after classes conclude. It is recognized that procedure for detention, emergencies, and after school help will be continued. Attendance at evening meetings and social affairs, except for district back to school night and district parent conferences, shall be at the option of the teacher, but the School Committee and the Association encourage participation in limited to two (2) such meetings as part each month. On early release days, the teachers’ regular workday ends at 3:00 p.m.
E. Notice of the teacher’s responsibility. District back to school night and district parent conferences shall take place only on any regularly scheduled school days and faculty meetings, except where there is urgency, shall not exceed be given three (3) per year for secondary schools and three (3) per year for elementary schoolsdays prior to the meeting. Teachers at Agawam High School shall work a seven-period day with a six-day cycle. Teachers shall teach no more than thirty (30) periods within may suggest items for the six-day cycle and within agenda so that whenever possible, the six-day cycle shall have agenda for the equivalent of meeting will be distributed to the teachers one (1) unassigned period per day and prior to the meeting.
F. Teachers participation in field trips, which extend beyond the teacher's in-school workday, overnight or weekday trips, shall be voluntary.
G. Teachers will be allowed one (1) supervisory class period (of about forty (40) minutes) per day except that teachers of art, music, consumer and health sciences, technical education, physical education, science laboratories, and the high school remedial reading teacher shall teach no more than the equivalent of six or eighty (6) periods per day and shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day with no supervisory class. The teaching of the equivalent of six (6) periods per day is permissible for teachers of art, music, consumer and health sciences, technical education, physical education, science laboratories, and the high school remedial teacher. Effective September 1, 1999, science laboratories will no longer be included among those areas which teachers may be assigned as a sixth teaching period; instead, science laboratories will be counted as one of the five teaching periods or equivalent permissible per day. The teacher’s lunch period shall be a minimum of twenty (2080) minutes per day free from all duties. Teachers at Agawam Junior High School shall work a seven (7) period day with a six (6) day cycle. Teachers shall teach no more than thirty (30) periods within the six (6) day cycle and within the six (6) day cycle shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day and one (1) supervisory class per day except that teachers of art, music, family and consumer science, health, technical education, physical education, business, resource room, and reading shall teach no more than the equivalent of six (6) periods per day and shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day with no supervisory class. The teacher’s lunch period shall be a minimum of twenty (20) minutes per day free from all duties. Teachers at Agawam Middle School shall work a seven-period day with a five-day cycle. Teachers shall teach no more than twenty-five (25) periods within the five-day cycle and within the five-day cycle shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day and one (1) supervisory period per day except that teachers of Art, Music, Consumer and Health Sciences, Reading, Resource Room, Physical Education, and Technical Education shall teach no more than the equivalent of six (6) periods per day and shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day with no supervisory class. The teacher’s lunch period shall be a minimum of twenty (20) minutes per day free from all duties. For the 2007-2008 school year only, it is recognized that at the elementary schools the current work schedule shall continue. Elementary every other day.
H. All teachers shall be guaranteed four hundred (400) minutes available to meet with parents during prep periods and before or after the student day for individual conferences upon the parents’ request or when the teacher feels it is necessary for the education of unassigned time in a three (3) week cycle. Kindergarten teachers shall be guaranteed five hundred (500) minutes of unassigned time in a three (3) week cycle. Early Childhood teachers shall be guaranteed at least five hundred (500) minutes of unassigned time in a three (3) week cycle. In addition, all elementary teachers shall have a minimum of twelve (12) personal hygiene periods of a minimum of fifteen (15) minutes each during a three (3) week cycle. There the student.
I. Additional stipends will be a one-half (1/2) hour of uninterrupted noon lunch period, free from all duties allotted to each elementary school teacher. Elementary teaches shall not be required to perform lunch duty or noon recess duty, and one-half of such time shall be devoted to student instruction, and the other one-half of such time shall be unassigned time. Teachers may leave school during lunch or unassigned periods. Principals may withhold this privilege with reason. The administration may establish reporting procedures for the absence of teachers from the building. The School Committee and the Association realize that a small class size is of advantage in the teaching process. Teachers who perform additional work not covered by this Agreement shall be paid at the rate of thirty ($30.00) dollars per hour. (This rate shall stay in effect for the life of this agreement). Additional work is at the discretion of the teacher. Travel expenses will be paid to employees to use their own motor vehicle in travel in connection with their job duties at the current Town Hall rate. (Effective September 1, 1993) Such travel may take place to and from facilities or residences other than schools, and such travel may be to communities outside the City of AgawamArticle XXI: Instructional Stipends.
A. Guidance Counselors shall work 189 days per year, they shall work six (6) days which shall normally be before the opening of school or after the close of school. Guidance Counselors shall be paid effective September 1, 2007 one thousand eight hundred four dollars ($1,804) over the teaching schedule; September 1, 2008 one thousand eight hundred seventy-six dollars ($1,876) September 1, 2009 – one thousand nine hundred forty-two dollars ($1,942). Guidance counselors will be released one day per month 2 hours earlier than the normally scheduled end of their workday and will hold office hours 2 hours in the evening between 6:00-8:00 p.m. for the purpose of conferencing with parents. Middle School, Junior High School and High School guidance counselors will schedule conference evenings and during alternate nights.Sick Leave
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TEACHING HOURS AND TEACHING LOAD. A. The School Committee and the Association recognize and agree that the teacher’s responsibility to his/her students and his/her profession generally entail the performance of duties and the expenditure of time beyond the regular work day, but that time and work schedules can and should be established. The in-school work year of teachers, teachers employed on a ten (10) month basis (other than new personnel who may be required to attend an additional orientation sessions, will begin no earlier than September 1st and will terminate no later than June 30th, but will in no event be less than one (1) day of orientation) shall not exceed one hundred eighty eighty-five (185) days.
1. The in-school year shall include days when pupils are in attendance, orientation days and any other days on which teacher attendance is required.
2. There shall be early dismissals the day before Thanksgiving Day, the day before Christmas vacation, the day before Spring recess and the last three (1833) work daysstudent days of the school year. The Teachers may be required to remain until the end of the regular pupil day the last three (3) students days of the year to complete required closing duties. No required in-service training or other meetings not directly related to the closing of the school calendar shall also include the scheduling of five (5) emergency/inclement weather days. (For payroll purposes, fractional amounts paid or deducted year shall be scheduled during these three (3) days.
B. Child Study Team teacher-members shall be excluded from the provisions of this Article. Their workday shall be seven and one half (7 and 1/2) hours inclusive of a half hour duty free lunch.
1. Child Study Team members may choose to receive compensatory time for meetings held after work hours.
2. Child Study Team Members shall have early closing sessions in the same manner as classroom teachers when teachers attendance is not required after the early closing.
3. Child Study Team members shall be eligible for four (4) weeks paid vacation allowance each school year which may be utilized as per practice, except that any Child Study Team member appointed after July 1st or who retires or resigns shall receive a pro-rated vacation allowance in their initial/final school year of employment. Child Study Team members employed after September 1, 2000 shall be required to bank two (2) weeks of vacation allowance during each of their first two (2) years of employment. They may use vacation allowance at the rate of 1/183 four (4) weeks per day.) Orientation days for other than new personnel shall be considered as scheduled work daysyear thereafter. Any unused vacation entitlement an employee may have upon termination will be paid within thirty (30) days above this limit shall be reimbursed at the 1/183 of the teacheremployee’s contracted salaryfinal day of work.
C. Teachers are expected to devote to their assignments the time necessary to meet their responsibilities.
1. The schedule for school hours for abnormal conditions As a matter of enrollment and housing is subject to modification by the School Committee providing that such modification will not increase the length of the teacher’s workday. Hours for normal conditions will be 7:20 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.safety, and under any conditions will not be more than a continuous six and one-half hour’s workday except for one hour per week for scheduled consultations with parents or administrative meeting times. Effective September 1, 2008, the teacher work day will be increased by ten (10) minutes, five (5) minutes in the morning and five (5) minutes in the afternoon (hours for normal conditions to be 7:15 a.m. to 3:35 p.m.), for a continuous workday of six hours and forty minutes, except for one hour per week for scheduled consultations with parents or administrative meeting times. A teacher at the Agawam High School teachers shall be required to arrive sign in and out at all schools by the time designated by the administrator of the school five (5) minutes before the start of classes and shall not leave until five (5) minutes after classes conclude. A teacher at the Agawam Junior High School which shall be required to arrive at school eight (8) minutes before the start of classes and shall not leave until five (5) minutes after classes conclude. Teachers at the Agawam Middle School, the elementary schools and the Early Childhood center shall be required to arrive at school ten (10) minutes before the start of classes and shall not leave until ten (10) minutes after classes conclude. It is recognized that procedure for detention, emergencies, and after school help will be continued. Attendance at evening meetings and social affairs, except for district back to school night and district parent conferences, shall be at the option of the teacher, but the School Committee and the Association encourage participation in such meetings as part of the teacher’s responsibility. District back to school night and district parent conferences shall take place only on regularly scheduled school days and shall not exceed three (3) per year for secondary schools and three (3) per year for elementary schools. Teachers at Agawam High School shall work a seven-period day with a six-day cycle. Teachers shall teach no more than thirty (30) periods within the six-day cycle and within the six-day cycle shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day and one (1) supervisory class per day except that teachers of art, music, consumer and health sciences, technical education, physical education, science laboratories, and the high school remedial reading teacher shall teach no more than the equivalent of six (6) periods per day and shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day with no supervisory class. The teaching of the equivalent of six (6) periods per day is permissible for teachers of art, music, consumer and health sciences, technical education, physical education, science laboratories, and the high school remedial teacher. Effective September 1, 1999, science laboratories will no longer be included among those areas which teachers may be assigned as a sixth teaching period; instead, science laboratories will be counted as one of the five teaching periods or equivalent permissible per day. The teacher’s lunch period shall be a minimum of twenty (20) minutes per day free from all duties. Teachers at Agawam Junior High School shall work a seven (7) period day with a six (6) day cycle. Teachers shall teach no more than thirty (30) periods within the six (6) day cycle and within the six (6) day cycle shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day and one (1) supervisory class per day except that teachers of art, music, family and consumer science, health, technical education, physical education, business, resource room, and reading shall teach no more than the equivalent of six (6) periods per day and shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day with no supervisory class. The teacher’s lunch period shall be a minimum of twenty (20) minutes per day free from all duties. Teachers at Agawam Middle School shall work a seven-period day with a five-day cycle. Teachers shall teach no more than twenty-five (25) periods within the five-day cycle and within the five-day cycle shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day and one (1) supervisory period per day except that teachers of Art, Music, Consumer and Health Sciences, Reading, Resource Room, Physical Education, and Technical Education shall teach no more than the equivalent of six (6) periods per day and shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day with no supervisory class. The teacher’s lunch period shall be a minimum of twenty (20) minutes per day free from all duties. For the 2007-2008 school year only, it is recognized that at the elementary schools the current work schedule shall continue. Elementary teachers shall be guaranteed four hundred (400) minutes of unassigned time in a three (3) week cycle. Kindergarten teachers shall be guaranteed five hundred (500) minutes of unassigned time in a three (3) week cycle. Early Childhood teachers shall be guaranteed at least five hundred (500) minutes of unassigned time in a three (3) week cycle. In addition, all elementary teachers shall have a minimum of twelve (12) personal hygiene periods of a minimum of fifteen (15) minutes each during a three (3) week cycle. There will be a one-half (1/2) hour of uninterrupted noon lunch period, free from all duties allotted to each elementary school teacher. Elementary teaches shall not be required to perform lunch duty or noon recess duty, and one-half of such time shall be devoted to student instruction, and the other one-half of such time shall be unassigned time. Teachers may leave school during lunch or unassigned periods. Principals may withhold this privilege with reason. The administration may establish reporting procedures for the absence of teachers from the building. The School Committee and the Association realize that a small class size is of advantage in the teaching process. Teachers who perform additional work not covered by this Agreement shall be paid at the rate of thirty ($30.00) dollars per hour. (This rate shall stay in effect for the life of this agreement). Additional work is at the discretion of the teacher. Travel expenses will be paid to employees to use their own motor vehicle in travel in connection with their job duties at the current Town Hall rate. (Effective September 1, 1993) Such travel may take place to and from facilities or residences other than schools, and such travel may be to communities outside the City of Agawam.
A. Guidance Counselors shall work 189 days per year, they shall work six (6) days which shall normally be before the opening of school or after the close of school. Guidance Counselors shall be paid effective September 1, 2007 one thousand eight hundred four dollars ($1,804) over the teaching schedule; September 1, 2008 one thousand eight hundred seventy-six dollars ($1,876) September 1, 2009 – one thousand nine hundred forty-two dollars ($1,942). Guidance counselors will be released one day per month 2 hours earlier than the normally scheduled end of their workday and will hold office hours 2 hours in the evening between 6:00-8:00 p.m. for the purpose of conferencing with parents. Middle School, Junior High School and High School guidance counselors will schedule conference evenings and during alternate nights.fifteen
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TEACHING HOURS AND TEACHING LOAD. A. The School Committee and the Association recognize and agree that the teacher’s responsibility to his/her students and his/her profession generally entail the performance of duties and the expenditure of time beyond the regular work day, but that time and work schedules can and should be established. The work year of teachers, other than new personnel who may be required to attend additional orientation sessions, will begin no earlier than September 1st and will terminate no later than June 30th, but will in no event be less than one hundred eighty three (183) work days. The school calendar shall also include the scheduling of five (5) emergency/inclement weather days. (For payroll purposes, fractional amounts paid or deducted shall be at the rate of 1/183 per day.seven (7) Orientation days for other than new personnel shall be considered as scheduled work days. Any days above this limit shall be reimbursed at the 1/183 of the teacher’s contracted salary. The schedule for school hours for abnormal conditions of enrollment and housing is subject to modification by the School Committee providing that such modification will not increase beyond the length of the teacherstudent’s workdayschool year.
1. Hours In the event the School Board adopts a calendar, which exceeds 175 student days or requires teachers to work beyond the above agreed upon allotted work days beyond the student school year for normal conditions other reasons, teachers shall be paid the per diem rate of their regular salary of the work year in which the additional days occur. Teachers will be 7:20 a.m. notified of any such requirement at the time of the adoption of the school calendar whenever possible but in no case less than thirty (30) days prior to 3:30 p.m., and under any conditions will required days. Inability to work on such days unless adopted as part of a school calendar shall not be more than a continuous six and one-half hour’s workday except subject to consumption of any type of leave nor be the basis for one hour per week for scheduled consultations with parents any evaluative or administrative meeting timesdisciplinary action. Effective September 1Such days adopted, 2008, as part of the teacher work day will be increased by ten (10) minutes, five (5) minutes in the morning and five (5) minutes in the afternoon (hours for normal conditions to be 7:15 a.m. to 3:35 p.m.), for a continuous workday of six hours and forty minutes, except for one hour per week for scheduled consultations with parents or administrative meeting times. A teacher at the Agawam High School regular calendar shall be required to arrive at school five (5) minutes before the treated as all other days for purposes of absence and leave.
B. The workday shall start of classes no later than 7:30a.m and shall not leave until five (5) minutes after classes conclude. A teacher at the Agawam Junior High School shall be required to arrive at school eight (8) minutes before the start of classes and shall not leave until five (5) minutes after classes conclude. Teachers at the Agawam Middle School, the elementary schools and the Early Childhood center shall be required to arrive at school ten (10) minutes before the start of classes and shall not leave until will conclude ten (10) minutes after classes concludethe instructional day has ended.
C. Teachers have a professional responsibility to attend I.E.P. meetings, meet with parents of students and provide supplemental assistance to students as needed. It is recognized that procedure for detention, emergencies, and after school help Such responsibilities will be continued. Attendance at evening scheduled within the regular teacher workday whenever possible.
D. Teachers may be required to remain after the end of the regular work day, without additional compensation for the purpose of attending faculty meetings; whenever possible, such meetings and social affairsshall not exceed (sixty (60) minutes and, except for district back to school night and district parent conferencesreasonable need or emergencies, shall be at the option of the teacher, but the School Committee and the Association encourage participation in limited to two (2) such meetings as part each month. On early release days, the teachers’ regular workday ends at 3:00 p.m.
E. Notice of the teacher’s responsibility. District back to school night and district parent conferences shall take place only on any regularly scheduled school days and faculty meetings, except where there is urgency, shall not exceed be given three (3) per year for secondary schools and three (3) per year for elementary schoolsdays prior to the meeting. Teachers at Agawam High School shall work a seven-period day with a six-day cycle. Teachers shall teach no more than thirty (30) periods within may suggest items for the six-day cycle and within agenda so that whenever possible, the six-day cycle shall have agenda for the equivalent of meeting will be distributed to the teachers one (1) unassigned period per day and prior to the meeting.
F. Teachers participation in field trips, which extend beyond the teacher's in-school workday, overnight or weekday trips, shall be voluntary.
G. Teachers will be allowed one (1) supervisory class period (of about forty (40) minutes) per day except that teachers of art, music, consumer and health sciences, technical education, physical education, science laboratories, and the high school remedial reading teacher shall teach no more than the equivalent of six or eighty (6) periods per day and shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day with no supervisory class. The teaching of the equivalent of six (6) periods per day is permissible for teachers of art, music, consumer and health sciences, technical education, physical education, science laboratories, and the high school remedial teacher. Effective September 1, 1999, science laboratories will no longer be included among those areas which teachers may be assigned as a sixth teaching period; instead, science laboratories will be counted as one of the five teaching periods or equivalent permissible per day. The teacher’s lunch period shall be a minimum of twenty (2080) minutes per day free from all duties. Teachers at Agawam Junior High School shall work a seven (7) period day with a six (6) day cycle. Teachers shall teach no more than thirty (30) periods within the six (6) day cycle and within the six (6) day cycle shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day and one (1) supervisory class per day except that teachers of art, music, family and consumer science, health, technical education, physical education, business, resource room, and reading shall teach no more than the equivalent of six (6) periods per day and shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day with no supervisory class. The teacher’s lunch period shall be a minimum of twenty (20) minutes per day free from all duties. Teachers at Agawam Middle School shall work a seven-period day with a five-day cycle. Teachers shall teach no more than twenty-five (25) periods within the five-day cycle and within the five-day cycle shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day and one (1) supervisory period per day except that teachers of Art, Music, Consumer and Health Sciences, Reading, Resource Room, Physical Education, and Technical Education shall teach no more than the equivalent of six (6) periods per day and shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day with no supervisory class. The teacher’s lunch period shall be a minimum of twenty (20) minutes per day free from all duties. For the 2007-2008 school year only, it is recognized that at the elementary schools the current work schedule shall continue. Elementary every other day.
H. All teachers shall be guaranteed four hundred (400) minutes available to meet with parents during prep periods and before or after the student day for individual conferences upon the parents’ request or when the teacher feels it is necessary for the education of unassigned time in a three (3) week cycle. Kindergarten teachers shall be guaranteed five hundred (500) minutes of unassigned time in a three (3) week cycle. Early Childhood teachers shall be guaranteed at least five hundred (500) minutes of unassigned time in a three (3) week cycle. In addition, all elementary teachers shall have a minimum of twelve (12) personal hygiene periods of a minimum of fifteen (15) minutes each during a three (3) week cycle. There the student.
I. Additional stipends will be a one-half (1/2) hour of uninterrupted noon lunch period, free from all duties allotted to each elementary school teacher. Elementary teaches shall not be required to perform lunch duty or noon recess duty, and one-half of such time shall be devoted to student instruction, and the other one-half of such time shall be unassigned time. Teachers may leave school during lunch or unassigned periods. Principals may withhold this privilege with reason. The administration may establish reporting procedures for the absence of teachers from the building. The School Committee and the Association realize that a small class size is of advantage in the teaching process. Teachers who perform additional work not covered by this Agreement shall be paid at the rate of thirty ($30.00) dollars per hour. (This rate shall stay in effect for the life of this agreement). Additional work is at the discretion of the teacher. Travel expenses will be paid to employees to use their own motor vehicle in travel in connection with their job duties at the current Town Hall rate. (Effective September 1, 1993) Such travel may take place to and from facilities or residences other than schools, and such travel may be to communities outside the City of AgawamArticle XXI: Instructional Stipends.
A. Guidance Counselors shall work 189 days per year, they shall work six (6) days which shall normally be before the opening of school or after the close of school. Guidance Counselors shall be paid effective September 1, 2007 one thousand eight hundred four dollars ($1,804) over the teaching schedule; September 1, 2008 one thousand eight hundred seventy-six dollars ($1,876) September 1, 2009 – one thousand nine hundred forty-two dollars ($1,942). Guidance counselors will be released one day per month 2 hours earlier than the normally scheduled end of their workday and will hold office hours 2 hours in the evening between 6:00-8:00 p.m. for the purpose of conferencing with parents. Middle School, Junior High School and High School guidance counselors will schedule conference evenings and during alternate nights.Sick Leave
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TEACHING HOURS AND TEACHING LOAD. The School Committee and the Association recognize and agree that the teacher’s responsibility to his/her students and his/her profession generally entail the performance of duties and the expenditure of time beyond the regular work day, but that time and work schedules can and should be establishedA. WORK DAY
1. The work year of teachers, other than new personnel who may be required to attend additional orientation sessions, will begin no earlier than September 1st and will terminate no later than June 30th, but will in no event be less than one hundred eighty three (183) work days. The teacher school calendar shall also include the scheduling of five (5) emergency/inclement weather days. (For payroll purposes, fractional amounts paid or deducted day shall be at the rate of 1/183 per day.) Orientation days for other than new personnel shall be considered as scheduled work days. Any days above this limit shall be reimbursed at the 1/183 of the teacher’s contracted salary. The schedule for school hours for abnormal conditions of enrollment and housing is subject to modification by the School Committee providing that such modification will not increase the length of the teacher’s workday. Hours for normal conditions will be 7:20 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and under any conditions will not be more than a continuous six and one-half hour’s workday except for one hour per week for scheduled consultations with parents or administrative meeting times. Effective September 1, 2008, the teacher work day will be increased by ten (10) minutes, five (5) minutes in the morning and five (5) minutes in the afternoon (hours for normal conditions to be 7:15 a.m. to 3:35 p.m.), for a continuous workday of six hours and forty minutes, except for one hour per week for scheduled consultations with parents or administrative meeting times. A teacher at the Agawam High School shall be required to arrive at school five (5) minutes before the start of classes and shall not leave until five (5) minutes after classes conclude. A teacher at the Agawam Junior High School shall be required to arrive at school eight (8) minutes before the start of classes and shall not leave until five (5) minutes after classes conclude. Teachers at the Agawam Middle School, the elementary schools and the Early Childhood center shall be required to arrive at school ten (10) minutes before the start of classes and shall not leave until ten (10) minutes after classes conclude. It is recognized that procedure for detention, emergencies, and after school help will be continued. Attendance at evening meetings and social affairs, except for district back to school night and district parent conferences, shall be at the option of the teacher, but the School Committee and the Association encourage participation in such meetings as part of the teacher’s responsibility. District back to school night and district parent conferences shall take place only on regularly scheduled school days and shall not exceed three (3) per year for secondary schools and three (3) per year for elementary schools. Teachers at Agawam High School shall work a seven-period day with a six-day cycle. Teachers shall teach no more than thirty (30) periods within the six-day cycle and within the six-day cycle shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day and one (1) supervisory class per day except that teachers of art, music, consumer and health sciences, technical education, physical education, science laboratories, and the high school remedial reading teacher shall teach no more than the equivalent of six (6) periods per day and shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day with no supervisory class. The teaching of the equivalent of six (6) periods per day is permissible for teachers of art, music, consumer and health sciences, technical education, physical education, science laboratories, and the high school remedial teacher. Effective September 1, 1999, science laboratories will no longer be included among those areas which teachers may be assigned as a sixth teaching period; instead, science laboratories will be counted as one of the five teaching periods or equivalent permissible per day. The teacher’s lunch period shall be a minimum of twenty (20) minutes per day free from all duties. Teachers at Agawam Junior High School shall work a seven (7) period day with a six (6) day cyclehours in duration, the precise starting and ending times to be determined by the Board of Education. Teachers shall teach no more than thirty (30) periods within the six (6) day cycle and within the six (6) day cycle shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day and one (1) supervisory class per day except that If teachers of art, music, family and consumer science, health, technical education, physical education, business, resource room, and reading shall teach no more are asked to arrive earlier than the equivalent of six (6) periods per normal starting time, they will be granted compensatory time off. On Fridays, however, the teachers' day and shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day with no supervisory class. The teacher’s lunch period shall be a minimum of twenty (20) minutes per day free from all duties. Teachers at Agawam Middle School shall work a seven-period day with a five-day cycle. Teachers shall teach no more than twenty-five (25) periods within the five-day cycle and within the five-day cycle shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day and one (1) supervisory period per day except that teachers of Art, Music, Consumer and Health Sciences, Reading, Resource Room, Physical Education, and Technical Education shall teach no more than the equivalent of six (6) periods per day and shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day with no supervisory class. The teacher’s lunch period shall be a minimum of twenty (20) minutes per day free from all duties. For the 2007-2008 school year only, it is recognized that at the elementary schools the current work schedule shall continue. Elementary teachers shall be guaranteed four hundred (400) minutes of unassigned time in a three (3) week cycle. Kindergarten teachers shall be guaranteed five hundred (500) minutes of unassigned time in a three (3) week cycle. Early Childhood teachers shall be guaranteed at least five hundred (500) minutes of unassigned time in a three (3) week cycle. In addition, all elementary teachers shall have a minimum of twelve (12) personal hygiene periods of a minimum of shortened by fifteen (15) minutes each at the end of the day.
2. Teacher assistants shall be given a total of thirty (30) minutes per regular full day for non-student contact time.
3. With the exception of the Safety Patrol Advisors, any teacher who is required to regularly perform services beyond the teacher school day shall receive remuneration for said services predicated on an amount agreed upon between the Board and the Association.
B. LUNCH PERIOD
1. Grade level and other
a) All teachers shall have a forty-five (45) minute duty free lunch period.
b) Teacher assistants shall have a forty-five (45)-minute duty-free lunch period.
2. Leaving the building Teachers may leave the building without requesting permission during a their scheduled duty-free lunch period, provided they notify the office.
C. PREPARATION TIME
1. Grades 1 - 6 teachers and special teachers shall receive three (3) hours and forty- five (45) minutes of prep time per full week. A full week cycle. There will shall be defined as a week that school is in session each day Monday through Friday and that day shall be a one-half (1/2) hour of uninterrupted noon lunch period, free from all duties allotted to each elementary full school teacherday; not an abbreviated school day. Elementary teaches shall not be required to perform lunch duty or noon recess duty, and one-half of such Such time shall be devoted scheduled during the students' school day. In the case of shortened weeks, that is when school is not in session each day Monday through Friday, teachers shall receive prep time in such weeks only to student instructionthe extent that the master schedule calls for on the days school is open. On schedules less than a full day an abbreviated schedule shall be used so that all teachers share in prep time due that day, and on a proportionate basis with the other one-half shortened day. This shall not apply to shortened days due to emergency. This is a continuation of such practice. This time shall be unassigned timeused for preparation of lessons and experiments, and other activities that have a bearing on that teacher's class or classes.
2. Teachers Only under emergency circumstances, may leave school during lunch or unassigned periodsthe administration direct teachers, as needed, to temporarily substitute for an absent teacher. Principals may withhold this privilege with reason. The administration may establish reporting procedures for the absence of teachers from the building. The School Committee and the Association realize that a small class size is of advantage in the teaching process. Teachers who perform additional work not covered by this Agreement shall be paid at the rate of For each thirty (30) minutes of substituting, said teacher shall receive $30.00) dollars per hour. (This rate shall stay in effect for the life of this agreement). Additional work is at the discretion of the teacher. Travel expenses will be paid to employees to use their own motor vehicle in travel in connection with their job duties at the current Town Hall rate. (Effective September 1, 1993) Such travel may take place to and from facilities or residences other than schools, and such travel may be to communities outside the City of Agawam.
A. Guidance Counselors shall work 189 days per year, they shall work six (6) days which shall normally be before the opening of school or after the close of school. Guidance Counselors shall be paid effective September 1, 2007 one thousand eight hundred four dollars ($1,804) over the teaching schedule; September 1, 2008 one thousand eight hundred seventy-six dollars ($1,876) September 1, 2009 – one thousand nine hundred forty-two dollars ($1,942). Guidance counselors will be released one day per month 2 hours earlier than the normally scheduled end of their workday and will hold office hours 2 hours in the evening between 6:00-8:00 p.m. for the purpose of conferencing with parents. Middle School, Junior High School and High School guidance counselors will schedule conference evenings and during alternate nights.15.00
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TEACHING HOURS AND TEACHING LOAD. A. The School Committee and the Association recognize and agree that the teacher’s responsibility to his/her students and his/her profession generally entail the performance of duties and the expenditure of time beyond the regular work day, but that time and work schedules can and should be established. The work year of teachers, other than new personnel who may be required to attend additional orientation sessions, will begin no earlier than September 1st and will terminate no later than June 30th, but will in no event be less than one hundred eighty three (183) work days. The school calendar shall also include the scheduling of five (5) emergency/inclement weather days. (For payroll purposes, fractional amounts paid or deducted shall be at the rate of 1/183 per day.seven (7) Orientation days for other than new personnel shall be considered as scheduled work days. Any days above this limit shall be reimbursed at the 1/183 of the teacher’s contracted salary. The schedule for school hours for abnormal conditions of enrollment and housing is subject to modification by the School Committee providing that such modification will not increase beyond the length of the teacherstudent’s workdayschool year.
1. Hours In the event the School Board adopts a calendar, which exceeds 175 student days or requires teachers to work beyond the above agreed upon allotted work days beyond the student school year for normal conditions other reasons, teachers shall be paid the per diem rate of their regular salary of the work year in which the additional days occur. Teachers will be 7:20 a.m. notified of any such requirement at the time of the adoption of the school calendar whenever possible but in no case less than thirty (30) days prior to 3:30 p.m., and under any conditions will required days. Inability to work on such days unless adopted as part of a school calendar shall not be more than a continuous six and one-half hour’s workday except subject to consumption of any type of leave nor be the basis for one hour per week for scheduled consultations with parents any evaluative or administrative meeting timesdisciplinary action. Effective September 1Such days adopted, 2008, as part of the teacher work day will be increased by ten (10) minutes, five (5) minutes in the morning and five (5) minutes in the afternoon (hours for normal conditions to be 7:15 a.m. to 3:35 p.m.), for a continuous workday of six hours and forty minutes, except for one hour per week for scheduled consultations with parents or administrative meeting times. A teacher at the Agawam High School regular calendar shall be required to arrive at school five (5) minutes before the treated as all other days for purposes of absence and leave.
B. The workday shall start of classes no later than 7:30a.m and shall not leave until five (5) minutes after classes conclude. A teacher at the Agawam Junior High School shall be required to arrive at school eight (8) minutes before the start of classes and shall not leave until five (5) minutes after classes conclude. Teachers at the Agawam Middle School, the elementary schools and the Early Childhood center shall be required to arrive at school ten (10) minutes before the start of classes and shall not leave until will conclude ten (10) minutes after classes concludethe instructional day has ended.
C. Teachers have a professional responsibility to attend I.E.P. meetings, meet with parents of students and provide supplemental assistance to students as needed. It is recognized that procedure for detention, emergencies, and after school help Such responsibilities will be continued. Attendance at evening scheduled within the regular teacher workday whenever possible.
D. Teachers may be required to remain after the end of the regular work day, without additional compensation for the purpose of attending faculty meetings; whenever possible, such meetings and social affairsshall not exceed (sixty (60) minutes and, except for district back to school night and district parent conferencesreasonable need or emergencies, shall be at the option of the teacher, but the School Committee and the Association encourage participation in limited to two (2) such meetings as part each month. On early release days, the teachers’ regular workday ends at 3:00 p.m.
X. Xxxxxx of the teacher’s responsibility. District back to school night and district parent conferences shall take place only on any regularly scheduled school days and faculty meetings, except where there is urgency, shall not exceed be given three (3) per year for secondary schools and three (3) per year for elementary schoolsdays prior to the meeting. Teachers at Agawam High School shall work a seven-period day with a six-day cycle. Teachers shall teach no more than thirty (30) periods within may suggest items for the six-day cycle and within agenda so that whenever possible, the six-day cycle shall have agenda for the equivalent of meeting will be distributed to the teachers one (1) unassigned period per day and prior to the meeting.
F. Teachers participation in field trips, which extend beyond the teacher's in-school workday, overnight or weekday trips, shall be voluntary.
G. Teachers will be allowed one (1) supervisory class period (of about forty (40) minutes) per day except that teachers of art, music, consumer and health sciences, technical education, physical education, science laboratories, and the high school remedial reading teacher shall teach no more than the equivalent of six or eighty (6) periods per day and shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day with no supervisory class. The teaching of the equivalent of six (6) periods per day is permissible for teachers of art, music, consumer and health sciences, technical education, physical education, science laboratories, and the high school remedial teacher. Effective September 1, 1999, science laboratories will no longer be included among those areas which teachers may be assigned as a sixth teaching period; instead, science laboratories will be counted as one of the five teaching periods or equivalent permissible per day. The teacher’s lunch period shall be a minimum of twenty (2080) minutes per day free from all duties. Teachers at Agawam Junior High School shall work a seven (7) period day with a six (6) day cycle. Teachers shall teach no more than thirty (30) periods within the six (6) day cycle and within the six (6) day cycle shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day and one (1) supervisory class per day except that teachers of art, music, family and consumer science, health, technical education, physical education, business, resource room, and reading shall teach no more than the equivalent of six (6) periods per day and shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day with no supervisory class. The teacher’s lunch period shall be a minimum of twenty (20) minutes per day free from all duties. Teachers at Agawam Middle School shall work a seven-period day with a five-day cycle. Teachers shall teach no more than twenty-five (25) periods within the five-day cycle and within the five-day cycle shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day and one (1) supervisory period per day except that teachers of Art, Music, Consumer and Health Sciences, Reading, Resource Room, Physical Education, and Technical Education shall teach no more than the equivalent of six (6) periods per day and shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day with no supervisory class. The teacher’s lunch period shall be a minimum of twenty (20) minutes per day free from all duties. For the 2007-2008 school year only, it is recognized that at the elementary schools the current work schedule shall continue. Elementary every other day.
H. All teachers shall be guaranteed four hundred (400) minutes of unassigned time in a three (3) week cycle. Kindergarten teachers shall be guaranteed five hundred (500) minutes of unassigned time in a three (3) week cycle. Early Childhood teachers shall be guaranteed at least five hundred (500) minutes of unassigned time in a three (3) week cycle. In addition, all elementary teachers shall have a minimum of twelve (12) personal hygiene available to meet with parents during prep periods of a minimum of fifteen (15) minutes each during a three (3) week cycle. There will be a one-half (1/2) hour of uninterrupted noon lunch period, free from all duties allotted to each elementary school teacher. Elementary teaches shall not be required to perform lunch duty or noon recess duty, and one-half of such time shall be devoted to student instruction, and the other one-half of such time shall be unassigned time. Teachers may leave school during lunch or unassigned periods. Principals may withhold this privilege with reason. The administration may establish reporting procedures for the absence of teachers from the building. The School Committee and the Association realize that a small class size is of advantage in the teaching process. Teachers who perform additional work not covered by this Agreement shall be paid at the rate of thirty ($30.00) dollars per hour. (This rate shall stay in effect for the life of this agreement). Additional work is at the discretion of the teacher. Travel expenses will be paid to employees to use their own motor vehicle in travel in connection with their job duties at the current Town Hall rate. (Effective September 1, 1993) Such travel may take place to and from facilities or residences other than schools, and such travel may be to communities outside the City of Agawam.
A. Guidance Counselors shall work 189 days per year, they shall work six (6) days which shall normally be before the opening of school or after the close student day for individual conferences upon the parents’ request or when the teacher feels it is necessary for the education of school. Guidance Counselors shall be paid effective September 1, 2007 one thousand eight hundred four dollars ($1,804) over the teaching schedule; September 1, 2008 one thousand eight hundred seventy-six dollars ($1,876) September 1, 2009 – one thousand nine hundred forty-two dollars ($1,942). Guidance counselors student.
I. Additional stipends will be released one day per month 2 hours earlier than the normally scheduled end of their workday and will hold office hours 2 hours in the evening between 6:00-8:00 p.m. for the purpose of conferencing with parents. Middle School, Junior High School and High School guidance counselors will schedule conference evenings and during alternate nightsArticle XXI: Instructional Stipends.
X. Xxxx Leave
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TEACHING HOURS AND TEACHING LOAD. A. The School Committee and the Association recognize and agree that the teacher’s responsibility to his/her students and his/her profession generally entail the performance of duties and the expenditure of time beyond the regular work day, but that time and work schedules can and should be established. The in-school work year of teachers, teachers employed on a ten (10) month basis (other than new personnel who may be required to attend an additional orientation sessions, will begin no earlier than September 1st and will terminate no later than June 30th, but will in no event be less than one (1) day of orientation) shall not exceed one hundred eighty eighty-five (185) days.
1. The in-school year shall include days when pupils are in attendance, orientation days and any other days on which teacher attendance is required.
2. There shall be early dismissals the day before Thanksgiving Day, the day before Christmas vacation, the day before Spring recess and the last three (1833) work daysstudent days of the school year. The Teachers may be required to remain until the end of the regular pupil day the last three (3) students days of the year to complete required closing duties. No required in-service training or other meetings not directly related to the closing of the school calendar shall also include the scheduling of five (5) emergency/inclement weather days. (For payroll purposes, fractional amounts paid or deducted year shall be scheduled during these three (3) days.
B. Child Study Team teacher-members shall be excluded from the provisions of this Article. Their workday shall be seven and one half (7 and 1/2) hours inclusive of a half hour duty free lunch.
1. Child Study Team members may choose to receive compensatory time for meetings held after work hours.
2. Child Study Team Members shall have early closing sessions in the same manner as classroom teachers when teachers attendance is not required after the early closing.
3. Child Study Team members shall be eligible for four (4) weeks paid vacation allowance each school year which may be utilized as per practice, except that any Child Study Team member appointed after July 1st or who retires or resigns shall receive a pro-rated vacation allowance in their initial/final school year of employment. Child Study Team members employed after September 1, 2000, shall be required to bank two (2) weeks of vacation allowance during each of their first two (2) years of employment. They may use vacation allowance at the rate of 1/183 four (4) weeks per day.) Orientation days for other than new personnel shall be considered as scheduled work daysyear thereafter. Any unused vacation entitlement an employee may have upon termination will be paid within thirty (30) days above this limit shall be reimbursed at the 1/183 of the teacheremployee’s contracted salaryfinal day of work.
C. Teachers are expected to devote to their assignments the time necessary to meet their responsibilities.
1. The schedule for school hours for abnormal conditions As a matter of enrollment and housing is subject to modification by the School Committee providing that such modification will not increase the length of the teacher’s workday. Hours for normal conditions will be 7:20 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.safety, and under any conditions will not be more than a continuous six and one-half hour’s workday except for one hour per week for scheduled consultations with parents or administrative meeting times. Effective September 1, 2008, the teacher work day will be increased by ten (10) minutes, five (5) minutes in the morning and five (5) minutes in the afternoon (hours for normal conditions to be 7:15 a.m. to 3:35 p.m.), for a continuous workday of six hours and forty minutes, except for one hour per week for scheduled consultations with parents or administrative meeting times. A teacher at the Agawam High School teachers shall be required to arrive sign in and out at all schools by the time designated by the administrator of the school five which shall be no earlier than fifteen (515) minutes before the start of classes pupil day begins, if that teacher has a duty and shall not leave until five (5) minutes after classes conclude. A teacher at the Agawam Junior High School shall be required to arrive at school eight (8) minutes before the start of classes and shall not leave until five (5) minutes after classes conclude. Teachers at the Agawam Middle School, the elementary schools and the Early Childhood center shall be required to arrive at school ten (10) minutes before if they do not have a duty.
2. Employees who fail to sign in by the start designated time and do not respond to a page or are not otherwise accounted for shall be subject to the following corrective procedure each year: Lateness 1 Notice of classes lateness form completed by staff member Lateness 2 Notice of lateness form completed by staff member Lateness 3 Notice of lateness form completed by staff member Conference with building principal. Staff member may have an Association representative. Letter sent to staff member for inclusion in personnel file. Lateness 4 And all thereafter for the duration of the year Salary shall be docked in 1/2 hour increments based on the prevailing extra pay rate per hour
3. The arrival and departure times for all teachers shall be designated in accordance with the work day limits expressed herein.
4. No teacher shall be required to report for duty earlier than fifteen (15) minutes before the opening of the pupils’ school day, and shall not be permitted to leave until 25 minutes after the close of the pupils’ school day, except as otherwise designated in this Article. On Fridays or on the days preceding holidays or vacations, the teachers’ day shall end ten (10) minutes after classes conclude. It the close of the pupils’ day except on those days when teacher attendance is recognized that procedure required for detentionin-service training, emergenciesparent conferences, back to school nights, etc.
a. If teachers are block scheduled they may leave 15 minutes after the pupils on regular school days and 10 minutes after pupils on Fridays, and after school help will at the same time as pupils on days preceding holidays or vacation periods.
b. Teachers may be continued. Attendance at evening meetings and social affairs, except for district required to attend one (1) back to school night and district or its equivalent each year with no additional compensation.
c. Teachers required to attend parent conferencesconferences at night shall receive released time in the manner currently provided.
d. Once a teacher has completed their last parent teacher conference, they shall be permitted to leave.
5. Any teacher who is required by his/her Principal or a District Administrator to work beyond said work day shall be compensated at the rate of $28.00 per hour.
6. Teachers who voluntarily take part in District sponsored , not County sponsored, summer in-service training programs, shall be compensated at the option a rate of the teacher, but the School Committee and the Association encourage participation in such meetings as part of the teacher’s responsibility. District back to school night and district parent conferences shall take place only on regularly scheduled school days and $28.00 per hour.
D. Teacher Department heads shall not exceed three (3) per year for secondary schools and three (3) per year for elementary schools. Teachers at Agawam High School shall work a seven-period day with a six-day cycle. Teachers shall teach no be assigned more than thirty four (304) periods within the six-day cycle and within the six-day cycle student instruction periods.
E. Subject Area Coordinators shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period day per day month released time to conduct meetings.
F. Except for emergencies, employees may leave the building without requesting permission during their scheduled duty-free lunch periods, but shall sign in and out.
G. Building-based teachers may be required to remain after the end of the regular work day, without additional compensation, for the purpose of attending building, faculty meeting or other professional meetings one (1) supervisory class per day except that teachers of arteach month, music, consumer and health sciences, technical education, physical education, science laboratories, and the high plus eight (8) in- service after school remedial reading teacher training sessions. Such meetings shall teach begin no more later than the equivalent of six (6) periods per day and shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day with no supervisory class. The teaching of the equivalent of six (6) periods per day is permissible for teachers of art, music, consumer and health sciences, technical education, physical education, science laboratories, and the high school remedial teacher. Effective September 1, 1999, science laboratories will no longer be included among those areas which teachers may be assigned as a sixth teaching period; instead, science laboratories will be counted as one of the five teaching periods or equivalent permissible per day. The teacher’s lunch period shall be a minimum of twenty (20) minutes per day free from all duties. Teachers at Agawam Junior High School shall work a seven (7) period day with a six (6) day cycle. Teachers shall teach no more than thirty (30) periods within the six (6) day cycle and within the six (6) day cycle shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day and one (1) supervisory class per day except that teachers of art, music, family and consumer science, health, technical education, physical education, business, resource room, and reading shall teach no more than the equivalent of six (6) periods per day and shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day with no supervisory class. The teacher’s lunch period shall be a minimum of twenty (20) minutes per day free from all duties. Teachers at Agawam Middle School shall work a seven-period day with a five-day cycle. Teachers shall teach no more than twenty-five (25) periods within the five-day cycle and within the five-day cycle shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day and one (1) supervisory period per day except that teachers of Art, Music, Consumer and Health Sciences, Reading, Resource Room, Physical Education, and Technical Education shall teach no more than the equivalent of six (6) periods per day and shall have the equivalent of one (1) unassigned period per day with no supervisory class. The teacher’s lunch period shall be a minimum of twenty (20) minutes per day free from all duties. For the 2007-2008 school year only, it is recognized that at the elementary schools the current work schedule shall continue. Elementary teachers shall be guaranteed four hundred (400) minutes of unassigned time in a three (3) week cycle. Kindergarten teachers shall be guaranteed five hundred (500) minutes of unassigned time in a three (3) week cycle. Early Childhood teachers shall be guaranteed at least five hundred (500) minutes of unassigned time in a three (3) week cycle. In addition, all elementary teachers shall have a minimum of twelve (12) personal hygiene periods of a minimum of fifteen (15) minutes each during a three (3) week cycle. There will be a one-half (1/2) hour of uninterrupted noon lunch period, free from all duties allotted to each elementary school teacher. Elementary teaches shall not be required to perform lunch duty or noon recess duty, and one-half of such time shall be devoted to student instruction, and the other one-half of such time shall be unassigned time. Teachers may leave school during lunch or unassigned periods. Principals may withhold this privilege with reason. The administration may establish reporting procedures for the absence of teachers from the building. The School Committee and the Association realize that a small class size is of advantage in the teaching process. Teachers who perform additional work not covered by this Agreement shall be paid at the rate of thirty ($30.00) dollars per hour. (This rate shall stay in effect for the life of this agreement). Additional work is at the discretion of the teacher. Travel expenses will be paid to employees to use their own motor vehicle in travel in connection with their job duties at the current Town Hall rate. (Effective September 1, 1993) Such travel may take place to and from facilities or residences other than schools, and such travel may be to communities outside the City of Agawam.
A. Guidance Counselors shall work 189 days per year, they shall work six (6) days which shall normally be before the opening of school or after the close of school. Guidance Counselors shall be paid effective September 1, 2007 one thousand eight hundred four dollars ($1,804) over the teaching schedule; September 1, 2008 one thousand eight hundred seventy-six dollars ($1,876) September 1, 2009 – one thousand nine hundred forty-two dollars ($1,942). Guidance counselors will be released one day per month 2 hours earlier than the normally scheduled end of their workday and will hold office hours 2 hours in the evening between 6:00-8:00 p.m. for the purpose of conferencing with parents. Middle School, Junior High School and High School guidance counselors will schedule conference evenings and during alternate nights.ten
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