TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS Sample Clauses
TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS. 1. All certificated full-time vacancies resulting in a position other than classroom teaching shall be advertised via district email or shared electronic drive to all employees and the union. Unit members must apply for the vacancy within five (5) week days of the first day of posting.
2. Vacancies short of full-time shall first be posted via district email or shared electronic drive to all employees and the union. Unit members at the school site must apply for the vacancy within five (5) work days of the first day of posting. If there are no qualified persons within the school, the position shall be offered to qualified persons within the district.
3. Said notice of such vacancy shall clearly set forth the qualifications for the position and the date by which the unit member must file the application.
4. Applications shall be considered in the following priority:
a. Certification and teaching experience in the area related to the open position.
b. Work experience in the area related
c. Rankings from interviews.
d. Seniority as defined in this agreement.
e. Applicable course work.
f. Letters of recommendation.
5. Applicants who are not accepted shall be informed by the superintendent in writing, specifying the reasons and providing information which will help the unit members in their professional competence so that they may become eligible for consideration at a future time.
TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS. A unit member may be evaluated by the Principal/designee.
1. When an evaluation takes place, a conference shall be held between the evaluator writing the evaluation and the unit member to discuss the evaluation. At that time, the unit member will be given the opportunity to add their written response to the evaluation form before signing it.
2. The evaluation and any written response of the unit member shall be included in the personnel file of the unit member.
3. Unit members will be provided with copies of the materials used for their evaluation. These instruments will be negotiated with the Union.
TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS. 1. The parties agree that class size limitations for the traditional high schools shall be computed on the basis of the actual number of students enrolled in each classroom.
2. After thirteen (13) teaching days in the Fall and ten (10) in the Spring, teachers shall have a total daily student contact number not to exceed one hundred seventy (170) students. This shall be pro-rated for part-time teachers. Teacher daily student contact maximums may be exceeded if the site administrator and the teacher agree in writing detailing the specific needs warranting such exceptions.
3. No class shall have more than thirty four (34) students, except as noted in 4 below.
a. Individual class size maximums may be exceeded if the site administrator, the teacher, and the department head agree in writing detailing the specific needs warranting such exceptions.
b. A maximum of one (1) student Teacher’s Assistant (student T.
A.) will be assigned per class, unless mutually agreed to by the teacher and the site administrator.
c. The district will make a good faith effort to equitably distribute students who receive special education services among general education classes within a department.
4. Class size in laboratory or other activity classes involving learning stations or special equipment shall not exceed the number of stations in the room as defined below: Advanced Placement Classes 32 Career Technical Education (CTE) Courses 32 Physical Education 38 Science Labs 32 Students Learning English Classes 25 Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) Courses 32 The average class size of a course designed for Students Learning English of multiple sections shall not exceed twenty five (25) with no class above twenty-eight (28). If only one (1) section exists, a new section will be created when the enrollment reaches twenty-eight (28). Individual class size maximums in physical education may be exceeded if the site administrator, the teacher and the department head agree in writing detailing the specific needs warranting such exceptions.
5. Support service personnel include counselors, librarians, psychologists, site technology coordinators, Standards Implementation Project Coordinators, grant writers and work experience coordinators. The maximum load for support service personnel shall be determined by the following:
a. At each traditional high school site, the maximum load for each full time counselor shall be 550 (110 per section). Parties agree that while the Parcel Tax is in place, the...
TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS. 1. Unit members shall be on campus ten (10) minutes before the first period of the school day and, beginning July 1, 2022, shall remain at school until fifteen (15) minutes after the end of the last period of the school day to be accessible to students, staff, and families. Summer school staff shall be in their classrooms/assigned location at the beginning of the class period and shall remain at least until the end of the class period.
2. Classroom Teachers shall have one (1) preparation period per day. Support Service unit members have preparation time that is the equivalent of Classroom Teachers, but is not necessarily fixed to a class period in the day, and can instead be divided throughout the workday as needed. Preparation periods and time shall be utilized in a professional manner. The day school time schedule will contain the minutes needed to meet the instructional minutes requirement of 64,800 instructional minutes in the school year. In order to reasonably guard against short falls in instructional minutes (due to inclement weather, etc.), each school shall schedule a minimum of 65,160 minutes (64,800 + 360) in the school year.
3. Reasonable efforts will be made to provide minimal alterations of pupil contact time or preparation periods which may occur for registration, testing or staff workshops.
4. The site and/or district administration shall notify staff of schedule changes with significant advance notice to allow for a smooth functioning of the educational system. While maximum advance notice is desirable, a week's notice is a reasonable time frame for prior notification. Such notice shall be in writing. On those occasions when less than five (5) working days are given, all efforts shall be made to place reasons for lack of notice in writing to provide minimal disruption of classroom planning.
5. Assignment to additional classroom teaching duties shall be on a voluntary basis during the assigned preparation periods and the unit member shall be paid at the hourly rate which is equal to the pro rata hourly rate of Step 1, Column 1 on the Day Certificated Unit Basic Salary Schedule.
6. Unit members shall not be required to substitute for their absent colleagues nor ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ exams during their prep period. Volunteer unit members shall be paid at the hourly rate which is equal to the pro rata hourly rate of Step 1, Column 1 on the Day Certificated Unit Basic Salary Schedule, with appropriate adjustments for block schedules. In the event a substitu...
TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS. Class size in laboratory or other activity classes involving learning stations or special equipment shall not exceed the number of stations in the room as defined below: Homemaking ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 32 Science Labs 32 Physical Education 38 Visual Arts (art, photography, crafts, etc.) ▇▇ Advanced Placement Classes 32 Sheltered/ELD Classes 25
TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS. A bargaining unit member may be evaluated by the Principal/designee.
1. When an evaluation takes place, a conference shall be held between the evaluator writing the evaluation and the bargaining unit member to discuss the evaluation. At that time, the bargaining unit member will be given the opportunity to add his/her written response to the evaluation form before signing it.
2. The evaluation and any written response of the bargaining unit member shall be included in the personnel file of the bargaining unit member.
3. Substitute teachers will be provided with copies of the materials used for their evaluation. These instruments will be negotiated with the Union.
TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS. 1. Teachers Unit members shall be on campus by 7:50am 10 minutes before the first period of the school day and, beginning July 1, 2022, shall remain at school until 15 minutes after the end of the last teaching period of the school day to be accessible to students, staff, and families. Collaboration day schedules will be an automatic re-opener for 2014/15. Summer school teachers staff shall be in their classrooms/assigned location at the beginning of the class period and shall remain at least until the end of the class period.
2. Classroom Teachers shall have one (1) preparation period per day. Support Service Teachers Unit Members have preparation time that is the equivalent of Classroom Teachers, but is not necessarily fixed to a class period in the day, and can instead be divided throughout the workday as needed. Preparation periods and time shall be utilized in a professional manner. The day school time schedule will contain the minutes needed to meet the instructional minutes requirement of 64,800 instructional minutes in the school year. In order to reasonably guard against short falls in instructional minutes (due to inclement weather, etc.), each school shall schedule a minimum of 65,160 minutes (64,800 + 360) in the school year. Pursuant to ABX4 2 approved July 28, 2009, the Union and the District agree to reduce the work year by the equivalent of 2 days of instruction with the corresponding reduction of instructional minutes. The Union and the District agree to negotiate the potential of reinstatement of these days when this legislation sunsets.
TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS. For the 2024-2025 school year all classroom teachers, including special education classroom teachers, will be allocated 200 minutes per 5-day week for planning and preparation:
TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS. Assignment to additional classroom teaching duties shall be on a voluntary basis during the assigned preparation periods and the teacher shall be paid at the hourly rate which is equal to the pro rata hourly rate of Step 1, Column 1 on the Day Certificated Unit Basic Salary Schedule in accordance with Article XIX.C SUBSTITUTE WAGE SCHEDULE.