Wednesday Early Release. The purpose of the Wednesday Early Release is to provide common time for certificated staff to actively participate in self-identified priorities, staff driven collaboration, and professional development. If a scheduling conflict occurs on a Wednesday, necessary changes will be addressed in the school year calendar. Staff will remain in their buildings to work on-site during the time after students are released on Wednesdays until the end of the workday. Exceptions to the above on-site requirement are emergencies, district-sponsored workshops and occasions where a staff member meets to engage in collaboration with one or more colleagues at another District site. In this event, staff will inform their principals they are leaving the building and will indicate where in the District they will be working. The time after students are released on Wednesday until the end of the workday is staff members’ individual planning time. They determine what work will be performed during that time, with the following exceptions: • Building Wednesdays: For the 2019-2020 school year, Building Wednesdays will be the second Wednesday of the month. These ten (10) Wednesdays throughout the year will be reserved for building level professional development, collaboration, and general building business for up to 90 minutes per Wednesday. In order to ensure the activities are authentic and relevant to all staff, the building leadership team will determine the content, start time, and whether a staff will use all ten (10) Wednesdays for this purpose. o ESA staff (OT/PT, SLP, School Psychologists, Nurses, Counselors, Social Workers and Audiologists) will either meet as a department or attend their building meeting as determined by the departmental leadership team. o Part time staff who do not work on Wednesday are not required to attend Building PD. • Starting in 2020, and continuing in subsequent years, of the up to ten (10) building designated Wednesday PD sessions, a minimum of 50% of the time must be dedicated to structured PLCs. • District Designated Professional Development will be offered on four (4) Wednesdays indicated on the negotiated calendar. Attendance at these sessions is at the discretion of the employee. Participating employees will earn up to eight (8) hours of per diem pay. • Restricted Wednesdays will occur on the first Wednesday of each month of the school year except that Restricted Wednesdays shall not occur in September or December. When the first Wednesday is ...
Wednesday Early Release. Fourth - Sixth grade teachers: Wednesdays shall be early release so teachers have additional planning time, as long as this practice does not compromise state required instructional minute's requirement. Middle School Teachers: Wednesdays shall be early release for additional prep time. Time is banked from section B lunch time (40 minute lunch). In the event Wednesday release days are permanently eliminated, the banked time will be added back to lunch (50 minutes). Staff meetings at each site may be scheduled one Wednesday per month.
Wednesday Early Release. 7.3.1 An Early Release Wednesday schedule reallocates and allows time so all teachers (Preschool-8th grade) participate in professional meetings to ensure school goals will be met. At all of our school sites, each Wednesday will be a shortened school day for all students. The teacher early release Wednesdays after students have been dismissed shall be comprised of staff meetings, grade/department level collaborations, site level collaborations, district collaboration focused on instructional practice, individual preparation time (i.e. planning, report cards, BTSA) as outlined below. All Staff District Collaboration 3 Staff Meetings/Site Collaboration 17 18 (Middle School Only) Grade/Department Level Collaboration 9 Individual Preparation 5 Back-to-School Night Preparation 1 Open House Preparation 1 Fall Conference Elementary (TK-5 Only) 1 Early release Wednesday topics shall be calendared prior to the beginning of the school year by the district and site administration as best as possible. The district shall calendar three (3) district wide collaboration meetings focused on instructional practice. The site administrator shall determine the balance of the Wednesday schedule with input from staff based on the Wednesday meeting times outlined as follows: Eighteen (18) staff meeting/site collaboration dates for middle school and seventeen (17) staff meetings/collaboration dates for elementary and K-5 at our K-8 school. Nine (9) grade/department meetings. In elementary and K-8 schools, three (3) individual preparation Wednesdays out of the five (one in each trimester, during one of the three weeks preceding the report card and IEP goal update due dates) shall be scheduled for individual preparation time for schools by the site administrator. At the middle school, four (4) individual preparation Wednesdays out of the five (one in each quarter coordinated with grading and IEP goal update due dates) shall be scheduled for the school by the site administrator. There will be no required after school Wednesday meetings during spring and fall conferences (TK-5 only). There will be one preparation meeting time for “Open House,” and one for “Back-to-School Night'' preparation. Collaboration time is defined as centered on student work/data to guide instruction (based on site and district Local Control Accountability Plan and/or Single Plan for Student Achievement area of focus). In addition, all site collaboration meeting agendas will be created with input from both teac...
