Parent Conferences. A. 1. Elementary and exceptional education schools shall be dismissed early a minimum of four (4) half days during the school year to grant teachers time for parent-teacher conferences.
Parent Conferences. Except for kindergarten, parent conferences will be conducted after the first trimester during a week of minimum days. There shall be no other required meetings on those conference days.
Parent Conferences. 1. The Board and the CTA agree that there shall be at least three (3) formal written reports to parents and at least two (2) informal reports.
2. The required number and type of informal reports shall be discussed and determined at a scheduled staff meeting.
Parent Conferences. The scheduling of parent conferences shall be mutually agreed upon by the Board and Union.
Parent Conferences. The Parent/Teacher conference day session may be five (5) hours or two (2) hours anytime during the normal school business conference day with the understanding that, comparable time for conferences for the remaining three (3) hours may be done in the following manner:
(a) Conferences held the prior evening between the hours of 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.; unless
(b) An alternative school-wide evening conference is designated during the conference week through the determination of the School/Department Committee, provided that the conferences are held between 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. In the event that the preceding language requires a legislative waiver, the language will not become effective until the waiver is granted.
Parent Conferences. 7.6.1 A parent conference day consists of a full work day during which a teacher is released from all instructional duties (preparation, teaching, and grading) for half of that work day. This will be defined as a “minimum day” for purposes of this section.
7.6.2 Parent conferences will be scheduled by releasing each classroom teacher for four minimum days in the fall of each school year. The principal and the school site’s teacher leadership team will develop and agree upon a parent conference schedule for the site, provided that:
a. The four minimum days are arranged in no more than two clusters
b. No more than one of the four minimum days will be scheduled on a Thursday. That one Thursday will replace the designated time for District activities and staff development. The District, including the site administrator, may schedule a combined total of only one mandatory District or site meeting on a restructured Thursday during the one month in which the majority of the parent conference days occur.
c. At least one of the four conferencing minimum days will be scheduled for parent conferences at all schools in the District.
d. At least three of the four days will be scheduled consecutively. The K--5 three consecutive days will be scheduled in conjunction with a restructured Thursday in order to utilize that early--release time for scheduling additional parent conferences. This provision will not prohibit the scheduling of District meetings for a sub--group of unit members not involved with or scheduled for conferences.
e. The middle school’s three consecutive days may be scheduled at any time different than the elementary schools.
7.6.3 During the four District designated conference days, teachers will not be required to conference with parents more than once. It will be at the professional discretion of teachers to schedule additional conferences with parents on the designated minimum days, provided these conferences do not limit or impede the scheduling of the primary parent conferences during the four days. This provision recognizes that teachers schedule conferences with parents as needed and requested for a wide variety of reasons during a school year.
7.6.4 Teachers assigned to teach grades K--5 who are required to hold conferences for more than 29 students as part of the parent conferences required by section 7.5.2, shall be paid at the hourly rate for additional required conference time worked outside of the normal workday set forth in section 8.1 up ...
Parent Conferences. Parent Conference shall be set as follows:
A. The normal school day hours on the set calendar day. OR
B. The building principal shall poll the staff through the Association, and after the majority of the building staff agrees, set conference times after the normal school day the day before the scheduled conference day. This P.M. conference shall be 3 1/2 to 4 hours and shall conclude not later than 5 hours after school dismissal. The next day A.M. conference shall be 2 1/2 to 3 hours, to complete the 6 1/2 hour work day, and shall start no sooner than 7:30 A.M. and conclude no later than 11:30 A.M. The schedule shall be set no later than two (2) weeks before the scheduled conference date. OR
C. The building principal, with input from their staff, shall set conference time(s) and date(s) at least three (3) weeks before the scheduled conference date as printed on the school calendar. These terms/conditions shall be within the 6 1/2 hour work day and shall be agreed to by 80% of the building members through a vote conducted by the Association. OR
D. If a school building(s) (H.S., M.S., & E.S.) has voted in a site-based committee, that committee shall set conference date(s) and/or time (s) with a majority vote of the members at a building. This shall be done not later than 5 weeks before the conference date(s) and within terms/condition of a 6-1/2 hour work day.
Parent Conferences. In order to assist teachers in meeting parent conference expectations, the District will schedule for Grades K-8, four (4) half-days of non-student contact time for parent conferencing.
Parent Conferences. Building staff will schedule and attend the annual District parent conferences. Conferences and related early release days will be scheduled in collaboration with TEA, District leadership, and building instructional leadership teams. Building plans may include flexible scheduling to accommodate parent conferences beyond the workday.
Parent Conferences. 11.4.1 Elementary Parent Conferences In addition to the regularly scheduled Parent Conference Day as described in Section 10.1.5, classroom teachers at the K-5 schools shall be granted four (4) hours during the teaching day for the purpose of conducting conferences with parents. This provision shall not apply to Resource Teachers, Special Education Resource Specialists or Special Day Class teachers.
11.4.2 Middle School Parent Conferences Middle Schools shall have three (3) shortened days of one hundred and eighty (180) minutes and two (2) days with eight (8) hours of scheduled conference time.
