Additional Elementary Planning Time. In addition to the planning time provided in Section E, each elementary classroom teacher shall be provided daily twenty (20) consecutive minutes of planning time, contiguous to the teacher’s lunch period or contiguous to the teacher’s regular 30-minute planning period. Students during such periods shall be supervised by non-bargaining unit employees. Special teachers and ancillary staff such as art, music, physical education, computers, foreign language, instructional specialists, itinerant special education, librarians and student services shall also receive an additional amount of planning/preparation time equal to 200 minutes over each full two (2) week period. No one block of planning/preparation shall be less than twenty (20) minutes in length. Such planning/preparation time may be scheduled following the first bell at the start of the school day; contiguous to lunch or existing planning time; at the end of the school day prior to students’ dismissal; or at other times during the school day following consultation between the building principal or coordinator and the affected teacher. The parties agree that a committee shall be established to monitor this planning time provision. The committee shall be composed of eight (8) members, four (4) to be appointed by the Association and four (4) to be appointed by the School District. The District agrees to provide all data in a timely fashion needed for the committee to effectively monitor this provision and prepare the report. This committee shall convene during the 2005-06 school year to devise a recommendation regarding increasing elementary planning time. Said recommendation will be forwarded to the parties’ respective bargaining teams to be acted upon in a successor agreement.
Additional Elementary Planning Time. Teachers of birth to grade five will be provided an additional five (5) days per year for the purpose of instructional preparation as follows:
