Common use of Activities Defined as Duty Days Clause in Contracts

Activities Defined as Duty Days. A. Professional Workday 1. The teacher workday is a flexible additional thirty minutes outside of the student contact day with a minimum of at least 10 minutes before and 10 minutes after. The remaining 10 minutes will be at the discretion of the teacher. Mandatory attendance is required for faculty meetings from 7:30 am until the start of the school day. Faculty meetings may be held up to four times monthly with emergency meetings as needed. 2. Each teacher will be guaranteed a minimum of forty (40) minutes for planning time each day, outside of all other duty-free mandates or district job assignment. Administration is directed to give each teacher no less than thirty (30) minutes consecutively. If only thirty (30) minutes are given at a time, the teacher will receive no less than two- thirty (30) minute slots per day or an equivalent to that amount of time during the work week. 3. When a teacher is required to substitute for another teacher, reimbursement will be determined in the following manner: a. The teacher will be expected to substitute for another teacher up to five hours free of reimbursement. Thereafter, that teacher will receive compensation equal to a prorated substitute’s salary with the first paycheck of the month. b. Record keeping will be up to the individual teacher with validation by the building principal or principal’s representative before the end of that pay period.