Elementary Team Meetings. In order to provide for team planning and/or team activities at the elementary level, elementary teachers shall be scheduled for a thirty (30) minute team planning period per week. Whenever possible, this thirty
Elementary Team Meetings. In order to provide for team planning and/or team activities at the elementary level, elementary teachers shall be scheduled for a thirty (30) minute team planning period per week. Whenever possible, this thirty (30) minute team planning period shall be scheduled during the regular student day. When it is not possible to do so, this thirty (30) minute team planning period shall be scheduled either before or after school, depending on when the longer block of time is for each school. The specific day for this team planning period shall be set by each team, subject to the reasonable approval of the principal. No teacher shall be required to attend more than one such meeting per week. When this team planning period takes place before or after the regular student day, each teacher shall be provided additional time as follows: thirty (30) minutes of individual planning time every other week when the health specialist is teaching her/his class and five (5) minutes added to the teacher’s dutyfree lunch each day. Specialists shall be treated in a like manner.