Experience Credits. Credit shall be given for each full-time equivalent (1.0) year of teaching experience to the nearest tenth (.1) of a year. Employees shall receive a full year of experience credit for any year in which the employee is issued a .80 FTE certificated employment contract and the employee works a minimum of one hundred forty four (144) of the one hundred eighty (180) student instructional dates. Experience for occupational/physical therapists and speech/language pathologists shall include work experience in their specialized area outside of education. New employees who transfer from other districts within the state shall be granted similar experience credit as bargaining unit members who have the same total years of service. New employees will be granted experience credit for services provided as substitute teacher for a school district, provided that documentation of such service is provided within thirty (30) days of the first day in the assignment. Employees shall receive a full year of experience credit for any year in which the employee works a minimum of one hundred and forty-four (144) days as a substitute. Employees shall receive a partial year of experience for any year in which the employee works less than one hundred forty-four (144) days as a substitute, calculated by dividing the number of substitute days by one hundred eighty (180). Experience credits recognized and granted by the District prior to the effective date of this Agreement shall be grandfathered. Professional education experience granted prior to September 1, 1983, on a basis other than provided by this paragraph, shall be retained for the purpose of calculating annual salary.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
