NON-TEACHING WORK EXPERIENCE. 3 The Superintendent may use work experience in conjunction with teaching experience in establishing 4 the appropriate step on the salary scale when such work experience is relevant to the subject being 5 taught and can contribute to career information to students. Effective the beginning of the 2016-2017 6 school year, for incoming educators, the Superintendent/designee may credit prior work experience 7 for purposes of initial placement on the salary scale when such non-teaching work experience is 8 directly and substantially related to the educator’s initial assignment. Examples of when credit may 9 be appropriate include, but are not limited to, engineering experience for a STEM assignment, 10 journalism experience for an English Language Arts assignment, or relevant trade experience for a 11 PATHS assignment. The Board and Association recognize that the assessment of such work 12 experience requires a degree of judgment and, therefore, the Superintendent/designee’s decision shall 13 be final unless arbitrary and capricious. Incoming educators shall be provided a work experience 14 questionnaire (see Appendix M) at the time of hire, which shall be returned to Human Resources. 15 Any grievance arising under this clause may only be filed by the incoming educator or by the 16 Association on behalf of the incoming educator and must be filed within 45 days after the educator 17 becomes a public employee within the meaning of Title 26, section 962(6). 18
NON-TEACHING WORK EXPERIENCE. Experience credit above Step 1 shall be determined as follows:
NON-TEACHING WORK EXPERIENCE. A teacher new to the school system may be granted up to twelve (12) years of non-teaching work experience at the discretion of the school district. Two (2) years of non-teaching work experience shall be equated as one (1) year of teaching experience, if the school district accepts the non-teaching work experience as qualifying.
