Planning/Conference Time Clause Samples
The Planning/Conference Time clause establishes designated periods during which employees, typically educators, are allotted time within their work schedule for planning lessons, preparing materials, or attending meetings. This time is set aside separately from instructional or direct service hours, ensuring that staff have uninterrupted opportunities to collaborate, strategize, or complete necessary administrative tasks. By formally providing for planning and conference time, the clause helps maintain instructional quality and supports effective communication among staff, addressing the need for structured, non-instructional work periods.
Planning/Conference Time a. Bargaining unit members in grades K to twelve (12) will be scheduled to have planning conference time of two hundred (200) minutes per week. It is understood and agreed that teachers may receive reduced planning time during those days when there is an early release, when school is delayed or cancelled or on days when schedules are altered due to testing.
b. Principals will schedule planning/conference time on a regular, daily basis whenever possible, and as equitably as possible among all teaching staff members.
c. Planning/Conference time will be used for planning, teacher based team meetings and parent/pupil conferences as appropriate. Teacher based team meetings will not be required more than once per week.
Planning/Conference Time. 1. Duty Free Lunch Period
Planning/Conference Time. 3.6.1 All full-time elementary employees shall be provided instructional planning time of two hundred eighty (280) minutes per instructional week within the standard student day as scheduled by the building site council. At least one hundred eighty (180) minutes will be scheduled in a thirty (30) minute or longer block of time. No planning period will be less than thirty (30) minutes in length, with the exception of recess. All schools are permitted to use one hundred (100) minutes of recess time toward the total amount of planning time. Building site councils are encouraged to create longer blocks of planning time by combining specialist time with lunch/recess and/or through other creative scheduling. Instructional planning time will be provided on a pro rata basis for less than full-time employees. The time that an employee’s students are with a subject area specialist(s) or at recess will be available for the employee’s instructional planning time. Data team meeting time shall not be taken out of the 280 minutes of planning time above. Secondary classroom teachers’ planning time will be equivalent to a class period or prorated portion of a class period if the teacher is part-time. Planning time is for the employee to prepare, plan, and confer with students, parents/guardians, administration, or staff. Regularly scheduled meetings shall not be mandated during planning time. With the exception of class coverage and emergency situations, planning time will be at the discretion of the teacher.
Planning/Conference Time. During the member work day, Members shall have two hundred (200) minutes of planning/conference time per week. Planning/conference time will be used primarily for completion of those tasks the member deems necessary for the performance of his or her job related responsibilities. Planning/conference time may also be used for conferring with parents and/or administrators and for member initiated conferences with students. Planning/conference time for members shall be exclusive of their duty free lunch and the required time at the beginning and end of each day. Planning/conference time at the elementary level will be provided chiefly as a result of the employment of members in special areas such as music, art and physical education. Part-time members shall be given a daily paid planning/conference time on a pro-rata basis.
Planning/Conference Time. 1. Each teacher at the middle school (6-8) and high school (9-12) shall receive no less than two hundred (200) minutes of planning/conference time during the student day each week. Such planning/conference time shall be in no less than thirty (30) minute blocks.
2. Each teacher at the elementary level (K-5) shall receive no less than an average over the school year of: two hundred (200) minutes planning/ conference time each week.
Planning/Conference Time. Within the normal school schedule preparation periods shall be guaranteed for every teacher as follows:
Planning/Conference Time. Conference time is determined as follows:
Planning/Conference Time. On full student days, all secondary employees shall have the same duration of planning time equal to the length of an instructional period All elementary employees shall have a period of fifty (50) minutes for planning each full student day. The planning time at the elementary shall be provided through the use of special teachers, i.e. music, art, PE, foreign language, computer. One teacher per grade level may remain indoors supervising students during outdoor classroom. All instruction of students shall be provided by certified teachers including time spent in the elementary, outdoors classroom. The amount, not to exceed thirty (30) minutes, and the clock hour of outdoor education shall be determined by the building administrator collaboratively with the elementary teachers affected. On days when the student schedule is changed due to weather delays, the administration will provide a shortened student schedule that allows for equal planning time for teachers.
Planning/Conference Time. On full student days, all secondary employees shall have the same duration of planning time equal to the length of an instructional period. All elementary employees shall have a period of fifty (50) minutes for planning each full student day. The planning time at the elementary shall be provided through the use of special teachers, i.e. music, art, PE, foreign language, computer. One teacher per grade level may remain indoors supervising students during outdoor classroom. All instruction of students shall be provided by certified teachers including time spent in the elementary, outdoors classroom. The amount, not to exceed thirty (30) minutes, and the clock hour of outdoor education shall be determined by the building administrator collaboratively with the elementary teachers affected. On days when the student schedule is changed due to weather delays, the administration will provide a shortened student schedule that allows for equal planning time for teachers.
Planning/Conference Time