Common use of Resource Days Clause in Contracts

Resource Days. (For resource and special day teachers, also see CMR language in Article 6.2.1 Each regular classroom teacher, resource teacher and special day class teacher in grades 4-6 shall receive four (4) resource days in each school year. 6.2.2 Resource teachers in grades 4-6 shall receive four (4) resource days in each school year if the resource teacher works the same schedule as the regular classroom teachers in grades 4-6. Classroom teachers who teach combination classes of grades 3 and 4 and who teach the intermediate schedule are entitled to the intermediate resource days. 6.2.3 Each regular classroom teacher, resource classroom teacher and special day class teacher in grades TK-3 shall receive two resource days in each school year. 6.2.4 A resource day shall be defined as time for professional preparation and/or growth. 6.2.5 The individual teacher and the site administrator shall mutually agree on the program of resource day(s) utilization. 6.2.6 Resource days may be utilized for activities to include, but not limited to: 1. Curriculum Development 2. Professional Improvement 3. School Visitations 4. Workshops 5. Research and Writing 6.2.7 Resource days shall not be used for personal business, recreation or entertainment. 6.2.8 Resource day requests are subject to fifteen (15) calendar days notice via leave input or via written notice to the involved teacher’s supervisor. Resource days shall only be subject to approval/denial in any of the following three (3) conditions: ● If the requested day is contiguous with non-instructional days, not including weekends (e.g., if it is adjacent to a week-long calendar break or three day weekend); ● If over 15% of unit members at the site would be utilizing the same date as a resource day; ● If the resource day is being input fewer than fifteen (15) calendar days in advance as indicated above. Under any of the three (3) conditions above, the District has the right to exercise discretion in anticipating hardship caused by the requested timing and to potentially deny the resource day being scheduled for that particular date accordingly. However, the District may not unreasonably deny resource day timing. Once ten (10) instructional days have elapsed since the teacher’s notice of the resource day was provided, a resource day’s scheduled date may be canceled in emergencies; however, substitute teacher coverage of resource days must not be reassigned more than twice in one school year per any teacher.