School Work Year. A. The school work year shall not exceed one hundred-ninety (190) days including the following five (5) paid holidays: Labor Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving, President’s Day and Memorial Day. B. The normal employee work week is forty (40) hours, including a duty-free lunch period of thirty (30) minutes. However, the parties recognize the desirability of flexible scheduling, and it is their intent to continue reasonable flexibility in the work day and the work week within the forty-hour-per-week time frame. Employees who are required by the District to work beyond forty hours in any week shall be given compensatory time off equal to the actual overtime worked or overtime computed at the per hour rate of .001 times the employee’s annual salary for each hour or part thereof worked, at the option of the District. C. Preparation time for middle school and high school employees shall be equivalent to one (1) class period of uninterrupted time each day. Preparation time for elementary school employees shall be equivalent to 250 minutes per week with at least one 40 minute uninterrupted block each day. Preparation time is intended for the purpose of lesson planning, material organization, and assessment of student work. D. The District and the Council recognize that there is a relationship between the amount of prep time an employee has and the number of different academic preparations. When introducing new programs and technologies both parties recognize that training and support is necessary prior to implementation. Both parties also recognize the need to minimize the impact on individual preparation time. Administrators will collaborate with employees whenever possible and attempt to minimize the number of different preparations given budgetary constraints and/or state and federal laws. E. Each building shall devote at least one hour per week to professional development through Professional Learning Communities. Professional Learning Community work may take place in staff meetings, articulation sessions, department and/or grade level meetings, in recognition that each building level has site-specific scheduling needs. F. A Professional Development Committee will meet at least once each year. The Committee shall be comprised of administrators and teacher representation from each school site. The purpose of the committee will include but not be limited to: 1. Developing a yearly calendar for professional development. 2. Determining Professional Learning Community time. 3. Providing distinction between professional development, planning, and grading days, so that planning and grading time is protected, and equal to time spent in District-directed/site-directed professional development. G. The District recognizes its obligation to bargain upon demand by the Council the impact of any decision(s) that would result in a significant increase in student contact time. In such cases the following procedure shall apply: 1. The Council will be advised in writing of any formal proposal prior to the submission of such proposal to the Board. Any such proposal shall include sufficient information to allow the Council to assess its impact on employee student contact time. a. The Council shall have ten (10) calendar days from receipt of notice to submit a demand to bargain. 2. Upon receipt of a timely demand to bargain by the District, the parties will schedule a meeting to begin bargaining and to select a fact-finder as follows: a. A list of seven (7) fact-finders shall be requested from the Oregon Employment Relations Board. A fact-finder shall be selected at the first negotiations session by the striking method. The first striker shall be determined by a coin flip. b. After six (6) strikes, the remaining fact-finder shall be offered the appointment subject to acceptance of the following terms: 1) The hearing shall be held within forty (40) calendar days of appointment. 2) The hearing shall be declared closed at the end of the public hearing. 3) The fact-finder shall submit recommendations within twenty-five
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
School Work Year. A. The school school-work year shall not exceed one hundred-ninety ninety-three (190193) days including the following five six (56) paid holidays: holidays listed below with one half (1/2) day of comp time for attending open house/back-to-school night. The schedule of actual comp time will be determined by each site in increments of no less than two (2) hours. Labor Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇. Holiday, President’s Day Day, and Memorial Day.
B. The normal employee work work-week is forty (40) hours, including a duty-free lunch period of thirty (30) minutes. However, the parties recognize the desirability of flexible scheduling, and it is their intent to continue reasonable flexibility in the work day and the work week within the forty-hour-per-week time frame. Employees who are required by the District to work beyond forty hours in any week shall be given compensatory time off equal to the actual overtime worked or overtime computed at the per hour rate of .001 times the employee’s annual salary for each hour or part thereof worked, at the option of the District.
C. Preparation time for middle school and high school employees shall be equivalent to one
(1) one class period of uninterrupted time each day. The team structure at the middle school requires dedicated team time in addition to individual planning time. Preparation time for elementary school employees shall be equivalent to 250 minutes per week with at least one 40 45-minute uninterrupted block each day. Preparation time shall be teacher directed and is intended for the purpose of lesson planning, material organization, and assessment of student work. Teachers will not be required to attend meetings or in-services or be given other duties or assignments during preparation time. Exceptions may be made with the consent of the affected teacher for IEP or other student services related meetings.
D. The District and the Council recognize that there is a relationship between the amount of prep time an employee has and the number of different academic preparations. When introducing new programs and technologies both parties recognize that training and support is necessary prior to implementation. Both parties also recognize the need to minimize the impact on individual preparation time. Administrators will collaborate with employees whenever possible and attempt to minimize the number of different preparations given budgetary constraints and/or state and federal laws.
E. Each building shall devote at least one hour per week to professional development through Professional Learning Communities. Professional Learning Community work may take place in staff meetingsNot less than one hour of PLC time per month shall be dedicated to teacher directed collaboration for grade-level, articulation sessionssubject or interdisciplinary professional development of curricula or implementation of common core, department and/or grade level meetings, in recognition that each building level has siteproficiency-specific scheduling needsbased grading or other similar mandates.
F. A Professional Development Committee will meet at least once each year. The Committee shall be comprised of administrators and teacher representation from each school site. The purpose of the committee will include but not be limited to:
1. Developing a yearly calendar for professional development.
2. Determining Professional Learning Community time.
3. Providing distinction between professional development, planning, and grading days, so that planning and grading time is protected, and equal to time spent in District-directed/site-directed professional development.
G. The District recognizes its obligation to bargain upon demand by the Council the impact of any decision(s) that would result in a significant increase in student contact time. In such cases the following procedure shall apply:
1. The Council will be advised in writing of any formal proposal prior to the submission of such proposal to the Board. Any such proposal shall include sufficient information to allow the Council to assess its impact on employee student contact time.
a. The Council shall have ten (10) calendar days from receipt of notice to submit a demand to bargain.
2. Upon receipt of a timely demand to bargain by the District, the parties will schedule a meeting to begin bargaining and to select a fact-finder as follows:
a. A list of seven (7) fact-finders shall be requested from the Oregon Employment Relations Board. A fact-finder shall be selected at the first negotiations session by the striking method. The first striker shall be determined by a coin flip.
b. After six (6) strikes, the remaining fact-finder shall be offered the appointment subject to acceptance of the following terms:
1) The hearing shall be held within forty (40) calendar days of appointment.
2) The hearing shall be declared closed at the end of the public hearing.
3) The fact-finder shall submit recommendations within twenty-five
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
School Work Year. A. The school school-work year shall not exceed one hundred-ninety ninety-one (190191) days including the following five (5) paid holidays: holidays listed below with one half (1/2) day of comp time for attending open house/back-to-school night. The schedule of actual comp time will be determined by each site in increments of no less than two (2) hours. Labor Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving, President’s Day and Memorial Day.
B. The normal employee work work-week is forty (40) hours, including a duty-free lunch period of thirty (30) minutes. However, the parties recognize the desirability of flexible scheduling, and it is their intent to continue reasonable flexibility in the work day and the work week within the forty-hour-per-week time frame. Employees who are required by the District to work beyond forty hours in any week shall be given compensatory time off equal to the actual overtime worked or overtime computed at the per hour rate of .001 times the employee’s annual salary for each hour or part thereof worked, at the option of the District.
C. Preparation time for middle school and high school employees shall be equivalent to one
(1) one a. class period of uninterrupted time each day. The team structure at the middle school requires dedicated team time in addition to individual planning time. Preparation time for elementary school employees shall be equivalent to 250 minutes per week with at least one 40 45 minute uninterrupted block each day. Preparation time shall be teacher directed and is intended for the purpose of lesson planning, material organization, and assessment of student work. Teachers will not be required to attend meetings or in-services or be given other duties or assignments during preparation time. Exceptions may be made with the consent of the affected teacher for IEP or other student services related meetings.
D. The District and the Council recognize that there is a relationship between the amount of prep time an employee has and the number of different academic preparations. When introducing new programs and technologies both parties recognize that training and support is necessary prior to implementation. Both parties also recognize the need to minimize the impact on individual preparation time. Administrators will collaborate with employees whenever possible and attempt to minimize the number of different preparations given budgetary constraints and/or state and federal laws.
E. Each building shall devote at least one hour per week to professional development through Professional Learning Communities. Professional Learning Community work may take place in staff meetingsNot less than one hour of PLC time per month shall be dedicated to teacher directed collaboration for grade-level, articulation sessionssubject or interdisciplinary professional development of curricula or implementation of common core, department and/or grade level meetings, in recognition that each building level has siteproficiency-specific scheduling needsbased grading or other similar mandates.
F. A Professional Development Committee will meet at least once each year. The Committee shall be comprised of administrators and teacher representation from each school site. The purpose of the committee will include but not be limited to:
1. Developing a yearly calendar for professional development.
2. Determining Professional Learning Community time.
3. Providing distinction between professional development, planning, and grading days, so that planning and grading time is protected, and equal to time spent in District-directed/site-directed professional development.
G. The District recognizes its obligation to bargain upon demand by the Council the impact of any decision(s) that would result in a significant increase in student contact time. In such cases the following procedure shall apply:
1. The Council will be advised in writing of any formal proposal prior to the submission of such proposal to the Board. Any such proposal shall include sufficient information to allow the Council to assess its impact on employee student contact time.
a. The Council shall have ten (10) calendar days from receipt of notice to submit a demand to bargain.
2. Upon receipt of a timely demand to bargain by the District, the parties will schedule a meeting to begin bargaining and to select a fact-finder as follows:
a. A list of seven (7) fact-finders shall be requested from the Oregon Employment Relations Board. A fact-finder shall be selected at the first negotiations session by the striking method. The first striker shall be determined by a coin flip.
b. After six (6) strikes, the remaining fact-finder shall be offered the appointment subject to acceptance of the following terms:
1) The hearing shall be held within forty (40) calendar days of appointment.
2) The hearing shall be declared closed at the end of the public hearing.
3) The fact-finder shall submit recommendations within twenty-five
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement