Common use of School Work Year Clause in Contracts

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. 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 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. Not less than one hour of PLC time per month shall be dedicated to teacher directed collaboration for grade-level, subject or interdisciplinary professional development of curricula or implementation of common core, proficiency-based grading or other similar mandates. F. 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