Weekly Office Hours. For K-12 teachers, each teacher shall have office hours 20 minutes per week. Teachers have discretion on the time-of-day office hours are held, so long as the time is when students would typically be available to participate (e.g., immediately after school, in the evening after students would arrive home but prior to bedtime). The office hours’ time will be scheduled/published to families and the building principal, and posted within the first week of each quarter. Absent extenuating circumstances, office hours will remain consistent during the quarter. Teachers will notify the principal, students and families of any office hour change during the quarter. Office hours may be in person or virtual. For kindergarten teachers, so long as the kindergarten teachers’ schedule is aligned to the preschool schedule at the ELV, kindergarten will be excluded from the 20-minute office hours. At the middle school, twenty (20) minutes of one morning team meeting time weekly will be eliminated in order to allow for office hours at the teacher’s discretion as implemented for K-12 teachers. Office hours cannot be used for the purpose of an OTES 2.0 walkthrough.
