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Current Contract - Article IX Duties and Assignments |
A. The school year shall not exceed one hundred-eighty (180) days, one (1) orientation day and two (2) in-service days.
B. The employee work day shall not exceed seven and one-half (7-1/2) hours per day, provided, however, that employees may leave for the day ten minutes after the dismissal of students from the building at the end of the day and the completion of meetings (if any) and detention monitoring (if any).
1. All employees shall sign-in at least fifteen (15) minutes before morning homeroom and all teachers must be in their assigned areas of responsibility within the building ten (10) minutes prior to the beginning of morning homeroom.C. On days when school is not held to allow attendance at professional meetings, and employees are required to attend these meetings, the Schools shall make provisions for lunch and provide reasonable reimbursement for parking upon submission of a receipted bill.
a. Employees not assigned duties shall be available to students during the fifteen (15) minutes prior to morning homeroom.
2. Employees shall not be assigned duties, but shall remain available to students during the ten (10) minutes after dismissal of students at the end of the day.
3. Detention monitoring shall be equitably distributed among all faculty members and shall not exceed three (3) times per year.
a. The number of students shall not normally exceed forty-five (45). However, in schools where the practice has been to limit the number of students to less than forty-five (45), such practice shall continue.
b. An administrator shall be present in the school during all detention monitoring.
4. In no event will the employee be required to participate in faculty meetings or department meetings beyond 3:30 p.m.
D. Employees shall not be required to be present for more than six (6) professional meetings a year which may include parent-teacher conferences, graduation, baccalaureate, and open house. Employees may be assigned two (2) additional service duties a year outside the school day. These duties will be distributed equitably among all faculty members.
1. These meetings and duties shall not exceed five (5) hours.E. An agenda and related printed material shall be distributed, if possible, to employees at least 24 hours prior to a faculty meeting or department meeting.
2. No employee shall be assigned a meeting or duty, excluding graduation, on a Sunday.
F. Employees may indicate in writing their desire to place a specific topic on the agenda. The topic shall be included on the agenda of the next regularly scheduled faculty meeting or department meeting provided notice is given twenty-four (24) hours prior to the meeting. This request shall not be unreasonably denied.
G. A yearly calendar in each School shall be published in September indicating system holidays, school events, and meetings, especially faculty meetings, parent-teacher meetings, examination dates and closing of marks. Local holidays and necessary changes to the yearly calendar will be published on the first of each month.
1. Ten (10) post school general faculty meetings will be scheduled at the beginning of the year. During evaluation periods (Middle States) the committee meetings shall be scheduled at the beginning of the year and shall not exceed one meeting per week.H. A teaching period is one in which the employee is actively involved in the act of teaching, either as an individual or a member of a Teaching Team. This shall usually be a forty-five (45) minute period.
I. A service period is one in which the employee is assigned any professional duties other than teaching. They shall include, but not be limited to, study halls, cafeteria supervision, maintaining of classrooms, halls and lavatories, and teacher substitution.
1. It is agreed that during service period supervision in the cafeteria setting at least one teacher will be assigned per 100 students. During lunch periods no teacher will be assigned to supervise more than 250 students. Where present practice exceeds these numbers, such practice shall continue.J. In the case of absence of three (3) or fewer consecutive work days, substitutions shall first be assigned to employees who have been rostered to serve as substitutes during a specific period which is to be their service period.
1. If there are no personnel available under Section J, then a member of the administration or a para-professional substitute shall be utilized.K. In the case of an employee absence of more than three (3) consecutive work days due to illness or other comparable circumstances, an administrator may be utilized as a substitute or a professional or para-professional substitute shall be hired.
2. If no teachers are available who have been rostered for substitution during that period then substitutes may be drawn from other service periods such as hall duty, lavatory duty, lab prep, except where this will adversely affect the efficient operation of the school. If such substitutes are drawn from cafeteria duty, an administrator shall be present in the cafeteria for the entire period.
3. Teachers may volunteer to give up a prep period for substitution and will be given a personal day after giving up four preparation periods.