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ARTICLE VI
HOURS
6.1 The District and the Association recognize that the varying nature of a unit member's day-to-day professional responsibilities does not easily lend itself to a duty day of rigidly established length. Unit members shall spend as much time as necessary to fulfill their instructional and professional responsibilities. Although the minimum site-based assignment hours may be less than forty (40) hours per week, it is understood that fulfillment of a unit member's total professional responsibilities will generally require a work week well in excess of forty (40) hours.
6.2 THE ON-SITE WORKDAY SHALL BE STRUCTURED AS FOLLOWS. 6.2.1 For classroom teachers, department chairpersons and resource teachers, the on-site workday shall begin twenty (20) minutes before {eighteen (18) minutes before for teachers at grades 9-12} the site's regular student instructional day and shall end twenty (20) minutes following the end of the site's regular student instructional day. 6.2.2 On Fridays and days immediately preceding a holiday, unit members may leave the site fifteen (15) minutes after the end of the site's regular instructional day, provided that one bargaining unit member remains on duty on those days for the full period of twenty (20) minutes to insure proper student supervision.
6.2.3 Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 6.2, above, the on-site workday for counselors, middle school and senior high school librarians shall be eight and one-half (8.5) hours, including lunch.
6.2.4 The parties recognize the joint responsibility of managers and unit members assigned to bus duty to provide for adequate student safety during periods of transportation-related problems.
6.2.5 The parties recognize the joint responsibility of all managers and all unit members to provide for campus safety and student supervision during the school day, and in the periods of the time adjacent thereto, as well as while performing adjunct duties at activities sponsored by the School/District. Except in unusual safety-related situations that necessitate unique responses, the current contractual provisions contained in Article VI shall be observed; it is not the intent of the District to create new assignments for secondary teachers to regularly rotating supervision schedules of particular portions of the school site during the lunch period, or the periods prior to the warning bell before the start of the student day, or the period after the dismissal bell at the end of the student day. 6.3 District Wide Banking Time for Professional Development 6.3.1 The parties recognize the importance of and remain committed to weekly, collaborative professional development meetings and activities. The use of the term “teacher” throughout this language is intended to refer to all of the bargaining unit members: teachers, counselors, librarians, nurses, and speech pathologists, as applicable. 6.3.2 Professional development involves independent and/or group activities designed to strengthen and improve teaching practices and student academic achievement. Professional development may include, but is not limited to, activities that improve the knowledge of teachers and principals concerning the academic subjects that teachers teach; effective instructional strategies, methods, and skills; and the effective use of standards, assessments and data to improve classroom practices, teaching and student learning. Professional development is a continuous process of individual and collective examination of practice. It should empower individual educators and communities of educators to make complex decisions; identify and solve problems; and connect theory, practice, and student outcomes. 6.3.3 Professional development activities shall be offered on a weekly basis as part of a two hour “Professional Development Meeting.” The two hours or 120-minutes shall be accounted for as follows: 6.3.3.1 During each school week of the 2007-2008 school year and thereafter, excluding holidays, all schools will bank 20 minutes of instructional time, Tuesday through Friday, for a maximum total of 80 banked minutes per week. These banked minutes reflect an increase of 20 instructional minutes per day, as defined in this Article VI – Hours, however, these banked minutes do not increase the "on-site workday," as that term is defined herein. The resulting 80 banked minutes, plus an additional 40 minutes of non-instructional time (on the Monday of the Professional Development Meeting) will be used to create the referenced weekly, two hour, "Professional Development Meeting." 6.3.4 The weekly-banked minutes will be utilized for professional development on the non-holiday Monday, immediately following the week in which they were banked. If more time is banked than is used for professional development, the over-banked instructional minutes will be returned to teachers in the form of a shorter instructional day on the last workday before Winter Break and Spring Break. If more than one “shorter instructional day” is necessary to compensate teachers for the over-banked instructional minutes, then the second to the last day before Winter Break and/or Spring Break will also be used. On these days, unit members may leave the site fifteen (15) minutes after the end of the instructional day.
6.3.5 District representatives and/or the site administrator shall lead professional development activities on “A Mondays.” Teachers shall lead individual or small group professional development activities on “B” Mondays.
6.3.6 “A” MONDAYS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
6.3.6.1 The following activities are consistent with the definition of Professional Development as set forth in this Article and shall be conducted on “A” Mondays as determined by the site administrator or his/her designee. (It is understood that ‘designee’ shall not include a UTP bargaining unit member).
All-Staff Meetings Grade Level Meetings Department Meetings Vertical Team Meetings Committee Meetings Team Review of Student Work Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Data Assessment Trainings
Meetings may include school site concerns, announcements, faculty discussion, and UTP announcements not to exceed 15 minutes (consistent with Section 3.11 of the current Agreement).
All “A” Monday Professional Development Activities shall be completed within the contractual workday.
6.3.7 “B” MONDAYS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
6.3.7.1 The following activities are consistent with the definition of Professional Development set forth in this Article and shall be conducted on “B” Mondays as determined by the individual bargaining unit member(s).
Parent/student conferences – teacher(s)/counselor initiated conferences IEPS – conferences, report writing SST meetings 504 meetings Standards-based curriculum development and lesson planning Data entry – language arts & math, IEP reports, grades/rubrics, report cards Reviewing, analyzing, and grading student work Parent communication Classroom set-up in support of instruction
All “B” Monday Professional Development Activities shall be completed within the contractual workday. 6.3.8 Professional development A and B meetings shall alternate. For example, a Type A Professional Development Meeting shall be followed by a Type B Professional Development Meeting on the following non-holiday Monday. The first Professional Development Meeting in any given school year will be held on the first instructional Monday of the school year and will be an “A Monday.” 6.3.9 A written agenda for “A Monday” Professional Development meetings will be provided by the school site administrator to unit members on the Friday prior to the meeting. Similarly, a written agenda for “B Monday” Professional Development meetings will be provided by each unit member and given to the school site administrator on the Friday prior to the meeting.
6.3.10 DISTRIBUTION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MINUTES IN BANKING TIME FRAMEWORK 6.3.10.1 The distribution of instructional minutes shall conform to the Banking Time Framework as follows: Mondays: ECP = one hundred (100); Kindergarten = one hundred eighty (180); Full-Day Kindergarten and Grades 1-5 = two hundred twenty-five (225); Grades 6-8 = two hundred sixty-five (265); and Grades 9-12 = two hundred ninety (290). Tuesdays through Fridays: ECP = two hundred (200); Kindergarten = two hundred five (205); Full-Day Kindergarten and Grades 1-5 = three hundred twenty-five (325); Grades 6-8 = three hundred sixty-five (365); and Grades 9-12 = three hundred ninety (390). 6.3.11 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TASK FORCE The District and the Association shall establish a Professional Development Task Force comprised of five task force members selected by the District and five task force members selected by the Association during the 2007-08 school year. The Professional Development Task Force shall assess current professional development activities and make recommendations to sustain and improve the overall quality of professional development activities and offerings. Task Force recommendations shall be presented at a public meeting of the Board of Education no later than April 15, 2008. 6.4 Adjunct duties that do not involve the entire staff are by their nature subject to sharing or distribution among the unit members and staff at each site. The District shall make a reasonable effort to assign adjunct duties on an equitable basis and with reasonable advance notice. Prior to the assignment of adjunct duties, volunteers will be sought; if a teacher serves as an annual club sponsor or in any other adjunct duty during the lunch hour, said service shall preclude the assignment of other adjunct duties.
6.4.1 If such duties are paid by student body funds or other sources, they shall not be counted in determining the "equitable distribution" of duties.
6.5 The District shall administer the above in a reasonable manner.
6.6 Unit members shall have a duty-free lunch period, at a time arranged by site management, of at least thirty (30) consecutive minutes, exclusive of passing periods, except for student safety emergencies such as fire drills.
6.7 Each full time unit member teaching under departmentalized conditions shall be afforded one scheduled class period as part of the regular basic assignment as a preparation/planning duty period. In situations involving STAR testing schedules (or any successor program thereto), said daily preparation/planning may be rescheduled by the site manager provided the unit member receives the same overall amount of preparation/planning time during a two week period of rescheduling as he/she would have received in the more traditional student instructional format. Elementary RSP Teachers will be provided with a preparation/conference period outside of student instructional hours. Preparation/planning duty time shall be utilized for personal preparation and planning purposes, unit member/student conferences, unit member/parent conferences, unit member/administrator conferences, administrative assignments and student testing and guidance team meetings for Special Education Teachers. Administrative assignments are for extraordinary circumstances such as:
6.7.1 school campus security,
6.7.2 student safety related emergencies, and
6.7.3 substituting for a temporarily absent unit member.
6.7.3.1 If a unit member at a departmentalized school is required to render substitute service during his/her preparation period, he/she shall be paid the prorated amount of the daily substitute rate for a teaching period of substitute service; if a unit member assigned to a non-departmentalized school, or a departmentalized school without a preparation period is required to receive students from a temporarily absent teacher, he/she shall be paid the prorated amount of the daily substitute as the students he/she was required to receive bears to the number of students in the absent teacher's class (e.g., receiving 15 of 30 students for a day will result in the payment of one-half of the daily rate of substitute pay). If administratively feasible, such substituting assignments shall be on a voluntary basis. Site administrators shall equitably distribute assignments for substituting for temporarily absent unit members among unit members with a common preparation/planning duty period.
6.8 The official school calendars for the next three (3) years are attached as Appendix D. The parties shall sustain the school calendar for a subsequent three (3) year period by annually agreeing to the extension of the remaining two (2) years for a third (3rd) year. Each school year, the parties shall agree to the calendar for a new third (3rd) year no later than January 31.
6.8.1 Contingent upon District compliance with the S.B.85 rules and regulations being developed by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, United Teachers of Pasadena and Pasadena Unified School District agree that the work calendar will be as follows:
6.8.2 The teacher work year shall remain at 186 days, including only three (3) days of non-student, non ADA status.
6.8.3 The staff development buy back provisions contained herein shall continue beyond said school year, however the parties shall mutually agree to the scheduling of non-student, non-ADA days in future years.
6.8.4 If any school site wishes to change its Back-to-School Night and/or Open House to a date that is different than the Official Calendar, then the procedures contained in Article XIX shall be followed.
6.9 Pursuant to the provisions of Education Code Sections 46114 and 46142 (in effect on 2/20/87), the District shall schedule a special one hundred eighty (180) minute instructional day for students on the days that schools are scheduled to have "Open House" and "Back-to-School" activities in the evening. A unit member may leave his/her job site thirty (30) minutes after the student special schedule dismissal time for said Open House and Back-to-School activities.
6.9.1 The regular day schedule of instructional minutes shall be: ECP = one hundred eighty (180); Kindergarten = two hundred (200); Grades 1-5 = three hundred five (305); Grades 6-8 = three hundred forty-five (345); and Grades 9-12 = three hundred seventy (370).
6.9.2 The minimum day schedule of instructional minutes shall be: ECP = one hundred eighty (180); Kindergarten = two hundred (200); Grades 1-12 = two hundred forty (240).
6.9.3 The shortened day schedule of instructional minutes at the high school level shall be: three hundred eight (308).
6.9.4 The testing day schedule of instructional minutes at the high school level for three (3) days at the end of each semester shall be; two hundred forty-seven (247).
6.9.5 District-wide staff development activities for unit members shall be conducted on the shortened or minimum day schedules described herein, or a combination thereof.
6.10 Unit members assigned to elementary schools shall have one regular school day in November for the purpose of holding conferences with the parents of their students. Unit members shall make a reasonable effort to contact the parents and schedule conferences, at the school, on this day or during the unit members’ regular workday within a week before or after the student holiday. Unit members shall not be expected to hold a conference with any parent who is unwilling to attend a conference at the school at times stated above, but shall be required, in the absence of a conference, to mail a written summary of student progress to the parent(s). Parent Conferences (Thanksgiving) to be determined as part of the calendar setting process of the contract year.
6.11 Unit members assigned to the elementary and middle schools shall have November designated as "Teacher/Parent Conference Month." Teachers may schedule parent conferences before school, after school, during the conference period during the month of November, and during the designated Conference Day.
6.11.1 Administrators should be on campus if teachers are conferencing late in the afternoon.
6.11.2 Designate the Teacher/Parent Conference Day. This pupil-free day will be used first and foremost for conferences. There will be no competing in-services or meetings.
6.11.3 Middle school teachers are available for conference with parents of students in any of their classes. (Not just homeroom students.)
6.11.4 Teachers and parents may schedule parent conferences before school, after school, and during the month of November and on the designated Conference Day.
6.12 If the District schedules in-service training workshops for unit members on a school-by-school or District-wide basis, then a minimum day or shortened day shall be conducted within the working hour provisions contemplated in Sections 6.2 and 6.6 above. The duration of a staff development meeting on a shortened or minimum day schedule shall be approximately ninety (90) minutes; however, at the high school level, the duration of a staff development meeting on a minimum day schedule may be approximately one hundred fifty (150) minutes.
6.13 With respect to the various meetings required by the Federal Regulations governing individualized education programs for handicapped children, the following shall apply:
6.13.1 The District shall make a good faith effort to schedule such meetings during the regular workday.
6.13.2 For unit members with classroom assignments, the District shall make a good faith effort to schedule such meetings during the unit members preparation/planning duty time.
6.13.2.1 If this is not possible, then a good faith effort shall be made to schedule such meetings during the regular work day immediately before or after school. If such meetings must be scheduled during the regular workday while the unit member's classes are in session, then released time shall be provided.
6.14 With respect to evening meetings that unit members are required to attend such as "Open House" or "Back to School" nights, said meetings shall not normally be scheduled to last longer than 9:00 p.m.
6.15 Management personnel shall be responsible for providing unit members with one (1) physical relief break each morning.
6.16 Consistent with 1983-86 practices, unit members, other than those with itinerant location schedules, shall be paid $500.00/semester if required by their daily assignments to travel between District locations; said travel compensation shall be in addition to mileage reimbursement of twenty-six cents (26˘) per mile, and shall be in lieu of any daily conference period allocation for travel purposes.
6.17 Without the allocation of resources beyond current levels, each elementary classroom teacher shall be provided with approximately sixty (60) minutes per full week of planning/preparation time; said time shall be duty free, except in unusual safety related circumstances.
6.17.1 An individual school site faculty and administrator shall develop a site specific plan to implement this provision subject to the approval of the Superintendent or Designee. If the District or the Association believes that a site plan is not working properly at a particular site, representatives of the parties shall meet in an attempt to resolve the situation.
6.18 FULL INCLUSION
In addition to general staff development activities related to full inclusion that are provided to teachers of regular education classes, the District shall provide a particular unit member in this group with specialized training, instructional materials and the support of specialists when a profoundly impaired student (as designated by the Special Education Department of the District) is fully included in his/her class.
Consistent with good administration practice, the preference of the teacher of a regular education class shall be one of the factors considered before a profoundly impaired student is assigned to his/her class. Said information, as well as the composition and size of the regular education class shall be important considerations when assigning a profoundly impaired student to a regular education classroom; when all other factors are equal, said students will be assigned to classes of lower size.
6.19 Bargaining unit positions shall be defined as more that 20% of an FTE. For a part-time vacancy involving 20+%FTE, the District will actively seek to hire a regular bargaining unit member and not a District retiree. In the absence of a viable candidate for said 20+% part-time assignment, the District shall hire a substitute at the appropriate substitute teacher rate of pay. Said substitute may be a retired bargaining unit member.
The inclusion of bargaining unit status, as contemplated herein, shall not apply to positions of limited duration. Limited duration, as used herein, shall mean positions of less than a semester.
The provisions of the side letters shall automatically cease and terminate on June 30, 1998, unless the parties mutually agree to the contrary in subsequent negotiations.
6.20 The District and the Association have agreed that there is a need for a Teacher Specialist classification, within the bargaining unit, to deal with various kinds of non-classroom assignments. Such positions generally require centralized coordination of District programs and normally involve direct services to students for a cluster of schools or on a District-wide basis.
The work year for this classification shall be eleven months (201 days). Incumbent specialists presently under a different calendar will be allowed to continue such a calendar as long as they occupy those positions.
Duty hours for Teacher Specialists will parallel those of the Education Center (usually 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. to represent an 8 hour day). There is no additional compensation for time required beyond said work hours to assure quality implementation of program components that are extensions of positions (i.e. parent or committee meetings, staff development activities, etc.).
There shall be three levels of Teacher Specialists and compensation rates, as follows:
Teacher Specialist I @ .04 ratio factor Teacher Specialist II @ .06 ratio factor Teacher Specialist III @ .08 ratio factor
Teacher Specialists currently receiving one of the above ratio factors shall not have said factor changed (for current duties/work calendar) as long as they continue to occupy those positions. The ratio factor for a current Teacher Specialist position that may become vacant in the future shall be the subject of negotiation between the District and the Association, except for TSIII positions which shall automatically revert to TSII positions unless the parties mutually agree to the contrary. Similarly, the ratio factor for newly created Teacher Specialist positions shall be the subject of negotiations between the parties.
Unit members who transfer to Teacher Specialist positions are deemed to be on “position leave” from their regular classroom positions.
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