CREA Agreement 2011-13 - Caesar Rodney School District

ARTICLE VII
HOURS AND WORK LOAD
A. 1. Employees are expected to devote to their assignments the time necessary to meet their
responsibilities. Employees shall indicate their presence for duty by placing a mutually
agreed upon indicator in the appropriate column of the employee "sign-in" roster at the
beginning of the employee workday.
2. The full-time employees' regular workday shall be 7-1/2 hours in length except as provided
in Article VII.D. of this document, and in emergencies.
3. An employee's "in-service" day shall not exceed the length of the regular workday.
4. If it becomes necessary for an employee to be absent for any reason, the designated
administrator should be notified as soon as possible in order that appropriate arrangements
may be made.
B. All teachers shall have scheduled planning time exclusive of any regularly scheduled duties.
Planning time is in addition to a scheduled thirty (30) minute duty-free lunch period, and homeroom
or before or after school duties.
1. Secondary and middle school teachers shall have at least five (5) planning periods weekly,
one each day. In the event scheduling prohibits the above, the administrator shall confer
with the teacher to reach mutual agreement on release from one or some combination of
the following:
a. Homeroom duty c. Late duty
b. Early duty d. Cafeteria duty
2. All middle and elementary teachers shall have no less than 250 minutes scheduled for
planning time weekly.
a. One planning time per day for middle and elementary classroom teachers will be in
a block of no less than fifty (50) consecutive minutes during the student day.
b. Planning time will be scheduled each day whenever possible. In the event
traditional scheduling prohibits the above, the administrator and teachers will work
together, through the Building Liaison Committee, to adjust schedules at the
building level in order to reach this goal.
3. Non-Classroom based teacher planning time:
a. Planning time will be fifty (50) minutes in length at all worksites/buildings.
b. Planning time will be a combination of two (2) of the following three (3) options:
1) Before the student day
2) During the student day
3) After the student day
c. In implementing the above 2 of 3 options, option “2” (during the student day) will be
one of the two selected options.
d. The non-classroom based planning time schedule in each building will be
sent/distributed (to include the below items “e” & “f”) by the building Administrator
to all the staff in each building.
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