Teacher Contract - Coventry Public Schools

4-4.7 Common Planning Time – There may be a total of forty minutes per week of time
assigned beyond the work day for common planning which may be divided into time periods not
more than two (2) days per week. Within-day common planning time equivalent to a class
period will be provided minimally every other day at the middle school level.
4-5. Unassigned Periods
In recognition of a teacher’s need to attend to professional responsibilities essential to the
fulfillment of duties relating to his/her regularly programmed teaching assignments, the
Committee agrees to provide unassigned periods as follows:
4-5.1. Middle/Secondary Teachers
Teachers in the middle school(s) have at least one unassigned period per day or at least
1/6 th of the school day, exclusive of homeroom/advisory period. Teachers at the high school
shall receive daily unassigned time equivalent to the length of a regular teaching period, less up
to 60 minutes per week which may be assigned as supervisory duty.
4-5.2.1 Elementary Teachers
Elementary teachers will be afforded one hundred ninety (190) minutes of unassigned
time per week, exclusive of recess and lunch. Provided however, that Appendix B4-2 continues
to apply to elementary teachers, who are required to cover a class for a regularly assigned teacher
of special subjects, where the principal or special subject teacher has not arranged for the class to
be conducted at another convenient time. That is no compensation is afforded for the first three
(3) such covers, notwithstanding that as a result of such covers, the teacher has less than one
hundred ninety (190) minutes of unassigned time in any particular week.
Further, it is understood that if for any reason a situation occurs which necessitates a
reduction from the minimum of one hundred ninety (190) minutes, other than a reduction
resulting from such teacher being required to cover a class for a regularly assigned teacher of
special subjects as per the previous paragraph, that the elementary teacher shall be compensated
in accordance with Appendix B4-2.
4-5.2.2 When a teacher specialist (art, music, physical education, etc.) is scheduled to
take charge of a class such period will be considered an unassigned period.
4-5.2.3. When a teacher specialist or supervisor is in charge of a teacher’s class the
regular teacher is free to leave the room.
4-5.3. Notification of Leaving Building
Teachers are free to leave the building during their unassigned periods after first
notifying personally the principal or his/her designee (if available). Any teacher leaving the
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