ARTICLE
IX - SCHOOL CALENDAR - WORKSHOPS - INSTITUTE DAYS
SECTION
A - SCHOOL CALENDAR[1]
The
proposed school calendar shall not exceed 187 days and shall be submitted to the
President of the Association or designee for comments and/or suggestions prior
to its finalization by the Board.
Student attendance days, institute days and parent-teacher conference
days shall not exceed 180 per school term.
The school calendar may include one parent-teacher conference day, three
institute days and two teacher work days without students – one at the end of
each semester. Teachers are to use the
teacher workdays for the purpose of grading papers or exams or other student
work, recording grades and other end-of-the term work activities which could
include individual or department planning.
No administration or faculty-sponsored social events or non-departmental
faculty meetings may interrupt these teacher workdays without students.
If
the Board shall not require the utilization of some or all of the five (5)
emergency days authorized by law, such days shall be deleted from the school
calendar.
SECTION
B - INSTITUTE DAYS
A
faculty meeting may be called on an institute day by the Administration if
necessary, but said meeting shall not exceed ninety (90) minutes in
length. The Association and the
Administration shall make every reasonable effort to jointly plan one (1)
institute day. This section shall be
inapplicable if said institute day shall not be approved by the Superintendent
of the Educational Service Region for any reason or otherwise determined to be
invalid.
SECTION
C - WORKSHOP DAYS
The
Board shall give every consideration to scheduling curriculum topics on a reasonable
number of Teacher workshop days.
SECTION
D - LATE START DAY
The
teacher workday following Open House shall start at least two hours later than
the usual school day and end no later than the usual school day.
[1] A modified calendar has been
agreed to by the parties for the 2012-2013 school year
and is located in Appendix F of this Agreement.