Agenda

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and training related to the position to which the teacher will be transferred will be the only criteria
used in making the decision.

Filling of Permanent Vacancies

9:5 Intrabuilding Reassignments

Intrabuilding reassignments, necessitated by concern about a teacher's effectiveness in their existing grade
level, to vacant or newly formed positions will supersede voluntary reassignments to such positions.

Reassignments occasioned by administrative desires to have teachers teach on different grade levels,
absent a concern about a teacher's effectiveness in their existing grade level and unrelated to a specific
student program, shall be done on a voluntary basis.

9:4

Transfer Notification

Notice of transfer or non-transfer will be given in writing to each teacher making a request under Article 9:3
as soon as practicable and under normal circumstances not later than June 30. After June 30 until the
beginning of the new school year, notice of all personnel actions with respect to transfers will be sent to the
UNION and posted in the Administration Building and in each school, within five work days.

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shall have a job description.

Parent-Teacher Conferences

Parent-teacher conferences are to be held as deemed necessary by the teacher, a parent, or in individual
cases, the principal.

ARTICLE IX

Transfers, Vacancies and Promotions

Definitions

A.

Postings

A.

2. At the elementary level, class sizes shall not exceed the following:

Kindergarten 23
Readiness 18
Grades | & Il 27
Grades III-V 30
3. At the secondary level teachers shall be limited to a maximum of thirty-one (31) pupils per

subject class (forty (40) pupils for physical education) except for (1) study halls, band,
chorus, and similar activities and (2) programs of team teaching, large group instruction,
educational television, film instruction, group lectures and similar instructional methods.

In scheduling teachers, the administration will attempt to keep the number of different rooms in
which assignments occur at a minimum.

Teachers desiring special attention and supportive help and guidance may seek same from the
Building Administration and other supervisors.

1. On the secondary level no teacher shall be required to have more than five (5) periods of
class instruction per day, more than six (6) different classes per marking period, nor more
than four (4) different class preparations per marking period.

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8:4

The on-site work day for secondary teachers, other than school nurses, will be seven (7) hours and
eight (8) minutes and the on-site work day for elementary teachers, other than school nurses, will
be six (6) hours and fifty (50) minutes except as otherwise provided in this Agreement or by past
practice.

8:2

1. The Superintendent shall consult with the UNION in the development of the school
calendar prior to the presentation of said calendar to the BOARD for adoption. The
Superintendent shall make a reasonable effort to consult the Union at least one month
prior to said BOARD presentation.

2. Teachers shall not be scheduled to work the day prior to Thanksgiving.

3. The school calendar is determined each year by the BOARD in accordance with the
applicable law.

School Day

A.

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area, the District shall make a good faith effort to reassign teachers in said designated area being
reduced in accordance with the teacher's qualifications so that the senior teachers may be
retained. In reassigning teachers in order to insure, as much as possible, that a junior teacher(s)
does not displace a senior teacher(s) the District shall reassign teachers in such a manner that if it
is necessary for the junior teacher(s) to displace a senior teacher(s), as much as possible, the
more senior teacher(s) is retained.