This an article of the 2000-2003 contract with teachers that are represented by the Alameda Education Association. Here the complete table of contents of the contract.

ARTICLE 8

TEACHING HOURS

Article 8 from the 2003 Contract

8.01 Site Time

8.01.01 Required site time for members of the unit shall be those hours needed to perform the duties of teaching students and the other related professional duties specified in this article. This shall be considered a professional day.

8.02 Preparation Time

8.02.01 Time for preparation and planning shall be allocated as follows:

Elementary Site Teachers: Three 60-minute preparation periods per week, three of which shall be individually scheduled, and one common preparation period. A rescheduled preparation period shall be offered to any unit member losing his/her individually scheduled preparation period if the loss is due to holidays or District established staff development days. This applies to all Board adopted staff development days, regardless of the purpose for which the day is used. On other occasions, when an individually scheduled preparation period is missed due to District scheduling, in lieu time shall be granted. A teacher shall not receive monetary compensation for a missed preparation period that falls on a holiday.

Middle School teachers (6-8): 5 periods per week within the student day.

Secondary teachers (9-12): 5 periods per week within the student day.

A period refers to a student period.

8.02.02 Preparation periods shall be considered assigned site time and shall be used for activities such as:

• Preparation of lesson plans, assignments, visual aids, films, room displays, and textbook evaluation.
• Conferencing with parents, pupils, administrators, and other District employees.
• Other duties mutually agreed upon by the teacher and the principal or immediate supervisor.

8.03 Lunch Time

Every member of the bargaining unit shall be entitled to not less than a forty (40)-minute duty-free uninterrupted lunch period per day, except on rainy days or any other day with a variation in schedule when the lunch period shall be no less than thirty (30) minutes.

8.04 Professional Obligations

Professional obligations inside and outside of site time shall include:

Student and parent conferences, evaluation of student work, faculty meetings, department meetings, curriculum and program development, professional growth activities, S.I.P. school site council meetings, development of educational plans, special help for students, student supervision before and after school and during the student day, attendance at school functions, i.e., Open House, Back-to-School Night, and other duties which arise in the course of the year due to unexpected circumstances.

8.05 Extra Duties

8.05.01 Middle school and high school unit members may be assigned to duties in the following areas:

• Athletic events
• Dances
• Plays
• Graduation
• High School Class Sponsor
• Other assigned or required extra duties

All unit members may be assigned up to four (4) events as part of their regular duties but shall be paid at the hourly rate for additional duties, except that class sponsors shall be credited with four (4) events and club sponsors shall be credited with two (2) events.

There shall be a maximum of two (2) class sponsors per class at the high school.

The sponsoring of student clubs shall be voluntary.

8.05.02 All extra duties and obligations shall be equitably and reasonably distributed. Such duties will be posted as assigned.

8.05.03 Traveling Employees

Unit members who are required to travel between school sites within a given day in the performance of their duties shall be assigned non-instructional duties as described above. Principals shall confer regularly to see that these duties are assigned in such manner.

8.06 Faculty Meetings

Unit members shall not be required to attend more than two (2) faculty meetings per month. The meetings shall be of one hour duration each except in unusual circumstances.

8.07 Part-Time Employees

Unit members who serve less than the minimum school day defined in the Education Code and who have been contracted to serve as part-time employees, shall be compensated in an amount which bears the same ratio to the amount provided full-time employees as the time actually served by such part-time employees. The part-time member shall be expected to perform non-teaching duties as set forth in 8.06 on a prorated basis in the same manner as full-time employees. Fringe benefits shall be prorated in the same manner.

8.08 Length of Work Year

8.08.01 The length of the work year for members of the unit shall be 185 days, of which 180 shall be teaching days, two (2) shall be work days, and three (3) shall be staff development days.

8.08.02 Internal holiday arrangements within the calendar shall be mutually agreed upon by the Association and District following input from unit members and the public.

8.08.03 Any increase in the length of the student day need not be negotiated as long as the requirements of this Article are met.

8.09 Middle School Teachers

Full-time middle school teachers shall not be assigned to more than six (6) teaching periods per day.

8.10 Elementary School Teachers - Curriculum Development

Teachers and site administrators shall meet during the school year to ensure curriculum and program development. In 1999-2000 these meetings shall occur once per month on an as needed basis, unless otherwise decided by mutual consent.

8.11 Committees

8.11.01 Participation on school site and cross-site department committees normally shall not result in additional compensation even if some of the required hours are outside of the student’s instructional day. Additional pay may be provided at the discretion of the site administrator.

8.11.02 Any District committees, with a majority of committee members consent, may meet after school rather than during the school day. If the committee chooses to meet after school, unit members attending shall receive an hourly rate for time spent in the committee after the regular workday.

8.12 In-Lieu Time

An employee may use accumulated "in-lieu time" for professional purposes.

a. In-lieu time is cumulative when an employee during a preparation period supervises another employee's class for one period as assigned by the administrator. The assignment shall be presented to the employee in writing.

b. In-lieu time shall be granted when a teacher takes additional students into his/her classroom because of the absence of another teacher. In-lieu time shall be credited when the additional students, plus the regular enrollment of that class, exceeds class maximum as stated in the contract.

c. In-lieu time will be credited based on one day for each five (5) periods of 60 minutes, or fraction thereof, for the elementary school, six (6) periods for the middle school and five (5) periods for the high school.

d. In-lieu time will be cumulative.

e. When an employee submits signed in-lieu forms equivalent to one work day, he/she shall be granted a day of in-lieu time. In-lieu time can be used by having a substitute for the day or by turning in the day for compensation, except that in-lieu time due to a missed preparation period that falls on a holiday can be used by having a substitute for the day but cannot be used for monetary compensation. The compensation shall be for the substitute rate of pay, for the day, paid to the teacher. If a full day of in-lieu time has not been accumulated, the teacher will be paid the hourly rate at the time of retirement, resignation, or termination.

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