Collaborative Time Sample Clauses

Collaborative Time. Interpreter/bilingual specialists will be allocated one (1) hour per month, outside the normal workday, to participate in collaboration and/or to plan with teachers/staff or for participating in professional development provided by the ELD department. Up to four (4) hours of the allocated collaboration/training time will be organized and facilitated by the ELD or interpreting department and will be provided in hourly increments throughout the year.

Collaborative Time. A. The intent of collaborative time is to provide time for staff to meet in small and large groups to focus on improving instruction and student learning, with topics that are mutually planned and scheduled by staff and principal at the school level. B. A monthly collaborative time schedule will be developed by individual schools with staff input and will be clearly communicated. C. At least two (2) collaborative days shall be designated specifically for grade level/department planning unless otherwise mutually agreed to by the staff through the appropriate decision making

Collaborative Time. Instructional Assistants and Job Specialists will be allocated one (1) hour per month, outside the normal workday, to participate in collaboration and/or to plan with teachers/staff.

Collaborative Time. 5.11.1 The parties agree to incorporate ongoing collaborative time, beginning in the 2016-17 school year, to allow regular and defined time for educators to collaborate on approaches to improving student achievement and common issues with their colleagues. 5.11.2 Collaborative time is time spent in professional learning activities that focus on a school site’s Single Plan for Student Achievement plan and/or the District Strategic Plan and related initiatives. This may be done in department/grade level teams, and/or special populations of certificated unit employees, or as whole-staff activities. Typically, team meetings will focus on improving student achievement through the examination of student work, analyzing student/school data, sharing methodologies, planning and developing curriculum and assessments. The time is intended to be for group collaboration. 5.11.3 Collaborative time shall be structured as follows: a. On the first Thursday of each month a staff meeting, not to exceed 60 minutes, will be held. b. On the second, third, and fourth Thursdays of each month, unit members will be provided 60 minutes of collaborative time, immediately following the conclusion of the instructional day with students, on those Thursdays when there is a regular instructional day. c. On the fifth Thursday of each month (if occurring), the regular work day for unit members shall conclude fifteen minutes after the end of the instructional day for students. If voluntary professional learning opportunities are provided during the fifth Thursday of a month, unit members will be paid at the volunteer rate. If mandatory professional development training is required the fifth Thursday of a month, educators will be paid at their regular contractual daily rate. d. The eighteen paid regular hours of common planning time previously negotiated shall be incorporated into the collaborative time, as provided for above. Furthermore, the additional time required to provide for collaborative time on the fourth Thursday of the month, shall be paid at the regular contracted daily rate and incorporated into the salary schedule. 5.11.4 For eight-hour bargaining unit members, the current practice regarding Common Planning Time (CPT) shall remain in effect until a mutually-agreed upon alternative has been negotiated.

Collaborative Time. 22.10.1 The District shall work with the Association to establish regularly scheduled collaborative time within the student day for all certificated and/or profes- sionally licensed non-administrative employees. 22.10.2 Principals shall make a reasonable effort to assign employees on teaching teams to the same collaborative planning time period.