Common use of Hours and Adjunct Duties Clause in Contracts

Hours and Adjunct Duties. 10.1 The work year for subsequent years shall be and one hundred eighty-six (186) days, consisting of 180 instructional days and 6 inservice/work days. 10.1.1 Unit members shall have the choice of attending District or other Professional Growth options, with prior approval of the Superintendent. 10.1.2 Compensation for uncompleted inservice/work days and all associated STRS service credit shall be deducted from the unit member’s end of the year payroll at the unit member’s daily rate of pay if requirements are not met by June 20th of each school year. 10.1.3 One inservice/work day shall be utilized by the unit members for classroom preparation prior to the beginning of the school year. 10.1.4 MCOE shall organize five (5) inservice/work days for each school year. 10.1.5 MCOE will attempt to schedule three of the inservice/work days to coincide with the Districts’. 10.1.6 Two MCOE organized inservice/work days shall be completed by unit members. The Superintendent will consider individual alternative options. 10.2 Dates will be negotiated as part of the calendar meet-and-confer process, to be commenced no later than May 1st prior to the beginning of each school year. 10.3 The school calendar of the school district in which classes are maintained shall be controlling. 10.4 Itinerant unit members shall follow the school district calendar where their main assignment is located in determining student contact/teaching days. 10.5 If the Superintendent should request changes in the yearly calendar after the end of the prior school year, and if such change should cause the unit member great inconvenience, the unit member shall have the option of remaining with the original calendar schedule or adjusting duty days by mutual consent of the Superintendent and the unit member. 10.5.1 Unit members work days will be scheduled as close as possible to the first duty day of the district calendar of the unit member’s primary assignment. There shall be no more than three (3) non-duty days (excluding weekends) between MCOE work days and beginning of district calendars. 10.5.2 The summer school calendar of the school district in which classes are maintained shall be controlling. 10.6 Workday 10.6.1 Unit members shall work an average of seven (7) hours per work day, excluding a minimum of one-half (½) hour duty free lunch period. 10.6.2 School site routine schedules such as lunch breaks will be followed, in as much as they coordinate with the unit member’s seven hour day. Minimum day schedules shall coincide with the day of District teachers at each school site. 10.6.3 The day for all special classes shall be, in length of time, the same as the day for general education classes of pupils of similar chronological age in the school district in which the special class and centers are maintained. 10.6.4 The working day for Itinerant personnel shall begin and end at the assigned office. 10.7 Unit members may be required to attend Superintendent staff meetings. Release time shall be provided for these meetings, including travel. 10.8 Unit member participation in District committees or extracurricular activities shall be on a voluntary basis with the exception of the school site staff meetings. 10.9 Unit members shall be required to attend in-service workshops, parent conferences, staff meetings, Individual Education Program (IEP) meetings and others, as designated by the Superintendent, during, before, or after regular school hours. 10.10 Unit members shall follow applicable policies of the district in which they work when requesting a substitute. 10.10.1 When a substitute is obtained, the unit member shall not return to work, and shall be placed on personal leave or personal necessity leave, if available, for the day in question, if the unit member fails to notify the school of the unit member’s intent to return to work at least one (1) hour prior to the close of the preceding work day when such failure results in a substitute being secured. 10.10.2 When a unit member is absent, she/he will follow the appropriate procedures for reporting the absence and ensuring substitute coverage. 10.11 MCOE certificated staff shall be provided a preparation period. Such preparation period shall be equivalent to host school schedule and will be covered from within the existing staff at no additional cost to MCOE. 10.11.1 Compensation will be paid at the rate of 1/7 of MCOE substitute rate if an MCOE employee is required to use preparation time to cover another MCOE teacher’s class. Any such assignment shall be mutual consent of management and staff. 10.12 MCOE and MCTA agree that a newly hired teacher will be provided with an orientation day outside the regular work year. This day will be before the beginning of the school year. Participation is required and will be compensated at the Modoc Joint Unified School District substitute rate. Mileage will be given from district of assignment.