Professional Development Hours. For the 2017-18, and 2018-19 school years, all members shall have the option of working additional optional professional development hours at their daily rate of pay, that are outside the school day/calendar year. Members may not use Personal Necessity or Sick time to account for these optional professional development hours. The optional professional development hours must be used for professional development aligned to district/school priorities. These optional professional development hours will be scheduled as follows: a. 2017-18 and 2018-19 Six hours of optional District sponsored professional development shall be paid at the member’s pro rata daily rate of pay. The focus will be on the development and implementation of practices that are responsive to the student needs (e.g. language development, differentiation, numeracy and literacy strategies, equity, and classroom management). The Professional Development days will be designed in consultation and collaboration with SJTA. The dates for these optional days will be calendared as follows: Elementary PD Day = Second Secondary teacher workday Secondary PD Day = Second Elementary teacher workday PN and Sick Leave may not be used to cover absence on these optional PD days. Compensation is based on attendance.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement