Common use of Salary Placement and Advancement Clause in Contracts

Salary Placement and Advancement. 1. All teachers will be placed on the salary schedule appropriate to their prior teaching experience and degree(s)/credit hours earned. 2. Teachers new to the District shall be given experience and training credit within the limits of the salary schedule with the following exceptions: a. Up to ten (10) years of prior teaching experience shall be granted. Credit beyond ten (10) years may be granted by the Superintendent or designee. b. Prior experience in private or parochial schools, colleges or universities, interim periods away from teaching, and other relevant factors shall be evaluated by the Superintendent or designee on their own merit and credit granted as deemed appropriate. c. Evidence of professional growth may be required as verification that previously- earned hours of credit remain relevant. 3. Teachers qualifying for educational advancement on the salary schedule must submit a written request along with verification by the first (1st) calendar day of the month for salary to be modified that month. All such modification shall be retroactive to the first day of the month in which the credits were earned. 4. College hours submitted for educational advancement must have been earned subsequent to the education degree or certification to teach, and except for lower division hours approved as part of an education improvement plan, must be upper division or graduate level hours. All such hours must be reasonable related to the teacher’s instructional assignment or to a field of study normally included in the public curriculum. 5. For the 2013-14 and 2014-15 school years, vertical step advancement shall occur March 1, for all eligible bargaining unit members.

Salary Placement and Advancement. 1. All teachers will be placed on the salary schedule appropriate to their prior teaching experience and degree(s)/credit hours earned. 2. Teachers new to the District shall be given experience and training credit within the limits of the salary schedule with the following exceptions: a. Up to ten (10) years of prior teaching experience shall be granted. Credit beyond ten (10) years may be granted by the Superintendent or designee. b. Prior experience in private or parochial schools, colleges or universities, interim periods away from teaching, and other relevant factors shall be evaluated by the Superintendent or designee on their own merit and credit granted as deemed appropriate. c. Evidence of professional growth may be required as verification that previously- earned hours of credit remain relevant. 3. Teachers qualifying for educational advancement on the salary schedule must submit a written request along with verification by the first (1st) calendar day of the month for salary to be modified that month. All such modification shall be retroactive to the first day of the month in which the credits were earnedsubmitted. 4. College hours submitted for educational advancement must have been earned subsequent to the education degree or certification to teach, and except for lower division hours approved as part of an education improvement plan, must be upper division or graduate level hours. All such hours must be reasonable related to the teacher’s instructional assignment or to a field of study normally included in the public curriculum. 5. For the 20132015-14 16 and 20142016-15 17 school years, vertical step advancement shall occur March 1, for all eligible bargaining unit members. 6. For teachers who worked in both 2011-12 and 2012-13 and who reach Step 12, shall skip Step12 and be placed on Step 13.

Salary Placement and Advancement. 1. All teachers educators will be placed on the salary schedule appropriate to their prior teaching experience and degree(s)/credit hours earned. 2. Teachers Educators new to the District shall be given experience and training credit within the limits of the salary schedule with the following exceptions: a. Up to ten (10) years of prior teaching experience shall be granted. Credit beyond ten (10) years may be granted by the Superintendent or designee. b. Prior experience in private or parochial schools, colleges or universities, interim periods away from teaching, and other relevant factors shall be evaluated by the Superintendent or designee on their own merit and credit granted as deemed appropriate. c. Evidence of professional growth may be required as verification that previously- earned hours of credit remain relevant. 3. Teachers Educators qualifying for educational advancement on the salary schedule must submit a written request along with verification by the first (1st) calendar day of the month for salary to be modified that month. All such modification shall be retroactive to the first day of the month in which the credits were earnedsubmitted. 4. College hours submitted for educational advancement must have been earned subsequent to the education degree or certification to teach, and except for lower division hours approved as part of an education improvement plan, must be upper division or graduate level hours. All such hours must be reasonable reasonably related to the teachereducator’s instructional assignment or to a field of study normally included in the public curriculum. 5. For the 20132018-14 19, 2019-20 and 20142020-15 21 school years, vertical step advancement shall occur March July 1, for all eligible bargaining unit members.