Common use of Secondary Planning Clause in Contracts

Secondary Planning. Secondary teachers with full-time assignments shall have the equivalent of one (1) class period each school day (two hundred fifty (250) minutes per week) to be used for uninterrupted instructional planning, except in cases of emergency. The two hundred fifty (250) minutes per week may be provided as an average over the course of one to three weeks using alternating or rotating class schedules. Teachers will not be assigned more than five (5) student contact periods per class schedule rotation, and not more than one (1) advisory-type period per day, except for approved zero-hour and in-lieu of planning assignments. Secondary schools may request a waiver to accommodate an alternate schedule that falls outside the parameters of this section. a. Not a graded class at the Middle School level. b. Site-based decisions will be made on the use of advisory/homeroom, and no one building’s decision in this regard shall set a precedent for the entire district. A site-based plan for the use of advisory/homeroom is to be submitted to the Association by October 1 each year, along with the site-based decision-making model. c. No lesson planning by the teacher is to be required in PAC/tutorial/advisory. The option to run lessons for the purpose of RTI will be left up to the discretion of the teacher based on the needs of his or her students.