Common use of TEACHING CONDITIONS Clause in Contracts

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize that the primary duty or responsibility of the teacher is to teach, and the Board and the Association consider it to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization of the teachers’ professional teaching skills. The provisions of this Article, however, shall be construed consistent with the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatory. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to twenty-five (25) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the course. 2. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Association. 4. Teachers shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty lounge. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relative. D. To the extent practicable, parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreement.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize that optimum school facilities for both students and teachers are desirable to ensure the high quality of education that is the goal of both the Association and the Board. It is also acknowledged that the primary duty or and responsibility of the teacher is to teach, teach and that the organization of the school and the Board and school day should be directed toward ensuring that the Association consider it to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization energy of the teachers’ teacher is primarily utilized to this end. A. Both parties recognize that the pupil-teacher ratio is an important aspect of an effective educational program. Likewise, both parties recognize that certain limitations exist given present facilities. Therefore, in an attempt to address the existing situation, the parties agree that teacher-aide assistance shall be provided to the professional teaching skillsstaff, whenever at least a half-time position can be created. The provisions of this Articleparties further agree that the Administration, howeverin conjunction with counselors, shall be construed consistent make a good faith attempt to balance classes with equitable distribution across the necessity for grade level among affected teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or at the direction beginning of the Administrationschool year and at each card marking. Surveys initiated If requested by the Association, reasonable documentation will be provided that shows that classes are balanced. In determining annual assignments for personal benefit shall not be mandatorysecondary teachers, the Administration agrees to minimize excessive and unnecessary disparities in the number of teaching preparations between core academic teachers within a single department by paying fifty dollars ($50.00) per marking period for every additional preparation hour over two (2). 1. Taking into account It is the availability goal of teachersboth parties to endeavor to attain in the young fives and kindergarten class size of twenty (20). However, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to once a class size exceeds twenty-five (25) pupils. The provisions students, one (1) hour of this Section A. aide time per day, shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted provided to the size that can be accommodated in teacher. For each additional student assigned to the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps classroom above twenty-six (26), one-half (1/2) additional hour of aide time shall be taken by provided. Instead of additional aide time the Board affected teacher may choose to receive compensation of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the coursetwo dollars ($2.00) per day for each student above twenty-five (25). 2. Should any individual It is the goal of both parties to endeavor to attain a first grade class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty size of twenty- five (2025). However, once a class size exceeds twenty-seven (27) students, two (2) hours of aide time, per day, shall be provided to the teacher. For each additional student assigned to the classroom above twenty-eight (28), K exceed twentyone-four half (24), Grades 1-2 exceed 1/2) additional hour of aide time shall be provided. Instead of additional aide time the affected teacher may choose to receive compensation of two dollars ($2.00) per day for each student above twenty-seven (27). 3. It is the goal of both parties to endeavor to attain in the second through fifth grades a class size of twenty-eight (28). However, once a class size is at thirty (30) students, two (2) hours of aide time, per day, shall be provided to the teacher. For each additional student assigned to the classroom above thirty-one (31), one-half (1/2) additional hour of aide time shall be provided. Instead of additional aide time, the affected teacher may choose to receive compensation of two dollars ($2.00) per day for each student above thirty (30). When class numbers for elementary and in Grades 3-5 kindergarten specials (except media) exceed the goal of thirty (30), as well as the average affected teacher will receive compensation of 30 two dollars ($2.00) per day for each student over thirty (30) for each day that the numbers enrolled and in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results attendance in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Association. 4. Teachers shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally requiredexceed thirty (30) students. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior payment calculation shall not begin to or following accrue until the actual IEP meetingfirst day after the state count day, providing the state count day occurs in October. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and Otherwise, determination will occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section the Monday of the contractfirst week of October. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty lounge. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls Pay will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by calculated and paid at the teacher outside end of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relativeeach semester. D. To the extent practicable, parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreement.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. 11.1 The Association encourages its members as responsible citizens and as sound "P.R.", to participate in worthwhile community appeals. However, it is understood that no bargaining unit member shall be required to contribute to any building or community solicitation for funds. 11.2 The Board of Education shall provide a principal or administrator for each building in the district. 11.3 The Board of Education may require a complete physical examination by a fully licensed physician approved by the Board when the attendance to duty of the person under contract is held in serious question by his immediate superior and upon the recommendation of the Superintendent. The expense of this examination will be paid by the school district. 11.4 All pupil purchase items must be approved by the building principal and in compliance with curriculum and related policy. Since the cost of a student's attendance at school is very demanding to many parents, pupil purchase items in any class must be held to a minimum. 11.5 The formula for class size and teacher aides shall be as follows: A. The parties recognize that the primary duty or responsibility of the teacher is administration shall make every reasonable effort to teach, and the Board and the Association consider it to be have a desirable objective to make maximum utilization of the teachers’ professional teaching skills. The provisions of this Article, however, shall be construed consistent with the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatory. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to no more than twenty-five (25) pupilsstudents to one teacher in kindergarten. The provisions of this Section A. One (1) licensed, paid aide shall be subject provided for each building and will be shared equally with all kindergarten teachers in that building. Load will be balanced to the degree possible. B. The administration shall make every reasonable exceptions effort to have a ratio of no more than twenty-five (25) students to one teacher in grades 1-3. Load will be balanced to the degree possible. C. The administration shall make every reasonable effort to have a ratio of no more than twenty-five (25) students to one teacher in grades 4-6. Load will be balanced to the degree possible. D. Special education and deviations during preschool classes will be of a size in keeping with state and federal guidelines. E. Secondary class size and load will be balanced to the first degree possible and every effort shall be made to keep the ratio of no more than thirty-three (333) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary students to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the courseone teacher. 2. Should any individual class F. The number of students in grades Young 5’s a given teaching situation will not exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average number of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solutionteaching stations. In the event a teacher does not have enough teaching stations, the Superintendent shall provide additional stations upon notification by the teacher. The ratios in A through E shall include all special education students assigned to the respective grade level. G. Every effort will be made to see that none the number of students in a study hall should not exceed 40:1. If available, by-assignment teachers will be assigned to study halls in addition to the regular study hall teacher for the first two weeks of each semester. H. A class size list containing the actual number of students in each class will be distributed to the Association president and members of the above steps are implemented Superintendent's Advisory Committee no later than October 30 of each school year. Any middle school and high school classroom, except choir, band, physical education and study halls, that exceeds 35 students and any elementary class room, except art, music, and physical education, that exceeds 32 students will be offered a student teacher or an aide. I. The administration shall make every reasonable effort to correct transfer elementary students to insure equitable distribution among classes/bargaining unit members. J. Art, music and physical education classes shall not exceed forty (40) students unless mutually agreed by the problem member and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum Board. When determining class size limitsfor specials, consideration will be made for available space within each building for such classes. Section 11.5 (H) shall not be applicable. Principals will work closely with art, music, and physical education teachers in a building in order to make sure of the best possible scheduling of students, and that adequate equipment is provided for the students. 11.6 When a personal emergency for a bargaining unit member exists, the following compensation formula principal or person in charge shall notify the bargaining unit member immediately. 11.7 Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, the length of the bargaining unit members' work day shall not exceed seven and one-half (7½) hours. The teacher work day is NOT contingent upon the students’ day. This includes a thirty (30) minute lunch period which will be determined by scheduling in each individual building. Unless otherwise specified in this Agreement, the day shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # continuous from the required beginning time to the end of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3the day. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom There shall be counted a uniform number of teaching hours in the elementary schools, as two (2) students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Associationnearly as possible. 411.8 In-day conference or planning time shall be in compliance with the Ohio Elementary and Secondary School Standards. Teachers This time shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would not be considered separate meetings if necessary time for one student travel for multi-school assignments. A. All bargaining unit members, including specialists, shall be provided at least forty (40) minutes of continuous planning time. Such planning time shall be free of scheduled students and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered assigned duties. B. Bargaining unit members are responsible for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such functions as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating assigned in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty loungeindividual buildings. C. Teachers 1. Bargaining unit members may volunteer to substitute for another bargaining unit member during planning time. In the case of an extreme emergency, a bargaining unit member may be required to substitute during planning time no more than once per semester. This includes libraries and similar circumstances in elementary schools. No bargaining unit member shall be permitted required to place outgoing non-toll calls on substitute when said bargaining unit member is scheduled to have a class assignment of his/her own unless he/she volunteers to “double up” the office telephones in their buildingclasses. This teacher is eligible for the fifteen dollars ($15.00) per period (or 40 minutes at the elementary level), but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held not to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by exceed the daily substitute teacher outside daily rate of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relativepay. D. To the extent practicable, parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreement.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. 11.1 The Association encourages its members as responsible citizens and as sound "P.R.", to participate in worthwhile community appeals. However, it is understood that no bargaining unit member shall be required to contribute to any building or community solicitation for funds. 11.2 The Board of Education shall provide as far as possible, a principal and/or head teacher for each building in the district. In elementary buildings that share a principal, the head teacher shall be placed in Class VIII of the supplemental contract schedule. 11.3 The Board of Education may require a complete physical examination by a fully licensed physician approved by the Board when the attendance to duty of the person under contract is held in serious question by his immediate superior and upon the recommendation of the Superintendent. The expense of this examination will be paid by the school district. 11.4 All pupil purchase items must be approved by the building principal and in compliance with curriculum and related policy. Since the cost of a student's attendance at school is very demanding to many parents, pupil purchase items in any class must be held to a minimum. 11.5 The formula for class size and teacher aides shall be as follows: A. The parties recognize that the primary duty or responsibility administration shall make every reasonable effort to have a ratio of the no more than thirty (30) students to one teacher is to teachin kindergarten. A licensed, and the Board and the Association consider it to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization of the teachers’ professional teaching skills. The provisions of this Article, however, paid aide shall be construed consistent with the necessity provided for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatoryeach kindergarten class. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools B. The administration shall be established or adjusted with make every reasonable dispatch effort to an arithmetic mean classroom have a ratio of one (1) teacher to no more than twenty-five (25) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject students to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (one teacher in grades 1-3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the course. 2. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed C. The administration shall make every reasonable effort to have a ratio of no more than twenty-seven (27), and ) students to one teacher in Grades 3grades 4-5 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility . D. Special education classes will be of a different size in keeping with state and federal guidelines. E. Secondary class location size and load will be balanced to the degree possible and every effort will be made to keep the ratio of students, no more than thirty-five (35) students to one teacher. F. The number of students in a given teaching situation will not exceed the hiring number of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solutionteaching stations. In the event a teacher does not have enough teaching stations, the Superintendent shall provide additional stations upon notification by the teacher. The ratios in A through E shall include all special education students assigned to the respective grade level. G. Every effort will be made to see that none the number of students in a study hall should not exceed 40:1. If available, by-assignment teachers will be assigned to study halls in addition to the regular study hall teacher for the first two weeks of each semester. H. A class size list containing the actual number of students in each class will be distributed to the Association president and members of the above steps are implemented Superintendent's Advisory Committee no later than October 30 of each school year. Any middle school and high school classroom, except choir, band, physical education and study halls, that exceeds 35 students and any elementary class room, except art, music, and physical education, that exceeds 32 students will be offered an acceptable volunteer, a student teacher or an aide. I. The administration shall make every reasonable effort to correct the problem and the transfer elementary students to insure equitable distribution among classes/bargaining unit members. J. The Board determines that it is necessary shall comply with all state standards with reference to exceed the above maximum class size limitsas it relates to preschool programs and special education programs. K. Art, music and physical education classes shall not exceed forty-two (42) students. Section 11.5 (H) shall not be applicable. Principals will work closely with art, music, and physical education teachers in a building in order to make sure of the best possible scheduling of students, and that adequate equipment is provided for the students. L. The Superintendent will work with all principals and staff to reduce class sizes: 1. by utilizing team teaching where possible, and 2. by any other means available. 11.6 When a personal emergency for a bargaining unit member exists, the following compensation formula principal or person in charge shall notify the bargaining unit member immediately. 11.7 Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, the length of the bargaining unit members' work day shall not exceed seven and one-half (7½) hours. The teacher work day is NOT contingent upon the students’ day. This includes a thirty (30) minute lunch period which will be determined by scheduling in each individual building. Unless otherwise specified in this Agreement, the day shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # continuous from the required beginning time to the end of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3the day. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom There shall be counted a uniform number of teaching hours in the elementary schools, as two (2) students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Associationnearly as possible. 411.8 In-day conference or planning time shall be in compliance with the Ohio Elementary and Secondary School Standards. Teachers This time shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would not be considered separate meetings if necessary time for one student travel for multi-school assignments. A. All bargaining unit members, including specialists, shall be provided at least forty (40) minutes of continuous planning time. Such planning time shall be free of scheduled students and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered assigned duties. B. Bargaining unit members are responsible for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such CORE functions as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating assigned in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty loungeindividual buildings. C. Teachers 1. Bargaining unit members may volunteer to substitute for another bargaining unit member during planning time. Bargaining unit members with “by- assignment” periods may be required to substitute at any time during those periods. In the case of an extreme emergency, a bargaining unit member may be required to substitute during planning time no more than once per semester. This includes libraries and similar circumstances in elementary schools. No bargaining unit member shall be permitted required to place outgoing non-toll calls on substitute when said bargaining unit member is scheduled to have a class assignment of his/her own unless he/she volunteers to “double up” the office telephones in their buildingclasses. This teacher is eligible for the $10.00 per period (40 minutes), but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held not to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by exceed the daily substitute teacher outside daily rate of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relativepay. D. To the extent practicable, parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreement.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize that Teacher’s Primary Duty and Responsibility, Student-Teacher Ratio, Reference Library, Duplicating Services, Teacher Storage Area, Teacher’s Lounge, Faculty Parking, Others 1. To keep class size at an acceptable number as dictated by the primary duty or responsibility financial condition of the teacher is to teachDistrict, the building facilities available, the availability of qualified teachers, and the best interests of the District as deemed administratively feasible. Since it is recognized by the Board that student- teacher ratio is an important aspect of an effective educational program, special consideration through scheduling and assignment will be given to class size and student-teacher ratio in the Association consider it case of Special Education students being mainstreamed. When elementary class size reaches twenty-eight (28) students in any classroom (including specials classes), additional teacher assistant time will be negotiated to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization of in place within fifteen (15) working days after the teachers’ professional teaching skills. The provisions of this Article, however, shall be construed consistent with student that increased the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatory. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher class size to twenty-five eight (2528) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the coursestarts attendance. 2. Should any individual The maximum class size in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K secondary chemistry and physical science courses shall not exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 ) students. The maximum class size in all other secondary science and culinary arts courses shall not exceed twenty-seven eight (27), and 28) students or the number of lab stations available. The maximum class size in Grades 3-5 all other assigned secondary courses (excluding music courses) shall not exceed thirty (30), as well as ) students. When any class exceeds the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters)maximum class size, the Board District shall immediately take all reasonable steps within ten (10) school days reduce the number of students to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different specified class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solutionsize limit. In the event that none The above set limits may be exceeded with written permission of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Association. 3. To keep the schools reasonably and properly equipped and maintained. 4. Teachers shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur To provide a teacher reference library at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating each campus in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, District and include therein all texts which are reasonably requested by the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option teachers of attending and participating in the IEPthat campus. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building duplicating facilities. 6. To provide a separate desk or file with lockable drawer space for each teacher in the District. 7. To provide suitable closet space for each teacher to store coats, overshoes and personal articles. 8. To provide chalkboard/white board or grease board in every classroom. 9. To provide a copy, exclusively for each teacher's use, of all texts in each of the courses he is to teach. 10. To provide adequate lunchroomstorage space in each classroom for instructional materials. 11. To provide school personnel to assist in inventorying of supplies and equipment, restroomduplication of teaching materials, operating audio visual equipment, collecting monies for milk and lunch, and lavatory facilitiessimilar non-professional responsibilities. 12. To provide smocks for art and home economics teachers, laboratory coats for laboratory science teachers, shop coats for vocational and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which industrial education teachers. Proper laundering service for all of said items shall be reserved for use as a faculty loungeprovided without charge to the teacher. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non13. To provide in each school a lounge and/or work-toll calls on the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relativestudy room for teachers. D. 14. To provide lavatory facilities exclusively for teacher use when practicable and possible. 15. To provide a telephone in each building for teacher use provided that such use does not interfere with the extent practicableuse of the telephone for district purposes. 16. To permit snacks or pop vending machines in the teacher's lounge (or designated location), under the sole responsibility of the Association. 17. To provide off-street parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated areafor teacher use when practicable and possible. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting administration reserves the right to assign teacher designated parking facilities or their use by teachers areas as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreementneeded.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize that It is the primary duty or and responsibility of the teacher is to teach, and the organization of the school and the school day should be so constructed that the energy of the teacher is primarily utilized to this end. The parties recognize that optimum school facilities for both student and teacher are desirable to aid in providing the high quality of education that is the goal of both the Association and the Board. Thus the Board agrees to continue its efforts: 1. To keep class size at an acceptable number as dictated by the financial condition of the district, the building facilities available, the availability of qualified teachers, and the best interests of the district as deemed administratively feasible. Since it is recognized by the Board that pupil-teacher ratio is an important aspect of an effective educational program, special consideration through scheduling and assignment will be given to class size and student-teacher ratio in the case of Special Education students being mainstreamed. When elementary class size reaches twenty-eight (28) students in any classroom, additional teacher assistant time will be negotiated to be in place within 15 working days after the student that increased the class size to twenty-eight starts attendance. 2. In no event shall the number of students in any assigned class exceed the number of learning stations available. When any class exceeds the number of students the district shall within ten (10) school days reduce the number of students to the number of lab stations available. The above set limits may be exceeded with written permission of the teacher and the association. 3. To keep the schools reasonably and properly equipped and maintained. 4. To provide a teacher reference library at each campus in the district and include therein all texts which are reasonably requested by the teachers of that campus. 5. To make available in each school duplicating facilities. 6. To provide a separate desk or file with lockable drawer space for each teacher in the district. 7. To provide suitable closet space for each teacher to store coats, overshoes and personal articles. 8. To provide chalkboard/white board or grease board in every classroom 9. To provide a copy, exclusively for each teacher's use, of all texts in each of the courses he is to teach. 10. To provide adequate storage space in each classroom for instructional materials. 11. To provide school personnel to assist in inventorying of supplies and equipment, duplication of teaching materials, operating audio visual equipment, collecting monies for milk and lunch, and similar non-professional responsibilities. 12. To provide smocks for art and home economics teachers, laboratory coats for laboratory science teachers, shop coats for vocational and industrial education teachers. Proper laundering service for all of said items shall be provided without charge to the teacher. 13. To provide in each school a lounge and/or work-study room for teachers. 14. To provide lavatory facilities exclusively for teacher use when practicable and possible. 15. To provide a telephone in each building for teacher use provided that such use does not interfere with the use of the telephone for district purposes. 16. To permit snacks or pop vending machines in the teacher's lounge (or designated location), under the sole responsibility of the association. 17. To provide off-street parking facilities for teacher use when practicable and possible. The administration reserves the right to assign teacher designated parking areas as needed. B. The Board and the Association consider it recognize that such provisions add to the cost of operating a school district. C. On days when students are not required to report to school due to adverse weather, teachers may be a desirable objective requested by the administration to make maximum utilization of report to work by 10:00 A.M. and will continue until 3:00 P.M. On such days teachers are requested to report, and if the teachers’ professional teaching skills. The provisions of this Articleteacher is unable to report due to the weather, however, the procedure shall be construed consistent with the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatory.follows: 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to twenty-five (25) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during If on the first three (3) weeks day teachers are requested to report and are unable to do so, they shall notify their principal by 9:30 A.M. No later than the third day of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary any given storm teachers shall report back to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the coursework. 2. Should any individual class On subsequent consecutive staff reporting days, teachers who are still unable to report to work may ask for special consideration and shall upon return put in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20)writing the reason for the additional delay of their return. D. Scheduled days of student instruction which are not held because of conditions not within the control of school authorities, K exceed twenty-four (24)such inclement weather, Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27)fires, and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30)epidemics, as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters)mechanical breakdowns, or health conditions, may be rescheduled by the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct insure that the problem, including the possibility minimum number of a different class location hours of students, the hiring student instruction required by law or regulation is satisfied or to assure there is no loss of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Association. 4. Teachers shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty lounge. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimumstate aid. Teachers will be given “to call” messages receive the regular pay for days that are canceled but shall work on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relativerescheduled days with no additional compensation. D. To the extent practicableE. Unless mutually agreed upon between teacher and administrator, parking facilities under no circumstances shall be made available to teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities teacher serve as acting principal or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreementother such position.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize that It is the primary duty or and responsibility of the teacher is to teach, and the organization of the school and the school day should be so constructed that the energy of the teacher is primarily utilized to this end. The parties recognize that optimum school facilities for both student and teacher are desirable to aid in providing the high quality of education that is the goal of both the Association and the Board. Thus the Board agrees to continue its efforts: 1. To keep class size at an acceptable number as dictated by the financial condition of the district, the building facilities available, the availability of qualified teachers, and the best interests of the district as deemed administratively feasible. Since it is recognized by the Board that pupil-teacher ratio is an important aspect of an effective educational program, special consideration through scheduling and assignment will be given to class size and student-teacher ratio in the case of Special Education students being mainstreamed. When elementary class size reaches twenty-eight (28) students in any classroom, additional teacher assistant time will be negotiated to be in place within 15 working days after the student that increased the class size to twenty-eight starts attendance. 2. In no event shall the number of students in any assigned class exceed the number of learning stations available. When any class exceeds the number of students the district shall within ten (10) school days reduce the number of students to the number of lab stations available. The above set limits may be exceeded with written permission of the teacher and the association. 3. To keep the schools reasonably and properly equipped and maintained. 4. To provide a teacher reference library at each campus in the district and include therein all texts which are reasonably requested by the teachers of that campus. 5. To make available in each school duplicating facilities. 6. To provide a separate desk or file with lockable drawer space for each teacher in the district. 7. To provide suitable closet space for each teacher to store coats, overshoes and personal articles. 8. To provide chalkboard/white board or grease board in every classroom 9. To provide a copy, exclusively for each teacher's use, of all texts in each of the courses he is to teach. 10. To provide adequate storage space in each classroom for instructional materials. 11. To provide school personnel to assist in inventorying of supplies and equipment, duplication of teaching materials, operating audio visual equipment, collecting monies for milk and lunch, and similar non-professional responsibilities. 12. To provide smocks for art and home economics teachers, laboratory coats for laboratory science teachers, shop coats for vocational and industrial education teachers. Proper laundering service for all of said items shall be provided without charge to the teacher. 13. To provide in each school a lounge and/or work-study room for teachers. 14. To provide lavatory facilities exclusively for teacher use when practicable and possible. 15. To provide a telephone in each building for teacher use provided that such use does not interfere with the use of the telephone for district purposes. 16. To permit snacks or pop vending machines in the teacher's lounge (or designated location), under the sole responsibility of the association. 17. To provide off-street parking facilities for teacher use when practicable and possible. The administration reserves the right to assign teacher designated parking areas as needed. B. The Board and the Association consider it recognize that such provisions add to the cost of operating a school district. C. On days when students are not required to report to school due to adverse weather, teachers may be a desirable objective requested by the administration to make maximum utilization of report to work by 10:00 A.M. and will continue until 3:00 P.M. On such days teachers are requested to report, and if the teachers’ professional teaching skills. The provisions of this Articleteacher is unable to report due to the weather, however, the procedure shall be construed consistent with the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatory.follows: 1. Taking into account If on the availability first day teachers are requested to report and are unable to do so, they shall notify their principal by 9:30 A.M. No later than the third day of teachersany given storm teachers shall report back to work. 2. On subsequent consecutive staff reporting days, funds, facilities teachers who are still unable to report to work may ask for special consideration and number shall upon return put in writing the reason for the additional delay of students, the teacher load in their return. ▇. ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established days of student instruction which are not held because of conditions not within the control of school authorities, such inclement weather, fires, epidemics, mechanical breakdowns, or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to twenty-five (25) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions health conditions, may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken rescheduled by the Board to insure that the minimum number of Education hours of student instruction required by law or regulation is satisfied or to equally distribute students among the various sections assure there is no loss of the course. 2. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Association. 4. Teachers shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty lounge. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimumstate aid. Teachers will be given “to call” messages receive the regular pay for days that are canceled but shall work on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relativerescheduled days with no additional compensation. D. To the extent practicable▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ mutually agreed upon between teacher and administrator, parking facilities under no circumstances shall be made available to teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities teacher serve as acting principal or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreementother such position.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize that the primary duty or responsibility of the teacher is to teach, and the Board and the Association consider it to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization of the teachers’ professional teaching skills. The provisions of this Article, however, shall be construed consistent with the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatory. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to twenty-five (25) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the course. 2. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: Teacher’s annual salary schedule amount X 1 # of students membership X # of school X # of students in excess of X membership days in Applicable class size limit days on school calendar maximum class size limit calendar class limitslimits class 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Association. 4. Teachers shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty lounge. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relative. D. To the extent practicable, parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreement.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. 1. The parties recognize that optimum school facilities for both students and teachers are desirable to insure the high quality of education, the goal of both the Association and the Board. It is also acknowledged that the primary duty or and responsibility of the teacher is to teach, teach and that the organization of the school and the Board and school days should be directed toward insuring that energy of the teacher is primarily utilized to this end. Because the pupil-teacher ratio is an important aspect of an effective educational program, the parties agree that class size should be lowered whenever possible to meet the following optimum standards except in traditional large group instruction or experimental classes where the Association consider it has agreed in writing to exceed these maxima: EXCESS MEMBERS ALLOWED TOTAL K - 2 (22 students) 3 25 3 - 5 (25 students) 3 28 6 - 8 (26 students) 3 29 9 - 12 (27 students) 3 30 Any class over the prescribed total number will be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization of the teachers’ professional teaching skills. The provisions of this Article, however, shall be construed consistent with the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatory. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to twenty-five (25) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken reimbursed by the Board at the rate of $3.00 per child, per day, per elementary student or sixty (60) cents per class hour, per child over this number in the Middle School and secondary schools, (middle school and secondary are defined to encompass grades 6-12) for each day the student is enrolled in this district, provided the excess member rate will be paid for only the first fifteen (15) consecutive days if the teacher is absent for a valid cause. No reimbursement pay will be paid to any teacher where there is a classroom teacher's aide or co-teacher. The counselor student ratio shall not exceed 1-300. Class size for Alternative Education, Adult Education, and Bilingual/ELS Education to equally distribute students among will be determined by the various sections of the coursedistrict based upon student enrollment. 2. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none Libraries will be available for student use during student attendance days of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limitsyear. 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom Special Education classes shall be counted as two (2) students for not exceed the purpose rules and regulations established in the Special Education code of this Articlethe State Department of Education. If such mainstreaming results in it becomes necessary to file for a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article deviation, then the Board will: a. reduce will reimburse the enrollment to special education teacher at the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to rate of sixty (60) cents per class hour per child over the teacher in question and the Associationallowed number. 4. Teachers shall attend and participate The form for excess class sizes is contained in IEP and 504 meetings as legally requiredAppendix B-3. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, Copies shall be paid $25.00 for available at each IEP after the fourthprincipal’s office. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty lounge. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relative. D. To the extent practicable, parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreement.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize that Teacher’s Primary Duty and Responsibility, Student-Teacher Ratio, Reference Library, Duplicating Services, Teacher Storage Area, Teacher’s Lounge, Faculty Parking, Others 1. To keep class size at an acceptable number as dictated by the primary duty or responsibility financial condition of the teacher is to teachDistrict, the building facilities available, the availability of qualified teachers, and the best interests of the District as deemed administratively feasible. Since it is recognized by the Board that student- teacher ratio is an important aspect of an effective educational program, special consideration through scheduling and assignment will be given to class size and student-teacher ratio in the Association consider it case of Special Education students being mainstreamed. When elementary class size reaches twenty-eight (28) students in any classroom (including specials classes), additional teacher assistant time will be negotiated to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization of in place within fifteen (15) working days after the teachers’ professional teaching skills. The provisions of this Article, however, shall be construed consistent with student that increased the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatory. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher class size to twenty-five eight (2528) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the coursestarts attendance. 2. Should any individual The maximum class size in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K secondary chemistry and physical science courses shall not exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 ) students. The maximum class size in all other secondary science and culinary arts courses shall not exceed twenty-seven eight (27), and 28) students or the number of lab stations available. The maximum class size in Grades 3-5 all other assigned secondary courses (excluding music courses) shall not exceed thirty (30), as well as ) students. When any class exceeds the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters)maximum class size, the Board District shall immediately take all reasonable steps within ten (10) school days reduce the number of students to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different specified class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solutionsize limit. In the event that none The above set limits may be exceeded with written permission of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Association. 3. To keep the schools reasonably and properly equipped and maintained. 4. Teachers shall attend and participate To make available in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEPeach school duplicating facilities. 5. A To provide a separate desk or file with lockable drawer space for each teacher in the District. 6. To provide suitable closet space for each teacher to store coats, overshoes and personal articles. 7. To provide a copy, exclusively for each teacher's use, of all texts in each of the courses he is to teach. 8. To provide adequate storage space in each classroom teacher or special for instructional materials. 9. To provide school personnel to assist in inventorying of supplies and equipment, duplication of teaching materials, operating audio visual equipment, collecting monies for milk and lunch, and similar non-professional responsibilities. 10. To provide smocks for art and home economics teachers, laboratory coats for laboratory science teachers, shop coats for vocational and industrial education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, teachers. Proper laundering service for all of said items shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after provided without charge to the fourthteacher. B. 11. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers provide a lounge and/or work-study room for teachers. 12. To provide lavatory facilities exclusively for teacher use when practicable and possible. 13. To provide a telephone in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for teacher use as a faculty loungeprovided that such use does not interfere with the use of the telephone for district purposes. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on 14. To permit snacks or pop vending machines in the office telephones in their buildingteacher's lounge (or designated location), but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by under the teacher outside sole responsibility of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relativethe Association. D. 15. To the extent practicable, provide off-street parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated areafor teacher use when practicable and possible. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting administration reserves the right to assign teacher designated parking facilities or their use by teachers areas as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreementneeded.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize that the primary duty or responsibility of the teacher is to teach, and the Board and the Association consider it to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization of the teachers’ professional teaching skills. The provisions of this Article, however, shall be construed consistent with the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatory. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to twenty-five (25) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the course. 2. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Association. 4. Teachers shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty lounge. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relative. D. To the extent practicable, parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreement.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize the availability of optimum school facilities for both learner and teacher is desirable to ensure the high quality of education that is the goal of both the teacher and the Board. The primary duty or and responsibility of the teacher is to teachteach and that the organization of the school and the school day should be directed at ensuring that the energy of the teacher is used primarily to this end. At the same time, it is the responsibility of the professional staff to contribute to the community and the teaching profession. Itinerant teachers of art, music, and physical education will collaborate with affected staff and Administration to establish their schedules before the Board and the Association consider it to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization beginning of the teachers’ professional teaching skillsschool year. B. Because the teacher-learner ratio is an important aspect of an effective educational program, the parties agree that class size shall be determined as follows: In kindergarten, class size shall not exceed twenty-six (26) learners without additional pay with the exceptions that follow. The provisions In the early elementary grades (1-4), class size shall not exceed twenty-eight (28) learners without additional pay with the exceptions that follow. In the later elementary grades (5-6), class size shall not exceed thirty (30) learners without additional pay with the exceptions that follow. In the secondary grades (7-12), class size shall not exceed thirty-four (34) learners without extra pay with the exceptions that follow. Learners who have been identified, tested, and certified through an individualized education program (IEP) into a special education program, and who as a result of this Articlesuch evaluation qualify for such programs but cannot be, howeveror have not been placed due to a lack of special program facilities, qualified personnel, and/or due to the feasibility because of parental consent, shall be construed consistent with the necessity equated for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatory. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to twenty-five (25) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the course. 2. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) students regular learners. The above standard does not include deficiency disabilities such as remedial reading, exclusive of any other learning and/or emotional impairments, and does not include those learners who have been returned to the regular classroom from a special education program, or who are receiving special education services as part of the regular classroom instruction. To the extent feasible and pursuant to the requirements of inclusive educational programming and to promote a proper learning environment for those identified by an IEP Team as having special education status for the purpose eligibility categories of this ArticleLD, EI, or OHI, an equitable distribution of such learners shall be made within the building, grade, and/or subject which will accommodate the learner’s schedule and IEP. Learners who become continuously disruptive should be re-evaluated as permitted by law as to their appropriate placement in the general education classroom. The Administration recognizes that the classroom teacher may be faced with different problems when integrating learners in accordance with least restrictive environment requirements. Accordingly, assistance will be provided teachers where reasonably possible to better meet the needs of all learners in his/her classroom. The classroom teacher shall be entitled to confer with the Building Principal and/or the Special Education Supervisor for the special needs of those learners. In situations where learners have not been tested but pose management problems, the teacher may refer said learner(s) to the Building Principal, who may determine whether to initiate the Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) process. If such mainstreaming results the MTSS process is initiated, teachers will follow the Michigan guidelines according to the Lenawee ISD rules as long as they are in a class enrollment that violates provisions compliance with the State guidelines. The parties recognize the importance of this Article advising all teachers who work with or who will work with learners who have an IEP and allowing them to attend the Board willlearner’s IEP Team meeting if feasible. Reasonable efforts will be made to allow the receiving teacher to be present at the learner’s IEP Team meeting when the following conditions occur: a. reduce 1. The receiving teacher's presence is in the enrollment to best interest of the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to learner; 2. The receiving teacher's presence in the best interests of the s learner’s family; 3. Classroom coverage for the receiving teacher in question and the Association.can be suitably arranged without undue disruption; 4. Teachers shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would receiving teacher can be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP.specifically identified; 5. A classroom teacher or special education Scheduling complexities allow for the receiving teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after 's presence. If determined feasible by the fourth. B. To the extent practicableAdministration, the Board will make available number of learners shall not exceed the maximums according to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty lounge. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on this Section B without additional pay with the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relative. D. To the extent practicable, parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreement.following exceptions:

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The Because the pupil-teacher ratio is an important aspect of an effective educational program, the parties recognize agree that class sizes shall not exceed the primary duty or responsibility following maxima: a. For the high school and the middle school, thirty-three (33) students per academic class effective after the Fall Pupil Count Day of the teacher is school year; i. At the high school, all class sizes will be made available to teach, and the Board and the Association consider it by the end of September and February ii. At the middle school/high school, an actual class count will be conducted and made available to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization the Association within ten (10) days after the start of the teachers’ professional teaching skillseach quarter/semester, respectively iii. The provisions Class size limit of this Article, however, shall be construed consistent with the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit thirty-three (33) shall not be mandatory.exceeded without agreement of the Association 1. Taking into account the availability of teachersb. For elementary schools, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools administration will make reasonable efforts to limit to thirty (30) students per class; split-classes shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher limited to twenty-five (25) pupils. The provisions students each effective after the Fall Pupil Count Day of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three school year; c. Physical Education class sizes at the secondary level will not exceed forty-five (345) weeks of each semester or other enrollment termstudents. It is also recognized the intent of the Board to include a certified lifeguard in classes using the pool; d. For other specialized classes – that other exceptions as recommended by the State of Michigan. Experimental class situations may exceed the above limitations by mutual agreement of the parties. In no event shall the number of students in a class exceed the number of student stations available. Any class loads not herein described shall be regulated in accordance with sound educational practice. e. Within 10 days after the start of a semester, teachers shall notify their building administration of the number of special needs students in their class(es) so that Article V of the Collective Bargaining Agreement may be desirable whenever considered with regards to class composition. B. When class size contractual limits are exceeded: a. At the middle school/high school, teachers will be compensated $2 per day, for each student over the maximum, for each day of the overage. b. At the elementary schools, teachers will be compensated $4 per day, for each student over the maximum average, for each day of the overage. c. Class sizes are established on the official Count Day. When an actual class overage exists, it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may will be adjusted retroactive to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections first day of the courseoverage. 2. Should any individual class d. Extra-pay stipend will be issued for overages with the first pay in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. June. C. In the event that none of an elementary (K-5) split-level class, the Superintendent shall notify the Association President, in writing, the reasons for the necessity of the above steps are implemented class. If changed to correct K-6, this section continues to apply. D. In scheduling students, both parties agree that every effort should be made to equalize classes in terms of individual student needs and characteristics. When scheduling, class sizes should not vary by more than 2 students for teachers teaching the problem and same classes, within the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed same building, during the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula same time. E. No teacher shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # required to take responsibility for more than one class at a time at any grade level within the existing organizational structure. F. The Board agrees at all times to keep the schools reasonably equipped and maintained. G. The Board to make available in each school adequate typing and duplicating facilities. Clerical personnel will be available to aid teachers in the preparation of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limitsinstructional material, whenever possible. 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom H. Special consideration shall be counted given to those schools with no audio-visual rooms when ordering darkening drapes. All classrooms shall be provided with darkening drapes as two (2) students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Associationsoon as feasible. 4. Teachers I. The Board shall attend and participate make available in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur each school at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or least one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty lounge. Provision for such facilities shall be made in all future buildings. C. J. A place of privacy shall be available within reason in each building to teacher for business telephone conversations. K. Vending machines for hot and cold beverages shall be installed at the request of a particular school staff. L. The Board agrees that teachers shall be reimbursed for theft, damage or destruction of personal property, provided that lack of reasonable care and caution under the circumstances, on the part of the teacher, has not been the primary cause of loss. a. The Board shall not be liable for more than the actual cash value of the loss. b. The Board shall not pay amounts less than ten ($10) dollars or more than five hundred ($500) dollars if the loss exceeds that amount. c. The Board shall not be liable for loss covered by other insurance. M. Teachers shall not be required to work under unsafe or hazardous conditions or to perform tasks which endanger their health, safety or well-being. N. Classroom interruption by administrators, department leaders, counselors, students, or other teachers, whether by intercom, telephone, or in person, shall be permitted only in the case of emergency or when no other alternative is possible. This shall not limit the right of the employer to place outgoing non-toll calls on conduct evaluation activities. O. When music, art or physical education teachers are absent, paid substitutes shall be provided. In the office telephones event outside substitutes cannot be found, the regular room teacher shall be considered “the substitute” and be paid the current rate. P. Regular classroom teachers shall not be required to participate in the planning, practice, supervising or presentation of programs, if such occur during their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will preparation period or outside the regular day. Q. No middle school or high school teacher shall be required to teach more than three (3) consecutive classes without either lunch or a preparation period separating them. R. The number of rooms in which assignments occur shall be held to a minimummaximum of three (3). S. Extended homeroom sessions shall be eliminated insofar as is feasible. T. Homeroom sessions shall be convened only when no other reasonable alternative may be substituted and when held shall be scheduled on the same day each week with advanced notice published in the weekly bulletin. U. High school teachers shall be granted one (1) day at mid-year examination week for the purpose of correcting examinations and computing grades. V. There will be three full-time counselors in the High School and two full-time counselors in the Middle School. The counselors will work under the job description as agreed upon by the parties. There will be two social workers at the elementary level. If needed, High School counselors will be paid at per diem rates, for a maximum of five (5) days, for scheduling and registration work performed during the summer at mutually agreed upon times. W. One day of class time may be used for pictures of sections (homeroom) for the annual, affecting all students. Another day may be used for individual pictures for school records and ID cards, affecting ninth grade and new students only. Other pictures shall be taken after school, on test days, or at other times which do not interrupt classes. X. A teacher may be asked to relieve or substitute another teacher only during his preparation period. As a regular course of action the Administration will not direct teachers to substitute teach during their preparation periods or at any other time. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, may continue to be returned by the asked to substitute teacher outside of classroom hoursduring their preparation periods on a voluntary basis, but will be directed to substitute teach only in extreme circumstances when no other viable option is available. Viable options are listed below in progressive order, depending on the number of teachers absent and the number of classes needed to be covered on a given immediate opportunity day. a. The principal will coordinate the use of substitutes in his/her building to cover any vacancies, including utilizing assigned substitutes at the secondary level on a 6/5 basis. b. The principal will try to coordinate his/her staff through special assignments with the voluntary cooperation of his/her staff. c. Teachers attending workshops/conferences will be required to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relativetheir buildings if no substitutes are available to cover assignments in their buildings. D. To d. Teachers attending workshops/conferences who have substitutes will be required to return to their buildings in order to release their substitutes to fill vacancies in other classrooms/buildings. e. The principal will utilize all staff members, from certified staff members without regular classroom responsibilities (i.e., media specialists, counselors, social workers, reading teachers, building administrators) to non-certified staff members who may substitute teach on a permit basis. The District will make every reasonable effort to increase the extent practicablepool of substitute teachers available to fill in during teacher absences, parking facilities and to utilize substitute teachers as effectively as possible in order to minimize instances when classes may be left without substitute coverage. Y. The building administrator shall be made available to teachers within responsible for keeping a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers record of the time serviced as a result substitute for each teacher. Z. No teachers shall be assigned an extended school day (namely zero and seventh hour, etc.) without his consent, except where such position cannot be filled without his consent. AA. Sponsors of any provision all clubs shall be assigned on a voluntary basis. BB. Teachers will not be required to record their time of this Agreement arrival or departure, but will check in and out. CC. Each teacher shall provide four additional hours outside the regularly scheduled school day. These may include PTA “Meet the Teacher Night”, chaperoning or school related activities that parking are mutually agreed upon. DD. Parent/Teacher conferences: a. Secondary teachers will be participate in evening Parent/Teacher conferences in each of the two semesters. Teachers absent during evening Parent/Teacher conferences shall meet with the Superintendent or his designee and a representative of the APEA to choose one of the following options for not participating in evening Parent/Teacher conferences: i. Three hours of compensatory time in the teacher’s own risk building to be used in a way consistent with the teacher’s duties; or ii. Deduction from the teacher’s accumulated sick leave of loss one-half (1/2) day; or iii. Payroll deduction of one-half (1/2) day salary based upon the following formula: Teacher’s base salary divided by two hundred (200) days times fifty percent (50%). b. On scheduled Parent/Teacher conference days, during the 1st semester, meeting time for the afternoon conference session (elementary level) will be 2.5 hours from 12:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. and the meeting time for the evening conference sessions will be 2.5 hours for elementary teachers and 3 hours for secondary teachers. The meeting times will be from 5:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. respectively. Any Parent/Teacher conference sessions that are scheduled in an arena setting will also provide for a scheduled fifteen (15) minute break in the middle of the meeting time. c. During the first (1st) semester, Parent/Teacher conferences at the elementary and middle school buildings will be scheduled for the Monday and Tuesday before Thanksgiving. The afternoon session at the elementary buildings shall be conducted on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Conferences at the high school and community school will be held on the Wednesday and Thursday of the week preceding Thanksgiving. These days will alternate annually among Middle School and High School only, with the high school having Wednesday/Thursday conferences in the 2019-2020 school year. d. During the second (2nd) semester, at the secondary level, conferences will be held for one (1) evening from 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. The Middle School and High School/Community School shall rotate the days of the spring conferences. In even numbered years, the Middle School conferences shall be held on Thursday. In odd numbered years, the Middle School conferences shall be held on Wednesday. There will be no spring conferences at the elementary level. e. Teachers at the elementary level who elect to conduct their Parent/Teacher conferences over a period of three (3) business days immediately preceding the scheduled date(s) for conferences will have the scheduled conference time as duty free. Elementary teachers electing this option shall notify their building principal one (1) week prior to scheduled conferences. EE. As part of the Middle School’s “Assertive Discipline” program, teachers will continue to be required to make a follow-up phone contact with parents of any and all students who they send out of class for disciplinary reasons. However, they will be required to make no more than two attempts during the workday to reach a parent directly or damage except as otherwise connect with an answering machine or voice mail system. These attempts are expected to be made before the class meets the following day. Following the second unsuccessful attempt, they may continue to try for phone contact or opt to complete a form letter, provided by law without regard Middle School Administration, on which they will note the date and time of the unsuccessful attempts. Teachers opting to use the provisions of this Agreementform letters will leave them, upon completion, in a designated location in the Attendance Office for mailing.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize that Teacher’s Primary Duty and Responsibility, Student-Teacher Ratio, Reference Library, Duplicating Services, Teacher Storage Area, Teacher’s Lounge, Faculty Parking, Others 1. To keep class size at an acceptable number as dictated by the primary duty or responsibility financial condition of the teacher is to teachDistrict, the building facilities available, the availability of qualified teachers, and the best interests of the District as deemed administratively feasible. Since it is recognized by the Board that student- teacher ratio is an important aspect of an effective educational program, special consideration through scheduling and assignment will be given to class size and student-teacher ratio in the Association consider it case of Special Education students being mainstreamed. When elementary class size reaches twenty-eight (28) students in any classroom, additional teacher assistant time will be negotiated to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization of in place within fifteen (15) working days after the teachers’ professional teaching skills. The provisions of this Article, however, shall be construed consistent with student that increased the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatory. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher class size to twenty-five eight (2528) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the coursestarts attendance. 2. Should The maximum class size in any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty assigned secondary lab course (20), K science and culinary arts) shall not exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 ) students. The maximum class size in all other assigned secondary courses (excluding music courses) shall not exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as ) students. When any class exceeds the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters)maximum class size, the Board District shall immediately take all reasonable steps within ten (10) school days reduce the number of students to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different specified class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solutionsize limit. In the event that none The above set limits may be exceeded with written permission of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Association. 3. To keep the schools reasonably and properly equipped and maintained. 4. Teachers shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur To provide a teacher reference library at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating each campus in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, District and include therein all texts which are reasonably requested by the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option teachers of attending and participating in the IEPthat campus. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building duplicating facilities. 6. To provide a separate desk or file with lockable drawer space for each teacher in the District. 7. To provide suitable closet space for each teacher to store coats, overshoes and personal articles. 8. To provide chalkboard/white board or grease board in every classroom. 9. To provide a copy, exclusively for each teacher's use, of all texts in each of the courses he is to teach. 10. To provide adequate lunchroomstorage space in each classroom for instructional materials. 11. To provide school personnel to assist in inventorying of supplies and equipment, restroomduplication of teaching materials, operating audio visual equipment, collecting monies for milk and lunch, and lavatory facilitiessimilar non-professional responsibilities. 12. To provide smocks for art and home economics teachers, laboratory coats for laboratory science teachers, shop coats for vocational and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which industrial education teachers. Proper laundering service for all of said items shall be reserved for use as a faculty loungeprovided without charge to the teacher. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non13. To provide in each school a lounge and/or work-toll calls on the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relativestudy room for teachers. D. 14. To provide lavatory facilities exclusively for teacher use when practicable and possible. 15. To provide a telephone in each building for teacher use provided that such use does not interfere with the extent practicableuse of the telephone for district purposes. 16. To permit snacks or pop vending machines in the teacher's lounge (or designated location), under the sole responsibility of the Association. 17. To provide off-street parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated areafor teacher use when practicable and possible. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting administration reserves the right to assign teacher designated parking facilities or their use by teachers areas as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreementneeded.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize that optimum school facilities for both students and teachers are designed to ensure the high quality of education that is the goal of both the Association and the Board. It is also acknowledged that the primary duty or and responsibility of the teacher is to teach, and that the organization of the school and the school day should be directed toward insuring that the energy of the teacher is primarily utilized to this end. A. The pupil-teacher ratio, when teaching to the individual differences of the child, is an important aspect of an effective educational program. The parties agree that a class size will be maintained as follows: 1. Class size in the elementary school shall not exceed 30 students per self- contained classroom. 2. Class size in the middle and high school shall not exceed 180 student contacts per day. There shall be no more than 30 per class period. 3. Class size shall not exceed 45 students per teacher in physical education. Nothing contained herein shall limit special large classes (i.e., band, choir) and experimental instruction classes jointly agreed to by the Board and the Association consider it Association. The number of special education students assigned to a teacher of record in any self- contained classroom in the elementary school shall be equalized. The number of special education students in middle and high school shall not exceed eight (8) per class. The foregoing limits may be exceeded when a desirable objective co-teacher, certified in special education, is assigned to make maximum utilization the classroom or if mutually agreed, a paraprofessional may be assigned to the classroom. Every effort will be made to equalize the number of special education students placed in any self-contained classroom or section in the secondary grades, prior to the first student day of the teachers’ professional teaching skillsschool year, or if mutually agreed thereafter. The provisions For the purposes of this Article, howeverthe official tally for class size will be the 1st official count day of the school year for 1st semester and the 2nd official count day of the school year for 2nd semester, as determined by the State of Michigan. If the class limits for the day are exceeded at any time following the count day, the Association and the affected teacher(s) will sit down with the Administration to determine a resolution. For the purpose of class size count in self-contained classrooms, all students who appear on the regular classroom teacher’s attendance roll shall be construed consistent with the necessity counted as full time students except for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated those students for personal benefit shall not be mandatory. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, which the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch is not responsible to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to twenty-five (25) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the course. 2. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solutiongrade. In the event that none case of an overage as of each count day, the average will be paid out to the teacher at a rate of $4 per day, per student over class size count for the balance of the above steps are implemented semester that there continues to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary be an overage. B. Any teacher who will be providing instructional or other services to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership X # of school X a handicapped student in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom setting shall be counted invited, in writing, to participate in the Individual Educational Planning Committee (IEPC) which may initially place (or continue the placement of) the student in a regular education classroom. Whenever possible, such written notification will be made five (5) school days prior to the IEPC. Individual teachers may need to attend the IEPC at different times so that one substitute can be utilized for the release time necessary for each teacher to attend. At the time of the IEPC meeting at which the handicapped or medically fragile student is placed in a classroom, there shall be a teacher consultant assigned to the student (if one has not already been assigned). Medically fragile students are those who are chronically ill and/or medical-technology dependent, and/or who have life-threatening conditions that require immediate medical attention. Prior to placement the teacher consultant will advise the teacher regarding the problems presented by the student’s handicap or medical coeditor and instructional and behavioral management of the student. If a teacher consultant is not assigned and the teacher perceives the need for training and/or assistance in dealing with the student, the teacher may communicate the need for additional training to the building administrator and the Special Education Director. Within ten (10) school days a meeting shall be held, attended by the teacher, teacher consultant, the principal (or designee) and the Director of Special Education to decide if additional training and/or assistance is required, and the manner and/or content of additional training and/or assistance to be provided. Teachers will not be required to administer tracheotomy suctioning, catheterization (including clean intermittent catheterization) or tube feeding to students. Prior to the classroom placement of a student who requires one or more of these procedures, the teacher will be advised in writing regarding how to handle emergencies that might arise as two (2) students a result of the student’s condition. C. The Board recognizes that appropriate books, supplies, and equipment are the tools of the teaching profession. The parties will confer from time to time for the purpose of this Article. If improving the selection and use of such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article educational tools and the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment undertakes promptly to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question implement all joint decisions thereon made by its representatives and the Association. 4. Teachers shall attend D. The Board and participate the Administration mutually recognize the importance of continuous use of adequate teaching reference materials in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition maintaining a high level of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contractprofessional performance. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option furtherance of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicablethat recognition, the Board will shall provide a teacher reference library in the district and include therein all texts, which are reasonably requested by the teachers. E. The Board agrees to make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroomtyping, restroomduplicating, and lavatory facilitiesword processing facilities and clerical personnel to aid teachers in the preparation of instructional materials. F. The Board shall provide: 1. A separate desk for each teacher in the district with a lockable drawer space. 2. Suitable closet space for each teacher to store coats, overshoes, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty loungepersonal articles. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones 3. Adequate whiteboard space in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relativeevery classroom. D. To the extent practicable, parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreement.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize that work year for ten (10) month teachers shall be one hundred ninety-six (196) days, four (4) days of which shall be paid holidays. B. The teacher workday shall be seven (7) hours and thirty (30) minutes. Each school year the primary duty or responsibility Board shall establish the work schedule, which thereafter shall not change unless the needs of the District clearly require it. C. The principal in each school shall establish a rotating duty-free lunch schedule. Said schedule shall allow each teacher is to teach, have a duty-free lunch period periodically throughout the year and shall be equitably distributed among the Board and teachers at the Association consider it to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization of the teachers’ professional teaching skillsworksite. The provisions of this Article, however, lunch period shall be construed consistent with the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatoryno fewer than twenty five (25) minutes. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools D. The Board shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of provide one (1) teacher to twenty-five (25) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the course. 2. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Association. 4. Teachers shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers room in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty loungework area. C. E. When school is not in session, to the extent possible, teachers shall be provided access to their classrooms by arranging such access with the principal or his/her designee to provide teachers access to their classroom, a copy machine, and a network printer. F. Visits to a teacher’s class by persons other than School Board members or administrative/district level personnel shall be allowed only after permission has been granted by the principal or designee. Every reasonable effort will be made to provide notice to the teacher by the end of the school day preceding the visit. G. Teachers shall not be permitted required to place outgoing nonwork under unsafe or hazardous conditions or to perform tasks which constitute a realistic danger to their health, safety, or well-toll calls on being. Each teacher shall report in writing to his or her principal any unsafe or hazardous condition upon observation. Upon request, the office telephones teacher shall be provided an update from the principal describing the actions taken, if any. A teacher shall be made aware of any threatening situation made against him or her in a timely manner. H. The Board shall provide such safety clothing and equipment as required by law. I. The principal shall schedule faculty meetings, as deemed necessary, and such meetings shall be as brief and well planned as possible. To the extent possible, there shall be no more than one faculty meeting per month and shall not last more than thirty (30) minutes beyond the workday. Attendance at faculty meetings shall be mandatory except where prior permission for an employee to be absent is granted by the principal. J. Teachers may be required to attend additional meetings beyond the workday for the following events: a. Up to two (2) open houses each school year, lasting no more than two (2) hours in length for each instance b. Graduation exercises at teachers’ respective schools c. Except for Title 1 nights, parent nights that are planned and agreed to by grade/subject team teachers K. Classroom teachers shall be provided, when duty-free lunch is provided, daily individual lesson planning and preparation time: a. Elementary school: one (1) class period equivalent to the period scheduled for special area classes. This time shall be at least forty- five (45) minutes long unless the planning and preparation time connected with the teaching assignment in the 2016-17 school year is shorter, in which said time period shall not be diminished. b. Middle and High school: time equivalent to one (1) class period during the student day. This time shall not, to the extent possible, be preempted for duty or activities unrelated to planning and preparation. A regularly scheduled study-hall shall not be considered a preparation/conference period, except at the teacher’s choice. L. Principals shall make every effort to reduce the number of preparations per day for middle and high school teachers. M. Special area/resource teachers at the school level shall, at a minimum, have class loads, lunch and preparation time to the same extent as other teachers at their buildingschools. N. Teachers’ supervision of extracurricular or after-hours activities (e.g. school dances, but it family movie nights, family reading night, math night, PTO meetings, etc.) shall be voluntary. O. To the extent possible, when special programs or assemblies are planned, teachers shall be given at least a two (2) day notice prior to the event taking place. Otherwise, notice to the teachers shall be provided immediately after the event is expected that personalscheduled. P. If, nonduring a parent-emergency calls will be held teacher conference, a parent becomes verbally abusive to a minimumteacher(s) when no administrator is present, the teacher(s) shall not be expected to remain as a participant in the conference. Teachers will If the administrator is present during a conference in which a teacher is subjected to verbal abuse, the administrator shall use his/her professional judgment to determine whether or not the conference shall continue. Verbal abuse shall mean screaming/yelling or the repeated use of profanity or threats. Q. During pre-planning days prior to the beginning of the student year, all teacher-based employees shall be given “provided two (2) unscheduled days to call” messages on incoming calls, provide adequate time to be returned plan and/or set up classrooms in preparation for the school year. These days shall not include scheduled events by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergenciesDistrict or school administration, such as death in-service workshops, professional development training, faculty/team/department/grade level meetings, meet the teacher events, PLC meetings, or serious illness or injury any other meetings which take time away for the purpose of a close relativepreparing for the school year. No later than the first day of preplanning, supervising principals shall provide notice to teachers of which two (2) days will be determined to be unscheduled days. Not all teachers will get the same exact scheduled time off of the same days. D. R. Class coverage in teachers’ absence To the extent practicablepossible, parking facilities all teachers shall have planning time during the student instructional day. Teachers who agree to waive their planning period to cover another teachers’ class or any teacher assigned a portion of another teachers’ class for the purpose of covering classes of teacher or for the purpose of IEP’s and testing shall be made available granted an equivalent amount of release time to those teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities by leaving when the students are released or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreementnot present.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize that optimum school facilities for both student and teacher are desirable to ensure the high quality of education that is the goal of both the Association and the Board. It is also acknowledged that the primary duty or and responsibility of the teacher is to teachteach and that the organization of the school and the school day should be directed toward ensuring that the energy of the teacher is primarily utilized to this end. (1) Because the pupil-teacher ratio is an important aspect of an effective educational program, the parties agree that class size shall be lowered whenever possible to meet the optimum standards as set forth in Schedule C, attached to and incorporated into this Agreement. The date for determining class size and class load shall be the official State Pupil Count day. (2) Every effort will be made to equitably distribute students who are included in a regular education classroom for all or part of a day as part of an IEP inclusive education plan, or 504 Plan, among classrooms at that grade level or subject area unless a teacher, or teachers, voluntarily agree to a different arrangement. Upon a teacher’s request in the event of an inequitable distribution the administration will work to redistribute students. (3) No class shall exceed the number of students that can be accommodated by the facility. a. If the number of students exceeds thirty-one (31) in any class, the affected teacher will be paid an additional stipend for each student in excess of thirty-one (31) of $7.50 per day. b. The above stipend shall be prorated on the basis of an instructional hour as set forth in Article IV. In a teaming situation, any team teacher with an overload (more than the maximum number of students listed below) on that teacher’s class list will be paid overage pay as outlined below. The teamed teachers will equally share (split) the overage pay for any assigned student(s) that exceed the joint teaming classroom maximum set below. (i) Teaming teaching is defined as two or more certified teachers assigned to and actively sharing teaching duties for the same class for instructional purposes. For purposes here a parapro and teacher assigned to the same classroom is not considered a team teaching assignment (ii) In the elementary - voluntary teaming does not apply. Only assigned non-voluntary team teaching situations qualify for overages. Elementary teaming assignments shall operate under the same rules for overage as Junior High/High School except overage numbers shall be from the elementary Schedule C class numbers with 10 students assigned to special education teacher. Overall elementary joint maximum = General Education Maximum + Special Education maximum. (iii) Junior High/High School - team teaching overage numbers: General Education maximum - students on class list Special Education maximum - 12 students on class list Joint maximum - 40 students on class list (teachers split the overage for each student over 40) c. Stipends for excess enrollments shall be paid to the teacher in a lump sum at the conclusion of each semester. Teachers shall maintain accurate enrollment records which are subject to administrative verification prior to payment. d. It is further understood that the thirty-one (31) student limit and above stipends are not applicable to traditional large group formats such as study hall, band, choir, and physical education and as specified in Schedule C. e. If a teacher does not notify, in writing, the building principal of the class size overage by the pupil accounting day each semester, he/she shall not be eligible for stipend. Teachers shall be notified by the administration of each pupil accounting day. This subsection shall not preclude payment for overages occurring after pupil accounting days. (4) Special Education classes shall comply with the rules and regulations established by the Special Education Code and the State Department of Education. The local association will participate in the development and any revision of the RESA plan. a. If any bargaining unit member, in writing, advises the employer of a reasonable basis to believe problems exist in the implementation of a student’s current IEP which are negatively impacting the student’s educational progress, and/or impeding the learning progress of other students in the same placement, the bargaining unit member shall have the right to request a meeting of the building principal or special education director to discuss the problem and possible resolutions. The building principal or special education director shall submit a written response to the bargaining unit member’s requests within 5 work days. b. If the number of special education students assigned to a teacher exceeds the State Code, the teacher will be paid $7.50 per day for each additional student. B. The Board will provide appropriate protective clothing of its selection for the teachers of industrial arts, art, biology, chemistry and physics and for such other teachers who, in the Board’s opinion, may require it. C. Teachers will not be assigned, except for good cause, outside the scope of their major or minor field of study. D. The Board recognizes that appropriate texts, library reference facilities, maps and globes, laboratory equipment, audio-visual equipment, art supplies, athletic equipment, current periodicals, standard tests and questionnaires and similar materials are the tools of the teaching profession. The parties will confer from time to time for the purpose of improving the selection and use of such educational tools, and the Board and the Association consider it agrees to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization of the teachers’ professional teaching skillsimplement all such joint decisions. The provisions of this ArticleBoard agrees at all times to keep the schools properly equipped and maintained to the extent that funds exist to do so. The building principal shall respond to all requisitions within ten (10) working days from the date the requisition was submitted. If the requisition is denied, however, the reason for denial shall be construed consistent with the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatorystated. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to twenty-five (25) pupils. E. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the course. 2. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Association. 4. Teachers shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, restroom and lavatory facilitiesfacilities adequate to accommodate staff needs, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty lounge. C. Teachers F. Telephones will be installed in each building’s faculty room for teachers’ use in school or related business. G. A vending machine for beverages for teachers’ use may be installed in the faculty room at the request of the Association, the proceeds to be used as determined by the WCEA. Such installation shall be permitted at no expense to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relativeBoard. D. To the extent practicable, H. Adequate parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within for their use. I. All employees can expect to work in a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement clean, safe, and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreementhealthy environment.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The Both parties recognize agree that the primary availability of proper school facilities for both students and teachers, and well-trained, competent teachers for students is the goal of both the Association and the Board. It is recognized that the duty or responsibility of the teacher is to teach, and the school day will be organized to schedule the teacher into situations, both formal and informal, to that end. B. Teachers shall be hired to teach. They shall not be offered a contract to drive students as part of their teaching load, although nothing in this Agreement shall deprive a teacher of driving a school bus as an extra job as long as he complies with regulations covering that position as determined by the Board, the Department of Education and the Legislature. C. Teaching supplies shall be ordered by the Administration so they may reasonably be expected to be available for the teachers' use at the beginning of the fall semester. Each teacher shall fill out a request for such supplies as they feel they will need. Teachers new to the system may submit a request for supplies in September or the first month of their hire, if other than September. Supplies will be ordered when approved by the building principal and in keeping with the general operating budget. Teachers will be given a budget amount before May 1st and asked to rank supplies based on order of priority. Supplies exceeding the budgeted amount may be denied by their supervisor. D. Graveled or black-topped parking facilities shall be provided for teachers on school premises or on other property as arranged by the Board and the Association consider it to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization owner of the teachers’ professional teaching skillssuch off-school property. E. The Board of Education agrees class size is an important aspect of an effective educational program. The provisions of this Article, however, shall be construed consistent with the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatory. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in goals are: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools ▇, ▇ and 3 27 Grades 4, 5 and 6 29 Split 25 PE 40 Should these goals be exceeded in any quarter (calculated on the second Friday of each quarter), elementary teachers will receive a $60 stipend and secondary teachers will receive a $40 stipend. When the number of students exceeds 36, the stipend will be $80 per quarter for grades 7-12 classes. F. The Board shall make available a faculty staff room in both buildings. Teachers will not use the staff room except before school, at noon, after school, or during their preparation/conference periods only. Each staff room shall be established or adjusted furnished with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio lounge furniture. ▇. ▇▇▇▇ of one (1) teacher to twentylaundering school-five (25) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall owned items will be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken assumed by the Board of Education Education, and the decision as to equally distribute students among whether they should be laundered will be made by the various sections Administration. H. The Board and the Association pledge themselves to extend the advantages of public education to every student without regard to race, creed, religion, sex, color, national origin, name, or school record of their parents, and to maintain full equality of educational opportunity to all pupils residing in the school district who can benefit from attendance in the public school system of Kingston Community School District. I. Class advisors shall be selected from teachers in the building housing the grade(s) to be supervised, if possible. J. All money shall be counted and receipted at the time it is turned in to the office. Building principals may find it necessary to have money turned in at a designated time each day. K. When, in the opinion of the courseteaching staff, decided by vote, that conditions are unsuitable for teaching because of lack of water or heat for an extended time, not less than two (2) hours, teachers and students will be dismissed, and the day shall be made up at the conclusion of the second semester at no extra cost to the District for salary. 2L. Nothing in this Article shall require the Board to keep schools open in the event of severe inclement weather or when otherwise prevented by Act of God. When the schools are closed to students due to the above conditions, teachers shall not be required to report for duty. If more than five (5) Act of God days are incurred, the Superintendent may request (weather conditions permitting) that teachers report to their respective buildings by 1:00 p.m. on any additional Act of God days incurred. Teachers are to be notified by 10:00 a.m. if their presence is requested at school that day. In the event of an Act of God day, a teacher who had previously requested the use of the day for illness or personal business will not be penalized and teachers on jury duty will not be required to forfeit their fees for that day. M. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20)a teacher, K exceed twentywhile on a Board-four (24)approved educational field trip, Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27)be detained because of reasons beyond his control, and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30)consequently, be late or absent from a scheduled teaching assignment, the time loss will not be deducted from sick leave or personal business days, and no pay will be forfeited as long as the teacher continues to exercise supervisory control over his group. N. When, as well determined by the Board, a teacher's duties regularly involve hazards to their personal clothing such as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters)damage or due to chemicals, dust, wood, metal chips, or molten metal, the Board shall immediately take all furnish specialized clothing in the quantity and style as deemed appropriate by the Board. Teachers so provided shall use reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified discretion as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limitwearing of protective clothing when engaged in instruction which may be hazardous to personal clothing. Should a decision be made to purchase such specialized clothing, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to suggestions will be sought from the teacher in question and the Associationteacher. 4. Teachers shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior O. A specific area will be made available for high school teachers to or following work during their conference period, separate from the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty teachers' lounge. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls P. A specific area will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relative. D. To the extent practicable, parking facilities shall be made available for the athletic director and assistant athletic director in which to teachers within work during his/her assigned period, separate from the teachers' lounge or an administrative office, and shall also include the installation of a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreementtelephone.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize that optimum school facilities for both student and teacher are desirable to ensure the high quality of education that is the goal of both the Association and the Board. It is also acknowledged that the primary duty or and responsibility of the teacher is to teachteach and that the organization of the school and the school day should be directed toward ensuring that the energy of the teacher is primarily utilized to this end. (1) Because the pupil-teacher ratio is an important aspect of an effective educational program, the parties agree that class size shall be lowered whenever possible to meet the optimum standards as set forth in Schedule C, attached to and incorporated into this Agreement. The date for determining class size and class load shall be the official State Pupil Count day. (2) Every effort will be made to equitably distribute students who are included in a regular education classroom for all or part of a day as part of an IEP inclusive education plan, or 504 Plan, among classrooms at that grade level or subject area unless a teacher, or teachers, voluntarily agree to a different arrangement. (3) No class shall exceed the number of students that can be accommodated by the facility. (a) If the number of students exceeds thirty-one (31) in any class, the affected teacher will be paid an additional stipend for each student in excess of thirty-one (31) of $7.50 per day. (b) The above stipend shall be prorated on the basis of an instructional hour as set forth in Article IV. (c) Stipends for excess enrollments shall be paid to the teacher in a lump sum at the conclusion of each semester. Teachers shall maintain accurate enrollment records which are subject to administrative verification prior to payment. (d) It is further understood that the thirty-one (31) student limit and above stipends are not applicable to traditional large group formats such as study hall, band, choir, and physical education and as specified in Schedule C. (e) If a teacher does not notify, in writing, the building principal of the class size overage by the pupil accounting day each semester, he/she shall not be eligible for stipend. Teachers shall be notified by the administration of each pupil accounting day. This subsection shall not preclude payment for overages occurring after pupil accounting days. (4) Special Education classes shall comply with the rules and regulations established by the Special Education Code and the State Department of Education. The local association will participate in the development and any revision of the ISD plan. (a) If any bargaining unit member, in writing, advises the employer of a reasonable basis to believe problems exist in the implementation of a student's current IEP which are negatively impacting the student's educational progress, and/or impeding the learning progress of other students in the same placement, the bargaining unit member shall have the right to request a meeting of the building principal or special education director to discuss the problem and possible resolutions. The building principal or special education director shall submit a written response to the bargaining unit member's requests within 5 work days. (b) If the number of special education students assigned to a teacher exceeds the State Code, the teacher will be paid $7.50 per day for each additional student. B. The Board will provide appropriate protective clothing of its selection for the teachers of industrial arts, art, biology, chemistry and physics and for such other teachers who, in the Board's opinion, may require it. C. Teachers will not be assigned, except for good cause, outside the scope of their major or minor field of study. D. The Board recognizes that appropriate texts, library reference facilities, maps and globes, laboratory equipment, audio-visual equipment, art supplies, athletic equipment, current periodicals, standard tests and questionnaires and similar materials are the tools of the teaching profession. The parties will confer from time to time for the purpose of improving the selection and use of such educational tools, and the Board and the Association consider it agrees to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization of the teachers’ professional teaching skillsimplement all such joint decisions. The provisions of this ArticleBoard agrees at all times to keep the schools properly equipped and maintained. The building principal shall respond to all requisitions within ten (10) working days from the date the requisition was submitted. If the requisition is denied, however, the reason for denial shall be construed consistent with the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatorystated. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to twenty-five (25) pupils. E. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the course. 2. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Association. 4. Teachers shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, restroom and lavatory facilitiesfacilities adequate to accommodate staff needs, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty lounge. C. Teachers F. Telephones will be installed in each building’s faculty room for teachers' use in school or related business. G. A vending machine for beverages for teachers' use may be installed in the faculty room at the request of the Association, the proceeds to be used as determined by the WCEA. Such installation shall be permitted at no expense to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relativeBoard. D. To the extent practicable, H. Adequate parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or for their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreementuse.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize Because pupil teacher ratio is an important aspect of an effective educational program, the Board agrees that every effort will be made to bring class sizes to the primary duty or responsibility following standards. Such effort may be dictated by financial conditions of the teacher is to teachschool district, the building facilities available, and the Board and the Association consider it to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization best interest of the teachers’ professional teaching skills. The provisions of this Article, however, shall be construed consistent with the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatorychildren. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ Young Five 20 ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to twenty-five (25) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the course.▇ thru 8 27 2. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty Middle School (20), K exceed twenty6-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (8) All Middle School academic classes will have a maximum of 27). Specialized classes will have maximums determined by available equipment and facilities, and in Grades will not exceed limits established below for grades 9-12. Middle School Living Skills 24 3. Secondary (9-5 thirty (30)12) All academic classes will have a maximum of 29, as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS except for band and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps chorus. Specialized classes will not exceed limits established below. Keyboarding 25 Technical Education 24 Drafting 24 Parenthood 24 Laboratory Sciences 28 Art 28 Writing Courses 24 Physical Education 40 4. Special Programs Reasonable efforts will be made to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional procure Special Education teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none this is not possible, special attention will be given to reducing class size where special students are placed in a regular classroom. When a class size of a teacher for any class period exceeds the above limits at any time after the fall official count day, the teacher may petition for relief or assistance to a joint committee comprised of two administrators appointed by the Board and two teachers appointed by the Association, giving the particulars of the above steps situation. It is recognized that some classes may exceed the recommended limit without creating an unusual problem for the teacher. All petitions for relief or assistance should include rationale for the particular situation and all petitions will have to be weighed on their relative merits. In case the committee cannot reach a decision the matter shall be referred to the Board for decision at its next regularly scheduled meeting. All petitions which are implemented to correct filed in the problem months of September and October shall be answered within four weeks by the committee or the Board. All petitions received in subsequent months shall be answered within two weeks. The joint committee shall render a decision concerning the type of relief or assistance which it recommends, and the Board determines that it is necessary building principal shall be directed to exceed implement the above maximum class size limitscommittee’s decision. The relief or assistance may include, but not be limited to, the following compensation formula help of a teacher aide; removing the additional students from the classroom; hiring additional certified teachers; providing more materials and/or equipment as requested by the teacher; or reimburse elementary regular classroom teachers who are assigned a class which exceeds these maximum standards an additional $100.00 per pupil, per semester, based on the total daily class maximum enrollments stated above. Elementary specials teachers who are assigned a class which exceeds these maximum standards shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # reimbursed at a rate of $3.30 per pupil, per class period, per week, per semester. High School and Middle School teachers who are assigned a class which exceeds the maximum standards set forth shall receive $40 per pupil, per semester. The committee’s decision shall not be subject to the grievance procedure. The classroom teacher(s) involved may present his/her case to the committee and to the Board if the committee cannot reach a decision. B. No teacher in the High School shall be required to make more than four preparations per day without mutual agreement of the teacher and the principal. The principal will notify the Association President prior to entering an agreement with the teacher. When any class averages 15 students membership X # or under, it will be reviewed by the administration to determine if the class will continue. C. The Board agrees to continue to make available in each school typing, duplicating, stencil, and mimeograph facilities, and clerical personnel to aid teachers in the preparation of school X instructional material. D. The Board shall provide: 1. A separate desk for each teacher in excess of X days the district 2. Closet space for each teacher to store coat, overshoes, and personal articles, not to be reduced in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limitsfrom present space 3. Any individual with a disabilityChalk board space in every classroom, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall not to be counted as two (2) students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results reduced in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Association.size from present space 4. Teachers shall attend and participate Copies, exclusively for each teacher's use, of all texts used in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section each of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP courses he is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP.teach 5. A collegiate dictionary in every classroom 6. Storage space in each classroom for instructional materials, not to be reduced in size from present space 7. Attendance books, paper, pencils, pens, chalk, erasers, and other such materials required in daily teaching responsibilities as approved by the superintendent 8. Gym and coaching uniforms for physical education teachers, smocks for art and human ecology teachers, laboratory coats for laboratory science teachers, and shop coats for vocational and industrial education teachers, all such items requiring prior approval of the principal 9. Lockable space for each teacher or special education teacherE. Teacher aides will be engaged for nonprofessional duties and responsibilities of teachers, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during provided funds are available. F. Under no condition shall a teacher be required to drive a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourthbus as part of his regular assignment. B. To the extent practicable, the G. The Board will shall make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilitiesrestroom facilities exclusively for teacher use, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, furnished room which shall be reserved for use as a faculty lounge. Provision for such facilities will be made in all future buildings. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relative. D. To the extent practicable, parking H. The present telephone facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated areafor their use, as approved by the building principal. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting teacher shall be charged for all telephone bills incurred for other than approved school business. I. Off-street paved parking facilities will continue to be provided and maintained for school personnel. J. Teachers shall not be required to work under unsafe or hazardous conditions, or to perform tasks which endanger their use by teachers as health, safety, or well being, other than that considered normal for the type of position which they hold. K. The parties acknowledge that the district will have no less than the minimum number of hours of instruction to ensure the district receives all state aid for which it would otherwise be entitled. If hours need to be made up, the Superintendent will consult with the Association leadership in an effort to reach a result mutually agreed upon schedule of any provision added hours. If no mutual agreement is reached within ten (10) workdays from the date of this Agreement and that parking the hours lost, the Board of Education will determine how the hours will be made up. Under no circumstances, however, will hours be added on a Saturday or a Sunday, and the end of the year half-day format will be maintained. The official closing date of the school year will be confirmed through mutual agreement of the Association and the Board by April 15 each school year. Staff In-Service: Additional half-days may be designated for in-service by mutual agreement of the Association and the Board. Such rescheduling shall not affect or otherwise require an adjustment of salary, compensation, or other benefits provided within the collective bargaining agreement. L. Vending machines may be installed and maintained by the Association in the teacher’s own risk 's lounges. Proceeds from such machines shall be donated to a scholarship fund administered by the Laingsburg Education Association. M. The Board and L.E.A. encourage the involvement of loss or damage except as otherwise provided parents and community members in the education of our youth. This involvement may include the visitation of our buildings and classrooms. A meeting will be held by law without regard the building principal and the teacher(s) to the provisions of this Agreementresolve issues that need to be addressed.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize that If there is lack of substitute teachers, a regular teacher may be assigned to teach/monitor during his/her unassigned time. If the primary duty or responsibility teacher is required to forfeit his/her preparation period, he/she shall be compensated at the rate of $25.00 per the standard length of a high school period. In schools where the period of substitution is shorter than the standard length of a high school period the elementary buildings), the substitute pay shall be pro- rated based on the standard high school period. If the elementary teacher is required to forfeit his/her preparation period, he/she shall be compensated at a rate of $16.75 per 30 (thirty) minutes. "Internal Sub" shall include study hall teachers who supervise an absent teacher's class. B. If a teacher shall teach more than a normal teaching load, he shall receive compensation at the rate of one seventh (1/7) of the teacher's salary for each teaching period of each day in excess of such norms. C. A teacher aide shall be employed at the request of the teacher is to teach, and if the Board and the Association consider it to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization of the teachers’ professional teaching skills. The provisions of this Article, however, shall be construed consistent with the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatory. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of studentspupils in a kindergarten class exceeds twenty-three (23) pupils, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to -3 class exceeds twenty-five (25) pupils, and a 4-6 class exceeds thirty (30) pupils. A teacher aide shall be employed at the K-6 level at the request of the teacher if the number of pupils in a combined level class exceeds twenty (20) pupils. The provisions teacher requesting the aide shall be consulted in the final selection of the aide. Should the class diminish below the standards set forth herein above, the teacher aide may be released. For purposes of this Section A. article, special education students mainstreamed into regular K-6 classrooms shall also be included on the student roster for those regular classes when present for one half (1/2) academic school day and counted as one (1) student when computing class size. In departmentalized situations, every effort shall be subject made to assign special education students to the smallest section within a grade, provided that no teacher is assigned thirty (30) or more students for ten (10) hours or more in a week. D. The teacher's professional day shall consist of the time necessary for the teacher to complete his/her professional duties including parent-teacher conferences that are requested one day in advance and are at reasonable exceptions times. E. Building faculty meetings shall be scheduled at the discretion of the building principal; every effort shall be made to limit such meetings either before or after the student school day and deviations during shall not continue past 4:00 p.m. In no event shall the meetings begin before 8:00 a.m. On days when students are not in attendance or have been dismissed early, teachers shall not be required to attend such meetings after 3:00 p.m. Every effort will be made not to hold faculty meetings if a Winter Storm Warning is in effect. F. Every effort will be made to provide space for private conferences with students and/or parents. G. If feasible, a teacher's lounge shall be provided in each building, which is comfortably furnished and cleaned daily. H. If feasible, a teacher's restroom will be provided in each building. I. If feasible, special rooms will be provided for Special Education and Title programs in all schools in Unit Seven. J. The Board will seek to maintain a list of available certified substitute teachers in each of the curricula areas and shall endeavor to utilize the substitutes, whenever possible, based upon their availability. In all cases where a special education teacher or title reading teacher is absent for five (5) consecutive school days, a substitute teacher shall be employed. Substitute teachers shall be employed for all regular classroom teachers. Substitute teachers shall be expected to perform all duties normally performed by the regular teacher. K. Each teacher shall be provided a desk and file cabinet and every attempt shall be made to provide accommodations for storage of teacher's coats and personal articles. L. Whenever possible prior to the first three day of student attendance, but not later than five (35) weeks school days after the first day of student attendance, each semester teacher shall submit to the building principal or other enrollment termsupervisor a list of the numbers of texts and related educational materials reasonably necessary for carrying out the educational program. It is also recognized The Board, in its discretion, shall make every effort to provide the teachers with numbers of texts and related educational materials so requested. M. Prior to the end of the school term each teacher shall be given the opportunity to submit requisitions for instructional materials and supplies for the following school year. The teachers shall have an opportunity to review final requisitions before the end of the school year with their supervisors. N. A ▇▇▇▇▇ cash fund of $100.00 will be provided and maintained at each building for the purchase of non- budgeted materials. O. The calendar shall provide for not more than one hundred eighty (180) teacher work days. P. A teacher shall not be required to work under unsafe or hazardous conditions. Q. The Board recognizes that other exceptions may be desirable whenever in order for a teacher to accomplish his/her job effectively, it is necessary to work with larger numbers have an office in part of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the course. 2. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) students his/her residence for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions preparation, grading papers, storage of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment materials, and other functions related to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Associationpractice of his/her profession. 4R. Every teacher shall be allowed a duty-free lunch in accordance with Section 24-9 of the School Code. S. All teachers shall be given a minimum of thirty (30) consecutive minutes of non-supervisory planning time per day. Teachers This time shall attend and participate be scheduled on a building by building basis. Schedules will be based upon availability of supervisory personnel. Full-time kindergarten teachers will have an additional half-day release from teaching duties in IEP and 504 meetings order to accommodate parents through additional time for conferences. T. Students shall be dismissed after at least five (5) instructional clock hours as legally required. The definition defined by the Illinois State Board of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) Education on the days prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student Thanksgiving vacation and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEPChristmas vacation. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty lounge. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relative. D. To the extent practicable, parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreement.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize that the primary duty or responsibility of the teacher is to teach, and the Board and the Association consider it to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization of the teachers’ professional teaching skills. The provisions of this Article, however, shall be construed consistent with the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatory. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to twenty-five (25) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the course. 2. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership (including longevity) Applicable class X # of school days on school X in excess of maximum X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Association. 4. Teachers shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty lounge. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relative. D. To the extent practicable, parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreement.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties agree that the maximum in the elementary schools shall be equalized whenever practical and should not exceed thirty (30) pupils for grades 3-5. Should it be necessary to exceed the thirty (30) student limit, the teacher shall be compensated at a rate of $140.10 (2018-2019) and $141.50 (2019-2020) per student per hour per class per semester. Class size shall not exceed 33 pupils for grades 3-5 with the exception of PE classes, which shall not exceed 40 students. Due to the fact that elementary specials teachers have seven shorter “periods” rather than “5 hours”, the calculation for additional students will be multiplied by 5/7th to make it equitable. Refer to Appendix G for the formula for both teachers and specials teachers. Class size, K-2 should not exceed 28 pupils. However, should it be necessary to exceed 28 pupils, the teacher will be compensated at the above mentioned rates, to a maximum of 31. Class size shall not exceed 31 students for grades K-2 with the exception of PE classes, which shall not exceed 38 students. After the fall count date, no child should be moved to equalize class size once he has been assigned to a classroom for a reasonable time. B. Special education students who are mainstreamed will be counted for the purposes of determining class size. A mainstreamed student shall be counted at the rate of 1/5 per hour. Students mainstreamed out will be counted as a 1/5 reduction per hour. C. At any time after the Fall count date, if more than the maximum number of pupils are placed in an elementary or special education classroom, CMC should meet within five (5) school days of the placement to discuss the problems and attempt to recommend a solution. This solution and method(s) of implementation by CMC should be carried out by the Board of Education. D. It shall be the responsibility of any teacher in the elementary school whose class load exceeds the maximum number of pupils to report the situation to the Association Representative to expedite further study. E. The parties agree that in the High School and Middle School, with the exception of activity classes a teacher's class load shall not exceed 160 students and shall be equalized to the extent practical. Reasonable attempts shall be made to keep physical education classes at a size less than 40. Should it be necessary to exceed the student limit, the Board will compensate the teacher at a rate of $140.10 (2018-2019) and $141.50 (2019-2020) per student per hour per class per semester. In addition, the parties agree that in the High School and Middle School with the exception of activity classes and online blended learning classrooms, class size should not exceed 36 pupils per class (after the fourth Friday count day each semester). However, should it be necessary to exceed 36 pupils, the teacher will be compensated at a rate of $140.10 (2018-2019) and $141.50 (2019-2020) for each student above the cap of 36 students per class per semester. F. The parties recognize that the primary duty some children who have physical, mental and/or emotional impairments may require special education programs or responsibility of the teacher is to teach, and the Board and the Association consider it to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization of the teachers’ professional teaching skillsservices. The provisions of this Articleparties further recognize that without proper planning and programming, howeverparticularly where the child participates in a regular classroom situation, shall the regular instructional program may be construed consistent with modified and extra demands placed upon the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatoryregular classroom teacher. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to twenty-five (25) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions Teachers may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work involved in IEP Team meetings when a student with larger numbers a disability will be placed in their classroom for the total day or any portion of students, such as for examplethe day, in physical education, band, choir accordance with applicable state and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the coursefederal law. 2. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula Every attempt shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # made to supply the teacher with instructional materials to aid the educational program of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limitswith disabilities according to the child's goals and objectives. 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom Training shall be counted as two (2) provided periodically to instruct the teacher on methods to be used in working with students with disabilities. G. Supervision of students in study hall classes is reserved to certified teachers in cases where students are enrolled in such classes and are not listed on any other class list. In cases where students are removed from class for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in attendance reasons, they can be supervised by a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment non-certified employee and are limited to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Associationsuspension room. 4. Teachers H. The Board shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building adequate school, for faculty use, lavatory facilities and a combination lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room/lounge, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty lounge. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relative. D. To the extent practicable, parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreement.Each lounge may have two

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize that the primary duty or responsibility of the teacher is to teach, and the Board and the Association consider it to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization of the teachers’ professional teaching skills. The provisions of this Article, however, work year for ten (10) month teachers shall be construed consistent with the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by lawone hundred ninety-six (196) days, or the direction four (4) days of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit which shall not be mandatorypaid holidays. 1. Taking into account B. Effective the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students2017-2018 school year, the teacher load workday shall be seven (7) hours and thirty (30) minutes. Each school year the Board shall establish the work schedule, which thereafter shall not change unless the needs of the District clearly require it. C. Effective the 2017-2018 school year, the principal in each school shall establish a rotating duty-free lunch schedule. Said schedule shall allow each teacher to have a duty-free lunch period periodically throughout the year and shall be equitably distributed among the teachers at the worksite. The lunch period shall be no fewer than twenty five (25) minutes. On non-student work days, teachers shall have a one (1) hour duty-free lunch period. D. The Board shall provide one (1) room in each school for use as a faculty work area. E. When school is not in session, to the extent possible, teachers shall be provided access to their classrooms by arranging such access with the principal or his/her designee to provide teachers access to their classroom, a copy machine, and a network printer. ▇▇▇▇ . ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools to a teacher’s class by persons other than School Board members or administrative/district level personnel shall be established allowed only after permission has been granted by the principal or adjusted with designee. Every reasonable dispatch effort will be made to provide notice to the teacher by the end of the school day preceding the visit. G. Teachers shall not be required to work under unsafe or hazardous conditions or to perform tasks which constitute a realistic danger to their health, safety, or well-being. Each teacher shall report in writing to his or her principal any unsafe or hazardous condition upon observation. Upon request, the teacher shall be provided an arithmetic mean update from the principal describing the actions taken, if any. A teacher shall be made aware of any threatening situation made against him or her in a timely manner. H. The Board shall provide such safety clothing and equipment as required by law. I. The principal shall schedule faculty meetings, as deemed necessary, and such meetings shall be as brief and well planned as possible. To the extent possible, there shall be no more than one faculty meeting per month and shall not last more than thirty (30) minutes beyond the work day. Attendance at faculty meetings shall be mandatory except where prior permission for an employee to be absent is granted by the principal. J. Teachers may be required to attend additional meetings beyond the work day for the following events: a. Up to two (2) open houses each school year, lasting no more than two (2) hours in length for each instance b. Graduation exercises at teachers’ respective schools c. Except for Title 1 nights, parent nights that are planned and agreed to by grade/subject team teachers K. Effective the 2017-18 school year, classroom ratio of teachers shall be provided, in addition to any applicable duty free lunch, daily individual lesson planning and preparation time: a. Elementary school: one (1) teacher class period equivalent to twenty-the period scheduled for special area classes. This time shall be at least forty five (2545) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions minutes long unless the planning and deviations during preparation time connected with the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It teaching assignment in the 2016-17 school year is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for exampleshorter, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may said time period shall not be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the coursediminished. 2. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Association. 4. Teachers shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty lounge. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relative. D. To the extent practicable, parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreement.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize that the primary duty or responsibility of the teacher is to teach, and the Board and the Association consider it to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization of the teachers’ professional teaching skills. The provisions of this Article, however, shall be construed consistent with the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatory. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to twenty-five (25) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the course. 2. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Association. 4. Teachers shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty lounge. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relative. D. To the extent practicable, parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreement.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize that the availability of optimum school facilities for both student and teacher is desirable to ensure the high quality of education that is the goal of both teacher and the Board. It is also acknowledged that the primary duty or and responsibility of the teacher is to teachteach and that the organization of the school and the school day should be directed at insuring that the energy of the teacher is primarily utilized to this end. A. The Board recognizes the educational soundness of providing a pupil-teacher ratio of one teacher to 20 pupils in grades BK-K, one teacher to 25 pupils in grades 1-3, and one teacher to 27 pupils in grades 4-5. When possible in grades 6-12, a pupil-teacher ratio of one teacher to no more than 150 pupils per five hour day will be recognized, excluding performing arts sections. Efforts shall be made to enroll an equitable number of students in all sections of classes that are the Board same within a building or the District. Before enrolling additional students resulting in an overload condition in a BK-5 classroom, the Administration shall meet with the Association President and an Elementary Representative to determine if alternative options are more appropriate. Before the start of each 6-12 grade semester, the Association President shall be notified when a pupil-teacher ratio of no more than 150 pupils per five hour day is not possible, excluding performing arts sections. In the event the Administration and the Association consider it are in agreement that the elementary overload condition is the most appropriate option, the affected classroom teacher shall receive overload compensation at the rate of $10 per student enrolled, per day. Classroom teachers with students resulting in an overload condition on a part-time basis shall receive a prorated amount based upon the time the student is enrolled daily. Overload compensation shall be calculated and remunerated to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization the teacher at the conclusion of the teachers’ school year. B. A teacher, who believes that in his professional teaching skillsjudgment a teacher overload condition, as defined herein exists, shall have the right to submit a written request to the building administrator to remedy the condition. The provisions of this Article, however, request shall be construed consistent with include the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatory. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to twenty-five (25) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for examplereasons why, in physical educationhis professional judgment, banda teacher overload condition exists. "Teacher overload" is defined as the assignment of pupils to any teacher, choir which in his professional judgment is in excess of A., above, is excessive and orchestra with respect detrimental to which the student-his effectiveness as a teacher load may be adjusted and poses danger to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board safety and well-being of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the course. 2. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of other students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none the 21St student in grades BK-K, 26th student in grades 1-3 or the 28th student in grades 4-5 has a personal aide, this is not considered an overload. In making the determination that a claim of teacher overload exists, the parties agree that the following factors, among others, shall be taken into consideration: Individual class size; Combined student load; Number of preparations; Number of assignments; Planning and preparation time; Nature of the above learning activities; Professional or paraprofessional assistance; Teaching equipment and materials; Building space and facilities; Nature of students; Nature of course content; Safety of students and staff. The building administrator shall refer the matter to a four (4) member panel, consisting of equal representation of Association and Administrative personnel to determine the validity of the claim. The panel shall consider the request, using the guidelines below, and make a recommendation to the Board. The panel and building administrator shall consider the following guidelines, among others, to remedy the situation: 1. Transfer pupils to other classes; 2. Transfer pupils to other schools; 3. Provide additional professional assistance (part-time certified teacher); 4. Divide the overload into additional groups for teaching purposes; 5. Schedule excess load on a double session basis. The Board agrees that the building administrator shall take the necessary steps are implemented to correct the problem condition according to the Board's decision. In the event the teacher is not satisfied with the disposition, he may lodge a grievance. C. The Board recognizes that appropriate texts, library reference facilities, maps and globes, laboratory equipment, audio-visual equipment, art supplies, athletic equipment, current periodicals, standard tests and questionnaires, and similar materials are the Board determines that it is necessary tools of the teaching profession. A joint teacher and administrative committee will confer from time to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) students time for the purpose of this Articleimproving the selection and use of such educational tools, and will make recommendations for consideration by the Board. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article The Board agrees at all times to keep the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question schools reasonable and the Associationproperly equipped and maintained. 4. Teachers D. The Board shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior attempt to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers during the school day in each school building adequate lunchroomlunch room, restroom, restrooms and lavatory facilities, lounge facilities exclusively for teacher use and at least one room, room appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty lounge. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones in their buildingE. In schools where continuous cafeteria service for teachers is not available, but it is expected that personalvending machines for beverages, non-emergency calls candy, gum, etc. will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming callsinstalled at the request of the Association building representative, the location to be returned determined by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relativebuilding principal. D. To the extent practicable, parking F. Telephone facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated areafor reasonable use, subject to control by the building principal. All long distance calls shall be properly logged and arrangements made for compensation of any phone calls which shall be chargeable to the number involved. G. Adequate parking facilities shall be made available for teachers and shall be reserved for their exclusive use and to the extent it is practicable. H. Notwithstanding their employment, teachers shall be entitled to full rights of citizenship, and no religious or political activities of any teacher, or the lack thereof, shall be grounds for any discipline or discrimination with respect to the professional employment of such teacher. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a result private and personal life of any provision teacher is not within the appropriate concern or attention of this Agreement the Board, provided, however, that any private or personal conduct which becomes public, or a matter of reputation, and that parking will be adversely affects the teacher’s own risk , the schools or the children, shall be an appropriate concern for the attention of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the Board and Association. I. The provisions of this Agreement, and the wages, hours, and conditions of employment shall be applied without regard to race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, marital status or membership in, or association with, the activities of an employee organization. J. Teachers will not be required to offer virtual instruction (streaming and/or self-paced) unless mutually agreed upon through a Letter of Understanding developed between the Escanaba Education Association and the Escanaba Board of Education. This shall not include teachers being assigned as "teachers of record" only.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize that the primary duty or responsibility of the teacher is to teach, and the Board and the Association consider it to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization recognize the desirability of distributing student loads equally among teaching staff. Both parties also understand the teachers’ professional teaching skillsimportance of workable class sizes. The provisions of this Article, however, shall be construed consistent with the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit Class sizes shall not be mandatoryexceed the following maximum by the official State mandated count day in September, and for the second semester, the official State mandated count day in February. Elementary K­1 NO SPLITS K­3 25 1­2 split class 22 2­3 split class 22 3­4 split class 24 4­5 split class 24 4­5 28 6­12 English 30 Foreign Language 30 Math 30 Science 30 Social Studies 30 Technology 30 Art/Drama 30 Phys. Educ. & Health 40 Video Arts 15 M.S. Exploratory 30 At Risk Support Program 20 K­12 Band Distance Learning Special Education 40+ 30 (Include Compass Learning Classes) Enrollment will follow State of Michigan Administrative Rules. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools Class counts shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio by the official state reporting date. New registrants will be accepted after the official reporting date without penalty. The size of the classrooms involved will be balanced within one (1) teacher to twenty-student. No elementary class sizes shall exceed class maximums by more than five (255) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the course. 2. Should any individual In special education inclusion classes, the class size shall not exceed the stated maximums by more than five (5) students. 3. Teachers with more students than the above maximums on the official state reporting date, shall be reimbursed at the rate of $2.00 per hour, per day, for each student over the maximum in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty 7­12, or 6­12 if 6th grade is part of the middle school, (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27excluding all inclusion classes), and $10.00 per day per student in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as elementary grades. Such payment shall be retroactive to the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none first day of the above steps semester and shall be paid for the entire semester. Payment shall be included in the first paycheck following the close of the semester. 4. It is understood that Special Education class sizes are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum guided by State of Michigan administrative rules. These rules mandate specific remedies for class size limitsviolations. Therefore, Paragraph 3 of this article does not apply to special education classes. Special education teachers will be compensated at the following compensation formula rate of $2.00 per nearest contact hour, with the particular student(s) that created the overload, only for those days in which they are out of compliance with the law. A contact hour will be equivalent to the secondary unit, which is the time of one secondary class period. Payment shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # included in the first paycheck following the close of students membership X # the semester. A. The Board recognizes that appropriate texts, library references, facilities, maps, globes, lab equipment, current periodicals, standard tests and questionnaires, and similar materials are the tools of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3the teaching profession. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) students The parties will confer from time to time for the purpose of this Articleselection and use of such educational tools. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Association. 4. Teachers shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would Teachers' recommendations will be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of with final selection by the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourthBoard. B. To the extent practicable, the The Board will make available to teachers provide a teachers' reference library in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnishedin the district, which includes professional publications that are reasonably requested by the teachers. A minimum of $300 will be set aside for district professional library purchases. These materials shall be reserved for use as a faculty loungeaccessible to all teachers. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls A photocopier will be held supplied for teachers' needs in teacher workrooms for the preparation of instructional materials. Also, a computer will be available to a minimumteachers for their professional use. D. The Board shall provide for each teacher: a. A separate desk with lockable drawer space. b. Closet space. c. Exclusive copies of all teachers’ manuals and materials for courses taught. d. Storage space in each classroom for instructional materials. e. Paper, pencils, pens, erasers, dry erase markers and other material required in daily teaching responsibilities. f. Teaching supply budgets which will be calculated at an amount that is not less than $150 per teacher per building. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of guaranteed annual input into these expenditures through a close relativecollaborative budget process. D. To the extent practicableg. Upon request, parking facilities keys for entry to their building. The keys shall be made available obtained from their building principal. In these instances, teachers realize that keys in their possession are for their sole use and that they are responsible for the building's security upon their departure. All entries and departures must be logged on appropriate forms during these times. Failure to teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a follow these procedures could result of any provision in the loss of this Agreement privilege. h. Parking space. i. Lunch room and that parking restroom facilities. j. Telephone facilities for reasonable use. Teachers will be reimburse the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreementdistrict for personal long distance calls.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize the availability of optimum school facilities for both student and teacher is desirable to ensure the high quality of education that is the goal of both the teacher and the Board. It is also acknowledged that the primary duty or and responsibility of the teacher is to teachteach and that the organization of the school and the school day should be directed at ensuring that the energy of the teacher is utilized primarily to this end. At the same time, it is the responsibility of the professional staff to contribute to the community and the teaching profession. Itinerant teachers of art, music, and physical education will collaborate with affected staff and Administration to establish their schedules prior to the Board and the Association consider it to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization beginning of the teachers’ professional teaching skillsschool year. B. Because the teacher-student ratio is an important aspect of an effective educational program, the parties agree that class size shall be determined as follows: In kindergarten, class size shall not exceed twenty-six (26) students without additional pay with the exceptions that follow. The provisions In the early elementary grades (1-4), class size shall not exceed twenty-eight (28) students without additional pay with the exceptions that follow. In the later elementary grades (5-6), class size shall not exceed thirty (30) students without additional pay with the exceptions that follow. In the secondary grades (7-12), class size shall not exceed thirty-two (32) students without extra pay with the exceptions that follow. Students who have been identified, tested, and certified through an individualized education program into a special education program, and who as a result of this Articlesuch evaluation qualify for such programs but cannot be, howeveror have not been placed due to a lack of special program facilities, qualified personnel, and/or due to the feasibility because of parental consent, shall be construed consistent with the necessity equated for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatory. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to twenty-five (25) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the course. 2. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) regular students. The above standard does not include deficiency disabilities such as remedial reading, exclusive of any other learning and/or emotional impairments, and does not include those students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment who have been returned to the contractual limitregular classroom from a special education program, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Association. 4. Teachers shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings who are receiving special education services as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section part of the contractregular classroom instruction. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicablefeasible and pursuant to the requirements of inclusive educational programming and to promote a proper learning environment for those identified by an IEP Team as having special education status for the eligibility categories of LD, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroomEI, restroomor OHI), and lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty lounge. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside an equitable distribution of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relative. D. To the extent practicable, parking facilities students shall be made available within the building, grade, and/or subject which will accommodate the student's schedule and IEP. Students who become continuously disruptive should be re-evaluated as permitted by law as to teachers within a designated areatheir appropriate placement in the general education classroom. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and Administration recognizes that parking the classroom teacher may be faced with different problems when integrating students in accordance with Least Restrictive Environment requirements. Accordingly, assistance will be provided teachers where reasonably possible to better meet the teacher’s own risk needs of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard all students in his/her classroom. The classroom teacher shall be entitled to confer with the Building Principal and/or the Special Education Supervisor regarding the special needs of those students. In situations where students have not been tested but pose management problems, the teacher may refer said student(s) to the provisions Building Principal, who may determine whether to initiate the Response to Intervention (RTI) process. If the RTI process is initiated, teachers will follow the State of Michigan guidelines according to the Lenawee ISD rules as long as they are in compliance with the State guidelines. The parties recognize the importance of advising all teachers who work with or who will work with students who have an IEP and allowing them to attend the student’s IEP Team meeting if feasible. Reasonable efforts will be made to allow the receiving teacher to be present at the student’s IEP Team meeting when the following conditions occur: 1) The receiving teacher's presence is in the best interest of the student; 2) The receiving teacher's presence in the best interests of the student's family; 3) Classroom coverage for the receiving teacher can be suitably arranged without undue disruption; 4) The receiving teacher can be specifically identified; 5) Scheduling complexities allow for the receiving teacher's presence. If determined feasible by the Administration, the number of students shall not exceed the maximums according to this Agreement.Section B without additional pay with the following exceptions:

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize that optimum school facilities within the financial constraints for both student and teacher are desirable to ensure the high quality of education that is the goal of both the Association and the Board. The parties acknowledge that the primary duty or responsibility of the teacher is to teach, teach and that the organization of the school and the Board and school day should be directed toward ensuring that the Association consider it energy of the teacher is primarily utilized to this end. Both parties recognize that in order to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization an effective teacher, one must accept the responsibility of management and control in the teachers’ professional teaching skills. The provisions of this Article, however, shall be construed consistent with classroom as well as in the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatory. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to twenty-five (25) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment termtotal school program. It is also recognized realized by both parties that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers the effective management of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by requires the involvement and cooperation of each staff member. B. The Board of Education agrees to equally distribute students among keep the various sections of the course. 2schools equipped and maintained. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), The staff and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) students building administrator will meet periodically for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions discussing the selection, use, and acquisition of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Associationeducational tools. 4. Teachers shall attend and participate C. All classroom teachers must provide lesson plans that contain general plans for a week in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or datesadvance. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section copy of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating such plans must be on file in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEPprincipal's office. 5. A classroom D. No teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in shall be required to attend more than four (4) IEPs or 504 staff meetings held before or after regular per school hours during a school year, month. An agenda shall be paid $25.00 provided to the staff on the school day prior to such meetings. In the event no agenda is provided, it is assumed that no regular meeting is to be held. All meetings shall be contiguous with the normal teacher workday and shall be no longer than one (1) hour in length. Emergency meetings may be called at any time without the need for each IEP a published agenda to address urgent items which must be communicated directly to the staff and which cannot be adequately dealt with by memo. Emergency meetings will count as one (1) of the four (4) monthly meetings unless they occur after the fourthfourth regular meeting, in which case they shall not be counted. B. To E. Times and locations of all meetings shall be mutually determined by administrators and building representatives. F. Teachers shall either be excused from normal duty time assignments or provided with time during staff meetings to complete tasks related to the extent practicablecollection and summarization of detailed information requested by the administrators. When teachers are directed to assist with the initiation and maintenance of CA 60's (pupil records) they shall either be excused from normal duty time assignments, provided with time during staff meetings, or utilize no more than one (1) hour of time during Teacher Records day to complete such responsibilities. Teachers shall not be required to file report cards in the CA 60 file, attach student pictures to the CA 60 file, record the year-end attendance in the CA 60 file or write their names on the folder or yellow insert of the CA 60 file. G. The Board will shall make available to teachers in on each school building site, adequate lunchroom, restroom, adequate rest room and adequate lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which facilities for teacher use. Provision for such facilities shall be reserved for use as a faculty loungemade in all future buildings. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relative. D. To the extent practicable, parking H. Telephone facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated areafor their use in the teachers' lounge. I. Adequate paved and lighted parking facilities shall be provided and maintained and identified for employee use during regular school hours. J. Teachers shall not be required to work under unsafe or hazardous conditions, or to perform tasks that endanger their health, safety, or well-being. The parties agree that cleanliness of the buildings and facilities are essential to quality education and the health of the students and employees. A Health and Safety Committee shall be formed comprised of at least one HEA-appointed member from each building. The Committee shall be charged with development of a process for reporting unclean or unsafe conditions and incidents in buildings, and a system for monitoring follow up and resolution of such reports, which shall include regular meetings of the Committee to monitor ongoing progress. An initial meeting of the committee shall be convened by administration no later than October 1, 2008. K. The Board assumes agrees at all times to maintain a list of substitute teachers. Teachers shall be informed of telephone number (s) they are to call to report pending absences. Teachers are to report the pending absence as early as possible. A teacher shall be required to report a pending absence no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or later than 60 minutes prior to his normal starting time. Teachers shall not be responsible for arranging for substitute teachers, but may do so voluntarily with the permission of the building administrator. L. In the event the predominant temperature in the area of a classroom where the students and teachers are located for instructional activities falls below 65 degrees, the administration will promptly make an effort to have the temperature restored. In the event the temperature cannot be restored to at least 65 degrees by the beginning of the next school day, the administration will make an effort to relocate the class to an alternative place in the building suitable for conducting the class if one is available. M. Whenever Alternative Education teachers are required to supervise in-school suspension students in addition to their use by teachers as duties in the Alternative Education Program, a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking full-time aide will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard assigned to the provisions program. N. Beginning in the 2008-09 school year, the District shall allocate a sum of this Agreement$1,750 to each building in which general education classroom teachers are required to administer one- on-one assessments to all students they are required to evaluate. The funds shall be allocated in a manner agreed upon by a committee of the affected teachers and the building principal to provide instructional time coverage in the classroom while the teacher administers the assessments. O. Teachers shall not be required to administer medications to students on a regular basis. In the case of an emergency or under special circumstances, teachers may be required to administer medications if proper procedures are in place and the teacher has been appropriately trained. Proper procedures include compliance with applicable laws as well as school district policies and protocol. In the event a teacher feels s/he has not been appropriately trained or that proper procedures are not in place, the teacher shall report such concern to the immediate supervisor who shall take appropriate measures to address the concerns.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize the availability of optimum school facilities for both student and teacher is desirable to insure the high quality of education that is the goal of both the teacher and the Board. It is also acknowledged that the primary duty or and responsibility of the teacher is to teachteach and that the organization of the school and the school day should be directed at insuring that the energy of the teacher is utilized primarily to this end. At the same time, it is the responsibility of the professional staff to contribute to the community and the teaching profession. Itinerant teachers of art, music, and P.E. will collaborate with affected staff and Administration to establish their schedules prior to the Board and the Association consider it to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization beginning of the teachers’ professional teaching skillsschool year. B. Because the teacher-pupil ratio is an important aspect of an effective educational program, the parties agree that class size shall be determined as follows: In kindergarten, class size shall not exceed twenty-six (26) pupils without additional pay with the exceptions that follow. The provisions In the early elementary grades (1-4), class size shall not exceed twenty-eight (28) pupils without additional pay with the exceptions that follow. In the later elementary grades (5-6), class size shall not exceed thirty (30) pupils without additional pay with the exceptions that follow. In the secondary grades (7-12), class size shall not exceed thirty-two (32) pupils without extra pay with the exceptions that follow. Students who have been identified, tested, and certified through an individual education program into a special education program, and who as a result of this Articlesuch evaluation qualify for such programs but cannot be, howeveror have not been placed due to a lack of special program facilities, qualified personnel, and/or due to the feasibility because of parental consent, shall be construed consistent with the necessity equated for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatory. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to twenty-five (25) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the course. 2. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) regular students. The above does not include deficiency handicaps such as remedial reading, exclusive of any other learning and/or emotional impairments, and does not include those students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment who have been returned to the contractual limitregular classroom from a special education program, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable who are receiving special education services as part of the regular classroom instruction. Pursuant to the teacher requirements of mainstreaming and to promote a proper learning environment for those identified as Special Education (i.e. L.D., E.I., E.M.I., POHI) by an I.E.P.T., an equitable distribution of such students shall be made within the building, grade and/or subject which will accommodate the student's schedule. Students who become continuously disruptive should be re-evaluated in question and regards to their placement in the Association. 4. Teachers shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally requiredgeneral education classroom. The definition Administration recognizes that the classroom teacher may be faced with different problems when integrating students in accordance with Least Restrictive Environment requirements. Accordingly, assistance will be provided teachers where reasonably possible to better meet the needs of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior all students in his/her classroom. The classroom teacher shall be entitled to or following confer with the actual IEP meeting. Each Building Principal and/or the Special Education Supervisor regarding the special needs of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary students. In situations where students have not been tested but pose management problems, the teacher may refer said student(s) to the Building Administrator, call for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section an evaluation of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or situation within one (1) regular education secondary week of the referral, and action shall be taken to establish a date for the evaluation. In referring students for evaluation by I.S.D. personnel, teachers will follow the State of Michigan guidelines according to the I.S.D. rules as long as they are in compliance with the State. In case of emergency, the rules may be waived. The parties recognize the importance of advising all teachers who work with or who will work with the students of an I.E.P.T. and allowing them to attend the I.E.P.T. if at all possible. Reasonable efforts will be made to allow the receiving teacher to be present at I.E.P.T. meetings when the following conditions occur: 1) The receiving teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating 's presence is in the IEP.best interest of the student; 2) The receiving teacher's presence in the best interests of the student's family; 3) Classroom coverage for the receiving teacher can be suitably arranged without undue disruption; 4) The receiving teacher can be specifically identified; 5) Scheduling complexities allow for the receiving teacher's presence. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, In all schools the number of students shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after not exceed the fourth. B. To maximums according to this Section B without additional pay with the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty lounge. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relative. D. To the extent practicable, parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreement.following exceptions:

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize that optimum school facilities for both students and teachers are designed to ensure the high quality of education that is the goal of both the Association and the Board. It is also acknowledged that the primary duty or and responsibility of the teacher is to teach, and that the organization of the school and the school day should be directed toward insuring that the energy of the teacher is primarily utilized to this end. A. The pupil-teacher ratio, when teaching to the individual differences of the child, is an important aspect of an effective educational program. The parties agree that a class size will be maintained as follows: 1. Class size in the elementary school shall not exceed 30 students per self- contained classroom. 2. Class size in the middle and high school shall not exceed 190 student contacts per day. There shall be no more than 35 per class period. 3. Class size shall not exceed 45 students per teacher in physical education. Nothing contained herein shall limit special large classes (i.e., band, choir) and experimental instruction classes jointly agreed to by the Board and the Association consider it Association. The number of special education students assigned to a teacher of record in any self- contained classroom in the elementary school shall be equalized. The number of special education students in middle and high school shall not exceed eight (8) per class. The foregoing limits may be exceeded when a desirable objective co-teacher, certified in special education, is assigned to make maximum utilization the classroom or if mutually agreed, a paraprofessional may be assigned to the classroom. Every effort will be made to equalize the number of special education students placed in any self-contained classroom or section in the secondary grades, prior to the first student day of the teachers’ professional teaching skillsschool year, or if mutually agreed thereafter. The provisions For the purposes of this Article, howeverthe official tally for class size will be the 1st official count day of the school year, as determined by the State of Michigan. If the class limits are exceeded at any time following the count day, the Association and the affected teacher(s) will sit down with the Administration to determine a resolution. For the purpose of class size count in self-contained classrooms, all students who appear on the regular classroom teacher’s attendance roll shall be construed consistent with the necessity counted as full time students except for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated those students for personal benefit shall not be mandatory. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, which the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch is not responsible to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to twenty-five (25) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the course. 2. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solutiongrade. In the event that none case of an overage as of the above steps are implemented first official count day of the school year, the average will be paid out to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum teacher at a rate of $4 per day, per student over class size limits, count for the following compensation formula shall balance of the year that there continues to be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership X # of school X an overage. B. Any teacher who will be providing instructional or other services to a handicapped student in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom setting shall be counted invited, in writing, to participate in the Individual Educational Planning Committee (IEPC) which may initially place (or continue the placement of) the student in a regular education classroom. Whenever possible, such written notification will be made five (5) school days prior to the IEPC. Individual teachers may need to attend the IEPC at different times so that one substitute can be utilized for the release time necessary for each teacher to attend. At the time of the IEPC meeting at which the handicapped or medically fragile student is placed in a classroom, there shall be a teacher consultant assigned to the student (if one has not already been assigned). Medically fragile students are those who are chronically ill and/or medical-technology dependent, and/or who have life-threatening conditions that require immediate medical attention. Prior to placement the teacher consultant will advise the teacher regarding the problems presented by the student’s handicap or medical coeditor and instructional and behavioral management of the student. If a teacher consultant is not assigned and the teacher perceives the need for training and/or assistance in dealing with the student, the teacher may communicate the need for additional training to the building administrator and the Special Education Director. Within ten (10) school days a meeting shall be held, attended by the teacher, teacher consultant, the principal (or designee) and the Director of Special Education to decide if additional training and/or assistance is required, and the manner and/or content of additional training and/or assistance to be provided. Teachers will not be required to administer tracheotomy suctioning, catheterization (including clean intermittent catheterization) or tube feeding to students. Prior to the classroom placement of a student who requires one or more of these procedures, the teacher will be advised in writing regarding how to handle emergencies that might arise as two (2) students a result of the student’s condition. C. The Board recognizes that appropriate books, supplies, and equipment are the tools of the teaching profession. The parties will confer from time to time for the purpose of this Article. If improving the selection and use of such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article educational tools and the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment undertakes promptly to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question implement all joint decisions thereon made by its representatives and the Association. 4. Teachers shall attend D. The Board and participate the Administration mutually recognize the importance of continuous use of adequate teaching reference materials in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition maintaining a high level of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contractprofessional performance. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option furtherance of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicablethat recognition, the Board will shall provide a teacher reference library in the district and include therein all texts, which are reasonably requested by the teachers. E. The Board agrees to make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroomtyping, restroomduplicating, and lavatory facilitiesword processing facilities and clerical personnel to aid teachers in the preparation of instructional materials. F. The Board shall provide: 1. A separate desk for each teacher in the district with a lockable drawer space. 2. Suitable closet space for each teacher to store coats, overshoes, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty loungepersonal articles. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones 3. Adequate whiteboard space in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relativeevery classroom. D. To the extent practicable, parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreement.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. 11.1 The Association encourages its members as responsible citizens and as sound "P.R.", to participate in worthwhile community appeals. However, it is understood that no bargaining unit member shall be required to contribute to any building or community solicitation for funds. 11.2 The Board of Education shall provide a principal or administrator for each building in the district. 11.3 The Board of Education may require a complete physical examination by a fully licensed physician approved by the Board when the attendance to duty of the person under contract is held in serious question by his immediate superior and upon the recommendation of the Superintendent. The expense of this examination will be paid by the school district. 11.4 All pupil purchase items must be approved by the building principal and in compliance with curriculum and related policy. Since the cost of a student's attendance at school is very demanding to many parents, pupil purchase items in any class must be held to a minimum. 11.5 The formula for class size and teacher aides shall be as follows: A. The parties recognize that the primary duty or responsibility of the teacher is administration shall make every reasonable effort to teach, and the Board and the Association consider it to be have a desirable objective to make maximum utilization of the teachers’ professional teaching skills. The provisions of this Article, however, shall be construed consistent with the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatory. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to no more than twenty-five (25) pupilsstudents to one teacher in kindergarten. The provisions of this Section A. One (1) licensed, paid aide shall be subject provided for each building and will be shared equally with all kindergarten teachers in that building. Load will be balanced to the degree possible. B. The administration shall make every reasonable exceptions effort to have a ratio of no more than twenty-five (25) students to one teacher in grades 1-3. Load will be balanced to the degree possible. C. The administration shall make every reasonable effort to have a ratio of no more than twenty-five (25) students to one teacher in grades 4-6. Load will be balanced to the degree possible. D. Special education and deviations during preschool classes will be of a size in keeping with state and federal guidelines. E. Secondary class size and load will be balanced to the first degree possible and every effort shall be made to keep the ratio of no more than thirty-three (333) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary students to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the courseone teacher. 2. Should any individual class F. The number of students in grades Young 5’s a given teaching situation will not exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average number of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solutionteaching stations. In the event a teacher does not have enough teaching stations, the Superintendent shall provide additional stations upon notification by the teacher. The ratios in A through E shall include all special education students assigned to the respective grade level. G. Every effort will be made to see that none the number of students in a study hall should not exceed 40:1. If available, by-assignment teachers will be assigned to study halls in addition to the regular study hall teacher for the first two weeks of each semester. H. A class size list containing the actual number of students in each class will be distributed to the Association president and members of the above steps are implemented Superintendent's Advisory Committee no later than October 30 of each school year. Any middle school and high school classroom, except choir, band, physical education and study halls, that exceeds 35 students and any elementary class room, except art, music, and physical education, that exceeds 32 students will be offered a student teacher or an aide. I. The administration shall make every reasonable effort to correct transfer elementary students to insure equitable distribution among classes/bargaining unit members. J. Art, music and physical education classes shall not exceed forty (40) students unless mutually agreed by the problem member and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum Board. When determining class size limitsfor specials, consideration will be made for available space within each building for such classes. Section 11.5 (H) shall not be applicable. Principals will work closely with art, music, and physical education teachers in a building in order to make sure of the best possible scheduling of students, and that adequate equipment is provided for the students. 11.6 When a personal emergency for a bargaining unit member exists, the following compensation formula principal or person in charge shall notify the bargaining unit member immediately. 11.7 Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, the length of the bargaining unit members' work day shall not exceed seven and one-half (7½) hours. The teacher work day is NOT contingent upon the students’ day. This includes a thirty (30) minute lunch period which will be determined by scheduling in each individual building. Unless otherwise specified in this Agreement, the day shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # continuous from the required beginning time to the end of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3the day. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom There shall be counted a uniform number of teaching hours in the elementary schools, as two (2) students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Associationnearly as possible. 411.8 In-day conference or planning time shall be in compliance with the Ohio Elementary and Secondary School Standards. Teachers This time shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would not be considered separate meetings if necessary time for one student travel for multi-school assignments. A. All bargaining unit members, including specialists, shall be provided at least forty (40) minutes of continuous planning time. Such planning time shall be free of scheduled students and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered assigned duties. B. Bargaining unit members are responsible for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such PLC/TBT/BLT functions as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating assigned in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty loungeindividual buildings. C. Teachers 1. Bargaining unit members may volunteer to substitute for another bargaining unit member during planning time. In the case of an extreme emergency, a bargaining unit member may be required to substitute during planning time no more than once per semester. This includes libraries and similar circumstances in elementary schools. No bargaining unit member shall be permitted required to place outgoing non-toll calls on substitute when said bargaining unit member is scheduled to have a class assignment of his/her own unless he/she volunteers to “double up” the office telephones in their buildingclasses. This teacher is eligible for the fifteen dollars ($15.00) per period (or 40 minutes at the elementary level), but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held not to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by exceed the daily substitute teacher outside daily rate of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relativepay. D. To the extent practicable, parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreement.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize that the primary duty or responsibility of the teacher is to teach, and the Board and the Association consider it to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization of the teachers’ professional teaching skills. The provisions of this Article, however, shall be construed consistent with the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatory. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to twenty-five (25) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the course. 2. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 DK-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades grades 3-5 6 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: Teacher’s annual salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership (including longevity) X # of school 1 X in excess of X membership Applicable class # of school maximum days in Applicable class size limit days on school maximum class size limit limits calendar class limitsThe above formula shall be applied to grade 6 by adding the factor of 1/5. The above shall not apply to such classes as physical education, band, orchestra and vocal music. 3. Any individual with a disabilityhandicapped person, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Association. 4. Teachers shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty lounge. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relative. D. To the extent practicable, parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreement.two

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties agree that the maximum in the elementary schools shall be equalized whenever practical and should not exceed thirty (30) pupils for grades 3-5. Should it be necessary to exceed the thirty (30) student limit, the teacher shall be compensated at a rate of $139.40 per student per hour per class per semester. Class size shall not exceed 33 pupils for grades 3-5. Class size, K-2 should not exceed 28 pupils. However, should it be necessary to exceed 28 pupils, the teacher will be compensated at the above mentioned rates, to a maximum of 31. Class size shall not exceed 31 students for grades K-2. After the fall count date, no child should be moved to equalize class size once he has been assigned to a classroom for a reasonable time. B. Special education students who are mainstreamed will be counted for the purposes of determining class size. A mainstreamed student shall be counted at the rate of 1/5 per hour. Students mainstreamed out will be counted as a 1/5 reduction per hour. C. At any time after the Fall count date, if more than the maximum number of pupils are placed in an elementary or special education classroom, CMC should meet within five (5) school days of the placement to discuss the problems and attempt to recommend a solution. This solution and method(s) of implementation by CMC should be carried out by the Board of Education. D. It shall be the responsibility of any teacher in the elementary school whose class load exceeds the maximum number of pupils to report the situation to the Association Representative to expedite further study. E. The parties agree that in the High School and Middle School with the exception of activity classes, a teacher's class load shall not exceed 160 students and shall be equalized to the extent practical. Reasonable attempts shall be made to keep physical education classes at a size less than 40. Should it be necessary to exceed the student limit, the Board will compensate the teacher at a rate of $139.40 per student per hour per class per semester. F. The parties recognize that the primary duty some children who have physical, mental and/or emotional impairments may require special education programs or responsibility of the teacher is to teach, and the Board and the Association consider it to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization of the teachers’ professional teaching skillsservices. The provisions of this Articleparties further recognize that without proper planning and programming, howeverparticularly where the child participates in a regular classroom situation, shall the regular instructional program may be construed consistent with modified and extra demands placed upon the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatoryregular classroom teacher. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to twenty-five (25) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions Teachers may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work involved in IEP Team meetings when a student with larger numbers a disability will be placed in their classroom for the total day or any portion of students, such as for examplethe day, in physical education, band, choir accordance with applicable state and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the coursefederal law. 2. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula Every attempt shall be instituted: salary schedule amount 1 # made to supply the teacher with instructional materials to aid the educational program of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limitswith disabilities according to the child's goals and objectives. 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom Training shall be counted as two (2) provided periodically to instruct the teacher on methods to be used in working with students with disabilities. G. Supervision of students in study hall classes is reserved to certified teachers in cases where students are enrolled in such classes and are not listed on any other class list. In cases where students are removed from class for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in attendance reasons, they can be supervised by a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment non-certified employee and are limited to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Associationsuspension room. 4. Teachers H. The Board shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building adequate school, for faculty use, lavatory facilities and a combination lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room/lounge, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty lounge. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relative. D. To the extent practicable, parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreement.Each lounge may have two

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. Section 1: The parties recognize that the availability of optimum school facilities for both student and teacher is desirable to insure the high quality of education that is the goal of both the teacher and the Board. It is also acknowledged that the primary duty or and responsibility of the teacher is to teach, teach and that the organization of the school and the Board and school day should be directed at insuring that the Association consider it to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization energy of the teachers’ professional teaching skills. The provisions of teacher is primarily utilized to this Article, however, shall be construed consistent with the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatoryend. 1. Taking into account Section 2: To the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of studentsextent possible and/or practical, the teacher load Board agrees at all times to keep the schools safe, reasonably and properly equipped, cleaned and maintained. Section 3: The Board shall provide in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of each building, where physical facilities permit, at least one (1) teacher to twenty-five (25) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions teachers' work room equipped with large table or tables, and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as space for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the coursea professional library. 2. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be institutedSection 4: salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership X # of school X in excess of X days in Applicable class days on school maximum class size limit calendar class limits 3. Any individual with a disability, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Association. 4. Teachers shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty lounge. C. Teachers shall be permitted provided with parking facilities separated from student parking. Section 5: Because the pupil-teacher ratio is an important aspect of an effective educational program, the parties agree that class size should be lowered wherever necessary and possible. Ideal class size for K-3 12 is 20 22 or fewer students. Above this primary level, ideal class size is 25 students. Realistic attempts should be made to place outgoing nonachieve these goals as financial and other conditions, as determined by the Board, may allow. If the number of students in any K-3 classroom exceeds 23, or 27 in grades 4-toll calls 5, the teacher will be provided with an aide upon request. The teacher and principal shall mutually agree upon who the aide will be and make a recommendation to the superintendent. However, in the event an aide is on the office telephones layoff, that person shall be recalled. Section 6: All principals may, at their discretion, designate another certified employee, excluding guidance personnel, to act as "emergency principal" in their buildingabsence. Section 7: The administration shall provide necessary information about students assigned to the teacher’s class, but it is expected that personalsuch as, non-emergency calls tether, probation, etc. Section 8: Teacher publishing of web pages and web boards shall be encouraged and training will be held to a minimumprovided. Teachers will be given “make regular updates appropriate to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relativecourse content. D. To the extent practicable, parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreement.

TEACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize that the primary duty or responsibility of the teacher is to teach, and the Board and the Association consider it to be a desirable objective to make maximum utilization of the teachers’ professional teaching skills. The provisions of this Article, however, shall be construed consistent with the necessity for teachers to maintain customary records pertaining to their work as required by law, or the direction of the Administration. Surveys initiated for personal benefit shall not be mandatory. 1. Taking into account the availability of teachers, funds, facilities and number of students, the teacher load in ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Schools shall be established or adjusted with reasonable dispatch to an arithmetic mean classroom ratio of one (1) teacher to twenty-five (25) pupils. The provisions of this Section A. shall be subject to reasonable exceptions and deviations during the first three (3) weeks of each semester or other enrollment term. It is also recognized that other exceptions may be desirable whenever it is necessary to work with larger numbers of students, such as for example, in physical education, band, choir and orchestra with respect to which the student-teacher load may be adjusted to the size that can be accommodated in the school facilities. This adjustment shall have particular emphasis with respect to physical education classes where all reasonable steps shall be taken by the Board of Education to equally distribute students among the various sections of the course. 2. Should any individual class in grades Young 5’s exceed twenty (20), K exceed twenty-four (24), Grades 1-2 DK-2 exceed twenty-seven (27), and in Grades grades 3-5 thirty (30), as well as the average of 30 in Grades 6-12 (i.e. max of 150 at MS and 120 at HS while on trimesters), the Board shall immediately take all reasonable steps to correct the problem, including the possibility of a different class location of students, the hiring of additional teachers, or any other mutually acceptable solution. In the event that none of the above steps are implemented to correct the problem and the Board determines that it is necessary to exceed the above maximum class size limits, the following compensation formula shall be instituted: Teacher’s annual salary schedule amount 1 # of students membership (including longevity) X # of school 1 X in excess of X membership Applicable class # of school maximum days in Applicable class size limit days on school maximum class size limit limits calendar class limitsThe above formula shall be applied to grade 6 by adding the factor of 1/5. The above shall not apply to such classes as physical education, band, orchestra and vocal music. 3. Any individual with a disabilityhandicapped person, IEPC identified as emotionally impaired, mainstreamed into a regular education classroom shall be counted as two (2) students for the purpose of this Article. If such mainstreaming results in a class enrollment that violates provisions of this Article the Board will: a. reduce the enrollment to the contractual limit, or b. provide a remedy which is acceptable to the teacher in question and the Association. 4. Teachers shall attend and participate in IEP and 504 meetings as legally required. The definition of an IEP meeting includes any team meeting(s) prior to or following the actual IEP meeting. Each of those meetings would be considered separate meetings if necessary for one student and occur at different times and/or dates. A 504 meeting is also considered for compensation under this section of the contract. In addition, any teacher whose referral results in an IEP shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. When an IEP is going to consider mainstreaming an identified student with a disability, the regular education elementary teacher or one (1) regular education secondary teacher, such as the case may be, shall have the option of attending and participating in the IEP. 5. A classroom teacher or special education teacher, who fittingly attends and participates in more than four (4) IEPs or 504 meetings held before or after regular school hours during a school year, shall be paid $25.00 for each IEP after the fourth. B. To the extent practicable, the Board will make available to teachers in each school building adequate lunchroom, restroom, and lavatory facilities, and at least one room, appropriately furnished, which shall be reserved for use as a faculty lounge. C. Teachers shall be permitted to place outgoing non-toll calls on the office telephones in their building, but it is expected that personal, non-emergency calls will be held to a minimum. Teachers will be given “to call” messages on incoming calls, to be returned by the teacher outside of classroom hours, but will be given immediate opportunity to return calls relating to grave emergencies, such as death or serious illness or injury of a close relative. D. To the extent practicable, parking facilities shall be made available to teachers within a designated area. The Board assumes no new additional liability respecting parking facilities or their use by teachers as a result of any provision of this Agreement and that parking will be the teacher’s own risk of loss or damage except as otherwise provided by law without regard to the provisions of this Agreement.two