AFTER SCHOOL RESPONSIBILITIES

23.01 Teachers shall not be required to remain for time beyond the regular day except as follows:

a. building faculty meetings or district-wide meetings shall not normally be held more than once a month and shall not normally last more than 45 minutes. The agenda will be made available to the teachers at least one day prior to the meetings, whenever possible.

b. Departmental meetings shall not normally be held more than once each month and shall not normally last more than one hour.

c. Those who must attend more than 20 Department and or Faculty meetings per year shall be compensated for attendance at the meetings beyond the 20 at the prevailing chaperone rate.

d. all teachers assigned to grades k-12 shall provide sixty (60) minutes of extra help per week. any time in excess of 30 minutes per week shall be scheduled at the discretion of the teacher, provided that students and parents are notified of the available time in a timely manner.

e.1 attendance at “open house night” and similar community attended functions shall not be required more than twice each school year. such attendance shall not exceed two hours and thirty minutes and shall not be for the purpose of chaperoning students.

e.2 all k-12 teachers will attend up to four (4) evening parent conferences or other such evening activities annually without additional remuneration as determined by the superintendent or his/her designee. Parent conference requirements for sixth grade teachers will be the same as those for other middle school level teachers. The fourth evening may not exceed two hours in duration without remuneration.

e.3 any cTa member required to attend more than four evening events (i.e. curriculum night, science fair, additional conferences at another school.) will be compensated as prescribed in the contract for evening events. This will not apply to those already being compensated for attendance at evening events. each building administration will determine which evening meetings are mandatory and inform the staff of it. staff who volunteer to attend evening meetings beyond the four mandatory meetings will not be remunerated for such attendance.

e.4 attendance at evening conferences will count as required evening events. Parents and teachers will be given notice of these dates. all appointments for evening conferences must be pre-arranged. only those teachers who have appointments for parent conferences will be required to be in attendance during those evenings.

e.5 a nurse shall not be required to attend more than two “open house nights” or similar functions in each school year unless compensated as in 5.01c.

f. a teacher assigned to more than one building will not be required to perform after school responsibilities in excess of the responsibilities of a teacher in one building.

g. eighth grade homeroom teachers will be required to attend the evening stepping up exercises as one of their four required evening events.

h. all teachers will be required to attend up to (12) hours of staff development annually. classes will be offered before or after school and/or for no more than a (3) hour duration on saturdays. Payment will be made to teachers employed as of

February 25, 1999, at the rate indicated in 5.09 of this agreement. Teachers hired after February 25, 1999 will be required to attend these staff development workshops with no remuneration.

a workshop schedule shall be promulgated no less than thirty (30) calendar days in advance of each workshop offering. Teachers will have a choice of workshops to the extent they are offered and appropriate for the grade level or subject area they teach.

i. After the first two weeks of school, staff should be entitled to remuneration for time spent beyond their normal workday for late dismissals resulting from transportation problems. it is therefore agreed that teachers required to remain for up to ten minutes beyond their normal workday on a given day will not be paid until they have been required to remain for up to ten minutes three or more times in one month. They will then be paid at the prevailing chaperone rate for one-half hour. The same method of calculating the rate of pay will pertain to the second half-hour. Therefore, if a teacher must remain for 35 minutes on a given day, s/he will be paid at the prevailing rate for the first thirty minutes and not paid for the remaining five minutes unless or until this occurs three times in any month. Volunteers will be sought. if no volunteers are available, the building principal may select the required number of staff members to perform the necessary supervision. Professional periods are not to be diminished due to teachers’ involvement with students due to late buses.

23.02 building principals will consult with the cTa in the selection of teacher security personnel. The selection of teacher security personnel will be determined by the building principal and will be restricted to a limited number of candidates to maintain continuity in performance and service. The parties will review the functioning of the security teacher program periodically. The rate of pay will be as follows:

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11

$30.79 $31.80 $32.88

23.03 The cTa and the District agree that technology can improve instruction. both parties encourage teachers to make use of technology such as the district sponsored eboard. eboards, though encouraged, remain voluntary.

23.04 The cTa acknowledges the District’s right to limit the use of the district email system for professional purposes only. cTa members are encouraged to use the cTa webpage, www.commackTa.org, or cTa member’s newsletter for member to member advertising purposes.

23.05 cTa and District agree that a committee should be formed to study the emerging use of online courses and make recommendations to the bargaining committees for subsequent negotiations. any online course that is offered within this contract must occur after school hours; a teacher must attend and be compensated at the review class rate set out in article Xi, 11(h) of this agreement.

ARTICLE XXIV