ARTICLE 5 PREPARATION/NONTEACHING PERIODS

Barrington School District

SECTION 1 Teachers shall, in addition to their lunch period, have one preparation/ non-teaching period per day. Any scheduled preparation/non-teaching periods which are preempted by closure for holidays, vacations, emergencies, late openings, in-service staff development or other release time activities shall be waived.

SECTION 2.Preparation/non-teaching periods shall be primarily and normally used for the purpose of, but not limited to, preparing lesson plans or materials, correcting papers, conferring with students, parents, colleagues, administering, or performing other professional activities. All of the above are at the teacher's discretion.

SECTION 3. Teachers at the Middle School and the High School shall not be assigned more than twenty-five (25) teaching periods and up to five (5) administrative periods per week.

SECTION 4. A class schedule for all secondary school teachers shall be posted within each respective secondary school.

SECTION 5. Whenever possible, Individualized Education Program (IEP) conferences will not be scheduled to occur during a teacher's preparation period.

SECTION 6. Teachers may be required to attend a maximum often (10) faculty meetings per year, which will normally have a maximum duration of one (1) hour. Such faculty meetings shall be scheduled to commence at the end of the students' school day, except at the High School and Middle School, where they may be held before the students' day.
Adequate notice and an agenda should be provided for faculty meetings.

SECTION 7. All teachers shall participate in meetings devoted to collaborative common planning time for a minimum of forty-five (45) minutes twice per month. Teacher leaders and their teams shall design the content of such common planning time, subject to oversight by building administrators.

SECTION 8. Teachers who are requested and agree to attend in-service training after their workday shall be compensated at the curriculum rate as set forth in Appendix B.

SECTION 9. A teacher will notify the school office whenever they leave the building during the school day.