APPENDIX B INCENTIVES

East Providence School District

1. Incentive Plan – Advanced Degrees

All teachers doing graduate work on a formal program for a Master’s Degree, 6th Year Diploma (C.A.G.S.) or Doctorate at any accepted institution or work towards National Teacher Certification shall receive nine hundred twenty-one dollars ($921).

Positions under Appendices C through I shall be appointed on an annual basis. No member of the bargaining unit shall be removed except for just cause.

2. Certification Needs

The School Committee will establish a list of its present and, if known, future certification needs. Said list will be shared with the Association annually.

3. National Teacher Certification

Teachers who have achieved National Teacher Certification shall receive two thousand one hundred fifty-three dollars ($2,153).

4. Chaperones Secondary Schools

Teachers requested by the Principal to serve as Chaperones for away from home athletic activities or music activities will be paid fifty dollars ($50.00). This payment shall include travel time, providing he/she is not receiving any other payment for the activity involved. On overnight trips, the teachers shall be paid for actual time worked. All such requests must have prior approval of the Superintendent of Schools.

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Safety Patrol-Teachers who supervise safety patrols shall be paid as follows:

1. Schools with less than 500 students: 818
2. Schools with more than 500 students: 963

Principals shall not be eligible for this payment.

6. Summer School

Each teacher who works in the secondary summer school shall be paid forty-two dollars ($42.00) per hour.

7. Adult Education

Each teacher who works in the Adult Education School (Monday and/or Tuesday evenings) shall be paid at the rate of fifty-six dollars and thirty- seven cents ($56.37) per two-hour class.

8. Athletic Personnel

The Athletic Director will be:

1. Directly responsible to the Superintendent

2. Evaluated by the Superintendent

Upon vacancy in the Athletic Director’s position, it shall be removed from the collective bargaining unit.

Once the position comes out of the bargaining unit, any future Athletic Director who is hired to the position from a collective bargaining unit position shall have the option to return to the unit as a certified teacher and his/her seniority shall be restored if he/she resigns or is removed from the Athletic Director position.

Athletic Personnel shall receive coaching payments within fifteen (15) days of the completion of the season and all related duties. The Athletic Director shall sign that all requirements have been completed by said athletic personnel and the fifteen (15) days shall be calculated from said date of his signature.

Middle School Athletics