ARTICLE 20 - PROFESSIONAL EVENING ACTIVITIES

West Warwick School District

Section 1: Teachers will not be required to attend more than three (3) professional evening meetings or activities without additional compensation.

(a) Professional evening activities shall be chosen from school department sanctioned activities of an educational nature prepared by the principal at the beginning of the school year and must be assigned to teachers no later than October 1.

(b) It is the principal’s prerogative to specify certain nights for certain teachers. Such meetings shall not be longer than two and a half (2.5) hours in duration.

(c) Teachers desiring assignment to specific activities may make such request to the principal in writing.

Section 2: As an alternative to Subsections (a) (b) & (c) hereinabove the Superintendent may elect to implement the following terms concerning professional evening activities.

(a) At least one such meeting shall not be longer than two and a half (2.5) hours in duration to accommodate an open house for parents in each school building. Either one or both of the following two evening activities will be used to conduct parent/teacher conferences that shall begin after the early, half-day release of students.

(b) The schedules for such extended parent/teacher conferences shall include two (2), forty-five (45) minute lunch and dinner breaks for teachers and shall conclude no later than four (4) hours after the normally occurring end of the school day for teachers in each school.

(c) Implementation of the terms of Section 2 of this article shall be applied consistently throughout the district and shall be communicated to the Alliance President and all certified/licensed staff no later than October 1 of the school year.