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Union and district debate when planning time must occur and whether collaborative PLCs can use planning blocks
Summary
Negotiators debated proposed contract language limiting teachers’ scheduled planning time to occur during the student contact day for classroom teachers, whether planning blocks must be consecutive, and whether PLCs may be scheduled in weeks with professional development or planning days.
Negotiators spent an extended portion of the session on Article 3 (professional day) language that would define when teachers’ scheduled planning time must occur and how collaborative planning (PLCs) may be scheduled.
The union proposal would require a teacher’s scheduled planning time to occur during the student contact day and would limit PLCs in weeks that include professional development days; the district repeatedly objected that the proposed sentence as written would be inapplicable to many certificated employees who are not assigned a traditional classroom schedule (instructional coaches, behavior specialists, library media specialists, counselors and other specialists).
District administrators acknowledged they support the concept — "if you are responsible for a classroom, your planning time should…
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