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Teachers, negotiators choose combined option to revise collaboration-time language
Summary
After extended debate over protecting special-education collaboration while allowing building flexibility, the team agreed to a combined strike-and-rewrite approach (meeting document labeled 'option 8') and assigned a straw-design drafting team to produce language for the next meeting.
The interest-based bargaining team spent an extended session debating revisions to negotiated agreement language (NA 1.17) governing collaboration time and settled on a combined approach that would simplify procedures while preserving protections for special-education collaboration.
The group reviewed multiple options: fully eliminating and rewriting the section, striking parts of the existing language and simplifying, eliminating procedural subsections entirely, and combinations. Members repeatedly emphasized protecting time needed for IEP, 504 and RTI processes while giving buildings flexibility and preserving teacher-driven collaboration.
Applying the group’s decision standards, participants coalesced around a combined strike-and-rewrite option (referred to in the meeting as option 8), which would remove some procedural verbosity and add clearer purpose language emphasizing teacher-driven collaboration while allowing narrowly defined administrator-led options in urgent or building-specific circumstances. The Chair assigned volunteers to prepare a straw design to bring back to the next meeting for technical review.
The team did not finalize contract wording in this meeting; instead it established direction and owners for drafting the next straw-design iteration.
