A. The principal shall schedule faculty meetings during the regular workday, as he/she deems necessary. Such meetings shall not exceed the regular workday.

Employees will not be required to attend any function outside the regular workday except for two (2) mandatory report card conference nights and one (1) open house/curriculum night. Report card conference nights will be held from 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm after the first and third quarters of each school year and each represents one-half (1/2) of a teacher contract day.

A. Observation of a teacher‘s class by parents, shall be allowed only after consent of the building principal and 24 hours‘ notice, unless the teacher otherwise agrees to less notice. Each observation time period shall be no longer than one (1) hour unless agreed upon in advance between the parent(s) and teacher.

B. Areas in which teaching is being conducted shall be free of interruptions by maintenance, custodial, construction workers or other such disturbances, as far as possible.

C. Scheduling of itinerant therapy programs shall provide for rotating the days of sessions at mid-term.

D. Assemblies and other school-wide activities which would disrupt the normal classroom instruction, shall be rotated so that the same classes and employees are not continually affected as far as possible.

E. The number of students assigned to an employee, except on a temporary basis, shall not exceed available seating or other required items necessary for instruction, such as lab or work stations.

F. A committee comprised of three (3) members appointed by the Superintendent and three (3) members appointed by MCEA will meet to make recommendations for ensuring students assigned to classrooms shall not exceed the number of student stations.

A. All employees shall have a thirty (30) minute duty-free lunch.
B. Employees may leave the work location during the duty-free lunch period upon notice to the principal or his/her designee.
C. Employees who are required to travel during the lunch period shall have additional time for such travel. Such travel time shall not be included as part of his/her duty-free lunch period.
D. On planning and work days teachers shall be given one (1) hour for lunch.

1. An employee will not be assigned to perform functions that exceed the hours recoverable through the use of compensatory time.
2. Compensatory time is earned for 30 minute duty free lunch, 45 minute planning and all time before and after the scheduled workday when employees supervise field trips.
3. Compensatory time may be taken at the teacher’s discretion with five calendar days’ notice to the principal on workdays, in-service days, pre- and post-school days, and when teachers are not supervising students, except for any scheduled parent-teacher conferences and student early release days established for school wide planning. However, the principal may require a teacher to attend an in-service meeting on the first in-service day of the school year, and instructional bargaining unit members are required to attend the mandatory in-service day set forth in Article V.3.

A. The Board and the Association shall establish a joint committee to develop procedures to be used during instances of health and safety problems at the school sites. The Committee shall be composed of eight (8) appointees, four (4) by the Superintendent and four (4) by the Association.

B. Smoking and the use of smokeless tobacco products by employees are prohibited on all School Board property (owned or leased); prohibited while on duty in the presence of students; and prohibited in vehicles operated by the School Board (owned or leased).

A. Non-Instructional duties shall be restricted as follows:

1. Teaching employees shall not be required to collect money from pupils, nor perform record keeping duties related to the collection of money. Performance of such activities by teaching employees shall be strictly voluntary.
2. Teachers may not be required to perform the following activities:
   1. Inspection for lice
   2. Records for an outside agency on a regular or continuing basis
3. Discussion of the rationale for assignment of duties shall be afforded upon request to any high school teacher assigned non-academic responsibilities.

B. Teachers will not be required to administer scheduled medications on the regular school campus. Except for a teacher employed as an exceptional student education ("ESE") teacher where it would 15
be necessary, no teacher will be required to perform scheduled diaper changes, intermittent clean catheterization, gastrostomy tube feeding, blood glucose monitoring or suctioning.

A. An Early Release Committee shall be established at each school site. This committee shall identify, and submit to the faculty for approval, in-service and activities for teacher participation on early release days. The committee shall include three (3) MCEA and three (3) principal appointees. Committee recommendations shall be submitted to the faculty by September 30 each year.

B. On days of early student release as reflected on the school calendar as adopted by the Board, the principal shall seek faculty input prior to making his/her determination as to what activity assignments, if any, teachers will be given during the available time resulting from the student early release.

C. The Early Release Committee may plan for up to one half of early release time to be utilized for collaborative planning activities, such as grade level or department level planning.

D. ESE Release Days for Transition

1. To discuss transition of students between elementary and middle schools, or middle schools and high school, ESE teachers may be permitted to meet on early release days for up to two (2) early release days. No DOE waiver will be sought so long as the statute allows for limited schedule changes at the discretion of the Superintendent.
2. Any other individual teacher activities will not be permitted.
3. Approval of the transition meeting is at the discretion of the principal(s).
4. All class times on early release days, pertaining to primarily secondary schools, will be shortened to ensure that all teachers receive an equal amount of planning time.

A. Employees shall be notified in writing when non-audio cameras/videos are installed in a workplace. A sign indicating this facility has video cameras for security reasons shall be placed at the main entrance to the facility.
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B. These cameras are installed for security reasons only.
C. Tapes from video cameras will not be used to evaluate employees.
D. The District will pursue any unlawful act which is shown on a tape. The District may also investigate any unethical act shown on a tape and may discipline violations that are supported by other evidence.