2009-2010 Changes to the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

The exact language of the amendments can be found at www.mnea.com/2009-10contractrevisions.doc.

SYNOPSIS

Compensation:

1. Employees will have the option of trading three (3) professional leave days for one (1) additional day of pay at their daily rate for professional learning activities tied to the school improvement plan and conducted outside regular working hours.  (This is an option!  You may elect to get one day of pay.  If you do, three of your professional leave days will be deducted from your accrual. If not, all five (5) of your professional leave days will be available for use with a substitute during the year.)
2. The exception rate of pay for optional work beyond the school day will be increased from $17.61 per hour to $25 starting July 1, 2009.
3. The summer school rate will increase to $25 starting the summer of 2010.

 Professional Learning:

1. The Staff Development Governance Council was reconfigured and updated to meet current needs.  The new name of the group will be the Professional Learning Advisory Council.
2. Clarification on the non-evaluative role of building level instructional coaches (numeracy coaches, literacy coaches, technology coaches, change coaches, and consulting teachers).
3. A definition of the term “Instructional Leadership Team” or “ILT.”
4. The inclusion of one member of the Faculty Advisory Committee on the ILT.
5. Deletion of the PALS Program.

 Use of Stockpiled Days: 

1. Revisions to the language on planning/records days to reflect the plan for next year’s calendar.
2. Clarification that teachers must have at least half of each planning/records day for the purpose of recording grades.

Planning Time: 

1. Clarification that elementary teachers are guaranteed one hour of planning per day.

Teacher Work Day: 

1. Clarification that teachers are not required to work beyond 7.5 hours.

Faculty Advisory Committee:

1. Delete three references to “another committee representative of the faculty” when referring to responsibilities of the FAC.
2. Revisions to the election procedure of the FAC.

Faculty Meetings:

1. A two (2) hour limit to faculty meetings per month.
2. A limit of one (1) hour for all faculty meetings.
3. A limit of four (4) faculty meetings per month.
4. A process for faculties to add items of school-wide interest to the faculty meeting agenda.
5. Faculty involvement in the selection of the day for regularly scheduled faculty meetings.
6. A prohibition on holding morning faculty meetings on Mondays or the day after a holiday.
7. A prohibition on holding afternoon faculty meetings on Fridays or the day before a holiday.
8. Clarification on how to address concerns about faculty meetings.

Grading Procedures:

1. Deletion of an archaic reference to attaching a grade key to the “front cover of the grade book.”
2. Clarification on the administrator at central office who is responsible for reviewing teacher concerns about an administrative grade change.

Voluntary Transfers: 

1. Updating the language to reflect the use of an electronic application process.
2. A change of the transfer application deadline to the last teacher work day of the school year as opposed to April 15.

Administrative Slotting Procedures: 

1. Clarification that administrators new to MNPS will be slotted on the Administrative Pay Scale as if all of their verified experience were in MNPS.

 Terminal Pay at Retirement:

1. Clarification on payment for unused sick leave days brought in from other districts.
2. An increase from $50 to $75 for payment of the 51^st through 100^th days of sick leave paid out at death or retirement.
3. An increase from $50 to $100 for the payment of unused sick leave days above 100 paid out at death or retirement.

Differentiated Pay: 

1. The formation of a permanent Differentiated Compensation Committee.
2. A commitment to study the possibility of adding a supplement for board certified psychologists, social workers, and speech teachers.
3. Updating of the dates for certain stipends paid to newly assigned teachers in certain hard to fill subject areas.
4. Correction of the names of the Praxis tests needed for certification in certain incentivized content areas.
5. A 5% supplement paid to teachers at five “fresh started” schools (Napier, Shwab, Wharton, McKissack Ninth Grade Academy, and John Early).
6. Ten additional days of professional development at Park Avenue, Cockrill, Bass, Pearl Cohn, and Buena Vista.
7. A commitment to study the roles of supplemented positions.
8. An increase in the Athletic Business Manager supplements for middle school (4% with football and 2% without football).
9. The establishment of a 1.5% supplement for elementary yearbook sponsors.
10. A commitment to study the possibility of stipends for team leaders, grade level chairs, committee chairs, principal designees, SIP and SACS component chairs, subject area chairs, small learning community chairs, consulting teachers, presenters at faculty meetings, and IB coordinators.