ARTICLE XVI
16.0 SUMMER SCHOOL

16.1 All teachers shall be employed on an if and as needed hourly basis, subject to a contingency of sustained enrollment of students.

16.1.1The summer school/intersession duty day shall normally be four and one-half (4 ½) hours, excluding non-duty breaks.

16.1.2If a scheduled summer school/intersession day is canceled and State funds are forthcoming for that day, then teachers will be paid of that day.

16.2 Summer school personnel shall be limited to unit members currently employed in the District. Unit members submitting resignations to be effective at the end of a school year will be eligible for summer school employment for the summer immediately following the end of that school year. If fully credentialed unit members are not available from the unit, the District has the discretion to employ non-credentialed unit members and then teachers from outside the District.

16.2.1 Traditional School Teacher Selection Procedure

A. A listing of all tentative position openings for summer school teachers will be adequately publicized by the office of Human Resources by posting such positions in all schools within ten (10) duty days after the date of Board approval of a summer school program.

B. Unit member’s applications will be submitted within ten (10) duty days of the date of the posting of the summer school positions; tentative selection and notification of candidates shall occur within fifteen (15) duty days of the close of applications, but no later than five (5) calendar days before the end of the school year.

C. Priority consideration for summer school assignments shall be given to unit members fully credentialed/certified for the summer school assignment.

D. The following criteria shall be used for selection of summer school/intersession teachers:

1. Appropriate credential/certification

2. Legal requirements

3. Experience within the last five years teaching in methods, techniques, or programs as publicized in the tentative position openings for a specific site.

4. Subject area experience

5. Grade-level experience

6. Educationally-related needs of the District and/or schools as publicized in the tentative position openings for a specific site

E. Where two (2) or more qualified unit members apply for the same position, seniority in the District shall govern.

F. The District shall not be arbitrary, capricious, or unreasonable with respect to summer school intersession assignments.

G. For elementary traditional summer school, priority shall be given to unit members regularly assigned to the summer school site.

H. Elementary unit members regularly assigned to sites that do not offer summer school/intersession shall be placed in the eligibility pool at the school where summer school students from their home site are assigned.

I. Prior summer school/intersession assignments will decrease priority selections after two (2) consecutive years of summer school intersession service.

J. Teachers who accept assignments and then choose not to work will be considered as if they did work. Teachers who only teach one class or one intersession (except by choice) will be counted as one-half year worked.

K. If a teacher applies for both regular summer school and driver training in summer school, he/she must choose one or the other. In the event of a shortage of driver training teachers for summer school, he/she may elect to do both.

L. The extended year programs of ROP, Special Schools, Phoenix House, Migrant Education, Independent Study, and the summer school and/or intersession program of Special Education are not subject to this Article.

16.3 Sick Leave

16.3.1 Unit members shall be credited with .8 sick day for working 75% or more at four and one-half (4 ½) hours a day. Unit members who work more or less than four and one-half (4 ½) hours a day shall have sick leave prorated accordingly.

16.4 Observations of Summer School Teachers

16.4.1 Observations may be conducted during the time a unit member is on duty or performing summer school responsibilities.

A. The observation shall be related to those items observed.

1. Such observations shall be recorded on the Summer School Observation Report form and shall be transmitted to the unit member with five (5) duty days..

B. The evaluator shall schedule a conference relative to the observation. Such request shall occur within two (2) duty days of the receipt of the written observation by the unit member and the conference held within three (3) duty days of the receipt of such request.

C. Observations of summer school teachers shall be filed separately from the teachers’ personnel files and not used as part of the unit member’s regular evaluation. Such observations will be maintained in a separate file.

16.5 Summer school teachers shall be allowed to share their summer school contracts under the following conditions:

16.5.1 A joint application shall be filed by the two (2) teachers.

16.5.2 Each of the two (2) teachers works fifty-percent (50%) of the contract by one working consecutive days for fifty-percent (50%) of the session and the other finishing out the second fifty-percent (50%) of the session.

16.5.3 Any other potential arrangement for sharing a summer school contract shall be submitted to the Associate Superintendent, Human Resources, who shall consider the request and render a decision.

16.5.4 Seniority shall apply as cited in section 16.2.1-D, but only one of the two unit members needs to conform to the conditions set forth in 16.2.1-D.

16.6 Class Size

16.6.1 Good faith efforts shall be made to maintain class sizes, which recognize the needs and requests of students, as well as the interests of the teachers and the schools.

16.6.2 Reasonable efforts shall be made to balance class sizes for summer school and intersession by the beginning of the second week of classes..