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Special Education Plan Time and Lunch Duty Reminder – for All Principals
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District Building Key Cards
From Le’Andra Hood
Please send all key card requests, questions and or concerns to me directly by email at:
leandra.hood@kckps.org
Please also be sure to include your building’s key card spreadsheets within that email as well. Also please send emails prior to sending employees to pick up key cards. A request email from an Administrator or Admin Support personale will be needed for security purposes before requests are granted.
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Special Education Plan Time and Lunch Duty Reminder
From Amy Jo Troyer
Administrators,
Last year, as part of the Teacher???s Contract Negotiations process, we had a joint study committee on planning time for special education teachers. What surfaced from those conversations is the awareness that there may be situations across the district where special education teachers aren???t receiving their duty free lunch and/or planning time. Please check in with your special education teachers and ensure that they are receiving both their planning time (225 minutes at a minimum, during the duty day) and their 25 minute duty free lunch. Teachers who supervise students during lunch should be submitting the appropriate timesheet to be compensated at the rate of $10.57/session. If you have teachers who have been doing lunch duty and have not been compensated, they can be retroactively compensated for the days they have done lunch duty since the beginning of the 2018/19 year by submitting those dates on a timesheet; if you have not submitted their name for lunch duty to HR for board approval, please do so once you are made aware. (As a reminder, this expense would be paid from your building budget.) If teachers are chronically missing their planning time, we ask that you partner with them to correct this situation as quickly as possible. In some situations they may also be entitled to retroactive compensation for their missed planning time.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please know that in the situations we???ve worked with thus far, while it may have taken multiple collaborative meetings to adjust or alter schedules, we???ve seen success in partnering together to ensure that special education teachers are getting a duty free lunch and planning time. Should you have questions or need guidance, please let us know how we can be of support.
Sincerely,
Human Resources, Special Education Department and NEA President