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Talent Ed Perform and iObservation – for All Administrators
HR Update: Teacher Planning Time Changes for 2017-18 – for All Administrators
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Building Permits – for All Administrators
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Talent Ed Perform and iObservation
From Shelly Beech
Your Talent Ed Staff lists are available in Talent Ed Perform for you to review. Please review all three tabs in the system (ALL STAFF, NOT EVALUATED, and EVALUATED). Attached you will find a form you will need to complete if you have any changes that need to be made in Talent Ed. Please complete the form and email it back to Andrea Ramirez at andrea.ramirez@kckps.org.
Also please be reminded that if you have not sent your updated staff list to Taneka Brown for iObservation, you will need to do this so she can complete your staff in the system.
If you have any questions, please contact Andrea Ramirez for Talent Ed questions and Taneka Brown for iObservation questions.
HR Update: Teacher Planning Time Changes for 2017-18
From Amy Jo Troyer
The Teacher’s Negotiated Agreement for 2017-18 has been ratified by NEA-KCK and approved by the Board, making this our binding agreement going forward for the 2017-18 school year. A change that may impact your efforts in the immediate future is the language regarding Planning Time for teachers. Please see the bottom of this notice for the excerpt of official language which should guide the allocation of planning time for your staff. As a summary of the notice below, please note that:
1. Plan time is now noted as structured or unstructured with percentages of time designated as a best practice. Structured time can be driven by the expectations you have for your staff planning needs and could include things such as required PLC planning or required collaborative planning as needed, for example. Unstructured plan time, or what has been commonly referred to as “personal” plan time in the past, is teacher driven.
2. Of the 225 minutes allotted during a normal, 5 day work week, distinctions are made between levels as to how many of those minutes should occur within the student day. They are as follows:
Elementary – 180 of 225 total should occur within the student day
Secondary – All 225 should occur within the student day
**Joint Committees will be formed to study the needs of Early Childhood and Special Education. At this time, every effort should be made to honor the 225 minimum.
Please feel free to reach out to Amy Jo or Carlos with any questions!
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Excerpt from the 2017-18 Negotiated Agreement:
During a normal five (5) day work week, the Board will schedule for each teacher assigned to regular instructional classroom duties a minimum of 225 minutes of planning time for
preparation and conferences associated with assigned duties which may consist of both
structured and unstructured (teacher driven) plan time with every effort to have a maximum of 50% structured. Teachers not assigned to regular instructional classroom duties will be
provided with planning time proportional to their instructional classroom duties. Such time
shall be exclusive of the duty free lunch period and will ordinarily occur in a minimum of 20
minute increments. Every effort will be made to provide planning time free of interruption
and to provide sufficient plan time for lesson planning, grading, contacting parents and other
activities necessary to support instructional practices, etc. The principal, supervisor, or staff member in charge may assign to a teacher an instructional or supervisory duty during the
scheduled planning time when the administrator or staff member in charge deems it necessary
for the efficient operation of the school.
During the 2017-18 school year for secondary teachers assigned to middle or high
schools, this minimum of 225 minutes of planning time will be scheduled within the
student day.
During the 2017-18 school year for elementary teachers assigned to elementary schools,
at least 180 of this minimum of 225 minutes of planning time will be scheduled within
the student day.
A Joint Committee of NEA-KCK designated representatives and Board representatives will
be formed to study the planning time schedules for early childhood teachers and make
recommendations to the Bargaining Teams on or before November 1,2017.
A Joint Committee of NEA-KCK designated representatives and Board representatives will
be formed to sfudy the planning time schedules for special education teachers and make
recommendations to the Bargaining Teams on or before November l, 20l7.
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Building Permits
From Bridgette DeSmet
Building permits need to be requested 2 weeks in advance. This will allow time to schedule staffing for security, custodians, utilities and other needs.
Please forward your building permits to Le Andra Hood in the Business Office. She can be reached at (913) 279-2229 or leandra.hood@kckps.org.