Article 7.2 Work day for teachers regularly assigned for the full year:

7.2 Work day for teachers regularly assigned for the full year: 

7.2.1 The length of the teacher work day, including preparation time and time regularly 

required before and after school, exclusive of the duty-free lunch period, shall be 

based on a work week of seven (7) hours per day or thirty-five hours per five (5) day 

week. Teachers may work an approved schedule which includes time expended 

outside the assigned site. Such time approved away from the site shall be considered 

time worked for purposes of this article.

All teachers regularly assigned to a school shall be at their respective classrooms 

or other places of service at least fifteen (15) minutes but not more than thirty (30) 

minutes before the regular opening of school as communicated by the 

administrator. The UBC, following consultation with the faculty, may designate 

additional before or after school time within the workweek described above. 

7.2.1.2.1 At sites where common planning time is built into the schedule, the minimum 

report time referred to in Section 7.2.1.2 shall be five (5) to ten (10) minutes. 

Common planning time shall be used for the following types of activities: 

team planning, student study teams, parent conferences, curriculum 

development, faculty meetings and other professional activities. 

7.2.2 Teachers shall be provided a duty-free lunch period, equivalent in length to the lunch 

period of the teachers’ students, exclusive of passing periods, or thirty (30) 

consecutive minutes, whichever is longer. 

7.2.3 Every good faith effort will be made to schedule all I.E.P. conferences during the 

seven hour workday. 

7.2.4 The site administrator of each school may require teachers to perform related duties 

on a reasonable and equitably distributed basis among teachers, such time to be 

considered part of the work week described above. 

Whenever the term “preparation time” or “preparation period” is used, it is to mean 

the time within the workday of teachers set aside for planning, grading papers, 

contacting parents and other instructional tasks to be determined by the teacher. 

7.2.5.1 Preparation time within the workday for classroom teachers 

7.2.5.1.1 Secondary – Within the workday, high school and middle school teachers 

shall have a duty-free preparation period equal in length to a teaching period. 

The specific schedule for the work day shall be set by the site administrator. 

7.2.5.1.2 Elementary – All elementary school teachers shall be provided sixty (60) 

minutes of duty free preparation time weekly.