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1 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT between the READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION an affiliate of the SOUTHWESTERN OHIO EDUCATION ASSOCIATIO~ and the NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION and the READING BOARD OF EDUCATION of the READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT Effetive September 1, 2010 through August 31, 2012

2 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION AND READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCA T/ON TABLE OF CONTENTS ARTICLE 1: ARTICLE II: ARTICLE Ill: PAGE PROCEDURAL AGREEMENT RECOGNITION... 1 BARGAINING UNIT... 1 MANAGEMENT RIGHTS/SCOPE OF BARGAINING... 1 NEGOTIATIONS PROCEDURE... 2 ASSOCIATION RIGHTS PROVISIONS CONTRARY TO LAW/SUPERSEDES... 7 AMENDMENT PROCEDURE... 7 GENERAL PROVISIONS... 7 DEFINITIONS... 7 SALARY & FRINGE BENEFITS HORIZONTAL PLACEMENT/ADVANCEMENT ON SALARY SCHEDULE MEMBER SALARY SCHEDULES AND INDEX SUPPLEMENTAL DUTIES SUPPLEMENTAL DUTIES SALARY SCHEDULES HOSPITAL/SURGICAL/PRESCRIPTION DRUG INSURANCE DENTAL INSURANCE LIFE INSURANCE/DISABILITY INSURANCE COPIES OF INSURANCE AGREEMENTS SALARY/BENEFITS FOR PART-TIME EMPLOYEES MILEAGE REIMBURSEMENT SEVERANCE PAY REIMBURSEMENT FOR COLLEGE CREDIT STRS TAX SHELTER PICK-UP RETIREMENT INCENTIVE EARLY NOTIFICATION RETIREMENT BONUS SECTION 125 PLAN LEAVES SICK LEAVE PERSONAL BUSINESS LEAVE ASSAULT LEAVE PROFESSIONAL GROWTH LEAVE CHILD CARE LEAVE ADOPTION LEAVE MILITARY LEAVE PROFESSIONAL LEAVE JURY DUTY/COURT APPEARANCE... 33

3 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ARTICLE IV: GENERAL WORKING CONDITIONS CONTRACTS SUPPLEMENTAL CONTRACTS PAY PERIODS & PAYDAYS POSITION ASSIGNMENTS AND TRANSFERS TRANSFERS- MEMBER PREFERENCE VACANCIES (REGULAR AND SUPPLEMENTAL) REQUESTS BY MEMBERS TO RETAIN SUPPLEMENTAL DUTY POSITIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING SCHOOL YEAR MEMBER WORKDAY/WORK YEAR REDUCTION IN FORCE PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS PERSONNEL FILES PROFESSIONAL & CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS PROCEDURE FOR RECONSIDERATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL REQUEST FOR RECONSIDERATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL FOPM INTERNAL SUBSTITUTION POLICY HANDBOOK CURRICULUM AND INTERVENTION LOCAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MENTO Rl NG DISCIPLINARY ACTION Dl STRICT INSERVICE HI Rl NG OF RETIRED TEACHERS ARTICLE V: MEMBER APPRAISAL 5.01 TEACHER APPRAISAL INSTRUMENT NONRENEWAL OF A LIMITED CONTRACT ARTICLE VI: GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE GENERAL PROCEDURES DEFINITIONS INFORMAL LEVEL LEVEL I LEVEL II LEVEL Ill AND LEVEL IV LEVEL V LEVEL VI RIGHT TO REPRESENTATION MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLE VII: GENERAL PROVISIONS 7.01 SEVERABILITY DURATION OF NEGOTIATED CONTRACT SCOPE OF CONTRACT SIGNATURE PAGE ii

4 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCI AT/ON ARTICLE 1: PROCEDURAL AGREEMENT 1.01 RECOGNITION The Reading Board of Eduation, hereinafter referred to as the "Board", reognizes the Reading Eduation Assoiation (REA), an affiliate of the Southwestern Ohio Eduation Assoiation (SWOEA), the Ohio Eduation Assoiation (OEA), and the National Eduation Assoiation (NEA), hereinafter referred to olletively as the "Assoiation", as the sole and exlusive bargaining agent for the bargaining unit as desribed in Setion 1.02 having the right to represent exlusively the members of the bargaining unit and the right to unhallenged and exlusive representation during the term of this Contrat BARGAINING UNIT The term "professional staff member" of the employee bargaining unit overed by this Contrat is defined as all ertifiated personnel employed exluding: the Superintendent of Shools, all assistant superintendent(s), prinipals, assistant prinipal(s), Coordinator of Speial Servies, athleti diretor, substitutes, aides, hourly paid tutors, auxiliary personnel, and all others for whom ertifiation in supervision or administration is required as a ondition of employment MANAGEMENT RIGHTS AND SCOPE OF BARGAINING All matters pertaining to wages, hours, or terms and other onditions of employment and the ontinuation, modifiation, or deletion of an existing provision of this Contrat are subjet to olletive bargaining between the Reading Community City Shool Distrit Board of Eduation, hereinafter referred to as the "Board", and the Reading Eduation Assoiation, hereinafter referred to as the "Assoiation" Exept as modified by a speifi and express term of this written Contrat, the Board hereby retains and reserves to itself and the Superintendent all the powers, rights, authority and duties vested in them by laws of Ohio and the United States, inluding but not limited to: A. Determine matters of inherent managerial poliy whih inlude but are not limited to areas of disretion or poliy suh as the funtions and programs of the Board, standards of servies, its overall budget, utilization of tehnology, and organization struture; 8. Diret, supervise, evaluate or hire employees; C. Maintain and improve the effiieny and effetiveness of the Board's operations; D. Determine the overall methods, proesses, means or personnel by whih the Board's operations are to be onduted;

5 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION AND READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCA T/ON E. Disipline or terminate members for just ause; F. Lay off, transfer, assign, shedule, promote or retain members; G. Determine the overall mission of the shool distrit; H. Effetively manage the work fore; and I. Take ations to arry out the mission of the Board The Board is not required to bargain on subjets reserved to the rnanage!ment and diretion of the Distrit exept as affet wages, hours, terms and onditions of employment of members (that is, the Board need not bargain about deisions in the exerise of its management rights but has a duty to bargain about the effet(s) of suh deisions on the wages, hours, terms and other onditions of employment of member(s), and the ontinuation, modifiation or deletion of an existing provision of this Contrat NEGOTIATIONS PROCEDURE General Provision The parties agree that Chapter 4117 of the Ohio Revised Code (ORC) shall govern the proedures of bargaining between the Board and the Assoiation Direting Requests A. All requests for negotiation meetings shall be made in writing.. Requests initiated by the Assoiation shall be direted to the Superintendent, ating as the representative of the Board. Requests initiated by the Board shall be direted from the Superintendent to the Assoiation President. The written request for professional negotiations shall inlude: 1. Date of writing. 2. Statement of purpose for meeting. 3. Name, address and phone number of the person to ontat representing the requesting party to arrange a mutually satisfatory time for the initial negotiations meeting. 4. Three (3) proposed meeting dates. B. A written reply shall be sent by the reeiving party within ten (10) days to the offiial representative of the requesting party. This ommunique shalf inlude: 1. Date of writing. 2. Reognition of request for a professional negotiations meeting. 2

6 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1..?Q10 THROUGH AUGUST 31, Time, plae and date of a mutually agreeable initial negotiations session. 4. Aeptability of proposed dates Negotiations Meeting Period A. The first negotiation session shall be held within fifteen ( 15) days of the date listed on the initial request for negotiations, but no later than Marh 15, unless mutually agreed upon in writing by both parties. B. At the first negotiation session, the first item of business will be to exhange a list of items to be negotiated, with detailed explanation and the ost impat, when the ost an be determined. One the agenda is approved by both negotiation teams, no new matters shall be introdued for onsideration during the ourse of this negotiation meeting without mutual onsent of both teams. C. A mutually agreeable time for the next meeting shall then be established. This time limit shall not exeed two (2) weeks, unless mutually agreed upon by both parties. D. Assoiation team members shall be released, when neessary, from their normal shool duties to attend negotiation sessions without loss of pay, with no reprisal or punitive ation. E. Negotiation meetings shall be in exeutive session. F. During the ourse of negotiations, items agreed to shall be redued in writing and initialed by representatives of eah negotiation team, and set aside. G. Eah negotiation team shall have no more than five (5) members. The Assoiation may have one (1) member as an observer. H. Eah negotiation team may use onsultants as they feel essential in the ourse of negotiations. I. No other person or person(s) shall be present during the negotiations meeting, unless mutually agreed upon by members of both negotiation teams. J. Either team may delare a reess when it appears that meaningful progress annot be attained. A reess an only ommene after mutual agreement for the time and plae for the ontinuation of the negotiations has been determined and item agreement (Setion herein) has been followed. A reess shall be for no more than seventy-two (72) hours, unless extended by mutual onsent. 3

7 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION AS SOCIA T!ON K. Either team may all for a auus at any time. A auus shall not be for longer than thirty (30) minutes, unless an extension is mutually agreeable by both teams. L. The negotiation period shall be for a length of time not to exeed forty-five ( 45) days. All sessions are to be ompleted within this time period, unless extended by mutual agreement. M. Prior to and during the period of the negotiation sessions, the Board and the Assoiation agree to provide to the other upon written request, and in a reasonable time period, available information onerning finanial resoures of the distrit and suh other information as will assist the respetive negotiation teams in developing intelligent, aeurate< and onstrutive programs that will be in the best interest of all parties onerned with a quality eduational program. N. Members of the respetive negotiation teams have the power and authority to negotiate, that is to make proposals, onsider proposals, and rnake onession(s) in the ourse of disussion. 0. All sessions of the negotiation meetings shall be in good faith. P. While negotiations are in progress, news releases shall be made' only with the mutual agreement of the negotiation teams. Said releases shall be in writ"1ng and eah team shall have a opy of the statement prior to release. Q. Progress reports may be made to the represented bodies by <3ither negotiation team at the disretion of the teams. R. During the ourse of the negotiation session or at any time during the length of this Contrat, ad ho study ommittees (e.g. Supplemental Duty Salary Shedule) may be reated by mutual onsent of the Boa rei and Assoiation respetively. Members of these study ommittees will be determined by the Board and Assoiation. The purpose and part1iular assignment shall be stated at the time these ommittees are reated as well as the time for a report of findings. Findings/reommendations are not binding unless/until they have been offiially aepted and approved by their respetive parties Agreement A. When agreement is reahed on the items being negotiated, a final written opy shall first be submitted to the Assoiation and ratified and then to the Board at its next regular or speial Board meeting. The final written opy will ontain the following: 1. Terms of the provision. 2. Effetive date of the provision. 4

8 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIA TJON AND READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCA TJON EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER THROUGH AUGUST Impasse B. When approved by both parties, it shall be signed by their respetive presidents. Thereupon, the items agreed to shall onstitute the legal binding ontrat between the parties. C. Offiial opies of the Contrat shall be reprodued and distributed to all members by the Assoiation. The ost of reproduing the negotiated Contrat shall be shared equally by the Assoiation and the Board. A. The parties pledge themselves to negotiate in good faith and, in the event agreement is not reahed, to utilize in good faith suh mediatory failities as are available. In the event that tentative agreement annot be obtained by both parties on all items being negotiated within forty-five ( 45) alendar days after the first negotiation session, either party may delare to the other in writing that an impasse exists. B. The party delaring impasse shall request the Federal Mediation and Coniliation Servie to appoint a mediator, and the seletion shall be in aordane with the rules of the Federal Mediation and Coniliation Servie. C. The mediator shall meet with both parties forthwith, either jointly or separately, and shall take steps as he/she may deem appropriate to persuade the parties to resolve their differenes and effet a mutually aeptable agreement. D. If mediation fails to resolve the impasse within fourteen ( 14) alendar days. The parties may mutually agree to extend the Contrat and ontinue to negotiate. E. If mediation has been ompleted and the parties do not mutually agree to extend the Contrat, the Assoiation and the Board then has the right to exerise its rights as outlined in ORC ASSOCIATION RIGHTS Exlusive reognition shall entitle the Assoiation to these rights exlusively: Use of all building staff bulletin boards for staff information Payroll dedution of membership dues Announements at faulty meetings at a time agreed to by the prinipal or Superintendent Use of publi address system for Assoiation announements, with approval of the supervising prinipal. 5

9 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION AND READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCA T/ON Distribution of faulty bulletins to members aording to normal shool proedure with a opy to the prinipal at the time of distribution Shool Board Meetings: The Assoiation shall be provided all agendas, appendies, and minutes no later than the time said material is provided to the Board. A representative of the Assoiation shall be permitted to addres.s the Board during Board meetings at a time designated by the Board Attendane at the OEA Delegate Assemblies by the duly el eted representatives of the Assoiation, with substitutes paid by the Board. The number of representatives shall be determined by the OEA formula. The Assoiation shall be granted twelve (12) Assoiation days per year whih may be used for attendane at the OEA Delegate Assemblies or for other Assoiation business The Assoiation may all meetings of the Assoiation members in any of the Distrit's buildings. Said meetings shall be held outside of th<l members' workday. Prior to sheduling or alling any suh meeting, the Assoiation shall advise the building prinipal of the meeting. No Assoiation meeting may be sheduled during the workday, in onflit with other previously sheduled meetings, or at any time when the meeting will disrupt the regular work a:tivity of any member to be in attendane at the meeting without the prior approval of the building prinipal Suh approval shall not be unreasonably denied Upon the request of the Assoiation President, the Board will provide the names and addresses of newly employed staff members The Assoiation President shall be permitted to address all members at the first general meeting at a time designated by the Superintendent The Assoiation shall be granted the right to use shool equipment designated for the members, provided that suh use does not onflit with Distrit business. All onsumable materials used with the equipment shall be provided by the Assoiation Eah member shall have the right to Assoiation representation during any meeting whih will or may lead to disiplinary ation by the Board or an administrator. The member shall reeive reasonable notie of the meeting in order that Assoiation representation may be obtained. Should disiplinary ation be likely to our at a given meeting, the member shall be advised immediately of said possibility and be advised by the Board of the right to representation under this provision of the negotiated Contrat 6

10 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION 1.06 PROVISIONS CONTRARY TO LAW/SUPERSEDES If any provision of this doument shall be found ontrary to law, then suh provision or appliation shall be deemed invalid, exept to the extent permitted by law, but all other provisions or appliations shall ontinue in full fore and effet. In the event of any suh holding, both parties shall meet not more than thirty (30) days after suh holding for the purpose of renegotiating the provision(s) affeted Consistent with Ohio Revised Code Chapter 4117, this agreement shall supersede and replae, in its entirety, any and all provisions of Ohio law whih are in onflit or inonsistent with any provisions of this agreement AMENDMENT PROCEDURE If either party desires to amend the proedures stipulated in this Contrat, that proposal shall be submitted to the other party in aordane with the proedures stated in this Contrat. Neither party is required to agree to amend the Contrat GENERAL PROVISIONS -Individual & Organization Rights Fair Pratie Clause: The Assoiation agrees to admit persons to membership without disrimination on the basis of rae, reed, olor, national origin, sex, age, marital status, or handiap The Assoiation shall admit to membership all members of the bargaining unit in aordane with the Constitution and Bylaws of the Reading Eduation Assoiation No reprisal of any kind shall be taken by or against any partiipant in negotiations with the administration or the Board by reason of suh ativity DEFINITIONS Bargaining Unit: All ertifiated/liensed personnel employed by the Board whether on leave, on per diem basis, employed, or to be employed, exluding the Superintendent of Shools, all assistant superintendent(s), prinipals. assistant prinipal(s), athleti diretor, substitutes, aides, hourly paid tutors, auxiliary personnel, Coordinator of Speial Servies and all others for whom ertifiation/liensure in supervision or administration is required as a ondition of employment Member: All professional staff members as defined in Setion 1.02 represented by the Assoiation. 7

11 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION Sole and Exlusive Agent: The Assoiation, granted suh status, shall be reognized by the Board as the offiial voie of all members of the instrutional staff. The exlusive representative shall further represent members of the bargaining unit regardless of their rae, olor, reed, national origin, sex, age, marital status, or handiap Negotiations: To onfer, disuss, propose, onsider, make onessions and ounterproposals, in good faith, in an effort to reah mutual a9reement on items under onsideration. Suh negotiations shall be onduted by representatives of the Board and the Assoiation with authority to negotiate in good faith Negotiation Meeting Period: That period of time from the first negotiation session until agreement has been reahed, or the time fator of forty-five (45) days. The period of time when negotiations are reognized to be taking plae Negotiation Session: The atual onferring of the representatives of the Board and the Assoiation Negotiation Team: The body of offiial representatives of the Board or the Assoiation Exeutive Session: A meeting with admittane to be limited to the disretron of the partiipants alling the meeting or the provisions of suh a session as provided in this negotiations proedure Consultants: Advisors to the negotiations teams. Individuals due to speial training, experiene, and talents have abilities to assist in larifying points under onsideration and to assist in resolving misunderstandings Reess: The period of time between negotiation sessions one the negotiation session has ommened. A negotiation session shall not be reessed for a period longer than seventy-two (72) hours, unless mutually agreed by both negotiation teams Cauus: A limited break in the negotiation session of not more than thirty (30) minutes, unless mutually extended Good Faith: The willingness to onsider, propose, make oness,ons and ounterproposals in an effort to reah a mutually agreed position. Good faith requires the partiipants in the negotiations to provide explanations for proposals and ounterproposals. Good faith does not mean that e ither negotiations team is given authority to make final ommitment for the Board or the Assoiation News Release: A report on the status of negotiations, given diretly to publi news media personnel; i.e., the newspaper, radio or television news bureaus Progress Report: Reports made to the Board or Assoiation while negotiations are in proess. 8

12 NEGOT/A TED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION Ad Ho Study Committee (joint study ommittee): A group given a speifi assignment to develop a more meaningful understanding of a given area to assist the negotiation teams in oming to a mutual agreement. The responsibility of suh study ommittees shall be determined by the negotiation teams at the time that the study ommittee is organized. Information reported by the study ommittee shall be advisory only and not a diretion or in any way impose a reommendation or ompliane to the members of the negotiation teams Mediation: An assistive proess and proedure that attempts to help the parties to reognize their differenes and similarities under the rules and regulations of the Federal Mediation and Coniliation Servie Impasse: Disagreement, a deadlok on a given item being negotiated. Impasse is reahed when no further hange of positions by the members of the negotiation teams is taking plae and agreement is not reahed within the speified time limit Writing Disposition: The findings and reommendations of parties used to resolve an impasse situation. Suh a disposition is an advisory notie and should be given the greatest onsideration by both the Board and the Assoiation in an effort to obtain agreement Memorandum of Understanding: An agreement reahed by the parties, during the life of the Contrat, whih adds, deletes or modifies existing language and is agreed to and signed by both the Assoiation and the Board. 9

13 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIA T/ON ARTICLE II: SALARY & FRINGE BENEFITS 2.01 HORIZONTAL PLACEMENT/ADVANCEMENT ON SALARY SCHEDULE Salary inreases for additional semester hours (or quarter hours onverted to semester hours utilizing the formula outlined in Setion ) shall be l,imited to the start of the shool year as follows: A. The offiial transript indiating the ompletion of the ourses must be reeived by the Board by September 15. B. Letters from lass instrutor(s) indiating ompletion of the ourses shall be aeptable provided the offiial transript is reeived by the Bos1rd by November 1. C. Graduate level ourse-work only and only ourse-work after the degree in question has been earned will be aepted for horizontal movement on the salary shedule with the following exeptions: 1. Superintendent-requested ourse-work whih is neessary for a member to obtain distrit-requested ertifiation, endorsement, or liensure may be undergraduate level ourse-work, if this is the only ourse-work readily available. Doumentation, signed by the superintendent and member, shall be maintained in member's file and the Treasurer's offie and shall inlude superintendent's signed written request and member's signed written aeptane (priior to taking ourse-work). An offiial transript shall also be~ filed upon suessful ompletion of ourse-work. 2. Other possible exeptions whih may arise whih ould possibly justify horizontal movement on the salary shedule may be petitioned by the member to the superintendent. If approved, the same doumentation requirements in "C. 1" above also apply (i.e. member's written request and superintendent's written approval prior to ourse-work, and offiial transript following sue,ssful ompletion of ourse-work) Upon reeipt of the offiial transript(s)/letter(s), the member will bel plaed on the appropriate training olumn of the salary shedule retroative to the beginning of said shool year All redit to be aepted for horizontal advanement on the salary shedule must meet the riteria identified in "A" below; and, any one of "B" through "E" below. 10

14 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 THROUGH AUGUST A. Credit beyond the BA olumn must be graduate level ourse-work, exept as noted in (C) above, taken at a reognized ollege. The term "reognized ollege" is defined as any institution from whih redit is aepted for ertifiation/liensure by the Ohio Department of Eduation, Division of Eduation and Certifiation; and, B. Course work must be in the area of professional eduation as defined in the regulations for teaher ertifiation/liensure in Ohio; or, C. Course work is in the area of ertifiation/liensure for whih the person is presently ertified; or, D. Course work is in an area of ertifiation/liensure for whih the person is pursuing a planned program toward additional ertifiation (the planned program must be verified by the ollege or university advisor); or, E. Course work has been approved in advane by the Superintendent as being pertinent to the member's plaement on the salary shedule To onvert quarter hours to semester hours, multiply the number of quarter hours by two-thirds (2/3). Numbers are not to be rounded up to the nearest whole number. (Example: 44 quarter hours onverted to semester hours would yield 29.3 semester hours.) 11

15 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION 2.02 MEMBER SALARY SCHEDULES AND INDEX Salary Shedule- Effetive Shool Year: (ALL COLUMNS REPRESENT SEMESTER HOURS.) I ST~~ ,.. B.A. BA+30 BA+45 MA MA+15 36,823 38,038 40,505 42,346 43, MA+30-44, MA+45 46, I, 38,701 39,916 42,383 44,519 45, ,579 41,831 44,298 46,655 47, , , , ,521 1.: ,494 43,709 46,176 48,827 50, ' I ,372 45,624 48,091 51,037 52, , , ,502 50,042 53,209 54, , ,112 Ui ,201 49,416 51,957 55,419 56, , ,285 Ui ,153 51,368 53,872 57,628 58, , ,531 1.Ei ,068 53,320 55,824 59,874 61, , , ' ,983 55,271 57,775 62,084 63, , , ,971 57,186 59,727 64,330 65, , ,:! ,923 59,175 61,715 66,613 67, , ,!i ,874 61,163 63,704 68,859 70, , , i' ,262 64,919 68,307 71,694 72, , , ,840 67,533 70,921 74,309 75, , ,E>43 2.1: ,491 70,148 73,536 76,960 78, ,491 71,148 74,536 77,960 79, Salaries for Step 27 are equal to Step 25 plus $1, , ,501 I 81, I I I 82,

16 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION.=E':'FF::=E~CO!.T!.!IV:.=E_,;S'=EsPT!..=!E(II]f3ER THROUGH AUGUST 31, MEMBER SALARY SCHEDULES AND INDEX Salarv Shedule- Effetive Shool Year: (ALL COLUMNS REPRESENT SEMESTER HOURS.).. - STEP 0 1 B.A. BA+30 BA+45 MA MA+15 37,559 38,798 41,315 43, '184 39,475 40,714 43,230 45,409 46, ' MA+30 45, , m,ma+45 47, , I I I 2 41,390 42,667 45,183 47,587 48, , , ,343 44,583 47,099 49,803 51' , , ,259 46,536 49,052 52,057 53, , , , ,043 54,273 55, , , ,165 50,404 52,996 56, , , ,155 52,395 54,949 58,780 60, , ,108 54,385 56, , , , ,061 56,376 58,930 63,324 64, , , ,090 58,329 60,921 65,616 66, , , ,080 60,357 62,949 67,944 69, ,071 62, ,235 71, , , , , I I I I ' ,526 66,217 69,672 73,127 74, ,155 68,883 72,339 75,794 77, , , , ,550 75, , , L i 70,860 72,550 76,005 79,498 80,775 82,090 83,780 Salaries for Step 27 are equal to Step 25 plus $1,

17 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCA T/ON ASSOCIATION 2.03 SUPPLEMENTAL DUTIES General Provision: The listed shedule of supplemental duty indies shall be in effet For the and shool years. The supplemental salary shelule is based upon the negotiated member base salary for Compensation for Supplemental Positions: Those who have supplemental ontrats shall be paid in aordane~ Setion of this Contrat. with Creating, Modifying, Filling, or Not Filling Supplemental Duties Positions A. The Board reserves the right to reate, modify, fill, or not fill supplemental positions at its sole disretion. B. The reation or modifiation of supplemental duties positions may be requested by any staff member by submitting a written request to his/her immediate supervisor who, in turn, may forward the request through the normal hain of ommand. EXAMPLE #1: STEP 1 - TEACHER STEP 2- TEAM LEADERIDEPT.HEAD STEP 3- PRINCIPAL STEP 4 - SUPERINTENDENT STEP 5 - BOARD EXAMPLE#2: STEP 1 STEP2 STEP3 STEP4 STEPS COACH ATHLETIC DIR. PRINCIPAL SUPERINTENDENT BOARD C. All written requests submitted for the reation of new, additional, or modifiation of supplemental duties positions shall inlude omprehensive rationale whih demonstrates that a need exists. Said rationale shall inlude, but not be limited to: draft job desription, time requirements, responsibilities, assoiated osts, and other partiulars neessary for onsidering the request. D. If approved by the Board of Eduation, the salary and/or indiihs for newly reated supplemental duties positions shall be subjet to negotiations and may be implemented through a Memorandum of Understandin Determination of Step Plaement for Supplemental Duties Positions A. Initial step plaement at or above the base step shall be basel on previous diret or omparable and relevant experiene in an ativity as determined and reommended by the building prinipal and approval by the Board of Eduation. This inludes experiene within or outside of Reading Community City Shools. 14

18 NEGOTIATED MAST!:!R CONTRACT BETWE'EN READING E'DUCATION AS SOCIA T/ON AND READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF E'DUCATION -~ =E:...:FF_.E"'C.:.:.TIVE SEPTEMBER THROUGH AUGUST B. When moving from a lower to a higher position within the same ativity (i.e., junior high football to assistant or from assistant to varsity head oah), the employee shall be plaed at the lowest step for the new position whih will inrease the stipend above the amount he/she would have reeived had he/she remained at the lower level position. C. When moving from a higher to a lower position within the same ativity (i.e., varsity CC to junior high CC), an employee shall retain the same step plaement in the new position he/she would have reeived had he/she remained at the higher level position. D. The Board reserves the right to modify a building prinipal's reommendation for initial step plaement Joint Study Committee A joint study ommittee shall meet no later than six months prior to the offiial date of August 31, The purpose of the ommittee shall be to review the supplemental salary shedule indies and to make a joint reommendation to the Assoiation and Board negotiation teams. Committee members: athleti diretor, high shool prinipal (hair), three (3) members of the Assoiation hosen by the Assoiation. Additional members may be added by mutual onsent of the Superintendent and Assoiation President. 15

19 NEGOT/A TED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCA T/ON ASSOCIATION AND READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCA T/ON 2.04 SUPPLEMENTAL DUTIES SALARY SCHEDULES Supplamentals Elfehve t: Shool Year (Base S )' %ol Position.,11"'"'---'"'-'""''---'Ba""'"'-~--'S"'te,.p'-'1----'S"te,p;2~--~ ---~P.._4 ~~ ACADEMIC CHALLENGE ANNUAL SPONSOR ATHLETIC COORDINATOR. JR. HI D AUDIO VISUAL COORDINATOR, HS AUDIO VISUAL COORD. ELF. 12) AUXILIARY FALL UNIT BAND DIRECTOR, JH/SH D BAND DIRECTOR. ASSISTANT G BAND, PERCUSSION DIRECTOR G BASEBALL VARSrTY BASEBALL, ASSIST ANI VARSITY BASEBALL JR. VARSITY SD BASEBALL ASSISTANT BASEBALL FRESHMAN BASKITBALL, VARSITY 12) BASKETBALL. ASSISTANT VARSITY (2) BASKITBALL JR. VARSITY (2) BASKITBALL FRESHMAN ( BASKITBACL, JH (4) BASKETBALL ASSISTANT. BOYS 2129 BASKETBAI.L ASSISTANT. GIRLS BOWLING, VARSITY (2) BROADCAST MEDIA CHEERLEADER SPONSOR CHEERLEADER SPONSOR. ASST HS D D CHEERLEADER SPONSOR. JH CHOIR DIRECTOR. JHISH CHOIR DIRf,CTOR. ELEMENTARY (2) G CLASS SPONSOR. FRESHMAN H 710 CLASS SPONSOR. SOPHOMORE H 710 CLASS SPONSOR. JUNIOR G 1064 CLASS SPO.~SOR, SENIOR CROSS COUNTRY, VARSITY CROSS COUNTRY. JUNIOR HIGH G DANCETEAII ? DEPARTMENT HEADS (11) H ESTEEMTE!I.M H FOOTBALL VARSITY FOOTBALL. ASSISTANT VARSITY (31 FOOTBALL,IUNIOR VARSITY (2) FOOTBALL. FRESHMAN (2) FOOTBALL, "'UNIOR HIGH (3) A D ) :! FOOTBALL ASSISTANT GOLF, VARSITY GOLF. JUNIOR VARSITY D D MOCK TRIAL DIRECTOR MUSICAL DIRECTOR MUSICAL PRilDUCERICHOREOGRAPHER F NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY OIAECiOR G

20 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 TH"_Ro.=O.o:I):.::G~H'-'A'-'1)'-'G"'U'-'S'-'T-'3"-1'-', 2::.:01,_2 ~ SUPPLEMENTAL DUTIES SALARY SCHEDULES Supplementals Effetive Shool Year (Base$ 35,480): NATIONAL JR. HIGH SOCIEtY DIRECTOR NEWSPAPER HIGH SCHOOL PEER TUTORS PLAY DIRECTDA PLA V PRODUCER POWER OF THE PEN SOCCER, VARSITY (2) SOCCER ASSISTANT VARSITY (2) SOCCER. JUNIOR VARSITY 12) SOCCER, FRESHMAN (2) SOCCER ASSISTANT. BOYS SOCCER ASSISTANT. GIRLS SOfTBALL, VARSITY SOFTBAlL ASSISTANT VARSITY SOFTBALL. JUNIOR VARSITY SOFTBALL, FRESHMAN SOFTBALL ASSISTANT SPORT COORDINATORS 13) STAGE TECHNICIAN STUDENT COUNCIL, HS STUDENT SENATE,. JUNIOR HIGH SWIM. VARSITY TENNIS. VARSITY 121 TENNIS. JUNIOR VARSITY (21 TRACK, VARSITY (2) TRACK, ASSISTANT VARSITY 12) TRACK. JUNIOR HIGH (2) TRACK ASSIST ANT. BOYS TRACK ASSISTANT. GIRLS VOLLEYBALL VARSITY VOLLEYBALL, JUNIOR VARSITY VOLLEYRALL. FRESHMAN VOLLEYBALL, JUNIOR HIGH 12) VOLLEYBALL ASSISTANT WEIGriT ROOM COORDINATORS {4) WRESTLING, VARSITY WRESTLING, ASSISTANT VARSITY WRESTLING. JUNIOR VARSITY WRESTLING JUNIOR HIGH {2) WRESTLING ASSIST ANT %of 1.00 _r,,,_,,ba'-'s"-e ~....?.e.~e H D H H H G B D D D G G H D D D D B D D G A D D J i.20,s,le"-p _,1~. WP 3Step :0' :.so 5~~ , B S S EXTENDED DAY INSTRUCTION SUMMER INTERVENTION INSTRUCTORS WILKENS & PE ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL SUPERVISOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY SCHOOL ELEMENTARY BAND (INSTRUMENTAL) DISTANCE LEARNING 21.35/HR 1, /HR 30.00/HR ,

21 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION 2.04 SUPPLEMENTAL DUTIES SALARY SCHEDULES Supplemental Dufles Usted by T1er: POSITION TIER BASKETBALL. VARSITY (2) A FOOTBALL. VARSITY A WRESTLING. VARSITY A BAND DIRECTOR, JRISR HIGH B BASEBALL. VARSITY B CHEERLEADER SPONSOR B SOCCER, VARSITY (2) B SOFTBALL, VARSITY B TRACK, VARSITY 12) 8 VOLLEYBALL, VARSITY 8 BASEBALL, ASSISTANT VARSITY BASEBAI.L, FRESHMAN BASKETBALL. ASSISTANT VARSITY (2) BASKETBALL, JUNIOR VARSITY BASKETBALL, FRESHMAN (2) BASKETBALL JUNIOR VARSITY (2) BROADCAST MEDIA CHEERLEADER SPONSOR, ASSISTANT HS CROSS COUNTRY, VARSITY FOOTBAL.L, ASSISTANT VARSITY (3) FOOTBALL, FRESHMAN (2) FOOTBALL. JUNIOR VARSITY (2) GOLF, VARSITY SOCCER, ASSISTANT VARSITY (2) SOCCER, FRESHMAN (2) SOCCER JUNIOR VARSITY (2) SOFTBALL, FRESHMAN SOFTBALL. JUNIOR VARSITY SWIM, VARSITY TRACK, ASSISTANT VARSITY (2) VOLLEYBALL, FRESHMAN VOLl-EYBALL JUNIOR VARSITY WRESTLING, ASSISTANT VARSITY WRESTLING, JUNIOR VARSITY ATHLETIC COORDINATOR, JUNIOR HIGH BASEBALL ASSISTANT BASKETBALL ASSIST ANI, BOYS BASKETBALL ASSISTANT, GIRLS BASKETBALL, JUNIOR HIGH (4) 0 BOWLING, VARSITY (2) 0 CHEERLEADER SPONSOR, JUNIOR HIGH D CROSS COUNTRY, JUNIOR HIGH D FOOTBALL ASSISTANT D FOOTBALL JUNIOR HIGH (3) D GOLF, JUNIOR VARSITY D NEWSPAPER. HIGH SCHOOL D SOCCER ASSISTANT, BOYS D SOCCER ASSISTANT, GIRLS D TENNIS, VARSIIY {2) D TENNIS, JUNIOR VARSITY (2) D D D D D %OF BASE

22 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BE1WEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION "EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 THROUGH AUGUST SUPPLEMENTAL DUTIES SALARY SCHEDULES Supplemental Dut1es Us1ed by Tier TIER %OF BASE TRACK. JUNIOR HIGH (21 TRACK ASSISTANT. BOYS TRACK ASSISTANT, GIRLS VOLLEYBALL JUNIOR HIGH (2) VOLLEYBALL ASSISTANT WRESTLING ASSISTANT WRESTLING, JUNIOR HIGH (2) ANNUAL SPONSOR STAGE TECHNICIAN CHOIR DIR!:.CTOR, JH/SH ACADEMIC CHALLENGE AUDIO VISUAL COORDINATOR, HS DANCE TEAM MOCK TRIAL DIRECTOR MUSICAL DIRECTOR MUSICAL PRODUCER/CHOREOGRAPHER AUXILIARY FALL UNIT BAND DIRECTOR, ASSISTANT BAND, PERCUSSION DIRECTOR AUDIO VISUAL COORDINATOR, ELEM. (2) CHOIR DIRECTOR. ELEMENTARY (2) CLASS SPONSOR, JUNIOR CLASS SPONSOR. SENIOR NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY DIRECTOR POWER OF THE PEN SPORT COORDINATORS (3) STUDENT COUNCIL. HS WEIGHT ROOM COORDINATORS (4) CLASS SPONSOR, FRESHMAN CLASS SPONSOR SOPHOMORE DEPARTMENT HEADS (11) ESTEEM TEAM NATIONAL JUNIOR HONOR SOCIETY DIRECTOR PEER TUTORS PLAY DIRECTOR PLAY PRODUCER STUDENT SENATE, JUNIOR HIGH D D D D D D 0 E E F F F F F F F G G G G G G G G G G G G H H H H H H H H H : EXTENDED DAY INSTRUCTION SUMMER INTERVENTION INSTRUCTORS WILKENS & PE ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL SUPERVISOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY SCHOOL ELEMENTARY BAND {INSTRUMENT All DISTANCE LEARNING 21.35/HR /HR 30.00/HR ,

23 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION 2.05 HOSPITAL/SURGICAL/PRESCRIPTION DRUG INSURANCE The Board shall purhase from a arrier liensed by the State of Ohio and seleted by the Greater Cininnati Insurane Consortium, hereinafter referred to as "GCIC", basi hospital/surgial/presription drug insurane :overa~1e, for eah member now or hereafter employed and his/her family, whih meets or exeeds the speifiations outlined in the urrent plan(s) of the GCIC, so long as the Board retains membership in GCIC. Any hanges below the urrent levels of overage shall be agreed to by both parties. Continuation of membership in GCIC for eah shool year shall be determined by July 1 by mutual agreement of the Board and the Assoiation. Failure to r eah mutual agreement to ontinue with GCIC shall be ause to reopen negoti<:1tions for the purpose of obtaining a new arrier and benefits whih meet or exeed the existing plan overed by this setion. The Board shall pay eighty-.five perent (85%) and the individual shall pay fifteen perent (15%) of the total premium ost of this insurane For those who elet this insurane overage, the Board shall provide ontinuous overage from the first day of employment or the earliest date permitted by the arrier through August 31. Uninterrupted overage shall ontinue for the next shool year for those who retain uninterrupted employment in the Distrit. This insurane shall ontinue in effet Cluring absenes due to illness, as speified in the Ohio Revised Code, for whih the member may use suh leaves Members on all unpaid leaves of absene (exept ) may hoo:5e to ontinue partiipation in this group insurane by remitting the premiums to the Board Treasurer. Suh remittane shall not be required more than thirty (30) days in advane. When neessary, premiums on behalf of the member shall be made retroatively or prospetively to assure uninterrupted partiipation and overage DENTAL INSURANCE The Board shall purhase from a arrier liensed by the State of Ohio and seleted by the Greater Cininnati Insurane Consortium, hereinafter refe~rred to as "GCIC", basi dental insurane overage, for eah memi)er now or hereafter employed and his/her family, whih meets or e~:eeds the speifiations outlined in the urrent plan(s) of the GCIC, so long as the Board retains membership in GCIC. Any hanges below the urrent levels of overage shall be agreed to by both parties. Continuation of membership in GCIC for eah shool year shall be determined by July 1 by mutual agreement of the Board and the Assoiation. Failure to reah mutual agreement to ontinue with GCIC shall be ause to re-open negotiations for the purpose of obtaining a new arrier and benefits whih meet or exeed the existing plan overed by this setion of Artile 1. The Board shall pay one hundl ed perent (100%) of the total premium ost of this insurane. 20

24 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BE1WEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION "E'-F,FECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 THROUGH AUGUST 31, For those who elet this insurane overage, the Board shall provide ontinuous overage from the first day of employment or the earliest date permitted by the arrier through August 31. Uninterrupted overage shall ontinue for the next shool year for those who retain uninterrupted employment in the Distrit. This insurane shall ontinue in effet during absenes due to illness, as speified in the Ohio Revised Code, for whih the member may use suh leaves Members on all unpaid leaves of absene (exept ) may hoose to ontinue partiipation in this group insurane by remitting the premiums to the Board Treasurer. Suh remittane shall not be required more than thirty (30) days in advane. When neessary, premiums on behalf of the member shall be made retroatively or prospetively to assure uninterrupted partiipation and overage LIFE INSURANCE/DISABILITY INSURANCE Life lnsura nee The Board shall purhase from a arrier liensed by the State of Ohio and seleted by GCIC (or the Board if it should withdraw from the GCIC) group terrr life insurane for eah member in the amount of forty-nine thousand ($49,000), plus an equal amount of aidental death and dismemberment overage. The full ost of this program shall be paid by the Board The Board shall allow members and/or their spouses to purhase additional amounts of overage at their own expense through payroll dedution. This is ontingent upon the approval and limits of the arrier Members (inluding retirees) who terminate employment after ompletion of a shool year will ontinue to reeive the board-provided portion of life insurane through August 31 of that year. Any additional insurane (purhased per ) will also ontinue through August 31. Eah of these provisions is ontingent upon arrier approval Upon retirement, members may be able to onvert to other life insurane plans. Interested members should ontat the urrent arrier to inquire about this possibility. Disability Insurane The Board shall purhase from a arrier liensed by the State of Ohio and seleted by the Greater Cininnati Insurane Consortium, hereinafter referred to as "GCIC", disability insurane for eah member now or hereafter employed who have five (5) years or less of servie redit in the State Teahers Retirement System of Ohio (STRS). One member obtains five (5) years of servie overage with STRS, the disability insurane overage purhased through GCIC will terminate and member will be eligible for disability benefits through STRS. The Board shall pay one hundred perent (1 00%) of the total premium ost of this insurane. The disability insurane overage shall be provided by the Board as long as the overage is offered by GCIC. 21

25 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION AND READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCA T/ON 2.08 COPIES OF INSURANCE AGREEMENTS Upon request, the Assoiation President shall be provided a opy of the omplete agreements, inluding omplete speifiations for ove1 ages, between the Board of Eduation and Health, Dental, Liability and Life Insurane arriers Copies of said agreements will be provided to the Assoiation upon request within fifteen ( 15) days after the Board reeives any new agreements or hange in an agreement The provision of said agreements shall be in addition to explanatory bociklets, pamphlets, et., provided to the individual ertified employee SALARY/BENEFITS FOR PART-TIME EMPLOYEES Salary Salary for part-time members shall be determined by utilizing a formula whih onsiders atual instrutional time (in minutes) with additional minutes awarded for preparation and onferene, lunh, other non-instrutional time, et. The formula reates a "ratio" between time awarded and instrutional time. The formula allows for Jr./Sr. High Shool personnel to be hired for a speifi number of periods per day or for elementary personnel to be hired for a speifi number of minutes per day. The formula is derived by utilizing the Jr./Sr. High Shool's seven period d;ay as the basis for determining the ratio. For the purpose of this formula, a "pe!riod" is fifty-two (52) minutes in length and shall onstitute 117 of a full work day (as set forth in Setion 4.08 herein whih is 7 hours, 40 minutes or 460 minutes per day), whih equals minutes of "awarded time." This awarded time when divided by 52 minutes yields a ratio of This ratio shall be used to alulate Elementary awarded time (examples 2 and 3 below). 460 min/day min. of awarded time 7 periods = awarded time 52 min. atual time = ratio The salary rate per minute for eah part-time member shall be determined by dividing the member's full-time salary figure (as determined by the Negotiated Salary Shedule and based on the member's degree and step plaement) by the number of minutes in a full work year ( 460 minutes per day times 184 days = 84,640 minutes per year.) Salary 25,896 (BA + 0) Min/yr = rate/min; Example: 84,640 = $.301/min. Ex. #1: Jr./Sr. HS: 2 periods per day at BA + 0 Step awarded min/period x 2 = min/day; x $.301/min. = $39.56/day x 184 days= $ /yr; $ divided by 26 pay periods= $ per pay period. 22

26 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCA TJON ASSOCIATION.f'.FFECTIVE SEPTEMBER THROUGH AUGUST 31, 2012 Ex. #2: Elementary: 45 minutes per day at BA + 0 Step 45 at. instr. min/day x ratio = awarded min/day; min/day x $.301/min. = $17.121/day x 184 days= $ /yr. $ divided by 26 pay periods = $ per pay period Ex. #3: Jr./Sr. HS: 1 period and Elem. working 30 min/day at BA +0 Step Elem = 30 atual minutes x ratio = awarded min. Jr/Sr HS -1 period = awarded min Total awarded minutes awarded min/day x $.301/min. = $31.194/day $31.194/day x 184 days = $ /yr. $ divided by 26 pay periods= $ per pay period Benefits (Hospital and Drug. Dental, Life) Part-time members may elet to partiipate in the fringe benefit programs by paying a pro rata ontribution of the ost of these benefits based upon the ratio between time awarded and a full-time position (% of full-time equivalent - %FTE) less the % paid by the Board as provided in Setions 2.05, 2.06 and 2.07 herein. Partiipation in the insurane benefit programs by part-time members is ontingent upon members working the presribed number of hours per week as aepted by the individual arriers. Hospital and Drug (Example #1 - Member works 3 periods/day) Awarded time= x3per. = min/dayx 184days = 36, min/yr.; 36, min/yr 84,640 full-time min/yr. =.429% FTE.429 %FTE x.90% (per Setion 2.05) =.386% (Board ontribution) Therefore, if monthly premium is $300, then the Board would pay.386% of $300 = $ and the member would pay the balane of $ Dental (Example #2 - Member works 3 periods/day) %FTE =.429% (per above alulations).429 %FTE x 100% (per Setion 2.06) =.429% (Board ontribution) Therefore, if monthly premium is $40.00, then Board would pay.429% of $40.00 = $17.16 and the member would pay the balane of $ Life Insurane The Board shall purhase the full amount of life insurane overage as speified in Setion for any member working half time (i.e., 3 hours and 50 minutes a day) or more per week. The full ost of this program shall be paid by the Board. 23

27 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION 2.10 MILEAGE REIMBURSEMENT The Board shall reimburse members at the rates allowed by the Internal Revenue Servie for any approved aumulated mileage aerued in the performane of their professional duties (regular and/or supplemental) Any mileage aumulated by the member on behalf of the athleti depariment must reeive the prior approval of the athleti diretor and shall be paid to the member out of the Athleti Fund SEVERANCE PAY The Board, pursuant to ORC Setion , shall pay any memberr who elets to retire from teahing the total per diem rate for one-fourth (1/4) of eah aumulated day of sik leave aredited to that member's aount. If a member meets or exeeds two hundred seventy-two (272) days of aumulated sik leave when he/she elets to retire, that member will r <eive seventy-four (74) days Payment, based upon the member's per diem pay at the time of offiial retirement notie to the Board, shall be issued as soon as possible after, but no later than one month following, presentation to the Treasurer of a opy of member's first STRS retirement hek or bank wire notie Per diem rate is defined as: the rate of pay on the member's reglrlar teahing ontrat If a member of the bargaining unit dies while employed by the Board, and at the time of death was eligible to retire and eligible to reeive retirement benefits from STRS or if the member has been employed by the Board for twenty (20) years or more, then in that event, the estate of the deeased employee shall be paid severane pay, in aordane with the severane pay provisions of the Contrat REIMBURSEMENT FOR COLLEGE CREDIT An annual fixed budget of eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000) shall be available for reimbursement for tuition ost inurred by teahers for olrrses ompleted at an aredited university or ollege. All ourses submitte<j for reimbursement must be approved in writing by the Superintendent or Superintendent's designee prior to attending the first day of the ourse or the employee will not be reimbursed The ourse work taken must be in one of the following areas: teaher's field of ertifiation/liensure; and work to maintain/upgrade the teaher's ertifiation/liensure; in the field of tehnology; and work approved by the Loal Professional Development Committee; and other work to be approve1d in advane by the Superintendent. 24

28 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION -~~~-~~--'=E'-'FF CTIVE SEPTEMBER THROUGH AUGUST 31, The amount of reimbursement shall be prorated and determined by the number of teahers partiipating and the amount of ourse work ompleted during the time period of September 1 through August 31 of eah year. The maximum reimbursement any single teaher may reeive pursuant to this provision is one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) Payment shall be issued by the Treasurer's offie on September 15. The teaher is required to provide a opy of the grade report and offiial reeipt from the ollege or aneled hek and must present proof of earned redit (Grade B or better and pass in a pass/fail ourse) by September 1 in order to reeive payment. Suh proof of the grade report and the reeipt from the ollege shall be presented with the form as provided in the appendix of this Agreement approved by the Superintendent who shall authorize payment Tuition reimbursement shall be available to teahers who have ompleted one or more years of teahing experiene with the Board. Teaher must be employed by Reading at the time of reimbursement STRS TAX SHELTER PICK-UP Pursuant to Rulings and of the Internal Revenue Servie and Opinion of the Ohio Attorney General and as restrited by the State Teahers Retirement System (STRS) and the rules of the Board, the ontribution of the member shall be designated as paid by the Board The total annual salary and salary per pay period for eah member shall be the salary otherwise payable under this negotiated Contrat. The total annual salary and salary per pay period of eah member shall be payable by the Board in two (2) parts: (1) Deferred Salary, and (2) Cash Salary. A. Deferred Salary: A member's deferred salary shall be equal to that perentage of said member's annual salary or salary per pay period that is paid to the STRS by the member. This deferred salary shall be paid by the Board to the STRS on behalf of the member as a "pik-up" of the STRS Employee Contribution. B. Cash Salary: A member's ash salary shall be equal to the member's total annual salary or salary per pay period less the amount of the pik-up for the member and shall be payable, subjet to appliable payroll dedutions, to the member No member's total earnings shall be inreased by appliation of this plan nor shall the expenditures of the Board for the member's total annual salary be inreased by appliation of this plan. This provision shall apply uniformly to all members when this plan is implemented The Board shall ompute and remit its employer ontribution to STRS based upon the total annual salary and the salary per pay period, inluding the deferred salary or "pik-up". 25

29 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCA T!ON ASSOCIATION A. The Board shall report for federal and state inome tax purposes as a member's gross inome the member's total annual salary les1s the amount of the deferred salary or "pik-up" for the indiated tax year. B. The Board shall report for muniipal inome tax purposes as a member's gross inome the member's total annual inome, inluding the amount of the deferred salary or "pik-up". C. The Board shall ompute tax withholding based upon gross inome as reported to the respetive authorities The Board agrees to inlude in the member's total annual salary the deferred salary (pik-up) for the purpose of omputing daily rate of pay foi' severane, for determining paid salary and adjustments to be made due to absene, or for any other similar purpose. The deferred salary (pik-up) shall be inluded in the base salary for the purpose of determining supplemental duty salaries RETIREMENT INCENTIVE The Board of Eduation shall provide a retirement inentive payment to any member of the bargaining unit who retires through STRS during the term of this Contrat und~~r the following onditions: Retirement eligibility shall our for one (1) year periods during the term of this Contrat beginning September 1 and ending August 31 of eah year of the Contrat The member must attain thirty (30) years of STRS redited servie durin~! said one (1) year period The member must retire effetive at the ompletion of the shool y aar in whih thirty (30) years of STRS eligibility is attained. Failure to exerise this right shall result in that member's forfeiture of his/her right to a retirement ine,ntive as set forth herein The member must give the Board of Eduation written notie of his/her intention to retire on or before April 1 of the year in whih the member shall attain thirty (30) years of STRS servie eligibility A. Upon reahing thirty (30) years of servie and no later than the end of shool year employee reahes thirty (30) years of servie, teaher must retire. B. Severane shall be at sixty perent (60%) of a maximum of three hundred (300) sik days paid out at one-third (1/3) of the amount on September 1 of the year of retirement, one-third (113) at January 1 of the following year, and one-third (1/3) at January 1 of the next year. 26

30 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIA TJON =EF""-F=E=--CT"-IV'-=E EPTEMBER 1, 2010 THROUGH AUGUf?!'-'3'-'1'-'. 2"'0_,_,12" ~ C. Any urrent employee who has more than thirty (30) years of servie may take advantage of this retirement inentive provided the written resignation is reeived by the Board prior to May 30, 2008 to be effetive June 30, Said retirement inentive payment shall be paid to the member on the last sheduled pay date in January of the next alendar year following retirement 2.15 EARLY NOTIFICATION RETIREMENT BONUS Any teaher who submits his/her letter of resignation for retirement purposes in aordane with the requirements provided herein shall be eligible to reeive a ompensation bonus of one thousand dollars ($1,000). Said ompensation shall be paid no later than fifteen (15) days after separation of employment A teaher retiring at the ompletion of the first semester must submit his/her written letter of resignation to the Superintendent no later than June 15 prior to the shool year the teaher retires A teaher retiring at the ompletion of the seond semester must submit his/her written letter of resignation to the Superintendent no later than January 15 of the shool year the teaher retires SECTION 125 PLAN Employees will be able to partiipate in a flexible benefit plan provided by the Board operating within the guidelines of the Internal Revenue Servie Code Setion 125. Tax free reimbursement for qualified expenses related to (1) employee premiums for medial and dental insurane, (2) dependent hildare and (3) non-reimbursed out-of-poket medial and health are expenses should be inluded in the plan The Board shall retain the servies of a third party administrator to oversee and administer the plan The Board shall establish information sessions for employees during the annual enrollment period. The third party administrator will then shedule individual information sessions with interested employees. The plan will begin as soon as the information and sign-up sessions have been ompleted This plan will be available to employees so long as it is made available by the Internal Revenue Servie or until suh time as it is negotiated to be removed from this Agreement This plan shall be made available to additional employee partiipation during the annual enrollment period. 27

31 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION AND READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCA T/ON ARTICLE Ill: LEAVES 3.01 SICK LEAVE Eah member, with the approval of the Superintendent, shall be granted sik leave with pay for eah ompleted month of servie at a rate of one and onefourth (1.25) days per month. Members who have not attained maximum allowable sik leave aumulation as listed in Setion 2.11 and terminate employment after ompletion of a shool year will ontinue to aumulate sik leave at the above rate through August of that year for up to a maximum of fifteen (15) days for any shool year. Retirees will be awarded two and onehalf (2.5) additional days (for July and August) with their Jun ;J sik leave awarded Members may use sik leave for absene due to the following reasons: A. Personal Illness B. Personal injury, pregnany related illness C. Exposure to ontagious disease whih ould be ommuniated to other employees or students. D. Illness, injury or death of immediate family defined as: spouse, m-other, father, son(s), daughter(s), grandparents, or other person(s) living under the member's roof. Sik leave may be used for siblings and in-laws in ases of serious and/or atastrophi illnesses. Illness, injury or death of a member of the immediate family (as defined) is to be harged against sik leave unless a member's sik leave is exhausted in whih a:se personal business leave an be used as a bak-up to sik leave The previously aumulated sik leave of a member who has been separated from the publi servie shall be plaed to his/her redit upon his/her reemployment in the publi servie A member who transfers from one publi ageny shall be redited with the unused balane of his/her aumulated sik leave, not to exeed the amounts set forth below Unused sik leave may aumulate to a maximum of three hundred (300) lays Members may use sik leave in frations of a workday as follows:.25 day.50 day.75 day 1.00 day = = = = 0 hrs. 0 min. to 1 hr. 55 min. 1 hr. 56 min. to 3 hrs. 50 min. 3 hrs. 51 min. to 5 hrs. 45 min. 5 hrs. 46 min. to 7 hrs. 40 min. 28

32 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION..=EEFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 THROUGH AUGUST day = parent/teaher onferene days. (If onferenes are made up [on member's own time outside the regular shool day and at times doumented and mutually agreed upon by the member and building prinipal], then the member shall only be harged for one [1] day.) 3.02 PERSONAL BUSINESS LEAVE Number of Days and Types Eah member, with the approval of the Superintendent, may be granted personal leave. This leave shall not be deduted from the member's sik leave. There will be a total of three (3) personal leave days per year per member. These days shall be unrestrited. Personal days whih are not used during the year will be rolled into the member's sik leave Building Daily Limitations No more than ten perent (10%) of the staff at eah elementary building, ten perent (10%) of the staff at the middle shool, and ten perent (10%) of the staff at the high shool may use personal leave on any given day. Members assigned to more than one building and/or part-time members shall be exluded from this formula. Personal leave will not be granted for less than one-half (.50) day End of the Year Members who are parents of hildren attending shool may wish to attend their hild's end of the year reognition programs or other similar type ativities during the end of the shool year. The Board reognizes and supports this desire, but prefers personal leave not be used for this purpose; rather, it is suggested that members make arrangements with fellow members to over assignments during these absenes so long as arrangements are approved by the building prinipal. Members who over for other members must do so with the understanding that it is without ompensation or redit as outlined in Artile IV, Setion or Proedures to be Followed for Approval of Personal Leave A. Exept in ases of emergeny, a written HR kiosk request must be submitted to the supervising prinipal at least one (1) week in advane. B. The member shall be notified by the supervising prinipal in a timely manner. C. If request is denied, the member may request review by the Superintendent or designee. If leave is of an emergeny nature, an advane request is waived; however, a personal leave request form must 29

33 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION be ompleted within three (3) days after the teaher's return to work and submitted to the supervising prinipal in order for the teaher to reeive reimbursement for the time off duty. D. Request and approval of personal leave days shall be approved on a first ome basis. Approval of teaher's request for personal leave usage annot be withdrawn one granted unless emergeny or mitigating irumstanes exist Teaher may not request usage of pe rsonal leave more than one (1) week prior to the ommenement of any shool' year. Personal leave shall not be taken on the following days, exept as provided below: 1. Days in whih a regularly-sheduled Distrit meeting, inservie or parent-teaher onferene or professional development is sheodule. 2. The day immediately following or preeding a holiday or vaation, on the first or last day of the shool year, or days in whih a state mandated ahievement test is sheduled. 3. Prior to the seond Monday in September and during the first and last ten ( 1 0) instrutional days of the shool year. E. Personal leave may be disallowed by the building prinipal if it would unduly interrupt or hamper the funtioning of the instrutional proess. Exeptions may be approved solely by the Superintendent or designee upon request 3.03 ASSAULT LEAVE In order to qualify for assault leave with pay whih shall not be harged a~1ainst sik leave or against other leave under ORC Setion , t11e following guidelines shall be observed: A. Inident resulting in the absene due to the physial disability of the member to perform the duties for whih he/she has been employed must have arisen out of a situation determined to have been within the sope of the employment with the Board. B. The determination as to whether or not the physial disability 11s the result of an assault whih ourred in the ourse of Board employm<3nt shall be made by the responsible administrative offier or his/her designee. However, the member must seure from a person liensed to pratie mediine in the state in whih he/she has an established pratie, ertified data as to the injury sustained in any assault laimed as a basis for assault leave. It is preferable that the member's own personal medial pratitioner make this determination. 30

34 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCA TJON ASSOCIATION -~~~-----'=E'-'-FFECTIVE SEPTEMBER THROUGH AUGUST If the preeding determinations are established to have been a physial disability resulting from an assault whih ourred in the ourse of Board employment, the period of time the member will be maintained on a full pay status during the period of suh absene shall be for a maximum of thirty (30) days and shall not be aumulative The return of any member from authorized assault leave shall be prediated on the establishment by the member of his/her fitness to return to duty following the same method assault leave was authorized in the first instane; i.e., namely a determination by the responsible administrative offier or his/her designee based on the member's ertifiate from a person liensed to pratie mediine that the member who previously had been adjudged to have a physial disability that prevented his/her from performing his/her normal duties, may now return to duties similar to those performed prior to going on assault leave All earnings paid to a member under authorized assault leave shall be in lieu of lost time benefits payable under Workers Compensation Insurane; provided, however, that nothing herein preluded the member from applying for hospital and medial benefits under Workers Compensation Insurane PROFESSIONAL GROWTH LEAVE Professional Growth Leave will be overed in aordane with Ohio Revised Code if and when appliable CHILD CARE LEAVE Upon the written request of a member, the Board shall grant hild are leave without pay. Suh leave shall not exeed two (2) onseutive semesters. Under extremely unusual irumstanes, up to two (2) additional onseutive semesters may be granted by the Superintendent. Unless speifially approved by the Superintendent, request for hild are leave is to our within three (3) years of the birth of a member's hild. A. The member's written request for hild are leave must inlude starting and termination dates, and must be submitted at least thirty (30) alendar days prior to the effetive date of suh leave. B. A member not ompleting one hundred and twenty ( 120) atual work days or more during the shool year due to taking hild are leave will not reeive a year of servie for salary step inrease purposes. Sik and other fully paid leave days are ounted as atual work days. C. A member granted a hild are leave shall be returned to the member's original position if the leave is for one (1) semester or less, provided that the member is still under ontrat with the shool distrit. A member granted hild are leave for more than one ( 1) semester shall be returned to the member's original position, if available, or one of a similar position, provided that the member is still under ontrat with the distrit 31

35 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION D. The date of return from hild are leave shall oinide with the beginning of the semester following the leave unless otherwise approved by the Superintendent Child are leave shall not exeed the term of a member's ontrat nor shall hild are leave be a reason for non-renewal or termination of a member's ontrat ADOPTION LEAVE Any member shall, upon written request, reeive an unpaid leave of absene for the adoption of a hild with the following onditions: A If the hild is under the age of five (5), the leave shall be up to two (2) onseutive semesters. B. If the hild is five (5) years old or more, the leave shall not exeed one (1) shool semester A member granted an adoption leave shall be returned to his/her o1 iginal position if the leave is for one (1) semester or less, provided that the member is still under ontrat with the distrit. A member granted adoption leave for more than one (1) semester shall be returned to his/her original position, if available, or one of a similar position provided that the member is still under ontra:t with the distrit The date of return from adoption leave shall oinide with the beginning of the semester following the leave unless otherwise approved by the Superintendent Adoption leave shall not exeed the term of a member's ontra.t nor shall adoption leave be a reason for nonrenewal or termination of ;a member's ontrat MILITARY LEAVE Federal and state regulations will be followed when appliable PROFESSIONAL LEAVE A member, upon the approval of the Superintendent, or his/her designee, may be granted professional leave to improve his/her professional sope and knowledge. This leave shall not be deduted from the member's sik leave or personal business leave and is not aumulative Proedures to be followed for approval of professional leave: 32

36 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDIJCA TION ASSOCIATION A. A written HR kiosk request must be submitted to the building prinipal at least ten ( 1 0) days in advane. Forms an be obtained from the building seretary. B. Upon approval, the building prinipal shall forward the request to the Superintendent/designee. C. After the request has been reviewed, the member will be notified of approval or denial Possible reasons for granting professional leave: A. To attend professional workshops, onferenes, onventions, and/or seminars. B. To attend, with the prinipal's approval, meetings with individuals. businesses, et., that diretly relate to the member's work ativities. C. For visiting other shools to view exemplary programs. D. To attend meetings of professional organizations Upon returning from the onferene or onvention, the member should submit immediately a resume of the expenses inurred while attending. Reeipted bills must be submitted. He/she should understand that if he/she is traveling by automobile, he/she will be reimbursed at the rate set forth in Setion 2.10 (Mileage Reimbursement) herein Finally, the member should submit to his/her building prinipal, as soon as possible, a written report outlining the subjet of the onvention, and any possible appliation of the knowledge he/she gained to this/her own employment situation or to the Reading Community City Shools in general JURY DUTY/COURT APPEARANCE Eah member who reports for, and/or who serves on, a jury(ies) on a member workday shall reeive his/her full salary while serving on jury duty and shall retain jury duty fees paid to his/her for serving on a jury Any member who is subpoenaed to an administrative hearing and/or ourt involving a matter arising out of the performane of his/her ontratual duties when the Assoiation or the member is not a party to the proeeding shall reeive no Joss in salary while responding to said subpoena and, additionally, shall retain as his/her own any witness fees paid to his/her for responding to said subpoena. 33

37 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ARTICLE IV: GENERAL WORKING CONDITIONS 4.01 CONTRACTS All members employed by the Board shall be issued written ontrats in aordane with the Ohio Revised Code Suh ontrats shall inlude the following information: A. Name of member. B. Name of shool distrit and board of eduation employing said member. C. Type of ontrat, limited or ontinuing. If limited, the number of years ontrat is to be in effet. D. Annual ompensation to be paid for the f1rst year of the ontrat. E. Basis of determining ompensation (i.e., lassroom teaher, B.A. dogree, 5 years experiene). F. Number of pay days. G. A provision setting forth the beginning date of the ontrat and the length in years of the ontrat, speifially: "An agreement entered into between the BOARD OF EDUCATIOIN OF THE READING CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, HAMIL TON COUNTY, OHIO, and as a teaher beginning _, and ontinuing in full fore and effet for a period of year(s) or until within said period the said teaher resigns, elets to retire, or is retired pursuant to the Revised Code of Ohio or until this ontrat is terminated or suspended as provided by law and/or Board poliy." H. The ontrat shall inlude provisions for the signatures of the Board President, the Board Treasurer, the member, and date of signing by the member Continuing Contrat Eligibility Not later than Otober 1 of eah year, the Superintendent or his/her desi9nee shall notify the staff in writing of the qualifiations and requirements neessary for ontinuing ontrat status. If a teaher provides written notie of eligibility of ontinuing ontrat to the administration/superintendent after Otot>er 15, said teaher shall be required to sign a statement waiving Artile V, SE!Ction 5.01, Subsetion (C)(1) of this Contrat. Teaher shall be aligible for ontinuing ontrat nor be deemed employed on a ontinuing eontrat by operation of law unless the teaher, no later than Otober 31, files with the Superintendent or his/her designee, a Jetter of intent that they will m~let all legal 34

38 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION,E,_F,_,FE=-"C-:_T,_,IV-"'E-"'S'='EP_,_,TEMBER THROUGH AUGUST qualifiations of a ontinuing ontrat prior to reeipt of a new ontrat for the following year. Failure to provide written notie of ontinuing ontrat eligibility by Otober 31 may result in the teaher reeiving a one (1) year limited ontrat. Suh one ( 1) year limited ontrat shall be onsidered an extended limited ontrat in aordane with the provisions of ORC Grades and transripts proving eligibility for ontinuing ontrat status must be reeived by the Superintendent or his/her designee prior to April 15. All provisions of this Setion shall supersede and replae ORC , , and where appliable SUPPLEMENTAL CONTRACTS All members assigned additional responsibilities and granted additional ompensation for suh responsibilities shall be given a written ontrat that is in addition to their regular ontrat, in keeping with the Ohio Revised Code. Job desriptions shall be issued at the time of appliation Suh supplemental ontrat shall inlude the following information: A. Name of said member. B. Name of the shool distrit and board of eduation for whih responsibilities shall be performed. C. Year ontrat is to be in fore. D. The total ompensation for the supplemental ontrat. E. Provisions for the signature of the Board President, the Board Treasurer, the member, and date of signing by the member. F. Job title Separate ontrats will be provided for eah additional duty The ontrat must be signed and returned by the member within ten ( 1 0) days after reeipt, otherwise the offer of the ontrat may be withdrawn by the Board Compensation shall be paid in two (2) equal payments: one midway through the duty, and one at the onlusion of the duty The Board shall purhase motor vehile insurane in aordane with ORC Setion Positions may be split upon the reommendation of the Superintendent and approved by the Board. 35

39 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION 4.03 PAY PERIODS & PAYDAYS The salary of a member shall begin at the time he/she reports for duty Members will be paid bi-weekly in twenty-six (26) equal installments over a twelve (12) month period. However, it may be neessary to have one threeweek pay period approximately one every seven years to avoid hav'tng twentyseven payrolls within the same fisal year The final payment hek will be issued only after a member has finished his/her regularly assigned duties to the satisfation of his/her supervisor Employees' salaries shall be paid by eletroni funds transfer (diret deposit) POSITION ASSIGNMENTS AND TRANSFERS The Superintendent shall, in aordane with ORC and this Contrat, make position assignments and transfers in the Reading Community City Shool Distrit. The emphasis in making suh assignments will be plaed upon building and/or distrit need and proper ertifiation Prior to the end of the shool year, eah prinipal or designee will meet with eah member of his/her staff to disuss proposed assignments for the next shool year If during the ourse of the summer, the proposed assignment or transfer of a member hanges, said member will be notified as soon as it is known, but not later than August 20. If notified after f-ugust 20, a substitute or aide will be provided, if requested, to assist member for up to two (2) days at the beginning of the shool year Prior to the beginning of the next shool year, members will be sent a notie of their assignment If requested by the member, a onferene shall be held with the Superintendent and/or his/her designee to disuss the reason(s) for a hange in assignment TRANSFERS MEMBER PREFERENCE Eah member being transferred will be made aware of potential openings available in the distrit for whih he/she has proper ertifiation and may express his/her preferene Voluntary transfers will be made whenever the speifi needs of the partiular situation an be met. 36

40 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION AND READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT SOARD OF EDUCATION ~-~~-~_.E,_F:..FE,CTIVE SEPTEMBER THROUGH AUGUST VACANCIES (REGULAR AND SUPPLEMENTAL) The Board shall prepare and maintain a perpetual listing, hereinafter referred to as the "list" or "listing" of position vaanies, administrative openings, new positions and/or supplemental duty positions. Suh "listing" shall be posted in the Board offie and opies sent to the Assoiation President and on the Distrit's website and . The website and listings shall be updated weekly Vaanies shall be time-dated upon reeipt and added to the "listing" on the next sheduled Board offie workday following reeipt of a notie of vaany (i.e. resignation, leave of absene, retirement, nonrenewal, suspension, or termination). In the ase of a newly reated position, the vaany will appear on the "list" at the time the position is reated Positions will be held vaant for at least five (5) Board offie workdays after posting on the "list" during whih time properly ertifiated member/appliants will be given onsideration. Other appliants not urrently employed by Reading Community City Shools will be onsidered after the five (5) day period has expired. Note: During the summer reess, positions will be held vaant for seven (7) days per Setion (B) Any member who wishes to apply for a vaant position, administrative opening, new position and/or supplemental duty position, shall do so in writing in dupliate to the offie of the Superintendent. The Superintendent's offie shall time-date appliations upon reeipt and return one (1) opy to the member All vaant positions, administrative openings, new positions and/or supplemental duty positions whih open during the summer reess, shall be plaed on the "listing" and posted in the Board offie. Copies of the "listing" shall also be mailed to the home of the Assoiation President. Members who wish to be onsidered for vaant positions, administrative openings, new positions and/or supplemental duty positions whih open during the summer reess, shall notify the Superintendent by written letter prior to the end of the aademi shool year, and he/she shall be notified in writing if said openings our Per the Ohio Revised Code, vaanies and hirings an only our through offiial Board ation at a regular or speial Board meeting. Therefore, all vaanies will our and be filled with the mutual understanding that they are tentative, pending Board approval If a vaany ours within seven (7) Board offie workdays prior to the beginning of the shool year or within seven (7) Board offie workdays after the beginning of the shool year, the position need not be posted. 37

41 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BE7WEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIA T/ON In the event a vaany ours in a "ritial" position in a untimely manner and in the opinion of the Board the position must be filled immediately, the Superintendent, after onsultation with the Assoiation President and with the onsent of the Assoiation, may waive any aforementioned waitin~1 periojs and fill the position immediately REQUESTS BY MEMBERS TO RETAIN SUPPLEMENTAL DUTY POSITIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING SCHOOL YEAR Members who wish to retain urrently held supplemental duty positions for the following shool year shall submit a letter in dupliate to the Superintendent's offie by April 1. The Superintendent's offie shall time-date letters upon reeipt and return one ( 1) opy to the member. Failure of members to "reapply" for urrently held positions by April 1 will be ause for said positions to be posted on the list. Joint reminders will be sent by the Reading Eduation Assoiation and administration no later than Marh If possible, the Board shall at by June 30 on ativities whih be9in before or during the first semester and by Deember 31 on ativities whih begin during the seond semester Nothing ontained herein provides the member any expetation of ontinued employment in a supplemental position and supplemental position shall ~xpire upon the ompletion of the ontrat terms MEMBER WORKDAY/WORK YEAR The workday for all members shall be seven hours and forty minute s (7 hrs., 40 min.), the time to be established by the building prinipal. Members must be available for all meetings, within reason. A. Members are required to remain in the building during the workday; provided, however, that during any given lunh period, one (1) member will be permitted to leave the premises. If neessary to leave the premises, prior permission must be obtained from the building prinipal. B. Eah member will have a thirty (30) minute duty-free lunh period eah day The member work year shall be one hundred eighty-four (184) days. A. Should the Board determine to inrease the number of workdays in a work year, the Board shall inrease the salary shedule then in effet on a basis whih reflets the perentage of additional days added by an amount equal to the per diem rate of eah member. To reflet the! per diem rate in the salary shedule the following formula will be utilized to reate a revised salary shedule: Total days divided by 184, multiplie~d by urrent base"' revised base. 38

42 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ~~~~-~--'E='-F'-FE,_,Ce_:T_:IV""-E, S.EPTEMBER 1, 2010 THROUGH AUGUST 31, 2012 B. Any inrease in the number of days in a work year shall be in onseutive days at the beginning or end of the shool year Preparation and Conferene Time A. Middle Shool and Senior High Shool Members shall reeive one ( 1) period per day for preparation and onferene time. B. Elementary Shool Members shall reeive a m1mmum of two hundred (200) minutes per week for preparation and onferene time. C. Part time Members who work less than full time shall reeive preparation and onferene time on a pro-rata basis. D. Members who travel between buildings shall have preparation and onferene time on a pro-rata basis per building and sheduled by the prinipals involved REDUCTION IN FORCE If it beomes neessary to redue the teahing staff due to dereased enrollment of pupils, return to duty of regular teaher after leaves of absene, urriulum hanges, or for finanial reasons as determined by the Board, suh redution shall be aomplished as follows: A. Temporary teahers (i.e., those who are replaing members presently on leave.) B. Teahers on limited ontrats in the area(s) of ertifiation/liensure to be redued, by seniority. C. Tenured teahers aording to ertifiation/liensure. seniority, and qualifiation Seniority will be defined as: A. Total number of ontinuous ontratual years in the Reading Community City Shool Distrit, inluding approved leave for professional growth. In the event of other leave of absene, the teaher shall retain the seniority held at the time of leave and shall begin with that seniority upon returning to teahing. B. Total number of years of teahing servie shall ontrol when teahers have an equal number of years of ontinuous servie with the distrit. 39

43 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION C. Tie breaker. 1. Date of hire. 2. Date appliation reeived Other onsiderations: A. The Board will prepare a list of ertifiated members to be terminated when it determines that layoffs are neessary. B. Teahers who resign their positions and are later reemployed shall lose that seniority aquired before resignation. C. Inasmuh as possible, normal attrition will be used. That is, vaanies will be filled by qualified member, if available. D. Teahers who are laid off will be realled in reverse order of layoff to fill openings as they our, if the teaher is properly ertifiated. When a teaher is notified of an opening, he/she will immediately state whellher or not he/she is available to take the position. The teaher must aceipt the offer of a ontrat within five (5) days or his/her name will be removed from the list. E. The reall list shall be maintained for a period of two (2) years. Thereafter, a teaher on layoff shall lose his/her right to reall. F. The Board will maintain a seniority list within eah area of ertifiation. G. Displaement rights shall be exerised by all teahers within their respetive ontrat status (ontinuing ontrat, tenured, or limited ontrat) with no non-tenured teaher exerising displa:ement over tenured teahers. Displaement shall be limited to areas of l!he teaher's ertifiation All provisions of this Artile supersedes and replaes ORC PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS The following payroll dedutions are permitted: A. Retirement B. REA, SWOEA, OEA, NEA dues C. All required Federal, State and Loal Taxes D. Tax Sheltered Annuities (in aordane with urrent IRS guide!iines) E. Credit Union F. FCPE G. United Way H. Deferred Compensation Plans as offered by the Board of Eduation I. Ohio College Advantage Plan (529 Plan) J. Setion 125 Plans (Medial and Dependent Care) 40

44 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION "E'-'FF_,E,CT!:_VE"-""SE=P..T'='EM""B"'E""R'-"-1, ~01 0 THROUGH AUGUST 31, Tax dedutions on lump sum payment for leaves, resignations, et. shall be based upon the annual inome Changes in payroll dedutions, suh as hanges in number of dependents for inome tax purposes, must be made in writing to the offie of the Board Treasurer Payroll dedutions for REA, SWOEA, OEA, NEA dues must be made in writing to the offie of the Board Treasurer no later than November 1. The first of twenty (20) equal onseutive dedutions will be made beginning with the seond pay in Otober. Suh authorization shall ontinue in effet until suh time that the member gives written anellation notie to the Board Treasurer or employment with the Board terminates. Written notie of anellation of payroll dedutions for REA. SWOEA, OEA, and NEA dues must be reeived by the Board Treasurer no later than Otober Members employed after Otober 15 shall have the right to request payroll dedutions for professional dues within the first two (2) pay periods after employment. The dedution shedule shall be the same as provided by Setion herein, exept on a prorated basis PERSONNEL FILES There shall be established and maintained one (1) offiial file on ali members. This file will be maintained in the Board Offie Changes in a member's personal status shall be made part of his/her offiial file (hange in residene, marital status, et.). Eah member will be responsible for fonnarding suh information to the Board Offie If and when a member and the Superintendent or building prinipal agree that there is adequate evidene that ertain material in said member's offiial file is irrelevant, inappropriate or false, or if validity of the omplaint is sustained by the problem solving proedure, suh material shall be removed from the file, or orreted Personnel files shall be privileged and shall be open to inspetion by the publi in aordane with the provisions of Ohio Revised Code Member shall be notified of request for inspetion If a member disagrees with any material in his/her file, he/she shall have the right to submit a written response to suh material and his/her response shall be attahed to the offiial file opy Anonymous letters or materials shall not be plaed in a member's file, nor shall they be made a matter of reord Letters of reommendation and other related information used for initial employment are items not to be retained in personnel files or maintained by the Board or the administration, exept for the following: 41

45 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION A Offiial transript of ollege work. B. Copies of ertifiation authorized by the Ohio State D<epartment of Eduation The personnel file shall be in ompliane with ORC ThH Assoiation President shall have aess to the personnel information system file. He/she may opy any information therein A separate file shall be kept in eah shool building. It shall be open for inspetion by the individual member and is to ontain neessary information inluding, but not limited to: A. Transripts B. Certifiation/liensure C. Evaluation forms The member shall reeive a opy of any item plaed in his/her personnel file Members shall have aess to his/her personnel file upon reasonable notie (within five [5] days of request). Requests of members to have aess to their personnel files shall be handled by the Superintendent, building prinipal, or the Board Treasurer A member shall be entitled to a opy of any material in his/her file at no ost PROFESSIONAL & CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS The Board enourages members to atively partiipate in meetings of loal, sta!el and national professional organizations. Through membership and partiipation, at no ost to the Board, the staff of the Reading Community City Shool Distrit an benefit from these organizations PROCEDURE FOR RECONSIDERATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAl" In the event that any itizen has a omplaint or question onerning material us,ed in onjuntion with a lass and/or library, the following poliy shall be used to handle suh onerns If a itizen alls the Board Offie, the Superintendent. or building prinipal with a onern about material: A The individual responding to the itizen shall get the name, address and phone number of the itizen and inform the itizen of the following: 42

46 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 THROUGH AUGUST 31, The member onduting the lass. 2. Times during the day when the member ould be reahed to answer any questions. 3. That there exists a formal poliy for reonsideration of materials. B. The member shall be informed of any initial inquiries and/or omplaints If the itizen ontats the member: A. The member shall attempt to answer any questions the itizen may have. B. The itizen shall be mailed or given diretly a opy of the "Citizen's Request for Reonsideration of Instrutional Material" form whih follows this proedure If the itizen ompletes the form referred to in Setion (B) above, and returns it to the member, this proedure will be followed: A. A Review Committee shall be established by the prinipal that shall inlude the following persons: 1. Prinipal; 2. Department Chairperson (if appliable); 3. Additional Member; 4. Superintendent/designee. B. All members of the Review Committee shall familiarize themselves with the material in questions. C. The prinipal shall all a meeting of the members of the Review Committee, the member, and the itizen. During this meeting the itizen shall inform the Committee of any and all objetions to the materials. The member shall inform the Committee of the use of the material, how it was reeived by the lass, why it was hosen, whether the hoies of materials were given to the students, and any other information requested by the Review Committee pertinent to the situation. D. After hearing all of the information, the Review Committee shall render a deision onerning the material in question, and supply opies of its deision to the itizen, the member, the Superintendent, and to the Board. A opy of this shall also be available for publi information and filed in the Superintendent's offie. 43

47 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOLS REQUEST FOR RECONSIDERATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL (Citizens or staff members should use this format in submitting "Requests for Reonsideration" to the supervising prinipal.) PUBLISHER REQUEST INITIATED BY COMPLAINANT REPRESENTS: HIMSELF/HERSELF OTHEH 1. To what do you objet? (Please be speifi, ite pages, passages, et.) 2. What do you feel might be the result of exposure to this material? 3. For what age group would you reommend this material? 4. In your opinion, is there anything good about this material, any redeeming quality? 5. If the objet of this omplaint is printed material, have you read it through? If not, what portions have you read? 6. Have you had an opportunity to beome familiar with the judgement of professional evaluators onerning this material? 7. What do you believe is the theme, the entral text of this material? 8. What would you like the shool to do about this material? Do not assign it to my hild. Withdraw it from irulation and use. 9. What material of equal quality, or with as effetive a presentation of salient fats would you reommend in its plae? 10. Comments: 44

48 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION AS SOCIA T/ON "EFF=E,_,C:_T:_:.IV=.E""SE=.P_T=oEM'="B=EFl THROUGH AUGUST 31, INTERNAL SUBSTITUTION Middle Shool/High Shool A member at the Middle Shool or High Shool may be required by his/her supervisor to substitute during his/her preparation period for an absent staff member not more than one ( 1) time per shool year without additional ompensation. After the first time, the member who substituted shall be paid at the rate of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per preparation period Elementary Shool A. If a member at an elementary building is required by his/her supervisor to substitute during his/her "speial" period for an absent staff member, a member shall be ompensated at the rate of $.3846 per minute. Jr./Sr. High Shool rate = $25.00 = $.3846/minute Period 48 min. B. If a member at the elementary building is required by his or her supervisor to aept students as a result of splitting for one-quarter (.25) day or more of lasses due to lak of a substitute teaher, he/she will be ompensated at a rate of twelve dollars and fifty ents ($12.50) per hour per teaher POLICY HANDBOOK The Assoiation President and eah shool professional library shall have a urrent opy of the Board poliy manual in regard to teaher poliies. Additions and noties of deletions to existing poliies will be distributed to the Assoiation President within twenty (20) workdays after they are approved by the Board CURRICULUM AND INTERVENTION Members aepting an administrative appointment to write or revise urriulum or to provide interventional-based instrution shall be paid thirty dollars ($30.00) per hour LOCAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE Members serving on the Loal Professional Development Committee (LPDC) shall be paid seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00) per year MENTORING No member shall be assigned as a mentor without his/her onsent Mentoring is not onsidered a regular duty as overed by the teahing ontrat of any teaher, and shall be a voluntarily-aepted assignment. 45

49 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION No member shall be negatively evaluated beause of his/her refusal to aept a mentoring assignment All ommuniations between the mentor and the mentored teaher shall be onfidential Mentors shall not evaluate mentored teahers. Administrators shall not request/require that the mentor provide any evaluative information about mentored teahers The Board shall provide the mentor with all the neessary trainin\j through the State Department of Eduation before the mentoring proess begins The ompensation for mentors shall be seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750.00) per year The ompensation for lead mentors shall be one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) DISCIPLINARY ACTION Progressive Disipline The Superintendent shall have the right to disipline, inluding suspemsion without pay for up to five (5) days for just ause. The Superintendent agrees that, in general, it will follow the priniples of progressive disipline with respet to ourrenes other than those listed below, that is, an employee annot be suspended for an offense unless he has first been suspended for the same offense. In imposing disipline on a urrent harge, the Superintendent will not take into aount any prior written warning whih ourred more than one (1) year prior to the urrent harge, or a prior suspension whih ourred more than two (2) years prior to the urrent harge, unless the employee has aumulated other warnings or suspensions during the one year period or two year period, respetively Disiplinary Hearing Before a suspension of any employee overed by this Master Contrat beomes effetive, a hearing shall be held at whih the employee may present his ase. The employee and the Assoiation shall be notified of the reason for the suspension. In the ase of suspension, the hearing shall bel before the Superintendent and take plae no later than three (3) days following ree>ipt of suh notie. At suh hearing the employee affeted may be represented by the Assoiation. The employee shall be given a reasonable opportunity to pnesent evidene on his behalf Representation When an employee is alled before management for any disussion that may lead to or result in disiplinary ation against suh employee, the Assoiation will be permitted to be present. The Board/administration shall advise said employee of his/her rights under this Setion. 46

50 NE3GOTIATE3D MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ~~-~~-~~-=E'-'FF-"'E3"'C-"Ti-'-=VESE3PTEM8ER THROUGH AUGUST 31 _20'-"12~--~ Serious Offenses Notwithstanding any of the above, it is understood that the above disiplinary steps do not apply to the more serious offenses and ondut listed below: A. Insubordination, refusal to obey orders or instrutions as issued by management and refusal to perform assigned work. Confliting orders or instrutions shall be applied by ranking supervision. B. Bring intoxiants or ontrolled substanes into, or onsuming same, in the Board's vehiles and buildings and other properties or being under the influene of same while at work. C. Fighting during working hours or the use of insulting or abusive language toward the publi, supervisors, or fellow employees. D. Dishonesty or stealing, either from the Board, the publi, or its employees, and forging or falsifying time ards and other douments and/or reports. E. Causing injury to a fellow employee or destrution of a fellow employee's property or Board property through deliberate ation or gross negligene. F. Any willful violation of safety rules and regulations. G. Immoral ondut. H. Offenses similar in nature of the offenses listed above for whih in the judgement of the Superintendent the progressive disipline proedure is not appropriate. Violation of any of the above-mentioned items may be ause for immediate suspension or dismissal Filing A Grievane A. Any employee laiming that he has been disiplined or disharged without ause must present a grievane in writing within five (5) working days after suh disiplinary ation was taken, or his laim will be waived. Said grievane shall be submitted a Step of the grievane proedure. B. In the event of a grievane over the suspension of an employee is taken to arbitration, the arbitrator's deision shall be binding on all parties, provided, however, that the arbitrator shall be limited to determining, in the ase where the disiplinary ation involved was taken under the progressive disipline provisions of this Master Contrat, that said progressive disipline provisions were followed and that the event or inident upon whih the disiplinary ation being taken is based ourred; or determining, in the ase where the disiplinary ation is being taken for one of the reasons set forth in the Master Contrat as grounds for immediate suspension that the event or inident upon whih the disiplinary ation is based ourred. 47

51 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCA T/ON ASSOCIATION Without Just Cause Should it be determined that any employee was disiplined or disharged without just ause, he shall be restored to his former status. In the event bak pay is awarded, the Board shall have the right to redit against any bak pay awarded any earnings, ompensation or remuneration reeived by the employee from any soure during the period involved DISTRICT INSERVICE The Board and the Assoiation agree that all teahers are required to omplete at least four (4) hours of professional development opportunities eah alendar year. There will be one (1) hour per quarter mandatory distrit direted inservie. On that day there will be an early dismissal of students with meetings beginning at 2:05 p.m. and lasli1ng no later than 4:05 p.m. at the high shool, and beginning at 2:20 p.m. and lasting no later than 4:20 p.m. at the elementary shool. When there are joint meetings (high shool and elementary shool), the meetings will begin at 2:05 p.m. and last no later than 4:05 p.m HIRING OF RETIRED TEACHERS If the Board elets to employ individuals who have retired and are reeiving bemefits through the State Teahers Retirement System, the onditions set forth in this Artile and only the onditions set forth in this Artile shall apply to the employment of these individuals: The salary to be paid to the returning teaher shall be based on the appropriate plaement on the urrent teaher salary shedule training olumn with a maximum of ten (1 0) years of experiene and a minimum of zero (0) years of experiene and shall not be subjet to Chapter 3317 or any other setion of the Ohio Revised Code The Board will pay the employee's ost of health, vision and dental insu1 ane plans as per the ontrat Teahers employed pursuant to this provision shall reeive one (1) year limited ontrats and shall not be eligible to reeive ontinuing ontrats mgardle:ss of their years of servie or ertifiate/liense held Eah one (1) year ontrat shall automatially expire upon the ompletion of the year and it is not neessary for the Board to ondut evaluations in aordane with Chapter of the Ohio Revised Code nor to take formal ation to not re-employ the employee pursuant to Chapter 3319.'11 of the Ohio Revised Code in order to terminate the employment relationship. The employment relationship shall end upon the expiration of the ontrat in the same manner as a supplemental ontrat 48

52 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCA T/ON ASSOCIATION ~E:_oFF_,E'-"C-"TI.=VE SEPTEMBER THROUGH AUGUST Returning retirees are not entitled and/or are not eligible to reeive any severane benefits provided by any olletive bargaining agreement in effet between the Board and the Assoiation In the event of a redution in fore, the re-employed teaher will not have any bumping rights under Setion 4.09 of this Agreement Suh employment will not jeopardize the ontinuation of existing aademi programs nor result in the redution in fore of faulty employed at the ommenement of eah suh re-employment ontrat Subjet to these provisions, re-employed teahers are part of the bargaining unit Re-employed persons are eligible for sik leave aumulation ommening with the first year of suh re-employment. No sik leave shall be arried forward from pre-retirement status Pursuant to the authority provided by R.C , and to the extent that this provision is ontrary to or in onflit with any Ohio law inluding, but not limited to ORC, ORC, ORC, ORC, Chapter 3317 ORC, Chapter 3307 ORC, this provision shall supersede and replae the statutory law of Ohio. 49

53 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION AND READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCA T/ON ARTICLE V: MEMBER APPRAISAL 5.01 TEACHER APPRAISAL INSTRUMENT ALL PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE SUPERSEDE AND REPLACE 1111 ENTIRETY OF THE O.R.C. ITS Introdution The primary purpose of this instrument is for the improvement of instrution through the development of the appraisee's effetiveness. It will be used as one fator in establishing ontrat status Objetives of Appraisal A. To improve instrution. B. To develop the professional effetiveness of the appraisee. C. To help larify to the appraisee his/her professional performane Appraisal Proess A. Responsibilities of the Appraiser 1. To familiarize him/herself with the appraisee's total bakground in order to make a fair evaluation. 2. To be andid and forthright in disussing the different phases of the appraisal. 3. To initiate the appraisal proess and implement the established time shedule. 4. To be sensitive to the needs of the appraisee and real!e an atmosphere onduive to effetive evaluation. 5. To keep adequate reords of eah appraisal. 6. To share with the appraisee all evaluative materials plaed in the personnel file. 7. To give help to the appraisee through ideas and reommendations. 8. To supply resoures and opportunities, whenever possible, to assist in the ahievement of 'identified targets. 9. To notify the member in writing of a defiieny in his/her performane as soon as possible during the appraisal proess. 50

54 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION B. Responsibilities of the Appraisee 1. To be andid and forthright in disussion of the different phases of the appraisal. 2. To be willing to seek help in arrying out any phase of the appraisal proess. 3. To foster a positive attitude toward self-appraisal. 4. To arry out to the best of his/her ability the targets agreed upon in the appraisal Mehanis of the Appraisal A. Proedure 1. The first observation shall be sheduled. At the request of either party, a pre-observation onferene may be held to establish targets. 2. The seond and third observation may be either sheduled or unsheduled. 3. Observations will be for a minimum of thirty (30) minutes. 4. At the request of either party, there will be a follow-up onferene held within a reasonable time after the observation (not to exeed five [5] instrutional days unless unusual irumstanes exist whih prevent same). 5. The onferene held following the first observation will be used to disuss the member's performane, and establish or review the member's job targets. B. Observation Sheduling 1. All teahers in their first three (3) years in the Reading Shool Distrit will be formally observed a minimum of three (3) times during the shool year. 2. All other limited ontrat teahers and teahers on ontinuing ontrats will be formally observed a minimum of one every five (5) years on a rotating yle. Teahers in this ategory will be assigned a year to begin the five year yle. It is the responsibility of the building prinipal to evaluate teahers out of yle when he/she deems it neessary. A teaher in this ategory may be observed in a year not on the regular five year yle if the teaher is notified by the prinipal or administrator before Otober

55 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT 8E7WEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION 3. The primary evaluator of a traveling teaher will bel the building prinipal or administrator where that teaher starts the shool week. The building prinipal or administrator of the seond building will at as a ontributor in the evaluation proess and will sut>rnit the information to the primary evaluator. The primary evaluator may be an administrator other than the building prinipal or the administrator in the building where the teaher works provided that the teaher and the primary building administrator enter into a written mutual agreement to identify a different evaluator. C. Timetable 1. November 15 - Final date for first lassroom observation, follow-up onferene, and target setting session. 2. January 31 - Final date for seond lassroom observation, follow-up onferene, progress report of targets, and establishment of new targets, if neessary. 3. Marh 31 - Final date for ompletion of the evaluation proedure Evaluation- Roles The Superintendent will designate the administrator who will se1 ve as prime appraiser as well as ontributors in order to equalize the load the appraiser will have and to make the most appropriate math of appraisee and appraiser. The member being evaluated will be notified in writing of prime appraiser prior to the first observation. Appraisee Classroom Teaher Counselor Speial Eduation and/or Resoure Teaher Prime Appraiser A A A Possible Contributors B,C,E B,C,D,E B,C,D,E E3, Art, Musi, PE A 8, C, E.:;L::::ib:.ra::::r:.::ia::.:n'---:---:::-:----:--:----~--=D:.::e::::s3ig"'n::::e""-e --.:...A"-,.::::8"-, C. E _ -- - Symbols: A = Prinipal B =Assistant Prinipal C =Designee D Coordinator of Speial Servies E = Superintendent 52

56 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCA T/ON ASSOCIATION ~'f'ffective SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 THROUGH AUGUST 31, Evaluation Criteria All members shall be evaluated on the following riteria. A. Planning and Preparation B. Classroom Environment C. Instrution D. Professional Responsibilities E. Professional Development 53

57 Appraisee: READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL TEACHER EVALUATION FORM Appraiser: Shool Year: Building( s) Assignment(s): Tim line Box Observation Date/Time I. PLANNING AND PREPARATION A. Beoming familiar with students/bakground knowledge and experienes. *Students prior aademi knowledge and skills Students' prior experiene related to ontent area I I I I I B. Artiulating lear learning goals for the lesson. States desired outomes for the lesson States goals that the teaher wants students to learn Provides appropriate ativities I I I I I C. Demonstrating an understanding of the onnetions between the ontent that was learned previously, the urrent eontent, and the ontent that remains to be learned in the future. I I I I I D. Creating or seleting teahing methods, learning ativities, and instrutional materials or other resoures that are appropriate to the students and aligned with the goals of the lesson. Methods- what teahers do Ativities what students do Materials onrete resoures I I I I I E. Creating or seleting student assessments that are aligned with the goals of the lesson. Assessment aligned with goals Oral or written evidene of plan tor assessment Results of student assessments are used to plan future lessons I I I I T COMMENTS: 54

58 READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL TEACHER EVALUATION FORM Appraisee: Observation: Date/Time Page 2.E m :a '" "C '" m '" II. CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT " :-- D ;.. ;:::;; '" A Creating a limate that promotes fairness. z II II "" ~ ~ Fairness between teaher and students "'~ Fairness among students I Fairness in regards to gender, ethniity. ulture, soioeonomi level, exeptionalities "" 8 '" ~ u ~ s "' en D '.;:l ".,., ~ '" " Q) '-<.- " '"'.- " u; " t:=:i " " ~.s; 0 '-< ". ~ :; ~ :..J s~ 0.,.., 0 ~ ~ '" ;.. '"" lil Z II ;:-< D :" II II II S "' "' "' -~ z "" I.J I J.~~ B Establishing and maintaining rapport with students Relates positively, demonstrates warmth, onern. sinerity, humor, interest in students, I I listens Mutual respet between teaher & student I I I C. Communiating hallenging learning e expetations to eah student. Selets rigorous instrutional goals Expetations for students may differ I I Believes that all students an ahieve signifiantly Enourages students to produe high quality work I I i D Establishing and maintaining onsistent standards of lassroom behavior. Positive teaher/students interations Students are apprised of onsequenes & I I shoolllassroom poliies Sense of mutual respet Teaher ontrol I I _I E. Physial environment promotes student safety and needs ---- Environment adjusted to lesson I I All students have aess to instrution Classroom displays of student work and instrutional re8oures!l I i i I COMMENTS: 55

59 Appraisee: Observation: Page 3 III. INSTRUCTION READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL TEACHER EVALUATION FORM ' Q 3 () 0., Date/Time i::l "' t:: 0 -~ "' ~ a; Lil '"' -~ VJ 5 '"0 > v "' "' 0 a; "'.. :.;: II t E' II N - - '"'"' A. Making learning goals and instrutional proedures lear to students. I I Clear ommuniation of goals and proedures Instrution is purposeful and dear Proedures are lear States goals orally and in writing B. Making ontent omprehensible to students Students onnet new ontent with what they I I know Students are engaged in the lesson Teaher builds on students' bakgrounds. Enouraging students to extend their thinking Think independently, reatively, ritially I I Teaher uses open-ended questions, time to think, multi-method tasks D. Monitoring students' understanding of ontent through a variety of means I I Monitoring, giving feedbak, and adjust teahing tehniques Gives speifi feedbak if students are on trak Redirets and assists those students needing help P,-ovides additional resoures (e.g., peers. books, self-heking) E. Using instrutional time effetively Teaher's skill in maximizing student time on I I learning task Handling of non-instrutional tasks like distributing materials and taking attendane Integrates lesson with other disiplines Variety of approahes (presentation, smallgroup, student-initiated projets, diret instrution) Clear lesson (;j "' a;... t:: t:: E "' ] "' 0... a 0 t:: <.8 u::: u ".. '"' z () u; il.. a; 0 0 '"0 0.,. t.::j II II II 1-0.,. "' I I I I I I I I I z I I T I I I 0.. COMMENTS: 56

60 Appraise: Observation: Date/Time READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL TEACHER EVALl!A TION FORM r:- E ~ u 0:: ~ ;::; "" "' "' ~ v "' " "' 0 :;l Page 4 ro "0 > z ii IV. PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES A -,.~ II II. Refleting on the extent to whih the learning goals were met. l I Teaher's skill in determining whether studen ahieved learning goals Analyzing lesson in terms of what \vas wessful and what needs improvement Preparing for follow-up lessons Critiquing own performane.s"' :; ~ "' "' -,!::!.=. "' "' n. " u -.;:; X ~ a IJ.l -~ " "' 0 ~,:!! " 2 () u:; Oj u v u " --o '""" v OJ 0 X n. :::E ::.':; U-1 z ~ II II II II '- "'.,. or, z I I I B. Maintainmg aurate reords Develops a system of reord keeping Aessibility of reords 1 I Reports. grades, et. are ompleted in a timely manner Building professional relationships and ontributions to the shool and distrit Seeking help from other professionals regardi I I learning and instrution Coordinating with olleagues for stndents' benefit Work with speialists and speial eduation teahers Obtaining resoures from other professionals Involvement in distrit events and projets I I I I I I D. Communiating with parents/guardians about student learning. 1Jtilizes various forms of ommuniation (e.g., onferenes, phone alls, notes. newsletters) Informing parents/guardian of events in lass (e.g. proedures. grading systems) Keeping parents/guardians informed of aademi and soial progress of students Respetful. honest. and timely ommuniation I I I I I E. PJ ofesswnal Development Partiipates in professional development ativities Partiipates in urriulum development. Uses knowledge gained COMMENTS:! : I I I 57

61 READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL TEACHER EVALUATION FORM Page 5 APPRAISER'S STATEMENT OF APPRAISEE'S OVERALL PERFORMANCE AND SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT APPRAISEE'S STATEMENT OF OVERALL PERFORMANCE AND RESPONSE TO RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT 58

62 READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL TEACHER EVALUATION FORM Page 6 TARGETS: ACTION PLAN: Signatures (~A~p~p~ra-1s~e~e~) (Appraiser) Date:

63 READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL TEACHER EVALUATION FORM I B U nsatisfatoq'/ Below Average Teaher makes little or no attempt to aquire knowledge of students' bakgrounds. ski lis. or interests. and does not use suh information in planning. Teaher's goals are irrelevant,! represent trivial learning, are unsuitable for students or are slated only as instrutional ativities. Teaher displays little understanding of the subjet or struture of the 1 C disipline. or of ontent-re!ated pedagogy. Domain 1. PLANNJNG. AND PREPARATION Avera2e Teaher demonstrates partial knmviedge of students' bakgrounds, skills. and interests, and attempts to use this knowledge in planning for the lass as a whoie. Teaher's goals are of moderate value and relevane or suitabhity ' for students in the lass, onsisting of a -Ombination of goals and ativities. Above Average Teaher demonstrates thorough knowledge of students" bakgrounds, skills, and interests, and uses this knowledge to plan for groups of students. Teaher's goals represent valuable learning and relevane and are suitable for most students in the lass. : ' : Exellent Teaher demonstrates thorough knowledge of students' bakgrounds, skills, and interests, and uses this knowledge to plan for individual student learnine.. Teaher's goals reflet high-level learning and relevane relating to urriulum frameworks and standards; they are adapted. v.. here neessary, to the needs of individual students. Teaher's ontent and pedagogial! Teaher demonstrates solid Teaher's knowledge ofthe ontent knowledge represents developing understanding of the ontent and its and pedagogy are extensive, showing understanding but does not prerequisite relationships and evidene of a ontinuing searh for extend to onnetion with other onnetions with other disiplines. improved pratie. Teaher atively disiplines or to possible student Teaher's instrutional praties builds on knowledge of prerequisites I ' ; misoneptions. reflet urrent pedagogial and misoneptions when desribing I knowledge. instrution or seeking auses for _L student misunderstandin. l. The_v_a-ori_o_u_s_e-le_m_e -,l:-s-a_n_d;-m-e;th;-o-d-s-o-f;;-t-:s;oo-m_e_o-:fot:-h-e-e-ole_m_e_n,...ts_a_n_d~m-e-th;-o-d-os-+m:-:-o-s,-t-oof-tl;-le-e'"'le-n-,e-n-:t-s-a-n-:d;-m-e"th-o-d'"'s--t-'a~iic'o~f;t;;-h~e~e=;l~e~m"e~n-ts=a~nd~m~e-:t:;-h-o the instrutional design do nor of the instrutional design of the instrutional design support the instrutional design support the J 1J support the stated instrutional goals support the stated instrutional the stated instrutional goals and stated instrutional goals, engage or engage students in meaningful goals and engage students. in engage students in meaningful students in meaningful ativities, and alivities. and the lesson or unit has meanfngfu1 ativities while others ativities and the lesson or unit has show evidene of student input. no defined struture. do not. Teaher~s lesson or unit has a learly defined struture. Teaher's lesson or unit highly a reognizable struture. oherent and has a lear struture. reaher makes poor use of the physial environment, resufting in 1 E unsafe or inaessible onditions for some students or a serious mismath behveen the physial environment and Lhe iesson ativities. i Teaher's lassroom is safe. and Teaher's lassroom is safe, and Teaher's dassroom is safe. and essential learning is aessible to ail learning is aessible to ah students ontribute to ensuring that students. students; teaher uses physial the physial environment supports l resoures that support the learning the learning of all student. ~ ativities. i ' 60

64 READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL TEACHER EVALUATION FORM İ ---~-~-:~~~-----, Domain 2: THE CLASSROOIVI ENVIRONMENT Above Average -l---~-~::.:- l Average Classro~.nn interations, both Classroom interations may be -+-C:'l""as-sr~o~o~m=i;:n"te~r~a""tte'. o""n"s=ar"e'--~ l lass1 oom t!lte1 ations ensur;-1 2 t\ beh\een the teaher and students and haraterized by oasional re-spetful of the ultural and I mamtenane of high le'>els t'f iv 1ht) 1: among students, are generally unfair inonsistenies. developmental differenes among, among members of the las"! and inonsistent. 5 Classroom interations,!ajtb Classroom interations. bt1th rou of student. I Classroom interarions are hrghly I I l'"- between the teaher and students and between the teaher and students general warmth and aring. : respetful, refleting genuine warmth among students. are generally- and among students are appropriate II I and aring toward individuals. : negative or inappropriate. and and free from onflit. haraterized by sarasm, putdmvn. oronoi~~t e-----~----,----~-----t= The lassroom environment rei1ets TI1e lassroom environment reflets I 'i.he lassroom environment Students assume muh of the I only a minimal ulture for learning. a developing uhure for learning,, represents a genuine ulture for responsibility for establishing a with only modest or inonsistent with modest expetations for ' learning. with ommitment to the ulture for learning in the lassroom! expetations for student student ahievement, adequate subjet on the part of both teaher by being ommitted to their work, ahievement, little teaher teaher ommitrnent to the student. and students, high expetations for initiating improvements to their 2C Iommitment to the subjet, and little and average ommitment to the student ahievement, and student produts. and holding the work to the 1 Teaher does not reognize that reognizes that expetations for reognizes that expetations for I student ommitment to the work. subjet. Teaher minimally ommitment to work. Teaher highest standard. Teaher demonstrates a passionate, : expetations for students may differ. students rnay differ. students may differ. ommitment to the subjet and the obvious reognition that expetations ~~ Studeni behavior is poor. with no ' ' for students may differ. Teaher makes an effort to establish Teaher is aware of student Student behavior is e11tireiy lear expetation.s, no monitoring of standards of ondut for students. behavior. has established lear appropriate, with evidene of student student behavior. and inappropriate monitor studenfs behavior. and standards of ondut. and responds partiipation in setting expetations I D response to student misbehavior. respond to student misbehavior, but to student misbehavior in ways that and monitoring behavior. Teaher's 2 : these efforts are not always are appropriate and respetful of the monitoring of student behavior is suessful students. subtle and preventive, and teaher's 1 response to student mtsbehavior IS sensitive to individual students L i ~ needs. : ~1er makes poor use of the, Teaher's da<;sroom is safe. and Teaher's lassroom is safe. and Teaher's lassroom is safe, and : physial environment. resulting in! essential learning is aessible to all learning is aessible to ali students ontribute to ensuring that 2 E unsafe or inaessible onditions for ~ students. students; teaher uses physial the physial environment supports, 1: some students or a serious mismath 1 resoures that support the learning the learning of all students. l.i.)etween the physial envir.mment I ativities. : l and_the lesson ativ~---~--l L, L I 61

65 H Unsatisratoryl Below A ver..ge eaher's oral and written!! ommuniation ontains errors or is ~~ i. '"""'"' """""'"'~ '" ""~"" Teaher adheres to the instrution. pfan in spite of evidene of poor 1 3 B 1 student understanding or students"! ' I 3C 31) JE lak of interest, and fails to respond to students' questions; teaher assumes no responsibility for students' failure to understand. Teaher makes inadequate use of questioning and disussion lehniques, with low-level questions, iimiled student partiipation, and ' little true disussion. Teaher's feedbak to students is not : evident, of poor quality, and/or is not ' given in a timely manner., Few students are lntehetuafly ' engaged fn signifiant learning. as a result of inappropriate ativities or materials, poor representations of ontent, or lak of lesson struture. l READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL TEACHER EVALUATION FORM Domain 3. INSTRUCTION Average Tea-her's oral and written ommuniation ontains no errors, but may not be ompletely appropriate or may require further explanations to avoid onfusion. Teaher demonstrates some flexibility and responsiveness to students' needs and interest during a lesson, and seeks to ensure the suess of all students. Teaher employs a limited repertoire of instrutional strategies. Teaher's use of questioning and disussion tehniques reflets an attempt at some high-level questions. true disussion. and evokes moderate student partiipation. Teaher attempts to provide feedbak to students that is aurate, onstrutive, and timety. Students are somewhat intelletually engaged as a result of ativities or materials of uneven quality, inonsistent representations of ontent or uneven struture or paing. Above Average Teaher -ommuniates learly and aurately to students. both orally and in writing. ' Teaher seeks ways to ensure suessful learning for ali students, making adjustments as needed to instrution plans and responding to student interests and questions.! Teaher employs an expanded ' repertoire of instrutional strategies. Teaher's use of questioning and disussion tehniques onsistently reflets high-level questions, true disussion, and partiipation by : most students. Teaher onsistently and, suessfully provides feedbak to students that is aurate, substantive, onstrutive. speifi. and timelv. Students are intelletually engaged throughout the lesson, with appropriate ativities and materials, instrutive representations of ontent, and suitable struture and paing of the lesson. -'--~~~~-"~-~_l-""~~"~~~-~-'-----~-~- l ' I ' : Exellent Teaher's oral and written ommuniation is lear and expressive, antiipating possible student misoneptions. Teaher is highly responsive to students' interests and questions, making major lesson adjustments If neessary. and persists in ensuring the suess of all students. Teaher employs an extensive repertohe of instrutional strategies and soliits additional resoures. Students formulate many of the highlevel questfons and assume responsibility for the partiipation of all students in the disussion. Teaher's feedbak to students is timely and of onsistently high quality, and students make use of the feedbak in their learning. Students are highly engaged throughout!he lesson and make material ontributions to the representation of ontent, the ativities, and the materials. The struture and paing of the lesson I ~:~~:r~~r student refletion and.j i 62

66 READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL TEACHER EVALliATION FORNI r-.~ --:-----: Unsatisfator~y/ Belo\~ Average ~ Average Domain 4: PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES 1 eaher does not reflet aurately --t Teaher's refletion 011 the lesson is on the les,son or propose ideas as to how it might be improved in future lessons. L_ ----+=--~-----, B Teaher has no system, or an inadequate system, for maintaining aurate instrutional and/or noninstrutional reords. re'>uhing in I - / errors and onfusiml ) generaliy aurate, and teaher makes g-lobal observations as to how it might be improved in future lessons. Teaher's system for maintaining aurate instrutional and/or noninstrutional remds is generally effiient. I Above Average.. --~---- Exellent f[eaher reflets aurately un the li. T eaher s refletion on the lesson is I le-sson, iting general highly aurate and pereptive, iting harateristis, and makes some speifi examples; teaher draws on speifi suggestions about how it an extensive repertoire to suggest I; might be improved in fuuire alternative strategies and uses the lessons. information to lan future lesson. Teaher's system for maintaining Teaher's system for maintaining a-urate instrutional and/or noninstrutional reords is generatly instrutional reords is effiient. the aurate instrutional and/or non effiient, and teaher an readily teaher an readily aess said aess said reords. \----- f1;aher's relationships with l olleagues are negative or self- : ~ C I serving. Teaher avoids being ; involved in distrit events/projets. I as defined in job desription. ~ Teaher's relationships with olleagues are ordial. Teaher partiipates in shool and distrits events/projets. as defined in job desription. Teaher maintains positive relationships with olleagues and takes the initiative to partiipate in shool and distrit events/projets. even when not required to be present. ontribution to shool and distrit events and projets, assuming leadership with olleagues. Teaher ommuniates frequently and sensitively \Vith families and suessfully engages them in the instrutional program. 4f: 63

67 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION 5.02 NONRENEWAL OF A LIMITED CONTRACT The Board affirms its belief in the value of a regularly onduted thorough, written evaluation of teaher performane, suh evaluation to be open to inspetion by the teaher, and open to insertion of statements anl materials by the teaher Teahers must reeive the most timely and the best professional help that the Distrit an make available to assist them in performing ompetently The Board must provide written notie of its intent not to renew employment of a limited ontrat teaher by April 30 prior to the expiration of the member's ontrat The teaher is entitled within ten (1 0) alendar days of reeipt of the written notie of nonrenewal to request in writing to the Superintendent full speifiations of the reason for nonrenewal Within ten (10) alendar days of reeipt of suh written request the Superintendent shall give the teaher a written statement of the full speifiations of the reasons for non renewal Within ten (1 0) days of reeipt of the Superintendent's written statement, the teaher (with the Assoiation's written onurrene) may file a written re,quest for arbitration under Setion of this Contrat In giving any written notie or written request under Setions of this Contrat, the Superintendent may provide notie by ertified mail or personal servie on the teaher mailed by the deadline, and the teaher and Assoiation may provide notie by ertified mail or personal servie on the Superintendent by the deadline An arbitrator shall be limited to a determination of: 1) proedural errors in the evaluation as set forth in Setion and/or the evaluation instrument; 2) proedural errors in Setions of this Contrat. The arbitrator may order reemployment of a member when the member has been prejudied by Board material and/or substantive errors in followin9 the proedural requirements for evaluation as set forth in Artile V or nonrenewal proedures as set forth in Setions The arbitrator shall order reemployment of a member where the Board has not given a member written notie on or before April 30 of its intention to not reemploy the member. 64

68 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1, 201.Q.THROUGH AUGUST The teaher must file his/her grievane in aordane with the timelines established in Artile VI of this Contrat The Assoiation and the Board agree that any grievane filed, alleging a violation in Artile V of this Contrat shall be postponed until the job status for that teaher for the next shool year has been determined. When the grievane is resumed, it will be heard beginning at the Board level. All provisions of this Artile shall supersede and replae ORC and

69 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ARTICLE VI: GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE 6.01 GENERAL PROCEDURES The primary purpose of this proedure shall be to obtain at the lowest level, and in the shortest period of time, equitable solutions to problems whih may arise from time to time Problem solving proeedings shall be handled by both parties in a onfidential manner Time limits ontained in this proedure may be waived through mutual agreement of both parties A member may withdraw the problem during any level of the proeedin9s. It shall be withdrawn in writing. The problem will be onsidered as having been satisfied by both parties If the member's future ontrat status is in question, he/she shall be! informed of suh, at least thirty (30) workdays prior to any Board ation regarding same. However, this problem solving proedure is not to be interpreted as a means through whih state laws, as they relate to ontrat status, an be disregarded DEFINITIONS Definition of Grievane A grievane is defined as an alleged violation, misinterpretation or misappliation of the Contrat entered into between the Board and the Assoiation Definition of Day "Day" shall mean alendar day INFORMAL LEVEL It should be reognized by the members that they have a responsibility to keep the building prinipal informed on matters pertaining to the welfare of the total operation of the shool 6.04 LEVEL I (Form not appliable) The member shall first attempt to solve his/her problem or omplaint with members of the administration through normal hannels of ommuniations. He/she may approah the prinipal, the Superintendent's design<~e anl the Superintendent, in suession, if he/she wishes before formally initiatin9 the problem solving proedure. 66

70 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION AS SOCIA T/ON,E_FF,_,E'-'C'-'-T,_,_IV=.E_oS"-'EPTEMBER 1, 2010 THROUGH AUGUST 31, The fourteen (14) alendar day time limit required will be waived, if requested, when needed to fully implement the informal level LEVEL 11/Form II) The member(s) shall, within two (2) weeks following the irumstane whih reated the problem, outline said irumstanes in writing on Grievane Form - Level II (page 71) and deliver said form to the building prinipal. Grievane forms to be used in initiating this proedure shall be available through Assoiation building representatives The prinipal shall make arrangements for a hearing within five (5) workdays. During the hearing, every effort shall be made to ome to a satisfatory solution to the problem. The prinipal shall, within five (5) workdays following the hearing, redue his/her answer to writing on said Grievane Form - Level II and return it to the member onerned and the Assoiation President. The same proedure an be repeated with the prinipal if it is apparent that an additional hearing might aid in solving the problem LEVEL Ill & LEVEL IV!Forms Ill and IV) In the event a mutual agreeable solution annot be found, the building prinipal and/or professional staff member may within five (5) workdays, make a written request on Grievane Form - Level Ill (page 72) for a hearing with the Superintendent's designee, outlining the problem and inluding doumentation for all proedures and exhanges ompleted to this point The Superintendent's designee shall make arrangements for a hearing within five (5) workdays. The Superintendent's designee shall, within five (5) workdays following the hearing, redue his/her answer to writing on said Grievane Form - Level Ill and return it to the staff member onerned and to the Assoiation President In the event of an impasse, the same proedure shall be followed by making a written request on Grievane Form Level IV (page 73) to the Superintendent. The same time elements and written proedures shall be adhered to Beginning with Level Ill and at any level thereafter, both the member involved, the Assoiation, and the administrator or Board hearing the appeal may be aompanied by a representative of their own hoosing LEVEL V (Form not appliable) In the event a mutually agreeable solution annot be found, either party may submit the issue to grievane mediation through the Federal Mediation and Coniliation Servie (FMCS). A joint request shall be made to FMCS to obtain the servies of a federal mediator. 67

71 NEGOTJA TED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCA T/ON ASSOCIATION AND READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCA T/ON 6.08 LEVEL VI (Form VI) A further appeal may be made to the Board. It shall be presented to the Board at its next regular meeting. Again, the problem shall be outlined in writing on Grievane Form - Level VI (page 74) and aess to all doumentation presented up to this point shall be made available to the Board's membe!rship. The Board Treasurer shall arrange for a hearing with the Board within one (1) week of the reeipt of the request. The Board's deision shall be presented in writing on said Grievane Form - Level VI to the staff membel' and to the Assoiation within five (5} workdays of the onlusion of the hearing, and shall be entered upon the Board minutes A. If the Assoiation is not satisfied with the suggestion for resolving the grievane reeived at Level V, the Assoiation, within ten (1 0) workdays of reeipt of suh written response, shall notify the Superint endent of its intent to proeed to arbitration. B. The parties mutually agree to use the following three (3} arbitrators: 1. Mihael Paolui 2. Charles Adamson 3. Tobie Braverman Assignment of grievanes shall be made on a ontinuous rotating basis among the three (3) above-mentioned arbitrators. In the event that an arbitrator is unable to remain on the list, the parties shall meet to mutually agree on a replaement. C. With the exeption of seletion of the arbitrator, or any other ontratual provision related to the arbitration hearing, the parties agree that the arbitration proess shall adhere to the Amerian Arbitration,A,ssoiation's rules. D. The arbitrator shall hold suh meetings as he/she determine~> nee::;sary to make a fair and impartial ruling and issue his/her deision within fortyfive ( 45) alendar days of the hearing. E. The arbitrator shall expressly onfine himself/herself to the preise issue submitted for arbitration and shall have no authority to determine any other issues not so submitted or to submit observations or delarations of opinion whih are not diretly essent'1al in reahing the determination. The arbitrator shall in no way interfere with management prerogatives involving Board disretion nor interfere with the powers, duties and rules and regulations having the fore and effet of law. Additionally, the arbitrator shall have no power to alter, add to, modify or subtrat from the terms of this Agreement. F. The arbitrator has the authority to determine arbitrability if suh an issue exists. The Board must raise the issue of arbitrability thirty (30) work(jays after reeiving notie from the Assoiation of its intent to proeed to arbitration. Suh notie shall inlude a motion of supporting 68

72 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIA T/ON EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 THROUGH AUGUST memorandum submitted to both the Assoiation and the arbitrator. The Assoiation shall have thirty (30) workdays in whih to file a response to the Board's memorandum to both the Board and the arbitrator. The arbitrator shall make a ruling on the arbitrability issue prior to hearing the grievane. G. The arbitrator shall have the power to subpoena witnesses and douments. H. No later than ten (1 0) workdays prior to the sheduled arbitration hearing a dislosure onferene must be held between the representatives of the Board and the Assoiation at whih time all douments, exhibits, evidene, and names of witnesses and the nature of their testimony shall be dislosed. Failure to dislosure prior to the hearing shall result in the exlusion of said evidene, exhibit, or testimony at the arbitration hearing. I. The ruling of the arbitrator shall be binding. J. Arbitrator's expenses and fees shall be paid by the unsuessful party in the arbitration proeeding. However, the arbitrator shall also have the authority to prorate the arbitration expenses and fees between the parties based upon his/her disretion. If either party unilaterally withdraws from the arbitration, the withdrawing party shall be responsible for all osts If a member fails to initiate the use of this instrument within the presribed two (2) weeks following the event or ondition upon whih the problem is based, his/her right to use it is waived. The same will apply if he/she does not adhere to the time limited established between the various levels All the time elements referred to in this instrument are made with the understanding that weekends and holidays shall not be inluded in the time limitations, unless both parties agree to other time limits whih might better serve the irumstanes. An exeption is made in Level VI in whih the time limit of one (1) week is established when requesting a hearing with the Board This time limit shall inlude weekends and holidays other than holiday seasons that exeed one (1) week in duration The offiial reords pertaining to problem solving shall be filed in the offie of the Board Treasurer If any provision of this doument or any appliation of this doument to any member(s) shall be found ontrary to law, then said provision or appliation shall be deemed invalid exept to the extent permitted by law, but all other provisions hereof shall ontinue in full fore. 69

73 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION 6.09 RIGHT TO REPRESENTATION During the term of this negotiated Contrat, no member may be represemted by any teaher organization or person(s) other than the Reading Eduation Assoiation in any grievane initiated. The grievant(s) will be entitled to representation at all levels of the grievane proedure by the Assoiation or its agents MISCELLANEOUS A grievane may be withdrawn at any level without prejudie or reord Forms for filing and appealing grievanes will be printed by the Board. Forms will be available in the offie of every shool, and will be kept in an area aessible to all members without request to administrators Nothing in this Contrat will be onstrued so as to deny the Assoiation or its representatives the right to redress before any appropriate admini<otrative ageny or through the ourts The Board and the Assoiation will ooperate with eah other in the investigation or any grievanes No reprisals of any kind will be taken by or against any party of interest, any partiipant in the grievane proedure, or any members by reason of suh partiipation Reords of grievanes will be kept onfidential When a member with a grievane applies for other employment or is employed outside the distrit, no reords, douments and/or ommuniations relating to said grievane shall be forwarded to or shared with the other employer The Assoiation's representative shall not lose pay or benefits for att,~nding grievane meetings with representatives of the Board sheduled by mutual agreement or by Board representatives. 70

74 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EOUCA T/ON ASSOCIATION EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 THROUGH AUGUST 31, 2012 READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT GRIEVANCE FORM- LEVEL II GRIEVANT GRIEVANCE# SCHOOL RELIEF SOUGHT: Signature of Grievant Date Signature of Assoiation President Date DATE LEVEL II FORM RECEIVED BY PRINCIPAL/SUPERVISOR: DATE OF LEVEL II HEARING: DISPOSITION OF PRINC:IP.tiLI~>U Signature of Prinipal/Supervisor Date NOTE: If more spae is needed for reporting any of the setions above, please attah additional sheet(s). 71

75 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BE7WEEN READING EDUCA T/ON AS SOCIA TJON READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT GRIEVANCE FORM- LEVEL Ill GRIEVANT GRIEVANCE# POSITION OF Signature of Grievant Date Signature of Assoiation President Date DATE LEVEL Ill FORM RECEIVED BY SUPERINTENDENT'S DESIGNEE:. DATE OF LEVEL Ill HEARING:. DISPOSITION OF SUPERINTENDENT'S DE!SIGNE!~: Signature of Superintendent's Designee Date NOTE: If more spae is needed for reporting any of the setions above, please attah additional sheet(s). 72

76 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION.. EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER THROUGH AUGUST 31, 2012 READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT GRIEVANCE FORM- LEVEL IV GRIEVANT GRIEVANCE# SCHOOL Signature of Grievant Date Signature of Assoiation President Date DATE LEVEL IV FORM RECEIVED BY SUPERINTENDENT:. DATE OF LEVEL IV HEARING: DISPOSITION OF Signature of Superintendent Date NOTE: If more spae is needed for reporting any of the setions above, please attah additional sheet(s). 73

77 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT GRIEVANCE FORM- LEVEL VI GRIEVANT GRIEVANCE# POSITION OF Signature of Grievant Date Signature of Assoiation President Date DATE LEVEL VI FORM RECEIVED BY SCHOOL BOARD: DATE OF LEVEL VI Signature of Board President Date NOTE: If more spae is needed for reporting any of the setions above, please attah additional sheet(s). 74

78 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCI A TJON ARTICLE VII: GENERAL PROVISIONS 7.01 SEVERABILITY If any item(s) or provision agreed to herein shall be found ontrary to law by a ourt of ompetent jurisdition, then suh provision or appliation shall be deemed invalid, exept to the extent permitted by law, but all other provisions or appliations shall ontinue in full fore and effet In the event of any suh holding, the parties shall meet within thirty (30) days of suh delaration for the purpose of renegotiating the affeted setion to omply with the finds. Exeptions an be made to renegotiate suh item(s) on an earlier date, if mutually agreed by both parties DURATION OF NEGOTIATED CONTRACT This Contrat shall be in effet for a two (2) year period beginning September 1, 2010 and ending August 31, SCOPE OF CONTRACT This written Contrat onstitutes the entire ontrat between the parties on all issues presented and onsidered during the negotiation of this written Contrat and replaes and supersedes any and all previously negotiated written or oral ontrats, understandings and/or prior praties by and between the Assoiation and the Board This provision shall not operate to bar future negotiations over any subjet(s) or matter(s) whih the Board and the Assoiation mutually agree to negotiate. 75

79 NEGOTIATED MASTER CONTRACT BETWEEN READING EDUCATION ASSOCIA TJON 7.04 SIGNATURE PAGE This Contrat is hereby ratified by the Reading Eduation Assoiation as ~f the J:z'!!rJay, 2010 and adopted by the Reading Community City Shoor L.Jistrit of A-f'lf I L Board of Eduation as of the C:Z.I day of /t;pg IL-, For the READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION s/ijvl<rw--1:2. '-f<~ < By For the READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCATION 04!14!10:de 76

80 OEA.June 2, 2010 Mary Laurent, Administrative Assistant Bureau of Mediation State Employm~nt Relations Board 65 E. State St. Columbus, OH R: SERB Case No. 10-MED READING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION and READING COMMUNITY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT Dear Ms. Laurent: Please be advised that the Reading Eduation Assoiation, affiliated with the Ohio Eduation Assoiation and the National Eduation Assoiation, and the Reading Commlll1ity City Shool Distrit have suessfully ompleted negotiations and ratified a suessor olletor bargaining agreement, a opy of whih is enlosed. Sinerely, a~i/r Charles H. Johnson Labor Relations Consultant CHJ/de Enlosure: Colletive Bargaining Agreement effetive September 1, 20 I 0 through August 31, 2012 : L. Sott Inskeep, Superintendent (w/o en.) Haven Reardon, REA President (w/o en.) 9902 Carver Rd., Cininnati, OH PHON!:: 513~ or 866/ FAX: 513/ An Affiliate of the National Eduation Assoiation