Collective Bargaining Agreement between Seattle School District #1 and Certificated Non-Supervisory Employees
2004 - 2009

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A
Academic Freedom 28-29
Achievement Gap……………......9-25
Administrative Leave...…………….27
Administrative Transfer 78-79
Adoption Leave 60
Advertising & Posting 75-76
Affirmative Action ………………….81
Agency Fee 7-8
Air Quality 34
Assault of Staff 30-34, 71-72
Assignment of Students 12, 83-87
Assignment of Teachers Within Schools 12, 83
Association Rights…………………..5
Attendance at Conferences 60-61

B
Basic Employment Contact…....35-36
Benefits 37, 55, 69-72
Benefits for Substitute Teachers 55-56
Bereavement Leave 59
Bilingual Ed Overloads 92-93
Bilingual Education 92-93
Budgets – School 11-15
Building-Directed TRI 14-15
Building Files 27-28
Building Leadership
Team 11-13, 14-15

C
Calendars……….5, 2004-05sy, 2005-06sy, 2006-07sy
Categories ….. 10, 37,110-114
Class Size Limits 84-85
Class Size Limits/Special Education 86-87
Class Size Overloads 84-85
Classified Employees Becoming Certificated 16-17,62 ,112
Classroom Management 29-30, 30-34, 87
Clock Hours 17, 47, 51, 66
Closure of Schools/ Programs 80-81
Committees in Schools 12, 26, 41
Complaints about employee…...….27
Contracts 3, 36-38
Conversion of Non-Continuing Contracts 37-38
Counselors & Social Workers 93-94
Covering Classes 89-90
Credit for Experience in Salary Placement 47-48
Credits & Transcript Changes 46-47, 50
Cultural Literacy 2, 17,38 , 40, 113
Curriculum 9,11-13,15, 28-29, 35-36,

D
Decision Making 11-15
Department Heads 42-46
Designated Schools ….9
Discipline of Students 29-33,36,87,
Discipline of Employees 27
Discrimination 2, 26, 76, 81
Displaced………10, 74-75,80-81,112
DSU special ed…………………….87
Duties 28,35-36, 40-42, 82-83
Duration……4

E
Elementary Specialists 85-86
Employee Files 27-28
ESA's 48, 135-136
Evaluation 101-109, 107-115, 131-134, 134-135
Evaluation Grievances 109
Experience Credits for
Salary Placement 47-48
Expulsion 32
Extra Days in Secondary Schools 45
Extra Duties 42

F
Faculty Meetings 13,35 , 82, 130
Files, Employee 27-28
Files, Student 30, 33, 85, 88-89
Five-O-Four (504) 75,79 , 81, 112
Family Med Lv Act….57
Foreign Language….95
Four B Classrooms ...87

G
Grievance Procedures ... 97-100, 109
Group Insurance ... 69-72

H
Harassment 2, 26, 38, 81
Health & Safety 34, 70, 89-90, 95, 130
Hiring Process 44, 76-77
Hiring Teams 44, 76-77
Hiring Training 76
Hiring Non teaching certs …78
Home Visits ….82
Hourly Rates of Pay 39, 49, 56,122,123, 124-126
Hours of Work 35, 82

I
IEP 41, 85, 88
IEP Extra Time 18, 88
Incentives hiring and bonus…10
Inclement Weather 61
Injury on Duty 59, 71, 72
In-Service/Workshop Credits 17,47
Insurance…....69-70, 71
Interviews 76, 77
Instructional Councils 13-14
Itinerants and designated schools..10
Itinerant Work Space 90

J
Jury Duty/Court Appearances 60
Just Cause 27

K
Kindergarten Teachers 91-92

L
Labor-Management ...11
Lay Off and Recall…10, 110-114
Leadership Committee… 11
Learning Improvement Days...36
Leaves 57-68
SEA Officers...66-68
Uncompensated....63-66
Leave Sharing….58
Length of Work Day 82
Liability Insurance & Lawsuits 70-71
Libraries 93-94
Loss or Damage to Property 70-71
Lunch Period 82-84, 92, 95

M
Management Rights…26.
Mentoring...18, 19
Mid year transfers…78
Mileage Reimbursement 72, 83
Moving From Closed Schools 79-81
Music Teachers 85-86

N
New Hires ……………….38
No Strike Clause………….115
Non-Continuing Contracts 37-38, 74, 133
Nondiscrimination………….26
Non-Renewal of Contracts 109
Nurses 95-96
Negotiations……………4

O
Observations 105, 135
One-Year Contracts 37-38, 74, 133
Overpayment 51

P
Parent engagement………….…….10
Partnership Committee …………9-11
Pay 38-39, 39-42
Pay Days 50
Payroll deductions dues…………….7
PCP 83-84
Per Diem Days and Extra Days
14, 18, 23, 36, 41, 45, 50, 80, 93, 95, 126
Performance Cycle 105-106
Personal Leave 57-58
Personnel Files 27-28
Phase I Hiring…………………..74-75
Phase I suspended ……………..…77
Phase II Hiring 75-76
Physical Education Teachers 85-86
Posting of Positions 76
Preparation Time 83-84
Probation 108, 133
Professional Development
14-15, 15-19, 23, 33, 41, 50, 102
Professional Growth Cycle 82, 106-107
Program Movement or Closure 80-81
Property Damage & Loss 71
Provisional Contracts 37, 74, 103, 134

R
Race and Culture ...2, 17, 38, 40, 113
Referral of Students 31-32, 86
Release Time in Middle & High Schools 46
Representation in Meetings With Supervisor 26-27
Respect 1
Retaliation 26
Return from Leave 65-66
Return to Performance Cycle 107
Right to Return to an Assignment 22, 64, 65-66, 75,113
ROPE (Reimbursement of Out-Of-
Pocket Expenditures) 73
RSVPs/Job Requisition Requests 76

S
Sabbaticals 61-63
Safety of Students 29-34
Safety and Security 29-34
Salary Placement 46-49
Salary Schedule 38-39, Scheduling & Assignment of Teachers 12, 83
School Closure…………75, 79, 80-81
Schools Requiring District Intervention 80
Searches of Students 34
Secondary Teacher Preparation Maximum 83
Seniority 75, 86, 87-88, 112-113
Sexual Harassment 2, 26
Sick Leave 57-58
Sick Leave Buy Back 58
Site-Based Decision Making 11-15
Snow Days 61
Social Workers & Counselors....93-94
Special Education
**Assignment of Students 12
**Class Size Limits 86-89
**Discipline of Students 32
**Extra Time 17-18, 88
**IEP's 41, 88
**Information on Students 87, 88-89
**Overloads: DSU 87-88
**Professional Development 17,18
Specialists….85-86, 90
Split Assignments 83
Split Grades 83
Staff Meetings 82
Staffing 74-81
Staffing During Summer 49-50
STAR Program 18-25
Stipend Compensation ….15, 42, 124
Stipend Contracts/Supplemental Assignments 42-46, 124
Stipend Removal 43-45
Stipends – Elementary 46
Stipends for Decision Making 15
Student-Teacher Ratio 84
Substitute Teachers 49, 54-56, 138,139, 140-141
Substitute Teacher Benefits 55-56
Substitute Teacher Evaluation 107-108, 138, 139
Substitute Professional Develop….16
Substitute Teacher Salary Schedule 123
Substitute Unavailability Coverage 89
Summer Hiring Plan….76
Summer School Pay...50
Summer School Programs.... 49-50
Surplusing 74, 112
Suspension of Students 29-34

T
Touching/Use of Force 70-71
Traffic Education……52
Transcript & Credit Changes 50, 46-47
Transfer 78-79, 83
Transfer by Joint agreement...79
Transportation of Students 72
Travel Time 72, 83, 92
TRI (Time Responsibility Incentive) Pay 15-16, 38-42, 118-120, 121
TRI Days, Use of Building- Directed Days 14

W
Waiver Day Use 14-15
Waiver of Contract Request 6, 143-144
Weapons 30-33
Weighted Student Formula….84
Whistleblowing 34
Work Day Hours 82
Work Space 90-91
Workload 83
Worker's Compensation 59, 71,72
Workshop Pay...50