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• If you are not a paying member of the CREC-EA, you will not be represented in disciplinary matters or DCF investigations.

• Potential members are represented in matters surrounding the upholding of the contract since it effects all members of the association.

Teachers shall be provided a daily preparation time of no less than thirty (30) consecutive minutes and not fewer than one hundred seventy five(175) minutes of preparation time weekly which, except as required by program emergencies, shall be used for planning. These minutes do not include data teams, EIP meetings, and grade level meetings with coaches.

CREC teachers in their first year with the agency are required to attend Teachers Academy and to complete five additional hours of professional learning outside of the work day. In addition, teachers in their second and third year at CREC who were hired with less than five years of experience are required to attend Teachers Academy and to complete five additional hours annually of professional learning outside of the work day.

The length of the magnet school teacher work day is 7.25 hours with a duty free lunch. This lunch is to be 30 minutes long. If a teacher is in a program that is scheduled to work more than the 7 hour day, an adjusted salary will be determined by dividing the hours of the extended day by seven and multiplying it by the appropriate step and lane of the salary schedule that the teacher is on. This means that if you have to pick up your child, go to an appointment or anything else…. GO! We all know that you will be doing a LEAST an hour of work at home anyway.

Two (2) personal days may be used for any reason, but the dates must be approved by the Program Director/Principal. It is expected that whenever possible they will be taken at a time convenient both to the teacher and the needs of the program. Such days shall not be granted to extend a vacation or holiday period for any purpose that might be deemed essentially recreational. If you get denied a personal day and you feel you have a valid reason, please contact Lisa Cordova, the CRECEA president.