Classroom Release Time (CRT)

NAG 3: PERSONNEL

TRENTHAM SCHOOL STATEMENT OF INTENT

CLASSROOM RELEASE TIME

Reviewed by Leadership – March 2020

Reviewed by Board – March 2023                        Presiding Member___________________ Date___________

Ratified by BOT – March 2020

Next Review Date – March  2023

PURPOSES:

1. To address teacher workload while maximising benefits for student learning.

2. To ensure that the use of teacher classroom release time is to be professionally useful for the school’s teaching and learning programmes, their own professional growth and the learning needs of their students.

GUIDELINES:

1. The BOT delegates authority to the Principal for the use and allocation of classroom release time (CRT).
   
   

2. The use and allocation of classroom release time will, in the first instance, address the workload created by the school’s annual requirements regarding assessment, planning, evaluation and reporting.
   
   

3. Any other use and allocation of classroom release time is at the discretion of the Principal.
   
   

4. Classroom release time is additional to release time provided for normal leadership, curriculum and beginning teacher release.
   
   

5. When classroom release cannot be provided for genuine reasons an effort will be made to try and reallocate it at a later date, if possible. The SOI will be reviewed, if applicable.
   
   

6. At the discretion of the principal, teachers have the option of working from home during CRT, as long as hub, syndicate and school commitments have been met.

REFERENCE: 

Guidelines for Classroom Release Time, NZEI, 2005