This time is for instructional preparation, parent-teacher conferences, evaluating students’ work, and planning. It must be scheduled within the instructional day and cannot be less than 45 minutes per day.

Article V, Section 8-02

Planning can include professional responsibilities such as lesson planning, grading, parent phone calls/conferences, Exceptional Student Education (ESE) Individual Education Plan (IEP meetings), English Language Learner (ELL) Language Education Plan (LEP) meetings, Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) meetings, grant writing, and attendance at non-mandatory in-services. Student meetings mandated by state or federal law shall be scheduled in advance based upon the classroom teacher’s calendar at a mutually agreed upon time. Such meetings shall be scheduled efficiently in order to accommodate parents’ needs and to minimize, when feasible, the impact on individual classroom teacher planning time.