It is the intent and purpose of the parties to this Agreement to promote and improve the professional and academic services rendered to the taxpayers and the school children of the St. James-Assiniboia School Division and to improve the working relations between the St. James-Assiniboia School Division (hereinafter referred to as the Board), and the St. James-Assiniboia Teachers' Association of the Manitoba Teachers' Society (hereinafter referred to as the Association), to establish an acceptable salary schedule and other conditions of engagement resulting from the operation of this Agreement.