Effective the date of signing:
a. “Extra-curricular activities” means student-related athletic, social, recreational and cultural activities, occurring outside the normal school day, but does not include activities related to academic or instructional matters or curriculum subjects outside the normal school day, whether such occur alone or with students, parents or administrative staff, such as (without limitation) staff meetings, parent/teacher meetings, committee work or in-service sessions.
b. The Division will grant teachers who have contributed toward extra-curricular activities, a payment equivalent to the current substitute teacher rate. Each fifty (50) hours of contribution time is equal to a payment at the current substitute teacher daily rate. A teacher will be eligible for a half-day payment(s) upon completion of each twenty-five (25) hours of contributed time, to a maximum payment(s) of two (2) days per school year.
c. i) Teachers who are entitled to the payment in (b) may, in lieu of the payment, be granted leave with no loss of pay or benefits. The date for such leave shall be agreed upon between the principal and the teacher.
ii. Notwithstanding the above, a teacher may carry forward two (2) days of leave to the subsequent school year. In such case the entitlement must be used within twelve (12) months of the day the hours were completed. The maximum amount of leave carried forward and taken under this article shall be no more than two (2) days in any one (1)year, but this maximum does not include the annual entitlement of up to two (2) days of leave with no loss of pay or benefits that is provided for under sub-articles (b) and (c) (i) above.
d. Only activities that have received prior approval of the principal will be eligible for the provisions of this clause. A list of approved activities pertaining to this clause will be developed by a joint committee which will include two representatives from the Board and two representatives from the Association.
e. Teachers must report extra-curricular hours on a form which the Division will provide. The teacher and his/her principal will only report hours when the 25, 50, 75 or 100 hours have been completed. If a teacher wishes to invoke 5.14(c)(ii) then the teacher must complete the form with hours accumulated and indicate on the form that the day/days will be used within 12 months of the day the hours were completed.
f. In the case where a teacher does not accumulate sufficient hours to qualify for a half or full day payment, the teacher may carry those hours over to the subsequent school year.
g. Participation in extra-curricular duties by teachers is voluntary.
h. This leave shall not be used on scheduled in-service, professional development or parent teacher days unless the Superintendent has expressly given consent.