SEVEN OAKS TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION
EFFECTIVE PERIOD: 2018/07/01 - 2022/06/30
ARTICLE 14: Professional Development Fund and Advisory Committees
14.01 Board SOTA Professional Development Committee
- The Board SOTA Professional Development Committee will have equal representation of SOTA members and appointed Seven Oaks School Division Board representatives.
- The Committee shall allow tuition fees (at 1/3) to come out of the in-province portion.
- The fund is set at 3 times the Class VII maximum teachers’ salary.
- The administration of this fund will follow an Operational Agreement arrived at by the Board SOTA Professional Development Committee which is to be reviewed annually.
- Funds not approved in a given budget year will be carried forward to the next.
14.02
- Four Board representatives.
- Four Teacher representatives appointed by the Association one of whom shall be the Association Vice-President.
The names of appointees shall be given to the Superintendent by the thirty-first (31st) day of October. The Association shall assume the responsibility of naming its representatives.
This Committee shall have two (2) chairpersons: one designated by the Association and one designated by the Board. They shall alternate in the chairing of the meetings of the committee.
- The Committee shall meet monthly, or as often as found necessary.
- The duties of this Committee shall be:
- To serve the Board in the promotion of good communications and Board-Staff relations.
- To report on problems raised for consideration by the Board, administrators, teachers; the findings to be submitted to the Board for consideration and appropriate action.
- To consider the adequacy and effectiveness of the total school program and ways and means of better meeting the needs, interests and abilities of students and teachers.
- To carry out other duties as may be assigned by the Board and the Association by mutual agreement.
- Matters currently being dealt with by the Negotiation Committee shall be excluded from the duties of the Advisory Committee.