BORDER LAND TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION

EFFECTIVE PERIOD: 2018/07/01 - 2022/06/30

LETTER OF UNDERSTANDING

RE: JOINT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

LETTER OF UNDERSTANDING

RE:     JOINT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

The Parties herewith agree to the following provisions respecting planning and funding of professional development for Association members for the duration of the collective agreement.

 

  1. The Division and the Association agree to establish a Joint Professional Development Committee (Joint PD Committee”) that will have the following mandate:

            1.1       to create an annual professional development plan that balances school, divisional and individual teacher needs,

            1.2       to develop and administer the professional development fund, as defined herein,

            1.3       to plan divisional in-services and workshops,

            1.4       to approve expenditures for divisional in-services and workshops, school-based professional development, individual participation at conferences, workshops, training sessions, courses of study, either credit or non-credit courses, sabbaticals, full or partial, and other professional development activities that the committee deems to be appropriate.

 

  1. The Joint PD Committee shall be comprised of the following:

            2.1       the superintendent and the assistant superintendent,

            2.2       the Association’s Professional Development Committee.

 

  1. The Division and the Association agree that the Association’s Professional Development Chairperson shall chair the Joint Professional Development Committee.

 

  1. Funding for professional development shall come from the following sources:

            4.1       a sum equal to the provincial base support for professional development as outlined in the Funding of Schools Program for the applicable school year,

            4.2       an additional sum equivalent to other Manitoba Education funding that the Border Land School Division may be authorized to assign to professional development,

            4.3       funding from divisional revenues that the Division may contribute to professional development, and

            4.4       local funding that the Association may contribute to the professional development fund.

 

  1. The Association and the Division agree that the professional development plan and budget shall require the signatures of two signing authorities of the Division and two signing authorities of the Association.

 

  1. The Association and the Division agree that this agreement shall be modified only by mutual agreement between the parties.

Signed and Agreed on the 5th day of May 2021.

 

For The Division

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For The Association

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