Dear LM_Net,
I must of missed the original post for this HIT.
In our school district our elementary librarians have half time assistants
in each building. However, if a librarian teaches more than 20 thirty
minute classes a week they receive an extra hour and a half per week of
assistant time for every 30 minute class above 20.
This year, we have one librarian who is teaching 30 classes, so she is
getting an extra 15 hours per week of assistant time for her overload. The
rest of the teaching loads of the other eight elementary librarians in our
district ranges from 17 classes to 27 classes.
The only reason elementary librarians get the extra time for overload is
because it was written into the teachers' contract many years ago. The
administration hates this portion of the contract because it forces them to
spend money in the library for assistant time. Many times they would have
refused to increase assistant time for the teaching elementary librarians in
our district if it weren't for the contract.
Our union has resisted efforts by the administration to remove this portion
of contract over the last decade. We've even tried to get contract language
written in for secondary librarians. This contract language has helped keep
most of our elementary libraries fully staffed for many years. Which is an
important piece for creating effective school libraries for improving
student academic achievement.
"Be hold the power of a union."
--
Peter G. Mohn, LMS
Snohomish Freshman Campus
Snohomish, WA
pmohn2001@earthlink.net
"You live and learn. Or you don't live long." -- Heinlein
On 10/1/04 12:23 PM, "Linda DeVore" <linda.devore@CGELEM.K12.AZ.US> wrote:
> Thank you for all of the responses. A couple of days ago I posted
> the question "How much time is spent teaching classes?" for an elementary
> librarian in my district. The average number of classes being taught per
> week is 30.5 with most classes being 30 minutes in length. School sizes,
> where given, ranged from 650 to 850 students. Most people are on fixed
> schedules and are the planning period for their teachers. A couple of
> people have fixed schedules but also have some flex time built in as well.
> There were only a couple of responses where people had more than 200
> minutes a week allocated for prep/planning. There was one person where by
> contract where they had to be given a prep and another where the state
> legislature had gotten into the fracas by mandating that teachers would have
> a guaranteed 40 minute uninterrupted prep every day. One person had no prep
> and was expected to do administrative duties before or after school on her
> own time. One person is down to 3 hours a week and another is at 40 minutes
> a day. The good news is that the majority of the respondents have at least
> a part-time aide and in a lot of cases a full time aide/assistant. No one
> said that they had enough time for doing "library stuff". Most of the
> respondents are exhausted and are feeling frustrated.
> Once again, thank you for your responses and I hope that this
> information can be used by this librarian when she speaks with her principal
> and that the second librarian can be allocated some "prep" time of her own
> and maybe even give up her PE class!
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