All teachers who are banking their 30 days will benefit eventually. See further explanation by SDPI 2. Next year, days that teachers work on Saturdays or before and after the regular calendar, but within a fiscal year may count toward the 200 days. This flexibility will encourage schools and teachers to do more quality professional development, quality time to do home visits, field trips, parent conferences, curriculum development, tutoring, Saturday School, planning, site based decision making, and any other creative need that improves teaching and learning at your school. Through your school improvement plan or individual school policy, you should establishprocedures for implementing this aspect of the calendar legislation.
Personal leave is now a state law.
Previously, it was a state board policy. While nothing has changed, NCAE has a legislative goal of achieving funding for the cost of a substitute within the next 2 years. If, we want to maximize the use of optional teacher workdays, then teachers must have opportunities to take care of personal needs by using personal leave. This law allows teachers to convert unused annual leave at the time of retirement rather than on June 30th. Since the 1970's , the law has required teachers to work up to 200 days, but the ten month restriction did not allow more than 198.