File: GCB

PROFESSIONAL STAFF CONTRACTS

The School Board shall enter into written contracts with professional staff, (teachers, assistant principals, principals, and supervisors) before such employees assume their duties. Written contracts with those who are temporarily employed are not required. A temporarily employed teacher is (i) one who is employed to substitute for a contracted teacher for a temporary period of time during the contracted teacher’s absence or (ii) one who is employed to fill a teacher vacancy for a period of time, but for no longer than 90 teaching days in such vacancy, unless otherwise approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction on a case-by-case basis, during one school year. Contracts will be in the form prescribed by the State Board of Education, with special covenants added by the local School Board as appropriate. Contracts shall be signed in duplicate, with a copy furnished to each party.

Coaching contracts and contracts for extracurricular activity sponsorship assignments where a monetary supplement is paid shall be separate and apart from the annual or continuing contract and termination of the contract shall not constitute cause for the termination of the annual or continuing contract.

For purposes of this policy, "extracurricular activity sponsorship" means an assignment for which a monetary supplement is received requiring responsibility for any student organizations, clubs, or groups except those activities that are conducted in conjunction with regular classroom, curriculum, or instructional programs.

Supervisors and principals shall be given contracts for ten (10), eleven (11), or twelve (12) months as determined by the School Board.

Adopted:

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Legal Refs.: Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, §§ 22.1-78, 22.1-302.

8 VAC 20-440-10

8 VAC 20-440-30

8 VAC 20-440-110

8 VAC 20-720-110