Memorandum of Agreement regarding Variance to the Instructional Day
Letter sent from the STA to staff reps
All inquiries can be directed to Ziyad Shukri at grieve1@surreyteachers.org or 604-592-8398.
This application for a variance to Article D.22.1.d of the 2019-2022 Collective Agreement (Length of the Instructional Day) must be received by the Surrey Teachers’ Association (the “STA”) Office on or before 3:00 P.M. on November 15, 2024 for the 2025-2026 school year. If the application is not received by November 15, 2024 it will not be considered. Please use a separate application for each course applied for.
a. The course(s) could not be offered during the instructional day, b. The course(s) is a provincially or locally developed course where students are enrolled. e. cannot be a “drop in” or tutorial session, c. The course(s) is multi-grade AND it is educationally sound/appropriate to run it as a multi- grade course, and d. If not multi-grade, the course(s) may be a fine arts foundational course (such as Jazz 8)