Unless otherwise defined within this Agreement, the following definitions of terms shall prevail:

3.1 "Act" means Chapter 10.7, Sections 3540 through 3549.3 of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code of the State of California.

3.2 "Agreement" means all provisions of this document.

3.3 "Authorized and/or Designated Representative of the Association" means a member of the unit specified by the Association who is empowered to act for the Association in matters specified in this Agreement.

3.4 "Board" means the Board of Education of the Redlands Unified School District.

3.5 "Day" means any day on which the member of the unit is contractually required to render services to the employer.

3.6 "Employer" means the Redlands Unified School District sometimes referred to as "District."

3.7 "Exclusive Representative and/or Association" means Redlands Teachers Association.

3.8 "Immediate Family" means the mother, father, grandmother or grandfather of the employee or of the employee's spouse and the employee's spouse, son, son-in-law, daughter, daughter-in-law, grandchild, brother, brother-in-law, sister, sister-in-law, aunt, uncle, or any person(s) living in the immediate household of the employee. Expansion of the definition of immediate family for other persons because of extenuating circumstances may be granted by the Superintendent or Superintendent's designee.

3.9 "Just Cause" means such cause as shall constitute good and sufficient reason to act. Such cause shall be established by legally sufficient evidence for the District to act in matters covered in Section 11.6 of this Agreement. This standard will be applied in accordance with due process.

3.10 “Meeting and Negotiating" means a serious and honest effort on the part of both parties to reach agreement according to the provisions of the Act.

3.11 "Paid Leave of Absence" means that a unit member shall be entitled to receive wages and all fringe benefits, including, but not limited to, insurance and retirement benefits, and to receive credit for annual salary increments provided during the leave.

3.12 "PERB" means the California Public Employment Relations Board.

3.13 "Per Diem" or "Daily Rate of Pay" means the amount of salary derived by dividing the unit member's normal annual salary by the number of days in his/her classification's normal work year.

3.14 "School Day" means any day on which students are required to be in attendance for average daily attendance accounting purposes.

3.15 "Substitutes" means persons serving on assignments for uninterrupted periods of less than one (1) semester's duration for members of the unit on leave, or in an on-call status to replace absent regular employees on a day-to-day basis for any length of time within a school year.

3.16 "Superintendent" means the Superintendent of Schools of the Redlands Unified School District or the Superintendent's designee.

3.17 "Supervisor" means the first level Administrator having immediate jurisdiction over a unit member.

3.18 "Temporary Contract Unit Member" means any certificated employee serving on an assignment, for an uninterrupted period of one (1) semester or more, temporarily replacing a regularly employed unit member.

3.19 "Unit Member" means any employee who is included in the Certificated bargaining unit as defined in Article 2 and is, therefore, covered by the terms and provisions of this Agreement, except as otherwise provided herein, sometimes referred to as "Member."

3.20 “Standards Based Evaluation” – The evaluation process will be based on the California Standards for the Teaching Profession.