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Instruction

Classroom teachers (translated from instructional teachers)

includes:

• Salaries and related employment costs for teachers who interact with pupils face-to-face; classroom, hospital and homebound teachers;
• cost of third-party instructional services for district students (e.g., advanced college courses or specialized classes provided by another district);
• the cost of travel for hospital, homebound and itinerant teachers; only the teaching portion of an expenditure for department chairpersons who also teach; driver education teachers if taught during normal school hours, offered without a fee and restricted to students (otherwise code to Extracurricular);
• music instruction (e.g., band) that is taught during the day as part of the curriculum, and tutoring (e.g., SAT, ESL); school-to-career staff, if doing face-to-face teaching
  

  excludes:

• nurse teachers even if face-to-face teaching occurs;
• school-to-career staff involved in placement (code to Guidance and Counseling);
• teachers working with classroom teachers (code to Staff Development)

Substitute teachers

includes:

• teachers substituting for other teachers unless the reason is staff development (code to Staff Development)
  

  excludes:

• teachers substituting because of staff development;
• substitutes not in the classroom (e.g., Library, Cafeteria Monitor) (Code as appropriate)

Paraprofessionals

includes:

• paraprofessionals who spend the majority of their time in the classroom or with the teacher

excludes:

• One-on-one paraprofessionals whose primary responsibility is that of physical attendants (code to Therapists);
• non-instructional paraprofessionals, aides and graders of student work (code to In-Service, Staff Development and Support)

Classroom technology

includes:

• technology and software that pupils use;
• salaries and related employment costs of staff who are dedicated to support technology instruction, pupil-use network management, or computer lab support personnel;
• expenditures for dedicated telephone lines, maintenance and repair, and service contracts;
• purchases and/or lease payments for pupil-use computer equipment

excludes:

• Technology instruction (code to Face-to-face Teaching);
• technology instruction of professional and support staff (code appropriately);
• technology and software for purposes other than pupil-use (code appropriately);
• printer, paper, ribbons, diskettes, etc. (code to Instructional Materials)

Classroom materials

includes:

• the cost of instructional materials and supplies;
• staff dedicated to managing the selection of those materials and supplies including textbooks, paper, lab materials, test forms, workbooks, chalk, markers, maps and charts;
• all classroom instructional equipment other than pupil-use computer equipment; tests;
• field trips that are instruction related;
• equipment used for presentations by master teachers;
• televisions dedicated to the classroom;
• equipment used for distance learning instruction;
• salaries and employment costs of staff that manage classroom materials

excludes:

• test-related research and development and the personnel involved in that process (code to Curriculum Development);
• non-instructional trips (e.g., band, glee club) (Code to Extracurricular);
• projectors, video players, video-conferencing equipment, TVs mounted in classroom (code to Library and Media)