Series 4000: District Employment

A. General

An employee’s duties to the District take precedence over other outside obligations while performing District duties or during work hours. An employee may not engage in other activities that adversely impact school employment or operation or that interfere with the employee’s duties.

Except as otherwise provided in these Policies, an employee may secure additional employment, participate in business ventures, and serve as a volunteer. Such activities must not interfere with an employee’s ability to carry out the employee’s responsibilities, to serve as a role model in the community, or adversely impact the District’s reputation.

Employees must communicate with a supervisor before engaging in outside activities where a conflict of interest (as defined in Policy 4201) or the appearance of a conflict of interest or impropriety may exist.

B. Conduct Standards

Employees must fulfill their duties without conflict from outside employment or activities. Unless the Superintendent or designee grants written authorization, employees may not engage in the following outside activities:

1. provide private services, lessons, tutoring, or coaching for students assigned to the employee for additional remuneration;

2. conduct personal business during assigned duty hours;

3. represent, either expressly or by implication, that the District sponsors, sanctions, or endorses a non-District related activity, solicitation, or other endeavor;

4. sell, solicit, or promote the sale of goods or services to students or parents/guardians when the employee’s relationship with the District is used to influence the sale or may be reasonably perceived as attempting to influence the sale;

5. sell, solicit, or promote the sale of goods or services to employees over whom the employee has supervisory or managerial responsibilities in a manner that the subordinate employee could reasonably perceive as coercive;

6. use employee, student, or parent/guardian information in connection with the solicitation, sale, or promotion of goods or services or provide that information to any person or entity for any purpose; or

7. use District personnel, facilities, resources, equipment, technology, property, or funds for personal financial gain or business activity

C. Intellectual Property

Intellectual property includes written or artistic works, instructional materials, textbooks, curriculum, software, inventions, procedures, ideas, innovations, systems, programs, or other work product created or developed by an employee in the course and scope of performing District employment duties or during work hours, or derivative to District intellectual property, whether published or not. Such intellectual property will be the exclusive property of the District. The District has the sole right to sell, copy, license, assign, or transfer any and all right, title, or interest in and to that intellectual property.

Legal authority: 17 USC 101 et seq.; MCL 15.321 et seq., 15.401 et seq.; MCL 380.11a, 380.601a, 380.1805(1)

Date adopted: 08/09/2021 

Date revised: