A group of VEA Leaders will be in Los Angeles this week to attend CTA’s Summer Institute. These leaders will be studying a variety of topics including common core, legal rights of members, and bargaining. Be sure to check this website & Facebook & Twitter for updates, which may or may not include candid photos!
This is per Cheri Summers, Chief Academic Officer, regarding our Optional Buy Back Days on Tuesday and Wednesday, August 14th and 15th. This information is being mailed out to all certificated staff.
GEARING UP FOR 2012-2013
Optional Staff Development Days
August 14-15, 2012
SITE BASED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Site based professional development will be held at many of our sites. Certificated staff members will receive agendas from the site administrators. Training will be held at:
August 14: BH, CA, HI, LV, MI, PA, VC, WA
August 15: BH, CA, DM, FT, HI, LV, MI, PA, PE, SM, VC, PHS
SPECIALIZED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Specialized professional development on August 14 and 15 will be held for several groups. If you are scheduled to attend one of these trainings you will be informed by your site administrator and you will be provided an agenda.
Restorative Justice @ Location to be determined
Middle School STEAM @ Vallejo High School
K-12 CHOICE SESSIONS
If you are not being provided site based or specialized professional development you may attend the K-12 professional development sessions being held at Vallejo High School. The agenda for this event is on the back of this page. Please note: This event is available ONLY to those not provided one of the sessions above.
Certificated staff attending any of the above events will be paid $250 per day according to the VCUSD Contract with VEA.
K-12 Choice Sessions
August 14-15, 2012
Vallejo High School
The following sessions will be offered:
Math Content: K-2, 3-5 and 10-12
Common Core Standards: K-12
ELD Curriculum: K-5
Classroom Procedures: K-12
Exceptional Lessons and Lesson Planning: K-12
Literacy in the Content Areas: 4-12
Differentiated Instruction: K-12
The following AGENDA will be followed both days:
8:00
Registration
8:30-11:45
Choice Session A
11:45-12:15
Lunch will be provided
12:15-3:30
Choice Session B
Dana Goldstein explains why corporate education reform is not a good idea in this “The Nation” video.
Please note that the loss of instructional/pay cut days (aka furlough) are only IF Proposition 30, “The Save our Schools and Public Safety” initiative fails.
The only exception are the two dates in November, which are right before the November election.
Parents & Certificated Staff should NOT make plans that cannot be changed if the Prop 30 passes as those days after the November election will NOT be taken.
To be delivered to: The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Barack Obama
Education should be left to educators. Please work to ensure that education policy is created by educators, and not by corporations or politicians.
Public education policy in the United States is under attack from a variety of directions. Corporate influences want to push for a for-profit model to tap into what they see as an untapped source of income. Misguided “reformers” want to push to end basic due-process protections for teachers in a quest to root out the insignificant numbers of “bad teachers.” Politicians continue to push for “teacher accountability” while ignoring the accountability of the parties that control student achievement the most; parents and students. Meanwhile, our education system, our dedicated teachers, and our students all suffer further degradation of their morale.
Go and sign the online petition and then share it with your friends, family, and colleagues!
Teachers,
If you click on the “Teachers” menu option, you can view the “Payroll Deadlines” document sent by VCUSD.
Alternatively, this post will have the “tag” of “Payroll” and also placed in a “Payroll” category. As VEA receives these documents, we will make every effort to place them on the website for easier access.
Wisconsin was the first state to grant collective bargaining rights to its teachers.
This happened in 1962.
In 2011, collective bargaining rights were stripped from them.
Watch the video below. Do not let what happen in Wisconsin happen to teachers in California. Vote NO on Prop 32!