AMU Time January 2015. Credentials- Please make sure that your credential is up to date. If you need to renew or clear your credential do so right.

AMU Time

January 2015

Executive Board Reports President- Salina Joiner

Credentials- Please make sure that your credential is up to date

If you need to renew or clear your credential do so right away The process could take up to 3 months Your credential is not valid until you receive confirmation from the CTC Paying for your credential is not confirmation

Members may be terminated if their credential is not current BTSA interviews- You are not required to do BTSA

interviews They are optional Let your admin know if you choose not to participate

LCFF Funding- Projections show that we are expected to receive an increase in funding from this source Therefore it is more than likely that we will receive a 2 raise next year

ldquoThere will be a two percent (2) salary schedule increase for the 2014-2015 school year and if the State of Californiarsquos Local Control Funding Formula is equal to or above the proposed funding for 2014-2015 a two percent (2) salary schedule increase for the 2015-2016 school yearrdquo

Vice President Angel Maldonado

Beginning in the fall semester 2015 Locke will be downsizing due to a continual decline in enrollment

A Locke Transition transition committee made up of Locke members from across the academies students parents principals community partners and classified staff met 3 different times to make a recommendation for downsizing

The committee reviewed data reviewed interests reviewed options and voted on a recommendation

The following were the different options Merge Locke ACamp B together Merge Locke A into Locke C and B Merge Locke B into Locke C and A or Merge Locke C into Locke B and A

The committee made the recommendation to merge Locke B into Locke Camp A by a vote of 19-4 The recommendation was then given to the LSAC for a vote

Finally the Green Dot organizational Leadership Team met to make the final decision

They upheld both the Locke Transition committeersquos decision and the LSACrsquos

Secretary Danielle Berger

Minutes from December Passed AMU fundraiser coming in the very near future

TreasurerDanielle Parker

Budget for the 2014-2015 school year has passed Will provide an updated expense report at the

February Rep Council meeting

Committee Reports

Organizing Committee

February 19th-21st organizing committee members will be attending the Organizing For Power Conference Sponsored by CTA in Glendale

Members attending are Mark Friedman Nicole Klanfer Ben West Angel Maldonaldo ( Salina Joiner- not a member)

Purpose of conference is to learn strategies on organizing members and empowering the union

Committee may come back with an item to organize members around

Testing Committee Due to the concerns members have raised with the Green Dot

common assessments AMU has put together a testing committee to address them

The committee met to discuss concerns and brainstorm options that would be beneficial for members and students

Some of the concerns raised were the following ldquoSPED students are burnt outgiving uprdquo ldquoTesting writing on three tests-no longer accesses content

knowledgerdquo ldquoNo time for labs guest speakers enrichment activitiesrdquo ldquoTeach to the testrdquoldquoGoes against Common Core-inquiry based labs reading apprenticeshiprdquo

The committee will continue to meet to discuss options that will meet the needs of both students and teachers

We do ask that you please take the survey provided by Green Dot These are sent out by your curriculum specialist The more voices that speak up and address the concerns the more validity we will have when it comes to addressing the concerns with management

Membership Committee Report

Membership cards will be given to site reps at the February rep council meeting

Elections Committee ReportStephanie Ronen

NEA Representative Assembly Elections 2015- State and local Representative

You must choose between running for a statelocal delegate

NEA RA meets once a year State delegates are required to attend all sessions of the

California Caucus NEA RA meetings and take into account CTA policies when voting on NEA proposals

Open nominations ( any NEA member is eligible for nomination and may nominate other members)

ALL NEA members within their Service Center are eligible to vote

January 30th is deadline for Service Center to received state delegate declaration of candidacy forms

March 30th election must be completed More info to come

Benefits Committee ReportBrian Pfeffer

The benefits committee met twice last semester Request for Proposals will be going out shortly( This is where our

broker begins to look for quotes from insurance companies) AMU is working hard to have options for healthcare available to us

Ultimately this will depend on the overall cost As a reminder the contract language states ldquoGDPS shall slice (ie use multiple carriers) or replace Cigna with Kaiser Permanente or another medical carrier for the 2015-2016 school year if fiscally feasible according to the Health Benefits Committeersquos recommendation and so as long as cost does not exceed the cost for the Cigna plan for the 2015-2016 school year at that timerdquo

We are committed to ensuring that we maintain a free healthcare option for all

Please continue to email me with any concerns you might have

Grievance ReportNancy Wang

Locke B- Level One- Re Verbal Warning Teacher wrote behavior referral for student who was cursing at teacher for commenting that the class was ldquoacting like crybabiesrdquoStudent alleged to admin that teacher called him a cry-babyGD did not conduct a proper investigation to verify student claim and issued teacher a verbal warning In process of scheduling meeting

ARB- Level Two- Re Written WarningTeacher received Written Warning for keeping a student outside of class to complete a reflection for not completing HW The WW was built upon a verbal warning given the previous year for sending a student to a buddy teacher WW was for ldquoinsubordinationrdquo and ldquounprofessional conduct ldquothe WW violates progressive discipline and just cause Level II meeting has been scheduled and held Green Dot has drafted their response We are in the process of scheduling a meeting to review their response

Locke B- informal level regarding discrepancy on evaluation

Bargaining Committee ReportElizabeth Ruff

Bargaining team and management held their first session on December 17th

Sunshine letters were shared and discussed Discussion over communicating with members took

place Will send joint messaging when necessary However AMU will send out updates to personal emails Please provide personal emails to site reps so that we can keep you updated on negotiations You will not receive updates through Green Dot email

Teams went through the IBB process on Article 2 Both teams discussed their issues and interest on this

article Both teams expressed concerns over teacher and admin

burn out Teams discussed new decision making tree Next bargaining date is February 2nd2015

SGP MOU

Thank you to all that participated in the survey Some members did not receive the survey link We are updating our

email database to ensure that all members are included Site reps voted on the SGP MOU at the January Rep Council meeting The MOU passed with all in favor with the exception of 2

abstentions Bonuses will be paid out in February As of now the following will be the weighted measures for teacher

evaluations Classroom Observation ndash 65 1113088 Student Survey ndash 15 1113088 360deg Survey ndash 15 1113088 Family Survey ndash 5

MOU details will be posted on our website

Thank you Have a great semester 2