December 22, 2011
This communication comes to wish each of you a happy and healthy holiday season along with one other very important union election matter.
Our union will conduct its annual Spring elections Wednesday through Friday, March 7-9, 2012. Open positions for your consideration are found below. Should a runoff be required, those dates are April 3 and 4, 2012. Please open the attached file for additional information. Candidate information sheets and further instructions will be released on Monday, January 9, 2012.
Nominations are now open for these positions and will remain open until the end of the Representative Assembly on Tuesday, January 31, 2012. You may nominate yourself or another member for a position.
We will continue to advertise our upcoming election every week until the 31
st of January, in various forms. Please help by sharing this with members at your school and other work locations, who may not receive all of my communications.
Secretary 3 YEAR TERM
Board of Director 4,8,10,11 and 13 3 YEAR TERM
Board of Director 5 (completing 2 years) of a 3 year term
NEA STATE DELEGATE/SUCCESSOR 1 YEAR
NEA LOCAL DELEGATE/SUCCESSOR 1 YEAR
AFT CONVENTION 1 YEAR
FEA DELEGATE ASSEMBLY 1 YEAR
Download/View the Nomination Form
Nomination Form
The CTA Union is conducting a survey of the membership and other teachers to get feedback on the Marzano evaluation system. The Union has been hearing that there are evaluation issues going on at various schools. Being such a large district we felt it was important to get a better picture of where our teachers actually stand on this issue.
The evaluation system is supposed to be a collegial, helpful tool to support teacher in the classroom with the end result being the improvement of student learning which should translate into higher student scores.
We are doing this online survey to try to get as candid, complete and accurate picture as to what is happening in the schools.
You can either click on the link below or copy it into your browser and answer the questions.
If there are teachers at your school who are not members, you can encourage them to access the CTA website and complete the survey. The more people that participate the better the picture CTA will have to address the issues that are going on with this new evaluation system.
The survey will be open for teachers to access till 5 PM on Sunday November 27th.
http://leadernet.aft.org/surveymaker/take/survey.cfm?id=9e33d333-5056-b94b-11a5-201b3736b567
Ohioans overwhelmingly voted to repeal Senate Bill 5—Gov. John Kasich’s attack on middle-class jobs that was designed to destroy collective bargaining rights in Ohio.
This victory represents a turning point in our collective work to protect good jobs, working families and workplace rights. But it’s more than that. It’s a long-overdue return to common sense.
Join the Occupy Movement!
http://www.meetup.com/occupytogether/
Or offer support and share your story:
http://act.aflcio.org/c/18/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3044
Cpl. Burt Richards is the one who got the School Board of Palm Beach to finally CLOSE ALL SCHOOLS, starting November 11th 2011 and every year thereafter , not commissioners, nor politicians.
You can invite him and his Veterans Speaker Forum to attend your school any morning for a 60 minute presentation of HONORING THOSE WHO SERVED . A guaranteed Standing Ovation when the program ends.
Also, Cpl. Richards would love to hear from any Veterans you may know or if you are a Veteran. Please contact him.
Contact 561- 734 – 7263 or pr.group@juno.com
Funds will support the Readers Book Fund at Western Pines Middle and high needs Elementary, Middle and High Schools in Palm Beach County.
“The hardest and most heroic work, the heaviest work in the world, is being a classroom teacher.” Robert Dow, Teacher Western Pines Middle and Palm Beach CTA President 2008-2011
To support our teachers and students the Education Foundation is accepting donations on behalf of the endowment. Please make checks payable to the Education Foundation of Palm Beach County, 3300 Forest Hill Blvd., Bldg. E, Suite 50-116, West Palm Beach, FL 33406. Please note that the funds are to be directed towards the Robert Dow Endowment Fund. All donations are tax deductible. For additional information, please call (561) 357-7659.
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