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AGENDA ITEMS:
· BUILDING REP UPDATES
· MIDDLE SCHOOL UNION MEETING UPDATE: GERBER/MCCACHREN
· CONTINUED DISCUSSION OF MASTER SCHEULE READING PERIOD PROPOSALS
· OTHER BUSINESS
· ALL CERTIFICATED/CLASSIFIEDMEMBERS ARE ASKED TO PLEASE TRY TO ATTEND
AND PARTICIPATE!
· THANK YOU!
UBC MEETING SUMMARY: MARCH 9TH, 2009
David Williams: Recorder
In attendance: 28 members ! thank you !
WELCOME MS. JACYNTA JORDAN: NEW EXCEL AFTR SCHOOL DIRECTOR!!!
UBC REPS: D. WILLIAMS,J.GERBER, J.MOORE, M.MCCACHREN, L.WOOTEN, D.
BRYSON, J.GALGANO UBC ALTS: L. SPEARS, J.SHELDON
A. C. SCERRI: CONCERN PARENTS ADVISORY MATERIALS ARE BEING PROVIDED TO
STUDENTS AT OUR SITE TO READ. SRIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT CONTENT OF
MATERIALS
B. J.GERBER: WHILE NOT APPROPRIATE AT OUR SITE , STUDENTS NOT ON
SCHOOL TIME SHOULD BE ALLOWE TO CHECK OUT SUCH MATERIALS É.
C. M.DOYLE: THESE TITLES INCLUDE URBAN FOCUSED MATERIALS WHICH STUDENTS
MAY WANT TO READ , BUT WHICH AR NOT ALLOWED AT OUR SIT.
D. E.GIBSON: ACTION STEP AT SITE: SHOULD BE TO INORM AND PROTECT
STUDENTS FROM SUCH MATERIALS , THROUGH LETTER TO PARENTS.
. MCCAHREN: FIRST PERIOD PROPOSAL PREVIEWED ON SCREEN AND DISCUSSED:
E. ELECTIVE/INTRVENTION CLASSES SHOULD B HLD FIRST PERIOD O THE SCHOOL
DAY
F. SITE NEEDS TO SPEND MONIS TO PURCHAS APPROVED/RECOMMENDE MATERIALS
FOR THES STUDENTS IN BOTH READING AND MATH
G. TEACHERS WHO WANT TO WORK WITH THEESE STUDNTS SHOULD BE PLACED TO
WORK WITH THES STUDENTS IN THESE INTRVNTION CLASSES
H. WE NEED TO MOVE ALL THESE STUDENTS UP FROM THE BOTTOM RUNG BY NEXT
YEAR, AND GIVE THESE STUDENTS EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO BE SUCCESSFUL
I. WE SHOULD GIVE THM 3/4ÕS OF THE YEAR TO MOVE UP
J. 15 STUDENTS FROM EACH GRADE SHOULD BE TARGTED TO MEET THESE GOALS
K. MOST HIGH ACHIEVING STUDENTS ARE ASIAN AMERICANS
L. WE NEED TO FOCUS NEXT YEAR ON THE LAST PERFORMING STUDENTS, AND WORK
WITH THEM TO MOVE THM UP ACADEMICALLY
M. PROVIDE EXTRA BOOKS AND TIME TO DO THIS
N. IF WE ARE NOT SUCCESSFUL ARE SITE WILL ONCE AGAIN GO UNDER THE
S.A.I.T. PROCESS (SITE AUDIT!)
O. WE PREVIOUSLY BROUGHT UP STUDENTS BY A UNITED EFFORT, W NEED THIS
AGAIN NOW
P. B.SOUCH: HOW IS THIS DIFERENT FROM THE 3RD PERIOD READING SCHEDULE.
W NEED THE MATERIALS TO HELP ALL STUDENTS NEEDING TO IMPROVE TO ENGAGE
THEMÉW DO NOT HAVEE THEES MATERIALS NOW!
Q. M.MCCACHREN: AFTER LUNCH STUDNTS ARE WASHED OUT. WE NEED TO GIVE
ARICAN AMRICAN STUDENTS A SHOT TO IMPROVE AS WLL AS OTHR LAST
PERFORMING STUDENTS.
R. M.DOYLE: THE MAIN ISSUE IS THE CURRICULA , THAT WE PROVIDE THESE
STUDENTS TO ENGAGE THEM TO LEARN, NOT JUST THE PERIOD WE DO THIS.
S. J.GERBER: HOW WILL W DEAL WITH STUDNTS WHO ARE TARDY AND WHO DO NOT
ATTEND DURING FIRST PERIOD
T. M.SCHICKNBERG: I HAVE FOUND STUDENTS MAKING PROGRESS DURING 3RD
PERIOD
U. E.GIBSON: THE INTERVENTION PROGRAM WE PROVIDE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT
PART O THIS , IF W HAVE IT THIS PROGRAM AT ANY PERIOD CAN BE DONE!
V. J.GALGANO: WE HAVE BEEN PROVIDED SFUSD GIMMICKRY TO ADDRESS FOCAL
STUDENT ACADEMIC PROGRESS. IN THE PAST THE I.R.I.S.E. PROGRAM HAS
DEMONSTRATED SUCCESS IN ENGAGING OUR FOCAL GROUP OF AFRICAN AMERICAN
STUDENTS TO BE SUCCESSUL. WE NED TO RETURN TO THIS PROGRAM TO MOV THESE
STUDENTS FORWARD. WE NEDD TO RETURN TO THIS PROGRAM WHICH HAS WORKED!
W. E.GIBSON: I WILL CONTACT THEM TO SEE I WE CAN GET THEIR SUPPORT.
X. J.GALGANO: THANK YOUÉI WOULD LIK TO INTRODUCE MS. JACYNTA JORDAN ,
OUR NEW XCEL COORDINATOR AND SSC COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVE. PLEASE WORK
WITH HER AND HER EXCEL STA TO HLP MOVE OUR STUDENTS FORWARD.
Y. HER EMAIL ADDRESS IS: jjordan@ymcasf.org
Z. please continue to send your lessons and homework to our school site
web page to help them and our students
AA. j.galgano: next we will review the 7th period reading proposal and
any others provided and then decide on faculty/ubc options to vite on
to presnt to adm as is our siteÕs past practice.
Hundreds March to Save Teaching Jobs
By SHIKIRI HIGHTOWER
Hundreds rallied in Civic Center Plaza on Thursday night wearing pink
to symbolize the pinks slips that 453 teachers across San Francisco
received this week.
ÒEducation rules save our schools,Ó the marchers chanted as they walked
from Civic Center Secondary School to city hall.
ÒMission schools are always hit the hardest,Ó said Mark Murray, who
teaches at Horace Mann Middle School. ÒAbout one-third of our staff got
pink slips, but hopefully with the rainy day fund they all wonÕt get
laid off.Ó
Already, he said, cutbacks have affected supplies and equipment.
Mayor Gavin Newsom said Tuesday that the San Francisco Unified School
District should qualify for the full $23 million of the cityÕs rainy
day fund. The fund was created in 2003 with the passage of Proposition
G. It requires the city to save 5 percent of the cityÕs revenue during
prosperous economic times.
The school district is eligible for up to 25 percent of the total fund
if two conditions are met, one of which is significant teacher layoffs.
Miranda Hanrahan-Beach, a sixth grader at Aptos Middle School, said she
regularly attends demonstrations with her mother, who teaches English
composition at San Francisco State University. The 11-year-old said
that more than just teachers are affected by the possible layoffs.
ÒSay 300 teachers lose their jobs. That isnÕt as big as the thousands
of students who are now not going to be qualified to find jobs later in
life,Ó she said.
Next fall, Hanrahan-Beach wants to take Ms. RipleyÕs seventh-grade
English class and described the teacher as, Òa wonderful person that
has a fundamental niceness that shines through.Ó
That might not be an option now, as the English teacher is one of the
hundreds who received a pink slip.
ÒMs. Ripley is a good teacher and I want to be in her class,Ó said
Hanrahan-Beach. ÒItÕs upsetting because I feel like the whole reason
she might be laid off is absurd.Ó
MirandaÕs mother, Jennifer Beach, said that eight people including the
principal got pink slips at Aptos Middle School. Antonio Mankini, who
has been teaching at James Lick Middle School for three years, also got
a pink slip.
ÒI got a pink slip, and I got one last year,Ó said Mankini, who last
year was rehired after a few weeks.
ÒItÕs a totally demoralizing process,Ó he said. ÒIÕm here to ensure
that our supervisors stand to the promise and release the rainy day
funds to the teachers of San Francisco.Ó
Mankini said he thinks he will be teaching next year.
ÒBecause IÕm a highly qualified educator,Ó he said.
Hene Kelly, who taught at Marshall High School and Horace Mann Middle
School in the Mission before she retired, also experienced being laid
off.
ÒI was never the same after that,Ó said Kelly, who has been protesting
ever since. ÒItÕs a terribly debilitating thing. Many people look for
some other type of job. I felt that I was worthless.Ó
Kelly, who taught for 40 years, remembered when times were better
academically for CaliforniaÕs youth.
ÒWhen I first started teaching we were No. 1 one per pupil. Now we are
47th of all the states,Ó she said. ÒIn one teacherÕs lifetime thatÕs a
terrible thing to see.Ó
Rose Curreri, who teaches reading recovery and instills early literacy,
said she felt public schools needed to be funded, and that she and
other teachers shouldnÕt have to be out marching to keep their jobs.
ÒI taught hard today. IÕm teaching children to read,Ó she said.
Article printed from Mission Loc@l: http://missionlocal.org
URL to article:
http://missionlocal.org/2009/03/hundreds-marched-to-save-san-
franciscos-teachers-job/
Copyright © 2008 Mission Loc@l. All rights reserved
.SPECIAL GRATEFUL THANKS TO MIRANDA DOYLE, MR. BASTIDAS, DAVID
WILLIAMS, KYPHET RATTINIVILAY-SEADER, AND MIKE from room 104 for
joining me at this uesf local 61 protest to save teachers jobs at our
site , who have received lay of noticesÉyour time sacrificed has hlpd
our teachers hopefully to save their jobs. You are to be commended for
this time spent on thee behalf of all!!!
UESF LOCAL 61 MONTHLY MEETINGS!!!!!!!!
March 17, 2009
Free Workshop on Estate Planning, Probate, & Trust Administration
4:30 p.m. @ UESF Office
(2310 Mason St. [details] [map])
March 18, 2009
UESF Assembly Meeting
4:15 p.m. @ Civic Center Secondary School
(727 Golden Gate Ave. [map])
March 19, 2009
Free Workshop on 403(b) Plans & Retirement Security
4:30 p.m. @ UESF Office
(2310 Mason St. [details] [map])
March 19, 2009
UESF Peace, Justice, & Human Rights Committee Meeting
4:15 p.m. @ Moscone ES - Faculty Room
(2576 Harrison St. [map])
March 23, 2009
Joint UESF/SFUSD Special Education Committee Mtg.
4:15 p.m. @ Civic Center Secondary School - Library (727 Golden Gate
Ave. [map])
March 25, 2009
ATTENTION ALLAN BRILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!AND JUDY GERBER
UESF Division Meetings
- Middle School NEEDS TO MEET AS SLATED TO MET AGAIN ACCORDING TO THIS
CALENDAR STATEMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!
- AGAIN TO RESOLVE TEACHER LAYOFF NOTICES AND BALANCEED SCAM CARD
CONCERNS OF EACH SITE!!!!!!!
- Paraprofessionals
-Substitutes
4:15 p.m. @ Civic Center Secondary School - Library (727 Golden Gate
Ave. [map])
Protesters Take To The Streets On "Pink Slip Friday"
Posted: 10:39 pm PDT March 12, 2009Updated: 4:42 pm PDT March 13, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO -- In a spring rite that has become as predictable as
cherry blossoms in the nation's capital, public school employees
throughout California warned of wrenching classroom cuts Friday as
local officials faced a deadline for issuing layoff notices to
educators.
The state Department of Education estimates that preliminary pink
slips will have been handed to 26,500 teachers by the Sunday cutoff --
two-and-a-half times as many as were issued last year. Another 15,000
bus drivers, janitors, secretaries and administrators also were
expected to receive the written warnings, said Superintendent of Public
Instruction Jack O'Connell.
Because of the state's less-than-rosy economic outlook, California's
1,000 K-12 school districts have been instructed to absorb more than $8
billion in funding cuts over the next year. To draw attention to the
situation, teachers and parents wore pink clothes and waved pink
protest signs for a day California's largest teachers' union dubbed
"Pink Friday."
"It's kind of depressing for your overall morale to know you are
disposable enough to be let go," said Michelle Gianola, 33, a
second-grade teacher who was one of seven staff members at Allen At
Steinbeck K-8 School in San Jose to be pink-slipped this week.
But in another annual ritual, many, if not most, of the early layoff
notices could end up being withdrawn by June, especially if the state
can devote some of its federal stimulus money to education, officials
said.
Six years ago, for example, all but 3,000 of the 20,000 teacher pink
slips that went out statewide were rescinded.
O'Connell, who donned a pink tie for an appearance at Gianola's
school, allowed that tens of thousands of teachers were unlikely to be
let go, but said that with so huge a budget gap to fill, schools would
probably increase class sizes, reduce library hours and lose
counselors.
Another unknown is whether the state's financial picture will worsen
in the months ahead. If voters do not approve the spending package that
will be the subject of a special election in May, schools would have to
cut even more deeply and be unable to avert mass layoffs, he said.
"The cuts we are experiencing in public education are debilitating.
These cuts have real consequences for real students," he said.
O'Connell, a Democrat who is considering a run for governor next year,
said the dispiriting cycle would continue until state officials find a
long-term and reliable way to pay for schools.
W. Norton Grubb, the director of a principal training program at the
University of California, Berkeley and the author of "The Money Myth:
School Resources, Outcomes, and Equity," agrees that years of
uncertainty take their toll on schools even when layoffs do not come to
pass.
"What is happening in these schools when the pink slips go out is
everything stops, everyone is discouraged, everyone is busy worrying
whether the money will come through, and all the efforts to get schools
going basically grinds to a halt and remains ground to a halt for the
rest of the spring," Grubb said. "A state that has these kind of crises
year after year is really doing a poor job of planning."
Teachers, students and parents at Alhambra High School, located in the
eastern Los Angeles suburb of Alhambra, were familiar with the Pink
Friday routine from previous years. Some parents dropping off their
children at school had pink paper taped to their car windows or honked
to show their support for the 40 teachers who stood outside in pink
wigs, bows and T-shirts.
Justin Li, a 17-year-old senior, photographed the protest for the
school paper. The effects of the budget cuts have been noticeable, he
said.
"We are seeing teachers being laid off year after year and we want to
do something, because all the good teachers are leaving and more and
more classes are being cut," Li said. "Teachers work too hard to lose
their jobs."
The Alhambra district has seen a $6-million budget cut this school
year and 38 teachers have received layoff notices, said Rosalyn
Collier, vice president of the Alhambra Teachers Association.
"The cuts have left no wiggle room in the master schedule for the
fall. Every class will be at 36 students and no less," said Kathleen
Tar, an English teacher for 33 years. "So, if we have honors classes
that do not meet 36, those classes will go away."
This week was the third time Steve Chambers, 47, a 5th-grade teacher
at Allen At Steinbeck, has gotten a pink slip, but this is the first
time that he has been truly worried. The economy is so bad everywhere,
he has little confidence he would be able to get a teaching job
elsewhere.
"It's irritating, the fact that I am an eight-year veteran and I could
be out of a job for a year," said Chambers, who brought his class to
listen to O'Connell's remarks.
Besides Chambers and Gianola, Principal Nico Flores gave pink slips to
three other teachers, one of his vice principals and a counselor.
Flores said San Jose is better off than many school districts because
it had a spending freeze and large reserve fund in place, but the
topsy-turvy budget situation for schools makes him nervous.
"It's like crying wolf, crying wolf, and then suddenly the wolf is
really coming and no one is listening," he said.
Copyright 2009 by KTVU.com. The Associated Press contributed to this
report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
UBC/ADM MEETING MINUTES 03/13/09
IN ATTENDANCE: C.OKUBO, J.GERBER. G.MINJARES,D.BRYSON,J.GALGANO
A. ATTENDANCE:
· C.OKUBO:FACULTY ACCORDING TO PAST UBC/ADM AGREEMENT IS AT 8:05 AM .
TOO MANY ARE ATTENDING AFTER THIS TIME.THIS IS A CONCERN, WHICH MUST BE
RESOLVED.MANY STAFF AR TRICKLING ATEER THIS TIME, AS I HAVE REGISTERED.
IT IS UNDERSTOOD I THERE CONCERNS WHICH REGARD OCCASIONAL TARDIS. BUT
EVERYONE NEEDS TO B HRE ON TIM AS AGREED.
· J.GALGANO: WITH PREVIOUS PRINCIPAL THERE WAS UBC/ADM AGREEMENT ON
STARTING TIME ACCORDING TO CONTRACTUAL AGREMENT. THAT WA S SET AT
8:05AM. PRVIOUS PRINCIPAL ABDOGATED THIS AGREEMENT BY MARKING INDIVUAL
MMBRS TARDY AFTER 8:05AM. THIS LED TO SEVERAL DFEH COMPLAINTS DUE TO
INDIVIDUAL ENFORCEMEN. PLASE MAK SURE ALL MEMEBRS AR INFORMED AND
CONSQUENCES ARE METED OUT EQUITABLY IF VIOLATED, OTHERWISE PROBLEMS
REGARDING INQUITY WILL OCCUR.OCCASIONAL PROBLMS OF MTING THIS
REEQUIREMENT MUST B PERMITTED , BUT IF CONTINUAL ALL MUST B DEALT WITH
IN AN EQUITABLE MANNER TO PREVENT DFEH COMPLAINTS WHICH MIGHT ARISE
· G. MINJARES: A COMMON COURTESY SHOULD BE EXPECTED AND ADM SHOULD BE
INFORMED BY YOUR MEMBERS IF THIS OCCURS
· C.OKUBO: SOM DPARTMNT METINGS ARE NOT BING HLD AS AGREED TO
ACCORDING TO CPT AGREEMENT . THIS IS A CONCERN , SINCE IT WAS AGREED
TO.
· J.GERBER: WE HAVE HAD MANY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMNT MEETINGS THSE
PAST EW WEKS. THIS HAS PREVENTD MEETINGS FROM OCCURRING.
· C.OKUBO/J.GERBER: THEN SUCH MEETINGS SHOULD B RE-SCHEULED TO ADDRESS
THIS
· C.OKUBO: OR ELSE THESE MEETINGS SHOULD BE HELD WITH MEMBERS AVAILABLE
AND THE INFORMATION COMMUNICATED TO THOSE ABSENT TO PREVENT LOST TIM E
AND NOT MEETING DURING TIMES AGREED
· G.MINJARES: THESE MEETINGS SHOULD OCCUR AS AGREED
· BALANCED SCORE CARD
· C.OKUBO: BALANCED SCORE CARD INFO WILL BE REVISED BY ME AND GIVN TO
ALL TO RVIEW WITH STRATEGIC ACTION PROPOSALS TO BE REVIEWED AND DECIDED
ON BY DEPARTEMNTS AND GRADE LEVEL MEETINGS. THIS WAS A HUGE DOCUMENT
AND I HAVE REVISED IT . I WILL PROVIDE INFO USING EXCEL DOCUMENT AND
PROPOSED STRATEGIC ACTIONS AT NEXT FACULTY METING AND ASK STAFF TO
REVISE THENÉ..
· C.OKUBO: I AGREE WITH UBC/ FACULTY AND STAFF, THAT WE SHOULD MOVE TO
PORTFOLIO ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION O OUR STUDENTS FORWARD. WE NEED TO
AGREE ON STRATEGIC ACTIONS TO DO THIS.
· LAYOFF NOTICES:
· C.OKUBO: I HAVE INFORMED THE TEACEHRS OF THEIR LAYOFF NOTICES. I HAVE
BEEN INFORMED BY SFUSD ON HOW TO RETAIN TEACHERS AT OUR SITE
· J.GALGANO: PLEASE B AWARE THIS MUST NOT VIOLATE OUR UESF LOCAL 61
CONTRACT SENIORITY PROTECTIONS OF ALL NMEMBERS TO DO THIS, OR THIS WILL
BECOME AN UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE ISSUE/COMPLAINT.
· INDIVIDUAL MEMBER WHO RECEIVED LAYOFF NOTICES DISCUSSED
· CST/CAT TESTING SCHEDULE:
· J,GALGANO: PLEASE CONSULT WITH UBC TO INSURE ALL TESTING SCHEDULE
CONCERNS ARE MET AND ADDRESSED TO PROMOTE STUDENT PROGRESS.
· G.MINJARES: I WILL DO THIS.
· J.GALGANO: I WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH PAST SCHEDULES TO PROMOTE THIS
SCHEDULING UBC/ADM AGREEMENT
· G.MINJARES: THANK YOU
J.GALGANO/RECORDER
