Fwd: Lopez LEA minutes of 2/6 meeting

[Jeanna S. Carter]

This came in last night from Phil.

Sent from my iPad

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From: "Philip Becker [WA]" <PBe...@WashingtonEA.org>
Date: February 13, 2013, 7:00:58 AM PST
To: "Jeanna S. Carter" <jeannasil...@gmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: Lopez LEA minutes of 2/6 meeting

Did you and yours not receive this last night??

Sent from my iPad

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From: "Philip Becker [WA]" <PBe...@WashingtonEA.org>
Date: February 12, 2013, 6:14:36 PM PST
To: emc2teach <emc2...@gmail.com>, "lope...@googlegroups.com" <lope...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: RE: Lopez LEA minutes of 2/6 meeting

Hi, all-

   Thanks for your patience with my schedule. Normally, I am way more timely than this in responding to my “To Do” lists, e-mails and requests for info. At this time of the year, which is the time when experienced teachers get placed on probation (with 60 days to improve) and new teachers who are provisional and not performing start having a lot of “improvement pressure’ applied to them I have to triage my work. I will respond to your stuff, starting from your e-mails and working on up my e-mail list to the to do list I kept for myself when we met.   

   In terms of what to communicate to your members here’s what I routinely suggest and has served me in good stead:

·         Use the same format each time. The same format masthead, size and color of paper if you are going to make had copies to be had delivered or placed in people’s mailboxes.

·         If you’re going to do it electronically do not use school e-mail; get everyone’s home e-mail by asking; get the holdouts by just sending it to those who have supplied hole e-mails. Set up Gmail accounts for those who don’t have home e-mails.

·         Take for granted in sharing info from the bargaining committee that some of your folks will send/give it to admin and Board members. At time, plan on their doing so in composing the content.

·         I do not suggest a routine, “blow by blow” of each session. I have found that most rank and file members have a hard time understanding how slow bargaining is or how nuanced it is without the context of experience or being there.

·         I suggest sharing enough to bring them along, enough so that they know whether you are making progress, or not. The communications from the Oak Harbor and Coupeville ESA groups is demonstrative of what happens when progress is not seen.

·         If you survey you should share. See the B-EEA survey results. It follows a format that I have used to inform members of the results and educate as to where we are going so that they know why (because they told us to) and why we are not backing down on specific issues (because you told us to).

What I would suggest is that you all come to some consensus about communication,  generally,  inform me of that and I can put something together. Or, if y’all want to try it on your own and ship it to me for any amending that’s fine, too.  

Thanks-

PWB

 

[Diane Mayer]

There is a point on which I need clarification and/or more information. If the budget analysis that Phil is going to do will provide this, great. Otherwise, somebody please explain: the district keeps talking about the "28% maximum". I realize this has something to do with limiting our salaries, and I know administration will raise this as a factor in salary negotiations. What exactly does it mean? Why, if our property values are among the highest in the state, are our salaries so low? In other words, I feel like we're being told that the district is limited as to how much they can pay us, yet other districts with lower property values manage to pay more.

Anybody else find this confusing?

Diane

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