Dear Friends,
Contract Negotiations are coming up. The new Superitendant has not worked with unions before. The MacKenzie report was commissioned against the wishes of the SEA. The MacKenzie report is the best indication of the goals and objectives of the district and there are inferences in the report that show administrators are not doing enough to monitor and improve their teaching staff. The statistics show that in the year 2006/07 out of 2,212 teachers on the Professional Growth Cycle only 3 were switched to the Performance Cycle and out of 3,220 only 8 teacher's were put on probation and of those 8 seven teacher's were dismissed. What these statistics show is that there is a lot of work to be done for administrators to start seeing results or if there are not results in the classroom, teacher's will have to be let go to make room for those that can get the results. As Bob Dylan wrote, "The Times They are a Changing".
Organization is key. Open Dialogue is crucial. This is our post. Let's use it. We need to be Organized and ready to respond as a unified group to these changes that right now seem to be pointing the finger at the Teacher in the classroom.
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