Transcript Pine Bluff Education Association

Pine Bluff Education Association
• A great public school for every child
Your Officers
• Ryan Roberts – President
• Claudette White – Vice President
• Patricia Jones – Secretary/Treasurer
Building Representatives
Henrietta Nelson
Carolyn McReynolds
Esther Coleman
Marceinia Williams Peoples
Barbara Clay
Brickett Owens
Faith Cole
Alycia Wiley
Patricia Berry
Patricia Jones
First Ward
Broadmoor
Broadmoor
Forrest Park
W.T. Cheney
Oak Park
Greenville
34th Avenue
Southwood
Southeast
Building Representatives
Barbara Jones
Ruby Shelton
Larissa Davis
Virginia Hymes
Betty Hayes
Mattie Glover
Joyce Davis
Louise Sullivan
Belair
Jack Robey
Jack Robey
PBHS/McGeorge
PBHS/Trice
PBHS/Patterson
PBHS/Arts
Oak Park
Thanks to …
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School Board Members
New Administration
Superintendent Payne
Pine Bluff Commercial
Teachers and Support Personnel
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No Child Left Behind is failing our students
Teachers are under attack from all sides
Charter schools are popping up everywhere
Schools are being forced to compete for
limited resources
• Reformers that have never taught a day are
telling us how to do our jobs
Matt Damon Speaks at DC Rally
Advocacy
• Teachers should be at the forefront of
educational reform.
• As a teacher, I take great issue at any national
and international ranking of our education
system that compares us to countries who
only send their best and brightest to college.
In the U.S., we give everyone a chance to
succeed.
Advocacy
• I also take great issue with people trying to
run schools like a business. There are too
many factors that make this impossible.
• Our children are not products coming off an
assembly line. Each one is special and
different.
• We also do not pick and choose which
students to teach. We teach them all.
Advocacy
• As a professional organization, PBEA
advocates for the children and teachers who
work day in and day out to teach them.
– School Board Meetings
– PB Commercial Articles
– WWW.PBEA-AEA.COM
– Representative Assemblies for Educators
Advocacy
• PBEA is also has a seat on the AEA Board of
Directors.
• As your representative, I make sure your voice
is heard on the state level as well.
So what has your association done for
you:
• Written articles in support of educators to the
Pine Bluff Commercial
• Represented Arkansas at the Southeast
Regional Conference for NEA
• Informed members about Legislative issues
concerning Education
• Spoke on behalf of professional educators at
School Board meetings
So what has your association done for
you:
• Presented at various Teacher-to-Teacher
Professional Development opportunities
• Worked with the Pine Bluff School District to
pay a stipend to teachers who attended the
AEA PD Conference last November
• Represented your voice at the Representative
Assembly in Little Rock
• Attending Summer Leadership Training
So what has your association done for
you:
Met with Mike
Ross to discuss the
reauthorization of
ESEA
NEA – RA in Chicago
12,000 professional educators
attended.
NEA - RA
• A major thing to come
out of the RA was that
teachers all across the
nation united to voice
what they felt an
evaluation system
should like like.
• Multiple domains
• What learning looks like
• How improvement
plans should work
• Multiple evaluations
throughout the year
• Multiple evaluations by
different evaluators
should be used before it
can be used in a
disciplinary way
Standardized Testing
• In Arkansas, there was a powerful push towards
using standardized test scores as 50% of your
evaluation as a teacher.
• The Arkansas Education Association worked with
legislators on both sides of the political spectrum
to create a fair evaluation system that allows both
the teacher and evaluator to offer evidence of
teaching and learning. Of the 22 areas of
evaluation, test scores only play a limited part in
two.
Professional Licensure and Standards
• Last year I was asked to be your voice on the
Ad-hoc Committee for the PLSB that consisted
of about 6 teachers, 5 Superintendents, 5
Dept. of Ed officials, and 5 Dept. of Higher Ed
representatives.
• Our charge: Make recommendations to full
board about changes we thought needed to
take place.
PBEA’s Focus
• What is our focus?
– Advocate for our kids
– Better working conditions
– Fair and equal treatment for all employees
– Accountability on all sides
Meeting Time
• Everyone’s voice deserves to be heard!
• 2nd Monday of the Month
• Old Parent’s Center behind Trice Building on
High School Campus
• 4:00-5:00 p.m.
School Board Meetings
• Central Office
• 3rd Tuesday of each month
• Begins 6:00
Collaboration
• Education is not an “US” versus “THEM”
game.
• PBEA acts as a liaison between all parties
involved in the system.
– Central Administration
– Building Principals and Vice Principals
– Teachers
– Community involvement
Liaison Role
• I asked the Superintendent and have asked
School Board members what message they
would want to convey to you.
• 1. Teach every single day
• 2. Use proper Grievance Procedure
Why Join?
• For those that aren’t members and those who
have let membership slip:
– Advocacy for public education.
– PBEA has been instrumental in helping secure
bonuses almost every year in recent memory.
– That alone pays for membership!
– Let alone that liability insurance, discounts, great
loan rates for car, house, etc.
Website
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WWW.PBEA-AEA.COM
Current School Board Minutes + my notes
Current Education News
Contact Information
Calendar
Professional Development Materials
– Co-teaching
– Discipline
5 Year Strategic Plan
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August 27
8:30 – 2:00
First United Methodist
Continental Breakfast / Box Lunch
– Turkey, Ham, Roast Beef – Ms. Harvey
Jack Robey Back to School Bash
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August 10th
4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Jack Robey Campus
Great community involvement opportunity