Executive Council Meeting – 02.12.2020

Hansen School, Room 217

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

 

Called to Order at 3:48pm

 

Acceptance of Meeting Minutes from January 8, 2020

 

Officer’s Reports

Vice President

• Nothing to report

 

Secretary

• • Elections coming up
    • Still some confusion – Bylaws never updated with new language about term changes
      • Are staggered terms ideal? Does it even matter?

 

• Motion made by Justin, seconded by Bridget – 1 year terms for all officers, no term limits, with notification of intention by Feb 15 – voted and passed unanimously

• Extended to March 1 this year only

 

• • •  
    • Will need contact people in each building to post flyers advertising positions and promoting election soon
    • Idea of Co-president
      • Middle and upper levels – would need to dissolve Vice

 

• Subcommittee would need to be created to review Bylaws and job descriptions

• Bridget, Kim, Janet interested

 

 

Treasurer

• Dues deductions are complete as of Feb. 7 paycheck
• MTA dues still need to be paid

 

Membership

• Contact person at each school to check-in with new hires
  • Make sure they have paperwork and it’s filled in and submitted

 

Unit E

• Nothing to report

 

Committee Reports

 

Mentor Steering

• Nothing to report

 

Scholarship

• CTA Scholarship
  • All payments have been disbursed to families
  • Total of $420.55
  • Waiting for recent donation of $100 in memory or Robert Lordin
  • PayPal and Venmo accounts to be set up to deposit into Scholarship fund account
  • Fundraiser ideas – check with legal to see limitations or restrictions
    • Subcommittee for Fundraising
      • Lisa Goode interested
  • Need a list of upcoming graduates
    • Email to all members with application deadline of April 9
• Future Educator Scholarship, 1 x $1,000
  • Application has been edited, finalized, and sent to Anne Murray
  • Deadline for students will be Thursday, April 9, 2020.
  • Applications will be available for pickup April 14, 15 and 16, 2020. 
  • Notify Anne Murray of scholarship recipient by Wednesday, May 6, 2020.  
  • Scholarship Night is scheduled for Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at 7:00 PM in the Morse Auditorium.
  • Award presentation will follow the order in which we are notified of your recipient.

 

NCTA

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Old Business

• Course reimbursement/graduate credit update
  • Cap reached, No more funds!
  • March 1 – can start submitting courses for pre-approval for next fiscal year
    • Contact Derek to confirm date
  • Make sure to submit a Course Syllabus
• Paper Contract update
  • Distributed to all schools, keep extras for new hires
• Prep time
  • Superintendent does not want a grievance
  • Structure is not ideal but can not be changed at this point
    • Prep times can be offered at another time during the day
  • Contract entitles members to 1 prep each day
  • Reimbursement is only for covering another teacher, not training or PD
  • Make up missed preps with compensation for time
  • Principal asked if member could present information learned at an outside PD at a “second” monthly faculty meeting
• Team Leaders / “CLG”
  • Survey went out last night to all elementary educators for feedback
• Attendance data
  • Will take some time to compile info but will be shared with us
• Assistant Director of Student Services named
  • Meghan Byrne
• Assistant Superintendent Finalist
  • Derek Folan
• Director of Student Services Search
  • Finalist day after vacation (if any)
• ESP Conference
  • April 3-4 in Falmouth, MA
• MTA Annual Meeting of Delegates
  • May 1-2 in Springfield, MA
• MTA Rep coming next meeting (March 11)
  • Provide training to get members involved

 

New Business

• Yan running for NEA Director

 

Other Items

• Building-based issues/updates

 

Adjournment at 5:pm