Napa Valley Educators Association
Executive Board Meeting
Monday, February 13, 2017
3:30-5:00
In attendance: Gayle Young, President, Debbie Kmiec, Secretary, Ginger Dunne, Treasurer & Chief Negotiator, Erin Reilly, Director - High School, Courtney Garcia - Director - Human Rights, Kristin Pruitt, Director - Elementary School, Karen Fleming, Director - Middle School
Absent: Mary Duenow, Vice President, Mike Wilmarth, Director - Communicaitons
Introductions
Meeting adjourned at 5:25pm
Executive Board Meeting
Monday, February 13, 2017
3:30-5:00
In attendance: Gayle Young, President, Debbie Kmiec, Secretary, Ginger Dunne, Treasurer & Chief Negotiator, Erin Reilly, Director - High School, Courtney Garcia - Director - Human Rights, Kristin Pruitt, Director - Elementary School, Karen Fleming, Director - Middle School
Absent: Mary Duenow, Vice President, Mike Wilmarth, Director - Communicaitons
Introductions
- Approve Agenda - Kristin Pruitt approved and Karen Fleming seconded the agenda as presented.
- Approve Minutes of January meeting - Ginger clarified that digital schools needed to be changed to reflect that employees with more than 100 days of sick leave may take up to 7 DPNL days. Minutes were approved as corrected.
- NVEA Budget Report
- Budget presented at rep council is the most current up to date budget
- Albertson’s made an error in issuing us a check. Because the check had already been cut they decided to let us keep the check instead of giving it back.
- Courtney asked if we could donate a small portion of of the amount from Albertson’s to TRCNB. All of the $12000 was used at Good Teacher’s Conference
- A motion was made by Courtney Garcia and seconded by Erin Reilly to donate $100 to TRCNB it was approved by all.
- Budget presented at rep council is the most current up to date budget
- Chief Negotiator
- Books - Read across america books are in with the exception of the Middle School books. We have one set of books in. The rest of the books are suppose to be in by Thursday per Jerry Eaton
- snacks - we have been minus snacks for the past two meetings since everyone is so busy we all decided we can bring our own snacks
- drawings - Gayle and Ginger would like to try to offer
- Books - Read across america books are in with the exception of the Middle School books. We have one set of books in. The rest of the books are suppose to be in by Thursday per Jerry Eaton
- NVEA/NVUSD Council
- Nurses - current info 6 nurses district wide and 2 are retiring at the end of the school year and 1 more in december. We are having a problem finding credentialed nurses. Gayle is meeting with nurses tomorrow. There is an idea to add more support people and distribute responsibilities of nurses down to LVN’s and Health clerks
- Nurses - current info 6 nurses district wide and 2 are retiring at the end of the school year and 1 more in december. We are having a problem finding credentialed nurses. Gayle is meeting with nurses tomorrow. There is an idea to add more support people and distribute responsibilities of nurses down to LVN’s and Health clerks
- Workload-echo, etc - Dave Damico brought a matrix from his other district so that quick decisions aren’t made by just one person. Short term is to look at science standards and the fact that there is no curriculum and he is working with his team and technoilogy to create science units until a curriculum is adopted to prevent from everyone having to reinvent the wheel.
- Workload-echo, etc - Dave Damico brought a matrix from his other district so that quick decisions aren’t made by just one person. Short term is to look at science standards and the fact that there is no curriculum and he is working with his team and technoilogy to create science units until a curriculum is adopted to prevent from everyone having to reinvent the wheel.
- Elementary prep schedules - still gathering schedules from each site. Starting point needs to have us all stop banking our minutes and have full hour of daily prep and they want all three levels to be the same, however that is unrealistic.
- Elementary prep schedules - still gathering schedules from each site. Starting point needs to have us all stop banking our minutes and have full hour of daily prep and they want all three levels to be the same, however that is unrealistic.
- Salary schedule - Phillips is at a different salary schedule than the rest of the district. they make $1000 more and the 15 minutes that they work over doesn’t equate to the $1000. It makes more sense for them to get that money by doing what the rest of us do.
- Salary schedule - Phillips is at a different salary schedule than the rest of the district. they make $1000 more and the 15 minutes that they work over doesn’t equate to the $1000. It makes more sense for them to get that money by doing what the rest of us do.
- Grading summit -
- Elementary had another meeting. We need to be putting the rubric in a format that our families can understand and the rubric was developed based on input from teachers who attended the summit. The rubrics are suppose to be used by the teachers to be able to give the grades. Way too much language very overwhelming. Gayle said if teachers don’t like it they need to speak up and let them know. Report cards aren’t well written and parents don’t know what they mean. large instrest among teachers to keep it at the trimester and there are changes in instruction next year. More conversation to come.
- Elementary had another meeting. We need to be putting the rubric in a format that our families can understand and the rubric was developed based on input from teachers who attended the summit. The rubrics are suppose to be used by the teachers to be able to give the grades. Way too much language very overwhelming. Gayle said if teachers don’t like it they need to speak up and let them know. Report cards aren’t well written and parents don’t know what they mean. large instrest among teachers to keep it at the trimester and there are changes in instruction next year. More conversation to come.
- Grading summit -
- 8-12 - There were two more meetings for 8-12. Everyone agreed that things needed to be changed. There were more people at the second meeting. the driving questions is how can we align our grading practices and grading, reviewed ed code and board policy and administration regulations. What should our grade reporting look like which will in turn change our philisophical outlook on what we grade. 3 potential changes to look at growth mindset, best practices, etc. The next meeting is Thursday, February 23 at 3:30 is the next grading summit in room 139 at the district office.
- 8-12 - There were two more meetings for 8-12. Everyone agreed that things needed to be changed. There were more people at the second meeting. the driving questions is how can we align our grading practices and grading, reviewed ed code and board policy and administration regulations. What should our grade reporting look like which will in turn change our philisophical outlook on what we grade. 3 potential changes to look at growth mindset, best practices, etc. The next meeting is Thursday, February 23 at 3:30 is the next grading summit in room 139 at the district office.
- Stipends - share new list there is a meeting this thrusday. agreement was to review stipends each year
- PBIS - on going
- Stipends - share new list there is a meeting this thrusday. agreement was to review stipends each year
- President Report
- District Budget Update - 57 people will be retiring this year what the newspaper stated about only 22 people being replaced is heresay and Gayle is waiting to hear it from the districts mouth. Gayle feels that we wont be cutting any permanent positions this year. Probationary is someone is a permanent position. All temporary teachers are given pink slips. Gayle doesn’t think they will need to go that deep with cutting probationary year 1 or year 2 teachers. What was budgeted and what we are getting is much different. Class size reduction has a matrix 16-17 kinder 1st grade at 24 2nd 3rd grade at
- District Budget Update - 57 people will be retiring this year what the newspaper stated about only 22 people being replaced is heresay and Gayle is waiting to hear it from the districts mouth. Gayle feels that we wont be cutting any permanent positions this year. Probationary is someone is a permanent position. All temporary teachers are given pink slips. Gayle doesn’t think they will need to go that deep with cutting probationary year 1 or year 2 teachers. What was budgeted and what we are getting is much different. Class size reduction has a matrix 16-17 kinder 1st grade at 24 2nd 3rd grade at
- CSR freeze - Class size reduction has a matrix 16-17 kinder 1st grade at 24 2nd 3rd at 26. It is being recommended that 2nd grade stay at 26 for 17-18 school year.
- CSR freeze - Class size reduction has a matrix 16-17 kinder 1st grade at 24 2nd 3rd at 26. It is being recommended that 2nd grade stay at 26 for 17-18 school year.
- Scholarships - NHS sent the list of 10 names of dependents of NVEA members. We decided that all of the applications would be put in a box and we would draw to make it fair for all. The recipient of the NVEA scholarship for Napa Hish is Carson Lewis.
- Scholarships - NHS sent the list of 10 names of dependents of NVEA members. We decided that all of the applications would be put in a box and we would draw to make it fair for all. The recipient of the NVEA scholarship for Napa Hish is Carson Lewis.
- Social - At rep council a date was provided, however no one can remember what the date was. We will have a Thirsty Thursday on March 2, 2017 with the intention of attending the school board meeting that night
- Social - At rep council a date was provided, however no one can remember what the date was. We will have a Thirsty Thursday on March 2, 2017 with the intention of attending the school board meeting that night
- SPED credentialing - change in the way sped credentialling is happening called an educaitonal specialist is replacing the resource specialist certificate
- SPED credentialing - change in the way sped credentialling is happening called an educaitonal specialist is replacing the resource specialist certificate
- FCMAT Audits - Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team Food servivces came back and went public and is available on the district website. Sped audit is back and the results have not been disiminated yet. Sped is overfunded and the performance is very low.
- wellness committee - more info to come from Gayle
- FCMAT Audits - Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team Food servivces came back and went public and is available on the district website. Sped audit is back and the results have not been disiminated yet. Sped is overfunded and the performance is very low.
- Vice President Report
- membership
- elections - NEA-RA (representative assembly) election coming up soon Mike and Gayle are running from our district
- membership
- Directors Reports
- Benefits - Ginger got the powerpoint from the members benefits session at Good Teaching Conference
- Benefits - Ginger got the powerpoint from the members benefits session at Good Teaching Conference
- State Council Report - Eric shared that one of Gayle & Mike’s role as State Council reps is to bring things to state council that they feel needs to be brought up such as special ed issues and then turned into a business item at state council.
- Steve Savage from CTA in Mexico
- Agenda for Rep Council
- Budget Committee report
- LCAP interests
- Wellness Committee ideas
- Member Engagement - March 2nd
- Benefits
- District Budget
- Budget Committee report
- Next Rep Council Meeting: February 27th
- Next Exec Board Meeting: March 20th
Meeting adjourned at 5:25pm
