Napa Valley Educators Association
Executive Board Meeting
Monday, September 19, 2016
3:30-5:00

In attendance:  Gayle Young, Mary Duenow, Debbie Kmiec, Ginger Dunne, Mike Willmarth, Keith Sedgley, Alejandro Hogan, Dave Damico, Courtney Garcia, Karen Fleming, Jim Gutman, Kristin Pruitt, Erin Reilly

  1. Introductions

  1. Approve Agenda

  1. Approve Minutes of August 13th meeting

  1. Alejandro Hogan/David Damico
  • Shared that we are all in this together
  • Meets with council once a month and then subcommittees meet
  • Has been working with Gayle re: IBPS training getting it down to 1 day versus 2 as it has been in the past
  • Jan 24 is tentative date for IBPS
  • ECHO has been challenging the past couple of weeks
  • ECHO update - principals were told to allow teachers to use Aeries gradebook until ECHO issues are solved
  • Concern with whether or not the grades will be there when the switch is flipped back to ECHO
  • Dave shared that nothing will take place until the end of the semester/trimester
  • If ECHO is working then continue to enter grades, if not use Aeries and IT will provide support for those teachers that need refreshers
  • Intent is to let ECHO demonstrate that it is the right platform.  If problems continue Cabinet will look at whether or not we need to find a different platform.
  • Seems current goal is to make ECHO work, not inquiry based learning work
  • Instruction has to work
  • District is giving ECHO a chance to make good, however there isn’t hesitation to explore new options to include Google Classroom
  • We need to figure out what we need and then find out what programs will best meet our needs - is anyone checking to see what LMS system works best with Aeries?
  • ECHO made promises that they weren’t able to fulfill
  • Its not about the tool but the pedigogy - we have to start teaching that way
  • Letter went to principals friday telling them to talk to staff members and make a plan.

    5. Announcements
  • Gayle attended Redwood Service Center meeting and there was a lot of information shared on Prop 55
  • Redwood Service center has a workshop in the spring (Teacher teaching teacher)
  • Strengths/Challenges task from site rep meeting was shared
  • There is an instructional leadership conference at Will C. Wood.  This is  farther along than what we are ready for at the present time.
  • There are grants available for new teachers attending CTA conference for the first time
  • There was a discussion about having 2 schools on one campus (Stonebridge & Yountville)
  • Yountville is not closing at the present time and no decision has been made
  • Proximity Learning
    • Is a program district is interested in exploring
    • Teacher is remote kids come in the classroom IA is present to manage behaviors
    • This encroaches on our jobs and Gayle will fight it

    6. NVEA/NVUSD Council
  1. Nurses
  2. Workload-echo, etc
  3. Elementary prep. as well as high school
  4. Salary schedule study professional help needed
    • for every 2% added a bigger gap is created and places a greater discrepancy between the bottom and the top of the pay scale
    • St. Helena is paid through their property taxes vs avg. daily attendance
    • goal to get rid of stagnet steps
    • Salary schedule on district website is 2015-16
    • Budget for district is being closed county had a glitch and there has been some overpsending
    • Enrollment is down 200 students which is considered declining enrollment
    • no layoffs
    • problem lies within MOU for 1 time funding
    • Site rep meeting Wade will be discussing formula
    • budget committee to meet in Nov (Mike, Gayle, & Ginger to represent) looks at programs that can be cut while still looking at LCAP
      e) Special Education -
      f) Grading - summit for elementary and then 8-12
      g) Evaluations
  • Members should read their contract where deadlines, dates are listed
  • Probationary and temporary are evaluated every year
      h) Stipends
  • Will be done by 9/20/16
       i) PBIS
  • student discipline push for full practice
  • there is a school in the district who isn’t doing BEST because principal doesn’t like it

   7. Council Visitation
  • There are 4 exec board members who aren’t on council. 2 of us will go on 10/4 (Debbie & Kristin) and the others will go in November.

   8.  District Budget Update

  9. Bylaws- Will be voted on at next site rep meeting

 10.  NVEA Budget
  • Banking Update - Account is up and running at Umpqua.  We are waiting for last items to clear through Travis and then the account will be closed.
  • Accountant - working on transferring from quickbooks to excel
  • Assets - line to budget to show who brought copier, printer etc.

 11.  Leadership Conference etc. - Gayle printed info out for those attending

 12.  Jim Gutman from CTA

 13.  Agenda for Rep Council
  • Wade Roach coming to talk about formula
  • California Casualty rep will give presentation regarding auto insurance
  • Standard rep will be present - not an open period so members will need to go through health screening
  • State Council changing things up this year will have meetings in various locations 9 - 5 that are within driving range to travel back and forth

Meeting was adjourned

Next Rep Council Meeting: September 26th

Next Exec Board Meeting: October 24th