WIth all the recent talk about how the CCSS will move us away from fact-driven teaching, learning and testing, this article might give us pause to reconsider where we are heading.  Essentially, if the testing and assessments do not follow along with the new standards, we will find ourselves in the same spot we are currently in.  It is not encourageing to realize who is making the tests. Additionally, if the tests are too difficult, and the early indication is that they will be difficult, then students scores will plummet.  I think we all know who will be blamed if that happens. 

Click on the link below to access a summary of the tentative agreement between MHFT and MHUSD.

http://mhft.ca.aft.org/files/newsletter_8-14-13.pdf

Click on the link below to access the proposed salary schedule for 2013-2014

http://mhft.ca.aft.org/files/proposed_salary_schedule_2013-2014.pdf

Click on the link below to access the actual language for the tentative agreement between MHFT and MHUSD.

http://mhft.ca.aft.org/files/tentative_agreements.pdf

Sep 17, 2013:  DOJ releases personal information, including Social Security numbers, for Solidarity Singers who were arrested: Isthmus article.

Sep 10, 2013:  Madison Police Officer "Why I Sing":  Capital Times article. 

The Bucks County Courier Times recently featured adjunct instructor William Pezza, Dept. of Social & Behavioral Science. Read it here:  http://www.phillyburbs.com/blogs/local-politics/pezza-pushing-political-reforms-for-meaningful-change/article_38e5d549-a545-5553-937f-b9873fd034f6.html 

Dear Colleague,

For the past few years, the debate about education has been a one-way conversation, with a lot of negative comments and misguided policies aimed at teachers and our schools. The voices of educators were largely ignored.

There are many events -- orientation, meetings, workshops, and the Fall Social -- for lecturers to attend in September.

Sept 6 - Part-Time Lecturer Orientation

Sept 9, 10, 11 -- Meetings re a new PTL proposal

Sept 17, 18, 20, 24 -- Workshops: Evaluations & Promotions

Sept 26 - EMUFT Fall Social

Check your e-mail in the coming weeks for additional information on all of these events.

See our Calendar for the full schedule of September Events.  See you then!

No one thinks it will happen to them, and then it does.

Please read this information carefully to protect yourself.
 

The GFCCE would like to welcome the following teachers into the GJUHSD.  We wish them lots of luck and hope they are quick to fill out their membership applications. 

LRHS

• Gabi Radu (Math)
• Melissa Ruble (Agriculture)

GHS