general unit meeting june 1 st 2015 2015 nysut local presidents conference 1

General Unit MeetingJune 1st 2015

2015 NYSUT Local Presidents Conference 2

LegislationEd Law reviewWhat’s Next Legislatively?

PACPicketVOTE-COPE

Committee ReportsLooking Forward

General Unit Meeting Agenda


ED Law Review

• TENURE• RE-REGISTRATION• APPR• 3020-A• RECEIVERSHIP


Tenure

• Probationary period extended from 3 to 4 years

• Must have 3 Effective or Highly Effective ratings or more, need not be consecutive

• Cannot receive tenure with an Ineffective in the 4th year

• Begins with new appointments as of July 1, 2015

• A board can agree to offer a probationary teacher a 5th year


Tenure

• Tenured teachers changing districts will now have a three year probationary period provided they did not receive an Ineffective in their last year at the prior school

• School boards will be able to terminate probationary teachers without regard to their APPR rating


Re-registration

• All teachers and teaching assistants will be required to re-register with SED every 5 years.

• They will also be required to provide name and address changes within 30 days

• If the teacher or teaching assistant willfully fails to register or provide the changes within 180 days, they may be brought up on part 83 charges

• There are no professional development requirements for teachers who hold a permanent certificate


Re-registration

• Professional certificate holders will need to re-register every 5 years and complete 100 hours of continuing education approved by SED

• This requirement is a reduction from the current 175 hour requirement

• The requirement for SED approval is new• Level III teaching assistants will also need to

complete 100 hours of approved continuing education• This requirement is an increase from the current 75

hours• The law does not give SED the authority to charge a

fee for re-registration but they may charge a late fee


APPR• New law applies beginning with 2015-16

evaluations• Plans agreed to before April 1, 2015 remain in

place until a new plan is agreed to by the district and local

• However new plans must be agreed to locally and approved by SED by November 15, 2015 or the district will receive no increase in state aid for the 2015-16 school year and thereafter until a new plan is in place

• Chancellor Tisch indicated the date may move to September 1, 2016


APPR

Two Categories1. Student performance• State growth• Optional supplemental assessment

2. Observation• Principal• Independent evaluator• Optional peer evaluator


APPR

Student Performance Category– Grade 4-8 ELA and Math Teachers• State-provided growth model• Optional second assessment

– All other teachers• Student Learning Objectives (SLO) process• Optional second assessment


APPROptional Second Assessment must measure growth

– Selected locally through collective bargaining– Second state-provided growth score on state created or

administered test– Growth score based on a state designed supplemental

assessment– State designed supplemental assessment may be a test

designed by the state or purchased from another state, an institution of higher education or a commercial entity or previously designed or acquired local assessment with state modified growth targets or scoring bands

– Achievement measures currently being used may be allowed as a supplemental assessment if approved by the Regents


APPR

Student Performance Category– SED decisions• Weights of the 2 subcomponents• How teachers receive a rating of Highly

Effective, Effective, Developing or Ineffective• How to combine scores into one rating• Parameters for growth targets• The assessments to be used for SLOs and

the second optional assessment• Must incorporate testing reduction

recommendations


APPR

Observations Category– Required observations by a principal– Required observations by an impartial

independent evaluator• Can not be from the same school• May be from another school in the district

– Optional observations by a peer evaluator rated effective or highly effective


APPR

Observations Category– SED decisions• Weights of the subcomponents• How teachers receive a rating of Highly

Effective, Effective, Developing or Ineffective• How to combine scores into one rating• Minimum number of observations• Frequency and duration of observations and

any parameters therefor• List of approved rubrics


APPRRating Matrix


APPRRating Rules

– If a teacher is ineffective on the state growth subcomponent and it is the only student performance measure being used, the overall rating cannot be Effective or Highly Effective

– If the option of a second assessment is selected – If the second student performance sub-component is a state

provided growth measure (like a building score) and is Ineffective the teacher cannot receive a overall score greater than Developing

– If a teacher is Ineffective on student performance subcomponents, when using any other measure than a state provided growth measure as the second optional student performance subcomponent, the overall rating must be ineffective

– If a teacher is Ineffective on the Observation category, the overall rating cannot be Effective or Highly Effective


APPRProhibited Elements– Evidence of student development and

performance derived from lesson plans and student portfolios that is not part of an approved rubric

– Parent and student surveys– Professional goal setting– Any district or regional assessment not

approved by SED– Any growth or achievement target that does

not meet minimum standards


APPR

Collective Bargaining– Reduced from current law–Must bargain over whether to use a

second student performance measure and which measure to use

–Must bargain over how to implement the observation category including use of a peer reviewer


APPRUse of Results of APPR– A student may not have two ineffective teachers in

a row but a district may request a waiver– If a teacher receives two consecutive Ineffective

ratings the district may bring a 3020-a proceeding and the burden of proof shifts to the teacher with 90 days for the hearing

– If a teacher receives three consecutive Ineffective ratings the district must bring a 3020-a and the only defense a teacher can use is fraud or mistaken identity with 30 days for the hearing


APPR

SED has authority to determine if the following provisions of 3012-c continue or are modified– Evaluator training– TIPs– Appeals– Privacy


APPR

NYSUT Legislative Strategy– Decouple APPR and State Aid– Clarify the inclusion of Achievement in

Supplemental Assessments– Eliminate the Independent Evaluator– Change the expedited 3020-a for 3

Ineffective ratings to make it a district decision to bring charges and allow full defense by the teacher


3020-a General

• Applies to all cases brought after July 1, 2015• All cases decided by a single hearing officer• Automatic loss of certification and employment

where a teacher is convicted of a violent felony against a child

• Teachers accused of sexual or physical abuse of a student are suspended without pay after charges are brought by the board for 120 days with an expedited hearing within 60 days and a probable cause hearing within 10 days

• Witnesses under age 14 shown to be vulnerable can testify by closed circuit two way television

• Pre-hearing discovery includes teacher’s obligation to disclose


• Test Confidentiality– A.7402, S. 5139 passed Assembly 137-0 – The Senate is sitting on this!

• APPR Changes: We MUST push this in the Senate– A.7303 passed Assembly 142-0– The Senate is sitting on this!

• Tax Credit: We DO NOT want this Bill passed– S.1976 has passed Senate

Current Legislation


Political Action Com

PICKET

June 1st-June5th

4:30-5:00 pm

In Front of Sen. Nozzolio’s

Office in Seneca Falls

A Social Gathering And

VOTE-COPE Fundraiser

June 12th

WEA VOTE/COPE

• What the Heck is VOTE/COPE?– Voice of Teachers for Education (VOTE) and Committee on Political

Education (COPE). • Why am I being asked to donate?• Realities

– Triborough and Constitutional Convention

• Paint Night June 12th • September 2015


• Teacher of the Year– New look and why?

• Negotiations–Will be starting soon

Committee Updates


Looking Forward•Different Times!

• Building a stronger infrastructure• Political Action will continue

general unit meeting june 1 st 2015 2015 nysut local presidents conference 1

Documents

probationary teachers

reregistrationall teachers

year probationary period

tenuretenured teachers

apprnew law

hoursthe law

state aid

sed approval