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• YOUR REWARD •
What's
in it for me? session - Saturday, April 21, 9am-noon DSEA Newark
Office
Saturday, April 28, 9am-noon DSEA Dover Office
How to get the most for your dues dollars and other ways to save money in
the economy
Free to DSEA members and their guests
Contact Tammy Wagner by
e-mail or at 1-866-734-5834 to reserve your spot.
MetLife
presents Getting Ready - how to achieve financial security in retirement
April 24 5:30-8pm DSEA Newark Office
April 26 5:30-8pm DSEA Dover Office
Free to DSEA members; $10 for non-members.
Contact Tammy Wagner by
e-mail or at 1-866-734-5834 to reserve your spot.
Mastering
Your Money,
presented by DSEA and NEA Member Benefits
May 2, 5-6:30 pm at the DSEA Dover office
May 3, 5-6:30pm at the DSEA Newark office
Learn about ways to reduce debt and save money.
Free to DSEA members and their families.
Contact Tammy Wagner by
e-mail or at 1-866-734-5834 to reserve your spot.
Check
out all of the DSEA discounts on our Discount List page.
In addition, click on the photo of the membership card at dsea.org to enter
another member-only
web site, called ACCESS which features many, many
discounts, both here in the tri-state area, as well as nationwide. You can
even search by type of estalbishment (restaurant, golfing) or zip code if
you are traveling.
AND,
ACCESS has developed an APP for those of you with Smart Phones.
What this means is that you only have to "register" once and this
app will be available. Pull up a discount on your phone and show the
merchant... no need for printing out coupons!
1. Download the MY Deals app from the ITunes App Store or Android Market.
2. Register using the registration code 8832 plus your DSEA membership
number (only have to do this once).
That's it!
You get "show-your-phone" discounts at 75,000 places; GPS
searching and mapping to find discount merchants; national chains and local
favorites; and you can even track your savings.
NEA Member
Benefits also offers discounts. Go to the NEA
Member Benefits web site and find "NEA Click and Save"
under Everyday
Living.
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• YOUR VOICE •
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Agreement reached on Component 5 of DPAS II-Revised
Message
from DSEA President Frederika Jenner
We
have an agreement with the Dept. of Education and the Governor's office
on Component 5 for this year, as well as some confirmation information
about future years. The agreement we have reached goes a long way towards
meeting our goals of establishing an evaluation system that is fair,
valid, reliable, and based in common sense.
Secretary
Lowery will be sending out an e-mail message to all educators about these
decisions, and I urge you to read it carefully.
Beginning
next year, there will be no use of school-wide student scores to evaluate
any teacher or specialist.
As identified by you and your members, this was our top priority for
Component 5, since effective evaluations must reflect the work and
contributions of individual educators. Teacher evaluation should be based
on the difference teachers make for the students they teach in the
subject they teach. It is our expectation that when Component 5 is run
next year, it will include a full range of “multiple measures” for all
educators and specialists.
Secondly,
for most educators there will be no Component 5 rating for this year. Only those
educators of the two DCAS-tested subjects will receive a Component V
score this year. This will allow some DCAS teachers to be eligible for a
Highly Effective summative rating, and therefore eligible for incentive
and retention bonuses. Details on the incentive/retention program will be
finalized and announced later this spring.
For
the 2011/12 school year, educator summative ratings will be determined
without use of Component V except to identify Highly Effective teachers
in Reading, English Language Arts and Mathematics. We were able to modify the
Summative Ratings for this year as follows:
• 3
or 4 satisfactory components = Effective
• 2
satisfactory components = Needs Improvement
• 0 or 1
satisfactory components = Ineffective
We
have made huge strides working together. Thank you! We will continue to
work for the policies and conditions necessary for student success,
effective teachers and great public schools.
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•
YOUR UNION •
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Annual
DSEA Winter Advocacy Retreat (WAR) set for Feb. 10-12
If
you have signed up for WAR and have questions, contact your local
association president; go to our WAR
web page; or contact Geri Coble at DSEA (1-866-734-5834 or by e-mail.
Don't miss these
DSEA deadlines
March 12 - Postmark deadline for DSEA
Future Teacher Scholarship applications.
Feb. 1 - Deadline to nominate someone for a DSEA
Award.
DSEA Elections open February 15. Watch for an e-mail with instructions on
how to cast your vote online. See
who's running here.
Feb. 15 - Deadline extended from Jan. 15 - Submit an application to win a
free
School Lounge Makeover from California Casualty (honest!).
or an athletic
grant for public high school athletics programs.
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DSEA's
flagship publication, ACTION!,
is now available to you digitally. Check
out out!
Zoom in and out; e-mail stories to friends; print pages; click on
live links!
If you are in a
low-income job, you might want to take advantage of free
help doing your income taxes in order to take advantage of the federal
"Earned Income Tax Credit."
We have arranged for free sessions at the DSEA
office in Newark
on two different dates:
February 9 and 16, from 3-6pm. No appointment is necessary.
Click here to read all about it, including what information you should
bring.
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