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• YOUR REWARD •
WORKSHOPS
Defensive
Driving workshops
March 20 and 22 -BASIC
DSEA Dover Office
March 27 and 29 - BASIC
DSEA Newark Office
April 18 - ADVANCED
DSEA Dover Office
April 25 - ADVANCED
DSEA Newark Office
$12/person
Contact Tammy Wagner to register.
Can I afford to
retire?
March
3, 9-10:30am
DSEA Newark Office
Free to members; put on by DSEA/NEA Member Benefits
March 10, 9-10:30am
DSEA Dover Office
To register, contact Tammy Wagner at 1-866-734-5834 or by e-mail.
What's in it
for me?
Feb. 1,
5:30-7pm, DSEA Dover Office
Feb. 2, 5:30-7pm DSEA Newark Office
Get the most out of your dues investment with discounts and other ways to
save money.
Advanced registration is required. Free to members. To register, contact
Tammy Wagner by email or at
1-866-734-5834.
Pre-Retirement:
getting ready
This
session is almost full, with only three seats left! Don't be disappointed.
Contact Debbie Weaver by e-mail or
phone at 1-866-734-5834 today to register!
February 11, 1-4pm
Atlantics Sands Hotel, Rehoboth Beach
The next workshop will be on a Saturday in the fall, in the DSEA Newark
office.
For
your calendar:
June 22, 2012
Future Teacher
Benefit Golf Tournament
Maple
Dale Country Club,
Dover
Questions?
Contact Tammy Wagner by e-mail or
phone at 1-866-734-5834.
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• YOUR PROFESSION
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Major gains made in fixing Component 5, thanks to your
voices
Yesterday
afternoon we made huge progress in our efforts to make the professional
evaluation system for Delaware teachers and specialists fair, valid,
reliable and based on common sense.
- Secretary of
Education Lowery told a meeting of the Joint House and Senate
Education Committee members that school-wide scores (based DCAS mathematics
and English Language Arts tests) will NOT be used to evaluate
educators, beginning in the 2012-2013 school year.
You may remember that this was DSEA’s top priority, as echoed over
and over by members and local association presidents.
- For this current year,
2011-2012, evaluations will only be based on Components 1-4, what
you do.
Component
5, however, will be run in order to collect data about its implementation
and to determine those few educators who might be eligible for monetary
“incentives,” i.e., teachers eligible to earn additional compensation by
agreeing to move to high-needs schools and/or who teach difficult-to-fill
subjects.
- As a result of these
announcements there are still several
critical open issues for the current year that need
to be addressed in further conversations with DOE and the Governor’s
Office:
How
will Components 1–4 be used to dermine overall summative ratings
this year?
In how many areas of each Component will you need to be rated
Satisfactory in order to obtain an overall Summative rating of Effective?
and
How
will eligibility for Race to the Top incentive compensation be
determined this year?
We should know more on these important open issues within the next week
or so. As we learn of developments we will share them with you at www.dsea.org/Accountability/DPASII.html, on
our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/dseafan,
at www.twitter.com/dsea1,
and through subsequent “Member Matters” e-mail newsletters.
We will also
continue to be in close contact with your local association presidents.
Many of them were in Legislative Hall yesterday to attend the hearing in
support of their organization and fair, effective evaluations for all. President Jenner will
continue to communicate and consult with them often.
“This has been an extremely stressful year for many
members,” says Jenner. “My hope is that this news will help relieve much
of that angst. We will continue to share your stories about
what you do to help every student be successful, so that DPAS II,
now and in the future, not only makes sense, but also helps us all be
even better practitioners.”
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• YOUR ASSOCIATION •
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If you are active in your local association or at the state level with
DSEA, you are invited to attend ~
WAR, DSEA's Winter Advocacy
Retreat, February 10, 11 and 12 at
the Atlantic Sands Hotel, Rehoboth Beach. If you liked Leaders Weekend
last fall, you'll love WAR.
Check with your local association president about attending and
registering. This event is geared to ALL DSEA members, both ESP and
teacher/specialist locals.
The deadline to
register is Monday, January 23.
Click here to register and/or access the agenda.
• YOUR ASSOCIATION LEADERSHIP •
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DSEA
elections set for next month
The candidate line-up, however, is already known,
with voting opening February 15.
On February 15, you will receive an email with a link to our online
voting page. Or, if we do not have an email on record for you, you
will receive an old-fashioned paper ballot in the mail.
Voting closes February 29.
Preliminary results will be announced March 6 at www.dsea.org and will
be ratified by the Executive Board on March 13.
Elections of the one remaining vacancy - a DSEA Executive Board member
for Sussex County - will be held at the Representative Assembly
(RA), Saturday, March 17, 2012.
If you work in Sussex County and are interested in serving on the
Board, make sure one of your local association delegates to the RA knows
to nominate you.
Questions about
Executive Board service? Feel free to contact Sandy Dearman
by e-mail or at
1-866-734-5834.
• YOUR ASSOCIATION •
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