| Teachers wanted for BOE Kailua meeting Tuesday evening
The Board of Education holds one of its few evening meetings this Tuesday, Oct. 4, at Kailua Intermediate cafeteria at 5 p.m. The HSTA has arranged for a number of teacher leaders to testify on issues of concern to our members, including the continued need to modify the teacher evaluation system, known as EES. HSTA asks Oahu members to please come and support those testifying by wearing red as a show of force at the BOE meeting. You don’t need to testify. Your presence will show the Board of Education that teachers are united about the need for EES improvements.
New educators: Register for free October Professional Learning Conference
The HSTA Fall 2016 Professional Learning Conference is a 3-PD credit course offered by the Hawaii State Teachers Association (HSTA) in partnership with the National Education Association (NEA), Hawaii Young Professional Educators (HYPE), Hope Street Group Hawaii and New Teacher Center Hawaii. The goal of this course is to support the professional growth of new educators in Hawaii by providing targeted professional development and opportunities for ongoing networking and collaboration. While spanning the 2016-2017 school year, this course begins with a virtual keynote on Friday evening, Oct. 28. On Saturday, Oct. 29, teachers will attend three breakout sessions (either virtually or face-to-face) focused on various aspects of the teaching profession which impact new educators and student learning. Following the virtual keynote and one-day conference, participants will continue their learning by participating in professional learning communities either face-to-face through colleague circles or online via NEA’s EdCommunities website. At the beginning of October, all participants who have paid and registered for this course will receive an EventBrite link to register for specific breakout sessions at the October 29th, 2016 portion of the class. Any new teacher (begins employment in 2016-2017 school year) who joined HSTA before October 1, 2016 will receive a coupon to attend this $150 course for free. The coupon will be mailed to the home address that is written on your HSTA Enrollment Card. Registration deadline is Oct. 14. All NEA Student Program members in Hawaii will receive a coupon to attend this course for free (no portfolio required or required attendance at colleague circles). Click here for info on the free Professional Learning Conference. Scheduled breakouts include: Supporting English Language Learners; Let’s Get Googley!; Creative Learning; Teaching Physics by Building and Testing Model Cars; Promoting Resilience Through Children’s Literature; Legos for Literacy; Introduction to Inclusion and Working with Students from Economically Diverse Communities. Other breakouts will be: I Can Do It! Effective Classroom Management Systems for Educators; Getting Techie in Math – Desmos Online Calculator; Introducing Na Hopena Aʻo (HĀ); C3 Framework; Introduction to Culture-Based Education; An Overview of Special Education; Foundations of Number Sense and Empowering the 21st Century Learner with Google Apps for Education .
Gov's ESSA team unveiling draft blueprint to improve schools, asking for feedback; updated locations, dates
Gov. David Ige’s Every Student Succeeds Act Task Force has begun holding follow up community forums statewide to share findings and focus on a draft blueprint for public education in Hawaii. Teachers are encouraged to attend and give feedback on the initial plan for improving Hawaii public schools.
As a follow up to the Hawaii Education Summit held in July at the Hawaii Convention Center, and to the series of community town hall meetings held from July through September across the state, the new community forums have several purposes, according to Darrel Galera, chair of the governor’s ESSA team.
“First, we will share the findings of input and feedback received from town hall meetings. Second, we will unveil a working draft or outline for a new blueprint for public education in Hawaii,” said Galera, a retired public school principal. “We also want to collect more specific input, feedback and advice for a final version of a blueprint for public education in Hawaii.”
Nov. 2: Moanalua High library, Oahu, 6 to 8 p.m. Register for the Nov. 2 Moanalua High ESSA forum here.Amy Perruso, a member of the governor's ESSA Task Force and secretary-treasurer of HSTA, said, "It is important that teachers are powering the creation of this blueprint, because we are the professionals in the classrooms with students. The task force needs to make sure that teacher voices have been heard and are reflected in the document, because it will articulate a vision for the schools our children deserve for decades to come."
NEA hiring community facilitators: deadline Oct. 1
Free and open to all, NEA edCommunities is the place online where educators, school support professionals, and community members join forces to improve student success. A variety of groups address diverse education issues—from Common Core to school bullying, National Board certification to safe and healthy schools, ESP hot issues to flipped classrooms. You can also form a group of your own to advocate and collaborate on an issue that matters to your students and schools.
Job Description
A professional practice community facilitator is responsible for creating and maintaining an engaging group on NEA edCommunities. The facilitator will be responsible for making the community exciting, vibrant, and a great place to discuss and share resources. Responsibilities include posting and participating in online discussions, sharing useful and relevant resources and responding to group members interests, questions and needs. A facilitator is also required to submit plans, participate in regular virtual meetings and work towards increasing membership and engagement in their group and on the NEA edCommunities site overall. The facilitator is expected to spend between three and five hours per week on this work. This position pays a $2,500 stipend per year.
Qualifications
- Strong content knowledge in the area that you are applying for
- Good written and oral communication skills
- 24-7 access to a computer with a webcam and audio
- 24-7 access to the internet
- Successful experience using online digital tools for communication and collaboration
- Experience using digital tools to connect and learn professionally
- Have or the ability to have and use Google Docs, Gmail and Google Calendar
- A minimum of three years teaching experience
- Current NEA member
Application Process
Oct. 1 - Deadline for all applications
Oct. 1 to 15- Applications will be reviewed
Oct. 15 to 23 - Acceptance notifications and MOUs will be sent out
Oct. 28 - Deadline for signing MOU and accepting the position
First Week in November- Initial training from 8 to 9 p.m. EST
Groups Needing Facilitators
Elementary Literacy
K-5 Science
K-12 Art
K-12 Music
K-12 PE
Advanced, Gifted and Talented Education
Special Education
ESP
Retired Educators
Early Educator
Career Pathways
Social Justice
Institutional Racism | Culturally Responsive Teaching
Restorative Justice
LBGTQ/SOGI
Distributed Leadership
Community Engagement
Teacher Recruitment and Retention
Educator Effectiveness, Evaluation and SLOs
NBCT/Jumpstart
Mentoring
Peer Assistance And Review (PAR)
Peer/Instructional Coaching
Assessment Literacy |
Click here to start your NEA edCommunities application.
Log into myNEA360.org with your username and password here.
If you have any questions please contact Brandy Bixler bbixler@nea.org
Hope Street student career readiness survey
Hope Street Group, a non-partisan education organization devoted to raising teacher voice and their Hawaii state teacher fellows who work in partnership with HIDOE and HSTA, are gathering teacher input to learn what is needed at the school level to strengthen quality career readiness for all students from elementary through high school.
Please take this Hope Street student career readiness survey. All Hawaii public school teachers are welcome to participate. The survey will only take a few minutes to complete and the opinions you share are instrumental in informing education policy in the islands. All responses are confidential. The survey will be open until Friday, Oct. 7.
Focus groups are also happening across the state. Contact kelly@hopestreetgroup.orgif you'd like to find one in your community to attend. However, please also note that there is an option to answer focus group questions online after the survey if you choose to do so.
For more about Hope Street's program, you can visit its website. Applications for the upcoming cohort of teacher fellows will start in Winter 2016.
HSTA recommends General Election political candidates; be sure to register to vote by Oct. 10
After a lengthy process which included a candidate questionnaire, interviews, and a review of voting history, HSTA’s Board of Directors, in concurrence with the HSTA Government Relations Committee, recommends teachers vote for the following candidates in the Nov. 8 General Election.
“We carefully reviewed their stances on important issues,” said HSTA President Corey Rosenlee. “So we are confident these candidates deserve teachers’ votes.”
In the presidential race, the HSTA recommends Hillary Rodham Clinton, a Democrat.
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