Hawaii Teachers United updates, posted 5-10-2017

To: WIS Colleagues
From: R. Yamanaka
Posted by J. Grabar
Highlighted notes by J. Grabar
Date: 5-10-2017

Re: Hawaii Teachers United updates

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!!!  You deserve this week and every week for all that you do for your students.  Take care and have a great summer!

 

A few more events and reminders before the end of the school year:

1. New Contract:  over the summer, HSTA will be working with the DOE on printing the new contracts.  Distribution will be at the start of the 2017/18 school year.  An electronic copy of the new contract will also be available on the HSTA website.  Please continue to check your personal emails throughout the summer for updates and messages.  Also, we couldn’t have done this without the help of all of you, our community partners, legislators, friends and family.  Please extend HSTA’s thanks to them for their continual support for public education.
2. NALC food drive on Sat. May 13^th.  If you have time, please come out and help sort canned goods at the Hilo airport post office loading dock from 1-6pm.  Park on the street alongside the chain link fence, wear covered shoes and your red HSTA shirt.  Any amount of time that you can spare would be appreciated.  Many hands make for quick work.
3. Excellence in Teaching luncheon is on Sunday May 21^st at the Nani Mau Gardens.  Tickets were presold.  If you have questions, please contact Debra Borges at deblani29@yahoo.com or Edwin Kagawa at ekagawahsta@gmail.com
4. Last RA will be held on Tuesday May 23^rd at Keaau High library from 5-6:30pm.  Special presentations will be made to schools.  Please have at least one SLL attend for your school.
5. SLL election forms were due on April 28^th.,  however, it is not too late to send them in or give them to me at the last RA.  All current SLLs will be purged from the distribution list on May 31^st.  Communications will only be going out to the newly elected SLLs from that point on.
6. SLL training will be held at the beginning of the 2017/18 school year.  Highlights will be SLL duties and responsibilities and contract interpretation.  All SLLs are to be trained at that time.  More details to follow.
7. Summer events:  some possibilities for summer chapter events are the Relay for Life and the Big Island Triathlon.  More information to follow.
8. EES:  remind your teachers that they should be contacting me ASAP once they receive their overall EES rating for this school year if it is a Marginal or UnSatisfactory.

 

Thanks and be safe!

 

rae

 

Rae A.Yamanaka

HSTA Hilo UniServ Director

Hilo Lagoon Centre

101 Aupuni St., ste.219

Hilo, HI  96720

Phone:  (808)935-9301 office; (808)365-6979 cell

Fax:  (808) 969-7492

Email:  ryamanaka@hsta.org