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10-month teachers should always refer to the single-letter schedules (A, B, C, D)
12-month teachers should always refer to the double-letter schedules (AA, BB, CC, DD)
The pay increases starting this school year through 2021 are as follows:
1st Year – School Year 2017-2018
- Start of school year – all teachers received a 1.8 percent across the board increase and continuation of the 21 hours of job-embedded professional development – see exhibit B/BB
- Start of 2nd quarter* - step movement (exhibit B/BB) for all teachers, except new hires and teachers on 14B.
- Teachers already on 14B receive $1,500 on October 20, 2017.
2nd Year – School Year 2018-2019
- Start of 2nd quarter* - all teachers received a 3.5 percent across the board increase and continuation of the 21 hours of job-embedded professional development – see exhibit C/CC
3rd Year – School Year 2019-2020
- Start of 2nd quarter* - step movement (Exhibit C/CC) for all teachers, except new hires and teachers on 14B.
- Teachers already on 14B receive $1,500 on October 20, 2019.
- Any continuation of the 21 hours of job-embedded professional development will be subject to re-opener negotiations.
4th Year – School Year 2020-2021
- Start of 2nd quarter* - all teachers received a 3.5 percent across the board increase – see exhibit D/DD
- Any continuation of the 21 hours of job-embedded professional development will be subject to re-opener negotiations.
DOE adjusts criteria for probationary credit
Over the summer, the Department of Education consulted with the Hawaii State Teachers Association regarding an adjustment of the criteria for awarding probationary credit, allowing a greater number of new hires to earn probation.
Prior procedures for earning probation restricted teachers from earning probation if they were assigned positions outside of their licensed field. For example, if a teacher was assigned a position in Special Education, Counseling, Early Childhood Education or as a Librarian and was NOT licensed in that area, they previously would NOT earn probationary credit. In addition, if a teacher was licensed in Special Education, Counseling or as a Librarian and they were assigned a position outside of those areas, they were also NOT given probationary credit.
In School Year 2017-2018, the DOE will implement a modification to the current practice, which will now allow licensed teachers to earn probationary credit when assigned to teach in areas outside their licensure area. This change means teachers will earn probationary credit regardless of what subject area they are teaching.
The rationale for this change is to:
1) Eliminate inadvertent penalizing of those teachers who agree to accept a SpEd position but are not licensed in SpEd
Colleagues struggling to pay bills? HSTA's emergency loan program can help
Please pass the word to new teachers -- many of whom have not yet subscribed to this e-newsletter -- that HSTA offers an emergency loan program featuring an interest-free $1,000 loan to its members. After receiving the loan from HSTA, the member will have $250 automatically deducted out of their next four paychecks without interest. Members are limited to one of these loans per year. For more information, contact HSTA's headquarters at 833-2711.
HSTA co-sponsors prison reform event Aug. 16
HSTA's first social justice event of the new school year begins by taking steps to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline. The King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center in partnership with HSTA presents "Dismantling Mass Incarceration: Prospects For Reform," a talk by Robert Perkinson, an associate professor of American Studies at UH Manoa. The event will be held Wednesday, Aug. 16 at 5:30 p.m., at Aliiolani Hale, 417 S. King Street, across from Iolani Palace. To RSVP and for more information, call the Judiciary History Center at 539-4999. Perkinson is a nationally recognized prison expert whose book "Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire" won the PEN American Center's John Kenneth Galbraith Award for best non-fiction book published in 2009 and 2010. Read more about "Dismantling Mass Incarceration: Prospects For Reform," Aug. 16 at Aliiolani Hale.
Join HSTA Speakers Bureau and speak out for education; Training Sept. 17 and 18Help bring the message of Schools Our Keiki Deserve to the Hawaii Legislature, Board of Education and our community! Join HSTA Speakers Bureau and get trained right away in crafting testimony, media outreach and community organizing. We have immediate openings for one-day training sessions on Sunday, Sept. 17, and Monday, Sept. 18, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at HSTA's Oahu headquarters. Breakfast, lunch and neighbor island transportation provided, plus release time is available for the Monday training. Sign up by Saturday, Sept. 2, and email the date you'd like to attend, your name, school or work station, personal email and phone number to info@hsta.org.
Get involved in social justice
Emerging leaders in HSTA have been digging deep into social justice work which was recently highlighted in NEA EDJustice, an effort that engages and mobilizes activists in the fight for racial, social and economic justice in public education. Their advocacy around teaching for joy and justice continued at the recent NEA RA in Boston, where Hawaii delegates were able to get new business items passed that increased teacher autonomy and professionalism with respect to Common Core State Standards (CCSS), engaged public school teachers in climate justice work and will educate public school teachers around the country about the events surrounding as well as the effects of the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy. The HSTA also recently published a new study by UH Manoa Professor Jonathan Okamura, entitled Unequal Opportunity: Ethnic Inequality in Public Education in Hawaii, which will inform our legislative efforts focusing on public school funding this year. We would like to invite you to join us in these efforts to fight for equity and justice with and for our students, educators and school communities. Please complete this short survey, and email Amy Perruso at aperruso@hsta.org if you have any questions.
Volunteer opportunity: Waianae Elementary to receive Labor of Love work Oct. 14
Please consider joining in the Labor of Love movement to help lift up students and create a better community by volunteering from 7:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Oct. 14 for a half work day of campus improvement at Waianae Elementary. In addition to making improvements to the school's facilities, the effort by unions in Hawaii intends to fund Waianae's merit program to engender good behavior and academic success as well as provide each student with a school uniform t-shirt for their field trips. We need YOUR support as 300 volunteers are necessary to help make this Labor of Love a success. Most of the volunteer work will be painting. The skilled labor will be carried out by members of trade unions. Sign up through the link below. Lunch is included.
Increase your skills and pay with HSTA PD!
HSTA's professional development courses are open for enrollment, with teachers teaching teachers. The courses include 21 st century learning, inclusion, STEM, environmental education, cultural-based education, classroom management and teacher leadership. Read more about HSTA PD courses and register here.Schools have been paying for teachers to take HSTA courses and receive PD credits, since they take place outside of the workday. To take advantage of this great deal, please register yourself for the course (so that you secure a seat) and once your school sends us payment, we will process a reimbursement to you. Schools can use HSTA Vendor #021749
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