CONCEPTS from the YUBA CITY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
9/13/2016
Improvements to the salary schedule shall go into effect
July 1 for each year to which they pertain. In addition to the above increases:
1.
Special Education Teachers will have a
multiplier of 1.15% in addition to the salary schedule 2.
Speech and Language Pathologists will have a
multiplier of 1.15% in addition to the salary schedule
This concludes bargaining for the 15/16 and
16/17 school year. Restoration
of Teaching and Learning 1.
YCTA
proposes that 2.2% of the ongoing increase for the 2016-2017 school year be
used to restore the four (4) instructional student attendance days so that
students can access and capture the core curriculum lost due to the 2015-2016
impasse. The 2016-17 calendar shall be
altered to convert the four (4) days of lost instruction to non-work days. The
scheduling of the four (4) days shall be determined jointly by the District and
the Association. This means that
teachers will work and students will attend the four (4) converted days during
the 2016-2017 school year, thereby restoring the 180 instructional days for students
and 185 work days for teachers, including the two (2) professional development
days already agreed to by the parties for 2016-17. The increase of 2.2% shall be ongoing on the
salary schedule and the student attendance calendar shall remain 180 instructional
days and 183 teacher work days for all years following 2016–2017.
2.
All YCTA
bargaining unit members who participated in the strike, or did not cross picket
lines shall be returned to work in the position filled prior to the strike,
without malice, intimidation, reprisal, discrimination, or recrimination either
now, or in the future from the Board, any of its administrators or any other of
its authorized agents.
3.
No
reference to any individual participating in the strike shall be made by any
school district official in any regular or special evaluation of any bargaining
unit member. It is further agreed that
no evaluation of YCTA bargaining unit members shall reflect, in any way, the
employee's participation in the strike.
4.
No
reference to any individual’s participation or non-participation in the strike
shall be made by any individual in any personnel file of any YCTA bargaining
unit member.
5.
No YCTA
bargaining unit member shall be disciplined, subjected to malice, intimidation
or in any other way be penalized by any school district official or agent by
reason of his/her participation in or support of the strike or strike related
activities; nor shall any YCTA bargaining unit member be disciplined,
nonrenewed, discharged or in any way subjected to any penalty by the school
district for his/her failure to report for work following the termination of
the strike, if that YCTA bargaining unit member is prevented from reporting for
work by court action related to the strike.
6.
No
student shall be disciplined, subjected to malice or intimidation or in any
other way penalized by any school district official or agent by reason of
his/her participation in or support of the strike or strike related activities.
7.
Any
allegation or violation of this agreement shall be set down in writing by the
person or persons affected and be presented to an impartial arbitrator
appointed by the American Arbitration Association. Said arbitrator shall be
empowered to take any appropriate action to satisfy the complaint.
Concept for
Collaboration From the YUBA CITY TEACHERS
ASSOCIATION To the YUBA CITY UNIFIED
SCHOOL DISTRICT Collaboration
Time
a. The
collaboration teams will be organized as follows: at K-5, by grade level; at
6-8, by content and/or grade level; and at the high school, by department. In
addition, as needed, teams may be organized by grade level, subject matter,
specific student groups, departments, vertical teams, or horizontal teams,
including cross-curricular teams and district-wide content. b. Teachers
convene in collaboration teams to increase student learning based on classroom
teacher selected data. At the first meeting of the year, each team will
identify their first objective, as well as their objective for the following
meeting. At each subsequent meeting, each team will identify the objective for
the following meeting. c. Teacher
accountability documentation shall take no more than five (5) minutes of
meeting time. It shall include a description of the next meeting’s objective.
The documentation shall be completed by the end of the meeting, and copies
shall be provided to members of the team. Acceptable uses of
collaboration shall include: a. Strategic
Planning 1. Lesson
design and planning, vertical and horizontal 2. Cross-grade
level planning on subject manner 3. Discussing
and establishing behavioral interventions and strategies b. Data
Analysis 1. Goal-setting
for students based on formative tests 2. Collaborative
scoring of common assessments c. Instructional
Design 1. Collaborating
on Units of Study preparation 2. Developing
and revising instruction 3.
Differentiated instruction for significant subgroups
(such as Special Ed, EL, Foster Youth, etc.) *Other
topics may be established by mutual agreement of unit members and
administration. Collaboration
time is not: a. Intended
for additional staff meetings b. Scheduling/conducting
other District, Association, or site meetings c. Classroom
maintenance including making copies, grading classroom specific work, cleaning
classroom, etc. d. Discussing
site/district policies unrelated to instruction
e. Administratively-imposed
assignments or tasks
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
between
YUBA CITY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
and
YUBA CITY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
Professional
Development
This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is
by and between the Yuba City Unified School District (“District”) and the Yuba City
Teachers Association (“YCTA”).
The Parties agree that, for the 2016/2017
school year, the District will provide two (2) days of professional development
as set forth below. This MOU, and its
provisions, apply only to the professional development days.
1. Unit
members at Albert Powell High School and YCIA shall select two (2) dates which
shall be in either the October intersession or the March intersession.
2. For
all other teachers, the first day shall be August 8, 2016 and the second date
shall be April 17, 2016. Training on
these days may focus on:
a. new
curriculum (e.g. ELA for K-8 and Math and Science 6-12).
b. Refinement
of lesson plans related to current training [engage in planning for
implementation and develop lesson plans and strategies];
c. Identification
of issues related to the implementation of current training (including
additional professional learning) [teachers will identify needs in the areas of
resources, training, professional learning and collaboration]; and
d. Summarization
of (b) and (c), above, to provide feedback to administrators (with a copy to
YCTA).
3. The
District will offer programs at one or more sites throughout the District.
a. K-5
Teachers: by grade level
b. 6-8
ELA and Math: on a high school site, either as a group or with
high school
c. Secondary
Teachers: by content area
4. For
non-site based employees (e.g.: Psychologists, Counselors, Nurses, itinerant
Music Teachers, Speech and Language Therapists, P.E. Specialists): YCTA
Bargaining Unit Members within the program will be consulted to develop the
program plan. This shall not preclude
them from participation in the site activities.
5. This
shall result in an increase to the salary schedule of 1.1% for the 2016/2017
school year effective July 1, 2016. This
agreement and resulting increase, shall sunset June 30, 2017 unless the parties
mutually agree to extend it.
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