10,000 Stand up to Shield Our Schools January 19 #Schooltrump Actions Show Unity Against Hate, Anti-Immigrant Policies, and Privatization of Public Education

Award-Winning Newspaper of United Teachers Los Angeles • www.utla.net Volume XLVI, Number 6, January 27, 2017 10,000 stand up to shield our schools January 19 #SchoolTrump actions show unity against hate, anti-immigrant policies, and privatization of public education.

Throngs of parents, students, educators, and community members throughout LAUSD took to Twitter and the streets on January 19 to shield our schools from racism, privatization, anti-immigrant rhetoric, and destructive proposals coming from the Donald Trump administration. One day before Trump’s inauguration, an estimated 10,000 people participated in #SchoolTrump actions at more than 400 sites in the school district. At Grand View Elementary in West L.A., more than 300 parents, students, and educators marched through the neighborhood, carrying oversized signs in the shape of shields while singing “This Land Is Your Land” and “We Shall Overcome.” Speakers included LAUSD School Board President Steve Zimmer, National Educa- tion Association President Lily Eskelsen Garcia, California Teachers Association President Eric Heins, UTLA President Alex Caputo-Pearl, and parents. “We are here today for a simple reason,” said Caputo-Pearl. “We are here to stand up against anti-immigrant policies, against Garfield High School (above) Bargaining heats up: Pay raise on the table stands united to protect the school, the students, and the now, fight for health benefits coming soon community.

Over the next several months, UTLA Students sign letter (left) to will be engaged in overlapping bargain- Trump at Arleta High. The ing for our contract (“reopeners” now letter—along with those and the full contract later) and our health Protecting active and retiree health from other L.A. schools—was benefits. Increasing salaries and protect- care: Our agreement expires in Decem- tweeted to @realDonaldTrump. ing active and retiree health benefits are ber 2017, and all signs point to LAUSD priorities for every UTLA member, and aggressively going after employee UTLA leadership is dedicated to fight- health benefits. ing for both. hate-filled rhetoric and we are going to ring to the proliferation of unregulated Read more details on page 4, includ- stand with parents, with students, against charter schools. Reopener bargaining: On the table ing our commitment to build power to federal cuts to education budgets, and we During the actions, school communi- right now are proposals for a 7% ret- win our demands through escalating are going to stand against the privatization ties wrote messages on oversized letters, roactive pay raise, teacher control over collective action and getting strike ready. of our public school system.” giving voice to their fears under a Trump nonmandated assessments, and elimi- Sharon Savene, a parent at Grand administration. At Second Street Elemen- nation of language that impedes class- Online bargaining survey goes live View, told the crowd that the school needs tary in East Los Angeles, examples of size reduction. We will be presenting February 7: Your voice is needed. Take funding, not privatizing. student messages included: “My name proposals on student discipline and the online survey to rank your priorities “Our kids need nurses at this school, is Amanda, and my life matters,” “Better employee transfers soon. for full contract bargaining. The results our kids need counselors at this school, education ... not deportation,” and “Why will be used to develop our bargaining our kids need janitorial and custodial do you want to take my mom?” Photos Full contract bargaining: The current platform. Before the survey, chapter staff at this school, they need teachers of the letters, along with direct messages contract expires June 30, and in full chairs are conducting chapter meetings at this school and they need teaching as- to Trump, were then sent via Twitter. By contract bargaining, any article can be so members can talk together about sistants at this school,” Savene said. “We 3 p.m., more than 2,300 tweets with the opened and additional salary demands your priorities. Survey links will be on- don’t need any more choice. We need to hashtag #SchoolTrump had been tweeted can be put on the table. line and in the weekly News to Use. invest in the schools that we have,” refer- (continued on page 6)

Q&A with School Board candidates Steve Zimmer & Imelda Padilla Page 5 United Teacher • for the latest news: www.utla.net January 27, 2017 United Teacher President’s perspective

PRESIDENT Alex Caputo-Pearl NEA AFFILIATE VP Cecily Myart-Cruz AFT AFFILIATE VP Betty Forrester Organizing our school-site strength in 2017 ELEMENTARY VP Juan Ramirez SECONDARY VP Colleen Schwab Our goals are ambitious, our adversaries are powerful, and the stakes are high. TREASURER Arlene Inouye SECRETARY Daniel Barnhart By Alex Caputo-Pearl EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Jeff Good UTLA President

BOARD OF DIRECTORS I hope your winter break was wonder- union UNITE-HERE, many of whom are whom I taught next door to at Crenshaw. ful. You deserve it. the parents of our students, marched with Cathy was an excellent teacher, a brilliant NORTH AREA: Karla Griego, Interim Chair (Buchanan ES), Rebecca Solomon (RFK UCLA We are going to walk shoulder-to-shoul- educators at Miguel Contreras Learning mathematician, a first-five-years-in-the- Comm. School), Kirk Thomas, (Eagle Rock ES), Julie Van Winkle (Logan Span School) der through 2017, a crucial year. Complex. And, over on the Westside, in profession teacher whom we desperately As with every year, our priorities in 2017 Mar Vista, community college professors needed to keep. Cathy was trying to pay SOUTH AREA: Ingrid Villeda, Chair (93rd Street ES), Ayde Bravo (Maywood ES), will be driven by the school site and class- with AFT 1521, who teach many of our off college debt, live in an incredibly ex- Maria Miranda (Miramonte ES), rooms. January reconnections with two students as they make their way after high pensive city, and take care of working-class L. Cynthia Matthews (McKinley ES) people I hadn’t spoken with for years— school, joined hundreds at Grand View parents who were beginning to have health EAST AREA: Gillian Russom, Chair (ESP Academy), Ingrid Gunnell (Lane ES), Gloria Martinez (Rowan ES), way too long—reinforced this for me. Elementary. issues—all while, as we all do, investing Adrian Tamayo (Lorena ES) Our school sites, and the relationships some money in her own classroom, in her WEST AREA: Erika Jones Crawford, Chair (CTA A student leader, financial analyst, we have there, from Louis Ramos, to his own development as a teacher. Director), Noah Lippe-Klein (Dorsey HS), Georgia Flowers Lee (Saturn ES), Jennifer Villaryo (Grand View ES) and the #SchoolTrump actions contacts, to other unions, are the beating Cathy left the profession a few years ago hearts of a movement. because of a variety of issues, but it sure CENTRAL AREA: José Lara, Chair (Santee EC), Louis Ramos was my student at Cren- Kelly Flores (Maya Angelou), Paul Ngwoke (Bethune MS) shaw High School, Class of 2009. He has would have helped hold onto her had our VALLEY EAST AREA: Scott Mandel, Chair (Pacoima since graduated from the University of A retiree, a hero, salaries been higher. The fight for a salary Magnet), Victoria (Martha) Casas (Beachy ES), Mel increase is here. Our reopener demand for House (Elementary P.E.), Alex (David) Orozco (Madison MS) California, Riverside with a BA in Business and health benefits Economics and now works as a financial Later in January, I spoke at a UTLA- a 7% increase retroactive to July 1, 2016, VALLEY WEST AREA: Bruce Newborn, Chair (Hale Charter), Melodie Bitter (Lorne ES), Wendi Davis analyst at Warner Music Group. Retired meeting. This is always a joy, re- will be complemented by salary demands (Henry MS), Javier Romo (Mulholland MS) In his time at the Social Justice and Law connecting with friends, and honoring for the 2017-2018 successor contract. The HARBOR AREA: Aaron Bruhnke, Chair (San Pedro HS), Academy at Crenshaw High, Louis devel- those upon whose shoulders we stand. 7% demand is a substantially higher in- Karen Macias-Lutz (Del Amo ES), Elgin Scott (Taper ES), Steve Seal (Eshelman ES) oped into a powerful leader. By his senior It was fantastic to see Myles Goodson crease than surrounding districts have given and is higher than the percentage ADULT & OCCUP ED: Matthew Kogan (Evans CAS) year, the economy had crashed and public and his wife at the meeting—I hadn’t seen schools faced massive layoffs. Several of them in five years. growth in new monies coming to the Dis- BILINGUAL EDUCATION: Cheryl L. Ortega (Sub Unit) Louis’s teachers during his high school I taught for many years with Myles. trict from the state, but it was arrived at EARLY CHILDHOOD ED: Corina Gomez (Pacoima EEC) years received pink slips. After he retired, he continued to work in with knowledge that L.A. will need to HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES: Linda Gordon Louis organized a group of students to South L.A. schools as a substitute educator. attract educators because it will be dis- SPECIAL ED: Lucia Arias travel to an LAUSD local district satellite Myles was a passionate educator, bringing proportionately affected by the oncoming SUBSTITUTES: Fredrick Bertz office about a mile away from Crenshaw. creativity and life into history instruction. educator shortage. PACE CHAIR: Marco Flores They picketed outside and demanded He was a leader at our school site—one of When I think of our reopener demand UTLA RETIRED: John Perez that the building be sold and that the the educators you always went to if you around class size—kill Section 1.5 of the District make cuts away from the class- needed advice. class-size article, shut the door once and for AFFILIATIONS room, so teachers and classrooms could Myles and I shared a special connec- all on the way the District subverts class- American Federation of Teachers National Education Association be spared. This was the first of many tion. He was a graduate of Morgan State size caps and averages—I think of Scott actions Louis led. University, and I grew up down the street Allen, who taught down the hall from me. STATE & NATIONAL OFFICERS A few weeks ago, Louis emailed me. I from, and was shaped by, Bowie State Uni- Scott was always grading papers, every CFT PRESIDENT: Joshua Pechthalt hadn’t heard from him in five years. He versity, both historically black colleges and time I saw him, like so many of us, over- CTA PRESIDENT: Eric Heins CTA DIRECTOR: Erika Jones Crawford had heard about the preparations for our universities in Maryland. whelmed with essays and paperwork. That CFT VICE PRESIDENT: Betty Forrester January 19 #SchoolTrump actions, and he As Myles and I reconnected, I heard work was made all the more challenging NEA PRESIDENT: Lily Eskelsen Garcia wanted to get some of his neighbors and of the great things he is doing, as well as by having more than 40 students in each AFT PRESIDENT: Randi Weingarten co-workers to participate at a school. They some of the health challenges he is facing. of his classes. Our students deserve more NEA DIRECTOR: Mel House knew that things happening on the national He commented on how important our of our attention. We deserve the ability UTLA COMMUNICATIONS stage were going to have a direct impact health benefits have been to him and his to focus as professionals on what matters EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Alex Caputo-Pearl on our classrooms, whether it is federal family, when he was an active employee, most: relationships with students that don’t COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR: Anna Bakalis cuts affecting the District budget, federal and now as a retiree. He is so right—and get drowned out by the sheer size of our COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALISTS: classes, our caseloads, our paperwork. Kim Turner, Carolina Barreiro, Tammy Lyn Gann funding for charter expansion and vouch- UTLA has been so right for so many years ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT: Laura Aldana ers siphoning enrollment and money away to ensure that our educators have top- When I think of our reopener demands from community schools, or aggressive of-the-line health care while active, and around school discipline, I think of Roi- EDITORIAL INFORMATION expansion of deportation and destabilizing top-of-the-line health care when retired. chelle Dixon from Crenshaw, one of the UNITED TEACHER families. Louis and several of his contacts We have the awesome task of educating best school psychologists I have ever met, 3303 Wilshire Blvd., 10th Fl., LA, CA 90010 and Bill Vanderberg, our elected dean for Email: [email protected] participated on January 19, had a great and taking care of Los Angeles’s children UTLA main line: 213-487-5560 experience, and UTLA has some new allies. and adult students, and we often do this several years, who now works at Foshay ADVERTISING It was great to reconnect with Louis, for our entire work lives, and as the work Learning Center. To truly address student Senders Communications Group and it reminded me to look at the January of our life. In turn, our employer owes it to discipline, to truly build positive behavior Bruce Loria: 818-884-8966, ext. 1107 19 actions with fresh eyes. Every action us to take care of us and our families, for support and restorative justice in authentic we engage in, all of which are rooted in our lifetimes, with good health benefits. ways that work for everyone and that are UNITED TEACHER accepts paid advertisements from outside companies and organizations, including UTLA school-site issues, provides an opportunity As we gear up to protect active and sustainable, we need a dramatic increase in sponsors and vendors with no relationship with UTLA. Only for new leaders to develop, for new rela- retiree health benefits in 2017, I will be health and human services staff like Roi- approved vendors can use the UTLA logo in their ads. The content of an advertisement is the responsibility of the tionships and alliances to emerge. thinking of Myles, and how important he chelle: professionals whose caseloads are advertiser alone, and UTLA cannot be held responsible The student leaders at Arleta High has been to his community. manageable enough to work with students for its accuracy, veracity, or reliability. Appearance of an one-on-one when necessary, with fami- advertisement should not be viewed as an endorsement School in the East San Fernando Valley who or recommendation by United Teachers Los Angeles. participated on the 19th were incredibly School-site struggles and lies when necessary, in support of what inspiring, and several of them were quoted our contract reopeners happens in the classroom. And, as Bill has in the Los Angeles Times. At the same time spent years fighting for, we need contract United Teacher (ISSN # 0745-4163) is published monthly Your experiences at school sites and (except for an extra election issue in January and a com- that they were speaking to reporters, on work sites, like my experiences at Cren- language that requires administrators to bined June/July issue) by United Teachers Los Angeles, the other side of the Valley, student leaders shaw, drive our bargaining in contract develop school safety and discipline plans 3303 Wilshire Blvd., 10th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90010. at El Camino Real Charter High School reopeners. with stakeholders, in which day-to-day Subscriptions: $20.00 per year. (Price included in dues/ implementation protocol is crystal clear, agency fee of UTLA bargaining unit members.) Periodical were holding shields in a vibrant rally When I think of the 10% raise that we postage paid at Los Angeles, California. 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When I think of our reopener demands table again around the above reopener health benefits with these other unions, way to an unprecedented strike readi- around academic freedom and limiting demands. It is the intersection of these and our collaboration will be powerful. ness build. We started at the July 2016 the incursions of standardized testing reopeners with several other strands that • We will continue our work to bring Leadership Conference and have had on instructional time and teacher pro- makes 2017 unique. forward policy fights and legislation citywide steering committee meetings fessionalism, I think of Luisa Lowe and • On March 7, we must reelect Steve that call the question on the state of of more than 100 key member leaders on Sarah Rodriguez, two of the most cre- Zimmer and elect Imelda Padilla to the California on the two major issues that both September 21, 2016, and January ative English teachers I have ever met. LAUSD School Board. Former L.A. mayor can only, at their root, be dealt with 13, 2017, with more to come. They used literature, poetry, writing, Richard Riordan has put $1 million into in Sacramento: infusing additional Clearly, 2017 will be a huge year. We small groups, drama, and presentations the effort to defeat Zimmer, and more mil- funding into public schools and regu- will take on the challenges together and to make their classes about life, about lions will follow. The California Charter lating charter school growth/holding we will win together in 2017, as we did our students’ inner-most dreams, fears, Schools Association is playing big in both charter schools accountable. in 2014 by getting rid of John Deasy; in and potential—and built tremendous races. We need a School Board that will • We will continue the work that was 2015 by protecting health benefits, getting academic skills among students in the protect active and retiree health benefits built out of the January 19 action and was the 10% raise, and electing allies to the process. Luisa and Sarah were constantly and approve good reopener and succes- reflected so movingly in the Women’s School Board; and in 2016 by keeping frustrated by periodic assessments and sor agreements. Marches of January 21: working with an RIF layoff notices off the table, winning other out-of-context assessments that the • From February 7 to the end of the emerging citywide and national move- additional staffing at schools, fighting the District brought in. We need teacher dis- month, all members will be participat- ment to push back on the most dangerous privatizers, and passing Props. 55 and 58. cretion to rule what assessments are used. ing in a bargaining survey to shape our aspects of the Trump/DeVos agenda. The key is we must do this together, with When I think of our reopener demands demands in 2017-2018 successor contract Our goals are ambitious, our adver- everyone involved. around transfers and school restructuring, bargaining, which we hope to initiate saries are powerful, and the stakes are And, when we need a little wind in our I think of students Anita Parker and Jose in April. Chapter chairs will be holding high. We will need to build the real sails, let’s remember, we’ve got people Sotelo, and their mothers Angelita and meetings in late January and early Feb- capacity to strike to ensure protection all over the city like my student Louis Nidia, respectively, who fought so hard ruary to discuss priorities collectively. of what we have and to ensure new Ramos and retired hero educator Myles to stop the top-down reconstitution and Survey participation online will follow victories that advance the Schools L.A. Goodson—and, most importantly, we restaffing of Crenshaw High School. When throughout the month. We know protect- Students Deserve for our members, have each other. Let’s do this. I spoke to Nidia not long ago, she was so ing health benefits and increasing salary students, and schools. dispirited that the practice had continued are top priorities, and we need to know This doesn’t mean we will strike. It at Wilmington Middle School last year. It your additional priorities. means we need the organized strength Get connected to UTLA is a practice that destabilizes schools and • As we anticipate the expiration of to do so if attacks continue, policies Facebook: facebook.com/UTLAnow students, insults our profession, and gives our health benefits agreement in Decem- remain unchanged, or unacceptable Twitter: @utlanow far too much control to administrators. It ber 2017, and we fight aggressively to District proposals remain on the ne- must stop. protect active and retiree health benefits, gotiations table. Strike readiness is YouTube: youtube.com/UTLAnow we will continue into our third year of complemented by crucial strands of Bringing it all together, with strike successful relationship-building with the parent/community organizing, bar- capacity at the core other seven unions representing LAUSD gaining strategy, communications, and It is exciting to be at the bargaining employees. We collectively bargain for political advocacy. We are well on our

In this issue

4 “Reopener” contract bargaining begins with LAUSD 8 Election time for UTLA officers UTLA’s opening proposals include 7% retroactive raise, teacher 16 Union dues for tax deductions control over nonmandated assessments, and elimination of language that impedes class-size reduction. 18 Platinum Apple Awards 20 CTA State Council elections 5 Q&A with our School Board candidates 21 UTLA-Retired election timeline Read what Steve Zimmer and Imelda Padilla say about their priorities and more. 22 Committee events 23 Bilingual issues 8 Coalition for Community Schools launches 24 UTLA meeting board Reclaim Our Schools LA envisions “wraparound services” and other supports at schools across LAUSD. 26 Classifieds

Adult ed students and educators at West Valley Occupational Center showed up in force on January 19 to show that they will protect each other and their education. See more January 19 action photos on pages 6 and 7.

3 United Teacher • for the latest news: www.utla.net January 27, 2017 Reopener talks begin; health care & full contract next UTLA’s opening proposals include 7% retroactive raise, teacher control over nonmandated assessments, and elimination of language that impedes class-size reduction.

On January 12, the UTLA bargaining and unilateral professional discretion to strike capacity that will support our reopener, employees and retirees happens through team began reopener bargaining with determine what assessments are used in successor, and health benefits bargaining. the LAUSD Health Benefits Committee. the District for the 2016-2017 school year. their classroom, how assessments are used UTLA used this kind of escalation plan— This committee, known as the HBC, in- Bargaining for health benefits and the full in their classroom, and when assessments including rallies, school site pickets, Stand cludes representatives from the District and contract are just around the corner. UTLA are used in their classroom. at Grand, faculty meeting boycotts, and each of the employee unions in LAUSD. leadership stands ready to fight to protect 4.1 For state or federally mandated assess- strike commitments—to win our current HBC bargaining has typically happened active and retiree health benefits and to ments requiring one-on-one teacher-student 2014-2017 collective bargaining agreement outside of the traditional collective bargain- increase salaries for all. implementation, teachers shall be provided and 2015-2017 health care agreement. With ing agreement process because it involves UTLA made reopener proposals on substitute coverage for her/his class while the District intent on attacking health ben- multiple parties working collaboratively salary, class size, and academic freedom. conducting the one-on-one assessment. efits this year, limited funding increases to efficiently purchase health care for all The proposal is for an ongoing 7% salary in the governor’s state budget proposal, eligible active employees and retirees. increase in reopeners (retroactive to July 1, Upcoming UTLA proposals and the changes in Washington, D.C., that The current health care agreement was 2016), with more proposals to come when on transfers and discipline bring uncertainty to federal, state, and local reached in 2015, providing premium-free we enter full successor bargaining. In the next two bargaining sessions, the budgets, it is even more imperative that we coverage to active employees, retirees, and Our salary proposal for 2016-2017 is sub- District is expected to offer a counterpro- build escalating actions this year. dependents for 2015-2017 (our health care stantially higher than the percentage increase posal to our salary demands, and UTLA plans are based on a January-December cal- in state funding the District received for 2016- will be presenting proposals on Article UTLA successor contract endar), with the possibility of a one-year ex- 2017 and most bargaining agreements in L.A. XXIV: Student Discipline, Legal Support, & bargaining survey tension for 2018. Such an extension will only County this year. We believe it is a solid pro- Property Loss and Article XI: Transfers. Our Chapter chairs are conducting chapter occur if the District’s premium costs for 2018 posal because the impending teacher short- proposals on transfers will seek to ensure se- meetings, small group meetings, and one- increase by no more than 4.5% and the HBC age will have a particularly strong impact niority-based displacement, prevent recon- on-one meetings to talk with members about can find costs savings to reduce the unfunded on Los Angeles, and we need to be able to stitution of staff as part of the magnetization your priorities for successor “full contract” liability of retiree health care by 20%. recruit and retain educators. process, and ensure formal educator, parent, bargaining in advance of each member The District has already asserted that Below are more details on the January 12 and student roles in magnetization process. participating in an online UTLA Successor these costs savings will not be achieved proposals and the proposals that will go on Our proposals on student discipline will seek Bargaining Survey. The survey will be open and made a request to the HBC for early the table at the next session, on January 26. to facilitate greater support of Restorative early February and it’s important that every bargaining on a new health care agree- Justice programs and other positive behavior member participate. Again, any article in ment for 2018. The 2015-2017 health care UTLA proposals from first session support programs, make school safety plans the collective bargaining agreement can be agreement doesn’t require the HBC to start bargaining a new health care agreement Article XIV: Salaries: Retroactive to July subject to the grievance procedures, ensure opened as part of the successor bargaining. until August 2017, at which point we’ll 1, 2016, all certificated bargaining unit greater educator, parent, and student input The data collected will inform and guide have a clearer picture as to whether or member salaries, including adult educa- in the creation and implementation of school the development of UTLA proposals and not the costs savings have been achieved. tion educators and substitute educators, safety plans, and establish educator/parent/ priorities for successor bargaining. shall be increased by 7%. administrator support teams for schools in need of safety and/or student discipline- Health care bargaining For up-to-date bargaining information, Article XVIII: Class size: UTLA proposes related intervention. Bargaining over health care for active go to www.utla.net/members/bargaining. the elimination of Article XVIII, Section 1.5, from the UTLA-LAUSD Agreement, Escalating actions and effective July 1, 2017 (see box on this page getting strike ready Why is Article XVIII, Section 1.5, so important? for more info). On September 21, 2016, and January 13, Section 1.5 is a provision in the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) that 2017, UTLA had the first two in a series of allows the District to violate all class-size restrictions based on “circum- Article XXV: Academic freedom and citywide steering committee meetings, in- responsibility: 4.0 Assessment and Stan- cluding all steering committees from each stances such as state funding limitations, teacher shortages, changes in the dardized Testing: Excluding those required by area. The purpose is to carefully construct our student integration or other programs, or statutory changes.” Whether such state or federal law, each classroom teacher systems and structures, at every school and circumstances exist has typically been a unilateral determination made by the shall be provided the academic freedom in every area, to build escalating actions and District, with little or no notice given to UTLA. Using this language, the District has long ignored class-size restrictions in the CBA. During successor bargaining in 2014-2015, we won improvements to Section What’s the difference between “reopener” 1.5, new class-size caps, improved class-size averages, and a counselor- bargaining and “successor” bargaining? student ratio. During reopener bargaining in 2015-2016, we won P.E. class-size caps and targeted class-size reduction in high-need schools. “Reopener” bargaining occurs within the life of a collective bargaining agreement (CBA), when the parties open an agreed-upon number of articles for bargaining. The changes to Section 1.5 bargained in 2014-2015 require the District to pro- This typically happens on an annual basis, with the number of reopeners for each vide a written notice of intent prior to violating the class-size averages and caps party expressly stated in the CBA. Reopener bargaining is usually narrow in scope. in the CBA, a written rationale for doing so, and a written summary of applicable facts. The District is further obligated to meet and discuss any class-size viola- “Successor” bargaining occurs when an entire collective bargaining agreement tions with UTLA prior to implementation. Separate one-year agreements allowing (CBA) expires and each party can open any or all articles for bargaining. This higher class-size caps and averages were reached for the 2015-2016 and 2016- is often referred to as “new contract” bargaining or “full contract” bargaining, 2017 school years after the District followed these new contractual requirements. and it usually starts just prior to or just after expiration of the existing CBA. The current UTLA-LAUSD Collective Bargaining Agreement for 2014-2017 ex- Despite achieving significant class-size wins over the past two bargaining cycles, we pires on June 30, 2017. must eliminate Section 1.5 from the CBA for any bargaining wins to be fully enforced.

UTLA bargaining timeline

August 2017 Nov. 2016 Jan.-March 2017 April 2017 May-Dec. 2017 June 30, 2017 Deadline for District to Dec. 2017 Sunshine topics for Reopener bargaining Sunshine topics for Successor bargaining 2014-17 notify Health Benefits 2015-17 health care reopener bargaining for 2016-17 successor bargaining for 2017-20 contract contract expires Committee of intent to agreement expires bargain new health care agreement for 2018

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School Board elections 2017 Q&A with our School Board candidates Read what Steve Zimmer and Imelda Padilla say about their priorities and more.

The crowded ballot for the March 7 of conflict. It has been a humbling honor who have health insurance versus those brought us one of our own, Michelle King. primary has two key races for educators: to serve in this role where so much is at who do not, and the stress that causes to We led the nation in the battle at the in- the LAUSD School Board seats in Districts stake for our families and schools. Right our families. The incoming leadership tersection of immigrant rights and educa- 4 and 6. UTLA has endorsed incumbent now our nation is in crisis and my job on has a proven track record of being out of tion rights. Our food purchasing policy is Steve Zimmer, current LAUSD School the School Board isn’t finished. The forces touch with the needs of parents, teach- the most progressive in the nation. Our Board president, and Imelda Padilla, a against us have a powerful agenda that ers, and students. A right-wing, racist, LGBTQ students are loved and embraced. community organizer who is vying for is not for all kids, but for some kids, and homophobic, federal administration is We have reformed school discipline and the seat currently held by Monica Ratliff, these forces need to be resisted in ways dangerous for all children. passed the School Climate Bill of Rights. who is running for city council. that offer our employees and communities We can do the same thing around class Zimmer and Padilla responded to a a vision built around coming together to Who was a pivotal educator size and reverse the trend of declining range of questions on critical issues put achieve our dreams. in your life? enrollment through innovative programs forward by UTLA PACE Executive Board The two most pivotal educators in my (dual immersion, International Baccalaure- Member Ingrid Gunnell. How has the recent presidential life were my 11th-grade English teacher, ate, magnets, etc.). We need to keep that election, and the appointment of Sue Broderick, and my high school theater momentum moving forward. We cannot U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy teacher, Mike Mucci. I became a teacher allow money and power to define public Steve Zimmer DeVos, impacted you? because I felt more teachers were needed education through the narrative of failure, LAUSD School Board President We are at a very, very dangerous for students who didn’t do well in school. the deficit mindset, and the disruption District 4 moment for our country, for our children Sue Broderick was the first teacher who of our forward progress. We walk with and their future, for public education, and believed that I could be a good writer, and justice, truth, and our kids. for everything that impacts our schools believed that I should do it and could do it. and classrooms. We haven’t begun to She was a counselor, teacher, and mentor. grasp the enormity of the risk. I don’t She saw me through things that I’m not Imelda Padilla think we have begun to comprehend the sure I would have gotten through without LAUSD School Board Candidate depth of what the forces of hate can do her, and she did that for many students. District 6 to our children who are the most vul- Mr. Mucci gave me the chance to be nerable, our families who are the most part of the theater program at my school marginalized, and our employees who when I wasn’t good and shouldn’t have are the most demoralized. Regardless had that chance. It was during a time in of which elected and appointed people my life that I was lost and it allowed me to are in the presidential administration, find a voice. Through art I was able to find issues such as education, the environ- my more authentic self. I was able to put Why are you running for reelection? ment, and labor rights are all impacted shape and form to feelings and emotions. We have built an important and sig- and entangled with each other. All you He showed me how important the arts are, nificant record of progress by working have to experience as a teacher is the and with or without talent you can be part together through collaboration instead difference between students and families of something if given the opportunity.

A priority for UTLA is building coalitions around Community Like what you hear from our candidates? Volunteer! Schools and the Schools L.A. Why are you running Students Deserve. What does for School Board? this mean to you? I’m running for School Board because Big money from pro-priva- None of us are in this alone, either as a in my professional years of doing com- tization billionaires and the teacher, counselor, coordinator, PSA, PSW, munity organizing around environmental, California Charter Schools As- nurse—we understand that schools are social, and economic justice issues, it was sociation is already flowing families. But schools can’t be in this alone, always parents, teachers, and students at the to the LAUSD School Board either. We talk about wraparound servic- school sites who were my base for mobilizing races, including a $1 million es, civil rights groups, immigrant rights and empowering in the community that I am donation by former mayor groups, religious institutions—this is the LA running in—the North East San Fernando Richard Riordan to defeat family. We talk about making our schools Valley. Therefore, I have a strong understand- Steve Zimmer. You can help places where all are loved and embraced, ing of what this community has to offer in counter the spending by and where we strive for achievement. This terms of its challenges and successes. wealthy outsiders. Volun- is not just a movement, but a framing of I’ve spent a lot of time getting to know teer now to help elect School how public education will be defined in our schools, our students and families, and Board members who support L.A. over the next several decades. our educators. They need a champion on the Schools L.A. Students the School Board and I am that candidate. Deserve and who have been As someone who has worked with the on the front lines supporting public education. It’s also important to note What did you achieve in your School Board members to host a leadership that the candidates elected this cycle will be part of the School Board that first two terms on the board? conference in partnership with teachers will consider agreements on our health benefits package and our contract, What we have done in working together and community organizations, I do not including any pay raises. is nothing short of saving public education in Los Angeles. What we went through feel that those who were jumping into this race will be champions for the great UTLA remote phone banking during the financial crisis was an existen- tial success. We came together and decided work our schools are already doing, nor UTLA will provide needed support so that you, together with coworkers that we weren’t going to give up on public do I think they have the ability to know and friends, can congregate at a place of your choosing to phone bank for education in Los Angeles. We sacrificed how to help those schools that are strug- one or both candidates. together, we worked together. There is no gling. As an LAUSD alumnus, it won’t be mystery about what we achieved together: hard for me start immediately. I will work Precinct walking & phone banking We passed Prop. 30 (and its extension, to make positive outcomes a reality for Valley Field Office Westside Field Office Prop. 55), developed LOOC [models to students and families in Board District 6. 7335 Van Nuys Blvd., Ste. 203 5710 Manchester Blvd., Ste. 104 give schools more autonomy], defeated Van Nuys, CA 91405 AGT and VAM [programs linking test Who was a pivotal Westchester, CA 90045 scores to teacher evaluations], and nego- educator in your life?

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#SCHOOLTRUMP Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles Arleta High student body president who is in office. (continued from the cover) (CHIRLA), Clergy & Laity United for Eco- Pedro Reyes was brought to the U.S. as a “Education really is the key to life, and nomic Justice (CLUE), Community Coali- baby and has temporary status under the Arleta has really great teachers to help to @realDonaldTrump. tion, Inner City Struggle, Los Angeles Al- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals us meet our goals,” Reyes said. “I’m not The protests took place one day after liance for a New Economy (LAANE), One (DACA) program—one of the programs going to change the way I live my life. I’m a Senate confirmation hearing for Sec- LA-IAF, Reclaim Our Schools Los Angeles, under threat from the Trump administra- not going to live in fear. I am going to live retary of Education nominee and bil- SEIU 99, Southern Christian Leadership tion. Reyes addressed the rally crowd and with the hope and aspiration for a better lionaire privatizer Betsy DeVos. DeVos Conference Los Angeles, UNITE HERE, shared his vow to go to college no matter future, for all of us.” has never attended a public school, nor and Youth Justice Coalition. taught at one, and has worked the last At the action at Arleta High School in two decades to defund and dismantle the Valley, students were front and center public education in her home state of and had the chance to tell reporters why Michigan. DeVos has spent millions in they were taking part. state races on legislators who are elected Junior Rosa Rosas told the L.A. Times and use public dollars to fund the prolif- that she has a personal stake as a female. eration of for-profit, unregulated charter She said she was “disgusted” by Trump’s schools and voucher programs, which “locker-room talk about women.” Her have proven to be disastrous for stu- message for Trump on the oversized dents, especially in Detroit. The Broad letter: “Educate yourself before you run and Walton foundations have bankrolled a big country. Everyone is affected by DeVos’ privatization efforts, and both your decisions.” Eli Broad and DeVos collaborated on the collapse of the Michigan and Louisiana public school systems. “Privatization of our public schools segregates our communities, divides neighborhoods and leaves out our most vulnerable students,” Caputo-Pearl said. “We must reinvest in public education, and fight the billionaire privatizers, including Republicans like DeVos and Democrats like Broad, who will dismantle it, piece by piece, and state by state.” The #SchoolTrump rallies were amplified by events held in several hundred other cities, as part of a national day of action, coordinated with the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools. Locally, our actions were supported by a number of community organizations, including Alliance of Californians for Community Empow- erment (ACCE), Advancement Project, Community Magnet AFT 1521, Asian Americans Advancing Justice—LA, the Central American Re- source Center (CARECEN), Coalition for

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Reclaim Our Schools LA—a local co- and member of Grassroots Coalition for the alition of parents, students, educators, Schools LA Students Deserve. “To me, a school staff, and community members Community School is a full-funded, diverse working to improve access and advance school that serves the needs of every student opportunities in public education—held and their families. Having fully funded a news conference at Dorsey High School Community Schools would inspire students on December 15 to officially launch the to come to school every day. When we come coalition and share next steps for its work to a school where our needs are provided to build Community Schools in LAUSD. for, where we feel cared about, we will want Speakers praised the coalition’s vision of to be here. We will want to learn. We will LAUSD as a Community Schools district, reach beyond what is expected of us.” with schools serving as hubs of their communities, offering a culturally relevant and Fighting privatization by well-rounded curriculum, wraparound uplifting public schools support services, fully staffed positive dis- The movement for Community Schools cipline practices, and transformational is launching as the threats to public educa- parent and community engagement. tion intensify under Donald Trump, who “The Community Schools model allows pledged during his campaign to divert for two very important things—customiza- $20 billion in federal education funding tion to fit the unique needs of that school to vouchers and who named anti-public and surrounding community, and active education billionaire Betsy DeVos as his At the launch for the new Reclaim Our Schools LA coalition, Dorsey High School student Christabel participation from students, parents, secretary of education. Ukomado gives the student perspective on Community Schools. “To me, a Community School is school staff, and community members,” “With the incoming administration, if a full-funded, diverse school that serves the needs of every student and their families,” she says. said John Rogers, professor of education we are to believe what Trump says, the at UCLA and faculty director of Center X. very existence of public education is under opportunity for all. They are not limited to & Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE), “Unlike other models of reform that we see threat,’’ UTLA President Alex Caputo- programs that help just a few. Our public Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los today, [community schooling] is a model Pearl said. “We are more committed than education must ensure that all children, no Angeles (CHIRLA), Grassroots Coalition for of reform that is inclusive; that doesn’t ever to fighting to protect our public edu- matter their race, zip code, family income, the Schools LA Students Deserve, Los Angeles exclude English learners; that doesn’t cation system, and Community Schools are or first language, have access to schools Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), Na- exclude foster [care students]; that doesn’t a vibrant, effective counter to the ‘school that all students deserve.” tional Association for the Advancement of exclude students with special needs. It choice’ privatization attack.” Following the official launch, Reclaim Colored People (NAACP), Southern Christian says everybody is part of our community.” our Schools LA is planning parent-student Leadership Conference of Southern California, Accountability for all schools forums to ensure that Community Schools SEIU Local 99, and UTLA. Impressive outcomes for As a critical part of the coalition’s vision, are reflected in the District’s Local Control Community Schools Reclaim Our Schools LA is pushing for estab- and Accountability Plan and talking about Read “A Vision to Support Every Stu- The Community Schools model is lishing common standards, accountability, the Community Schools model with dent” at http://reclaimourschoolsla.org. gaining traction across the country and and transparency for all schools receiving elected officials and local leaders. Through original and compiled research, showing impressive outcomes for students, public funds, including charter schools, so Reclaim Our Schools LA is a coalition of the report lays the foundation for the including raising enrollment, attendance, that some schools can’t operate by a different students, educators, school staff, parents, fami- coalition’s vision to ensure that public and graduation rates; increasing the number set of rules than others. lies, community members, and organizations schools in Los Angeles consistently de- of students who go on to college; and de- “It is important that we come together in including Alliance of Californians for Com- liver on the promise of a comprehensive, creasing the achievement gap, the dropout this critical work to support every student munity Empowerment (ACCE), California free, innovative, and sustainable public rate, and chronic absenteeism. Reclaim Our in Los Angeles, and to work to make sure School Employees Association (CSEA), Clergy education for every student. Schools LA is calling on LAUSD to desig- that all schools are held to the same high nate itself as a Community Schools district standards,” said Tina Trujillo, associate and to allocate funds to roll out this model. professor at UC Berkeley’s Graduate Losing 33 teachers in one year: The Accelerated “We need funding for Community School of Education. “We know that the Schools,” said Christabel Ukomado, a most equitable, evidence-based solutions Schools take on turnover crisis junior at Dorsey High School in South LA to support students prioritize access and

Election time for UTLA officers Ballots will be mailed to members February 3.

You can have a hand in choosing UTLA’s leaders for the next three years by casting your ballot in the internal UTLA elections that begin next month. Up for election are the seven officer positions and 38 seats on the Board of Directors. Ballots (with an online voting option included) will be mailed to members’ homes February 3. Your ballot must be received at the designated post office no later than 8 a.m. on February 27. Ballots dropped off at UTLA will NOT be ac- cepted. It is recommended that you mail your ballot at least one week before the due date. If you are voting online, online voting closes at 8 a.m. on February 27. Teachers and parents from The Accelerated Schools leaflet in the morning to spread Want to learn more about the candidates? the word to families about the teacher turnover crisis. • Read the special election issue of the UNITED TEACHER. The issue was mailed to all members January 20 and can be downloaded at www.utla.net/united-teacher. This year, 33 teachers left The Ac- such as offering salaries in line with • Hear what the seven officer candidates have to say in their online videos, celerated Schools—nearly half of the what teachers make throughout L.A. which are posted at www.utla.net/members/utla-elections. schools’ staff—and parents are joining The educators at The Accelerated • Check out the flyers for those candidates who submitted them, also posted with educators to explore solutions Schools are among the more than at www.utla.net/members/utla-elections. to the turnover crisis. Together, they 900 members of UTLA employed by have been leafleting school families independent charter schools. Being Deadline extended to request replacement ballot: The deadline to call for a and holding parent meetings to talk members of a union gives them a say ballot replacement has been extended to 5 p.m. on February 17. Ballots are being about the impact high teacher turn- with management on their working mailed to homes on February 3. Please allow a week for your ballot to arrive. If over has on student learning and what conditions and a voice on issues that you do not receive your ballot, call Tara Thomas at 213-637-5165 by February 17. can be done to retain more educators, impact their students.

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From the Secondary VP Housed teacher vindicated Michael fought the good fight, for himself and others.

By Colleen Schwab UTLA Secondary Vice President

The last time I saw Michael before he Michael’s passion for education, and he is dismissed.” I saw Daniel that night at signed UTLA educators. Truly, in many was stripped of his dignity and his reputa- was concerned about the District’s poor a social event. He was quite emotional as cases, the District has lost its way and these tion and began a four-year, seven-month investigation (e.g., the District assuming he shared the decision. No doubt. These teachers are unjustly housed. Daniel hopes journey through LAUSD reassigned teacher that if a student says something, then it is two men, an attorney and an accused, that educators “don’t lose faith in what land, we were both at the Van Nuys Airport evidence). Often the District “exploits the weathered the stressful storm and “char- they are doing, but that they do recognize competing for the same grant for our stu- false perceptions of students and doesn’t acter assassination” of a teacher dismissal the potential risk to your employment. dents and our classrooms. Michael won look beyond that to ascertain the truth,” case and prevailed. In Michael’s words, “I Early intervention is the key to long-term the top award; I won the second highest. Daniel says. He agrees that the District came with the truth and I will leave with success.” If you are reassigned, contact Walking out to our cars after the excitement has a right to investigate allegations, but it the truth.” And that he did. UTLA immediately to discuss what is hap- of winning funds for projects we knew our must do so in an “in-depth manner and not As of now, the District has decided pening to you. Take notes every time an students would love, we shared stories of take face-value findings.” In fact, Daniel to appeal the decision. The attorneys at- administrator comes in your classroom being middle school teachers, the upcom- explained that competent investigations tempted to get a stay of the decision, which and respond to conference memos. ing summer months, and plans to swap can be good for our members as they would have kept Michael on unpaid status. Congratulations to Michael Fuoroli and pictures of the projects our students created. can be vindicated following a thorough But Daniel prevailed and the stay was Daniel Kolodziej on their 3-0 win. “You That was May 2, 2012. Michael was pulled process. Regardless, Daniel knew he had denied. Michael will be reinstated with have to know in your own heart what you from the classroom the next day. a battle in front of him to not only defend full pay and benefits while awaiting the want to do, fight or find an exit,” Michael As I share this story with you, please this fine educator, but to bring forth justice. appeal date. says. Michael chose to fight, and his fight know my words are not thought-out ahead This case was particularly compelling I know that there are currently 102 reas- became everyone’s fight. of time, and there was no rough draft. This for Daniel. He has two young children is from my heart about Michael Fuoroli, attending Los Angeles Unified School Dis- who many of you know dedicated count- trict schools. He comes from a family of less hours working for educators who have educators, attorneys, and college profes- been falsely accused of misconduct. sors. For him, this wrong had to be fixed. Good news from our schools After Michael was reassigned, he took The case went on for several weeks. It Nightingale educator prioritizes hands- action to do his own investigating, includ- was even postponed halfway through. on learning: ing working to ensure that every reas- Daniel was aware of some 40 statements There are many occasions signed educator would be afforded due from students, but the District only pre- that remind me why I became an edu- process. For me, it has been an honor to sented approximately 15. Why? Were cator; tops on the list are the dedicated collaborate with Michael these past years. the other statements positive? Did the educators with whom I was fortunate We have had many successes, with some District choose to ignore truthful evi- to work for more than 30 years. A few losses. But, due to Michael’s diligence, dence? Daniel believes that this case, like days before winter break, I visited a many reassigned teachers have been many others, was prejudiced from the Home Depot store in the North Area helped. Michael would bring cases to beginning. District officials tried to intro- to spend time with students who are me when the member was too fearful to duce evidence that was exaggerated, and fortunate enough to be under the tu- even call UTLA. We met all over the city they tried to expand on their evidence telage of another dedicated educator, and Michael traveled many miles to be by going back many years. Fortunately, Lengo Lam, a special education teacher of service to fellow educators. Helping much of this was thrown out early on at Nightingale Middle. reassigned teachers became his passion, through legal motions Daniel introduced Lam believes that education should and to help bring forth justice he, with during the proceedings. be fun, and he brings real-world ex- his co-chair, formed the UTLA Unjustly Throughout the trial, Michael said that periences to his students. On that day, Housed Teacher Committee. he would look at Daniel as if his attorney students were building holiday picture While doing all of this for other was saying, “I can’t lose your case.” I think frames, with all of the supplies donated members, Michael was also fighting his truly that this is correct; Daniel used all by Home Depot with the support of own battle for justice. When an educator of his ability to “litigate justice” against Parmenio, a supervisor for the store. Nightingale MS students build holiday frames files for a hearing after LAUSD has recom- District lawyers who were relentless. But the learning did not just involve at Home Depot as part of a hands-on experi- mended their dismissal, the case is heard And justice was served on December the current students. Former students, ence arranged by their teacher, Lengo Lam. by the Office of Administrative Hearings 19, with a unanimous decision (3 to 0) in parents, and teaching assistants were all in Los Angeles. There is a three-member Michael’s favor. When Daniel received the part of the program. After the projects munity of Nightingale, educator Ms. panel: an administrative law judge and ruling in the mail, he was almost breathless were completed, tamales were served Cota, Parmenio of Home Depot, and two educators (one chosen by the District, as he flipped to the last page, where the by the students, courtesy of another especially Lengo Lam. one by our team). Our attorney, Daniel decision is rendered, and saw the wording: Nightingale educator, and festive songs Area chair recognized: Kolodziej, believed in Michael and saw “The accusation against Michael Fuoroli were sung by the students. One would On January think that this was the end of the event; 12, the District held its recognition however, certificates of appreciation dinner for the new 2016 class of Na- were presented to Home Depot by the tional Board Teachers. This year’s smiling students. class was the largest in the country Again, one would think this was the for the third straight year. During Anything on wrapup, but no. My faith in community, the event, LAUSD honored Valley caring, and sharing was once again re- East Area Chair Scott Mandel for freshed. You see, Parmenio, the Home his 12 years serving NBC teachers your mind? Depot supervisor, had somehow inquired as chair of the UTLA NBC Standing as to what each child wanted for Christ- Committee and as an active member Share it with UTLA members mas and out came beautifully wrapped of the LAUSD-UTLA Steering Com- personalized gifts for each child. I only mittee. The plaque read: “Above and by writing a letter to the editor. wish all of you could have seen the appre- Beyond Presented to Scott Mandel: ciation and surprise on each child’s face. With Deep Appreciation For Your There’s no doubt that I got my Leadership and Support of NBCTs Send letters by email to [email protected] holiday gift delivered that morning in with LAUSD.” Congrats to Scott for or by fax to (213) 487-3319. the faces of these sweet children and this well-deserved recognition. brought forth by the parents, the com- —Colleen

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Keeping track Can one child derail discipline schoolwide? Get back on track by establishing systems that work.

By Daniel Barnhart UTLA Secretary

As part of the work of the Schoolwide Sound familiar? As I’ve heard versions of Deeper issues beneath the surface inactions of school-site administrators. As Discipline and Restorative Justice Work- this story be told at schools (mostly elemen- Second of all, it is often the case, and even classroom teachers we have a responsibility group, I have been involved in many, tary) in the Harbor Area, on the Westside, in recognized by the members telling the story, to work with students through behavior many conversations with members on South Area, Central Area, East Area, North that these children have exceptional needs, issues and to identify those situations that these issues. Listening to members and Area, and in both Valley West and Valley or have experienced significant trauma, or go beyond what we can be expected to do. chapter chairs, I’ve started to hear certain East, a couple of things come to mind. both. It is one of the most challenging things As out-of-classroom and HHS educators, themes: members have concerns about that we face in the classroom, to maintain we have a responsibility to support the out-of-control classrooms and extreme be- It’s the system, not one child our cool, maintain our empathy, and keep work in the classroom, to bring our ex- havior; the prevalence of cell phone usage First of all, no one single child, or even our focus, when a child is cursing us out, pertise to bear in more serious or difficult that corrupts academic focus; the challenge group of children, is ultimately to blame spitting in our face, or perhaps intentionally situations. But the ultimate responsibility of really doing positive behavior support for the schoolwide system not working. undermining the learning environment we to make sure the school and the student are with little tangible support to classroom Even children who have exhibited the work so hard to maintain. No one deserves doing right by each other belongs to the teachers, be it training, staffing, or health worst types of behaviors, including acts the kind of mistreatment that our students school-site administrator. Good principals and human services expertise. One theme of violence, aren’t responsible for the dys- can sometimes dish out, or perhaps replay understand this, and rise to the challenge; that repeats all across the city is the story of function that has allowed them to be dis- at us from their own experience or psyche. bad ones pass the buck and set a tone from how an entire school’s discipline system is connected from the responsibility and un- Figuring out the type of professional help the top that accountability isn’t for every- being held up by one “unstoppable” child derstanding of their actions and the effects and support our most challenging students body. Having a plan that delineates their (or sometimes a small clique). of those actions. Responsible for their own need, and making sure it’s available in the role and expectations, that ultimately could With some variation, it goes like this: actions? Yes. Responsible for the situation form of HHS expertise and supportive al- be backed up by a grievance process, is “Discipline at our school is out of control. that allows hurtful actions to persist? No. ternate environments, has to be part of what something worth struggling for. Nothing happens to kids who have seri- Similarly, the path out of this dilemma we demand from our employer, as well as As UTLA begins to put forth bargaining ously misbehaved. We’ve tried everything, has to involve all stakeholders in the so- a part of our work as educators. proposals to address these issues, I’d love to but the principal is too scared to do any- lution. Creating and reviewing a written hear feedback directly from members regard- thing. She just sends the kid back to the schoolwide discipline plan together is an Administrators must ing our direction and the District’s response. teacher’s classroom and tells her to deal important proactive step to establishing be accountable Please feel free to contact me directly at sec- with it. Now the child’s teacher is afraid systems that work, as opposed to focus- Third, beneath the surface in almost [email protected] to engage around these com- of acts of violence, and there seems to be ing on a student who may be “working every one of these situations is a deep plicated and necessary issues at the heart of nothing we can do. . . .” the system.” dissatisfaction with the actions, or rather creating the Schools L.A. Students Deserve.

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From the NEA VP Sitting on the sidelines or standing up? Join in our escalating actions. UTLA @ MLK parade

By Cecily Myart-Cruz districts should be guided by us, not by UTLA/NEA Vice President corporate executives, entrepreneurs, or philanthropists. By uniting together, we The presidential election is over, and no are affirming that public schools are public matter how we participated in the election institutions and that we reject the corporate process, we must deal with our reality: the model of school reform, which seeks to turn transition of power from one president to public schools over to private managers and the next. I have always borne in mind that encourages competition—as opposed to with great threats come bigger opportunities. collaboration—between schools and teach- It is no secret that public education has ers. Our most vulnerable children become been under attack, and whether it is locally, collateral damage in these reforms. statewide, or nationally, we must rewrite the Together we are proclaiming that teach- narrative of public education and the educators ing is not testing, that schools must be who do so much on behalf of our students, safe, equitable learning communities for schools, and communities on a daily basis. every child, and that our schools must be In this work, we have a powerful partner, fully funded. Strong public schools create the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools (AROS), strong communities. While education and I am proud of the work that we are doing alone cannot eradicate poverty, schools together. Three years ago UTLA joined AROS, can help to coordinate the supports and which has more than 100 organizations and services that students and families need unions as members, to help build a national to thrive. Every school should be a neigh- movement to defend public education. borhood Community School, with wrap- Through AROS, our local actions, such as around services and supports. last year’s successful Walk-Ins and now the There is no time to sit on the sidelines. January 19 #SchoolTrump rallies, are con- Participating in local actions such as nected to a network of actions in towns and January 19 has national implications. Los cities across the country, and our message Angeles is ground zero, both for the attack is greatly amplified. Under the umbrella of on public education and the fight-back the Schools L.A. Students Deserve, we have we are engaged in. Through our escalat- UTLA’s Racial Justice Task Force came out in force for the MLK Day parade on January 16. Our taken the lead with students, parents, and ing actions, we will build the power with new T-shirts were unveiled (lower left), and educators and staff held down a UTLA booth in Leimert the community to say that we will strength- parents in our schools and communities. Park to talk to the community about the January 19 actions and concerns with the Trump/DeVos en our schools together. Our schools and When we build, we win! agenda for our schools. It was great to have children (lower right) take part in King’s dream too.

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From the Elementary VP Challenging year ahead of us From protecting public education to winning School Board races, it will take a team effort.

By Juan Ramirez students. LAUSD has a student population serious about maintaining our profession, ers who care for our students and will do UTLA Elementary Vice President largely made up of minorities, and we we have to come together, regardless of our whatever it takes to keep the public school must take a stand to protect them. Hun- differences, and we must work as a team. system going because we know that it is the No one ever thought that the New Year dreds of schools throughout the nation This is the time when United Teachers Los only option our LAUSD students have to be would be like this. November’s election took the same position and showed the Angeles shows the nation that we are teach- successful members of our society. changed everything. We now have a new Washington administration that we massive, challenging year ahead of us, will not stand by and let our students and and we spent most of our winter break our schools be threatened. getting ready for this year. We are also in the middle of a big cam- UTLA support for housed teachers We had a very successful 2016. By paign to elect LAUSD School Board members the middle of 2016, we scored a win in who understand educators. It will be a rough Under former superintendent ary Vice President Colleen Schwab the Friedrichs v. CTA lawsuit in the U.S. fight, since the California Charter Schools John Deasy, many educators were (213-368-6237, [email protected]) or Supreme Court. By the end of 2016 and Association is investing millions of dollars victims of the “teacher jail” system. UTLA Treasurer Arlene Inouye (213- with the help of all our members, we to defeat our endorsed candidates, Steve Caught off guard and often falsely 368-6218, [email protected]). helped pass two great measures—Prop. Zimmer and Imelda Padilla. accused, they were left to suffer alone, Unjustly Housed Teachers Com- 55 on school funding and Prop. 58 on bi- Remember, this is the School Board under house arrest and unsure of what mittee: UTLA provides support, lingual education—here in California. that will vote on our contract reopener, to do. LAUSD’s abuse of “teacher jail” guidance, and assistance to all re- With the election of this new president which we have started negotiating; our full has lessened since the departure of housed teachers through the Unjustly and his appointees to his cabinet, it seems contract, which ends on June 30; and the Deasy, but we still need to be vigilant Housed Teachers Committee. The com- that we are in for the fight of our life as extension of our health benefits agreement, about each and every case. mittee meets monthly at the UTLA a union. We know what kinds of poli- which ends on December 2017. This im- Don’t be a victim of unfair job actions building. cies (vouchers and for-profit charters) are portant School Board election will happen and false charges. UTLA wants you to The next meeting is February 21 supported by his secretary of education, on March 7. know: You are not alone. We are here from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Room 904. Betsy DeVos, and they are not good. Her These are just some of the things we for you. Call or email the UTLA of- The UTLA building is located at 3303 opposition to the public school system and have to do here in Los Angeles, not taking ficers listed below and attend the Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90010 her opposition to teachers’ unions are just into account what other issues may come Unjustly Housed Teachers Commit- (213-487-5560). the beginnings of our struggle. up with the Trump administration. We tee Meeting to get the assistance and UTLA is ready, willing, and able Knowing all this, we must continue with don’t have a lot of time to waste. We must support you deserve. to help its falsely accused and unfair- our work of organizing our members and continue informing our members and edu- UTLA officer contacts: If you’ve been ly treated members. Make the call, our communities. On January 19 we had cating our parents and communities on the recently removed from the class- attend the meeting, and let UTLA massive demonstrations Districtwide. We issues that are affecting our public schools. room, please contact UTLA Second- help you. stood in solidarity with our parents and This is where you come in. If we are really

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UNITE TO AN ATTACK Bearing witness to the past UPHOLD ON ONE OUR IS AN Japanese Americans have a special duty to remind our nation CIVIL ATTACK of the fragility of our democracy and our constitutional rights. RIGHTS ON ALL

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My 94-year-old mother, Aiko Hori gether. She was one of 120,000 Japanese Inouye, attended LAUSD schools Malabar Americans, a majority of whom were Elementary, Belvedere Junior High, and born in this country, who were denied Garfield High and then went on to L.A. their basic civil and constitutional rights. City College, where her education was They also experienced vicious anti-Japa- disrupted by war. She says in her own nese racism and violence as once-friendly words, “I was 19 when WWII broke out. neighborhoods scorned them, putting I didn’t really know what war was all up “No Japs Allowed” signs on store- ENT about, and what affect it would have on fronts, with Japanese Americans fearing INTERNM me personally. I soon found out when for their lives and experiencing violence REGISTRY two FBI agents came to our house, and and hate crimes. ATION without warning took my father! They I am a descendent of family members on DEPORT questioned us, ordered him to get a small my mother’s and father’s side who were bag, and wouldn’t answer my plea, ‘Where forcibly removed from their homes and Japanese American National Museum • 100 No. Central Ave., LA,CA 90012 February 18, 2017 • 2pm to 4pm Indoor program & outdoor rally are you taking my father?’ In desperation sent to four different camps and several Congressman Mike Honda, Taiko, Music, Song, Poetry, Performances we called everywhere and found he was detention centers. I am a descendent of the in Tujunga, California, at the Tuna Canyon trauma of war and the incarceration. What Detention Center and was later shipped happened 75 years ago has shaped who This year marks the 75th anniversary American community doesn’t have to to Fort Missoula, Montana.” I am. It has led me on my own personal of the signing of Executive Order 9066, imagine what could happen to specific In March of 1942, my mother was one journey from feeling inferior as a child requiring internment of all Americans of groups of people, because we know the of the first to evacuate to the Manzanar to embracing my identity as a Japanese Japanese ancestry, which is commemo- experience. As citizens who have had our Concentration Camp. Her mother had American later as an adult. It has also rated every year with a Day of Remem- constitutional rights revoked by our gov- recently died, her father taken away by instilled in me a strong passion to fight brance. A commemoration will be held on ernment not that long ago, we feel that we the FBI, so the three children with rela- for justice, peace, and for all people to be tives volunteered to go to Manzanar in treated with love and dignity as part of the hopes that it would keep them to- the human family. The Japanese American community doesn’t have to imagine what could happen to specific groups of people, because we know the experience.

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Q&A students have the ability to be the best that ing student needs, such as LCFF, special ed- will fight to save DACA [Deferred Action (continued from page 5) they can be once they leave the LAUSD ucation, English language learners, and for Childhood Arrivals]. I will utilize my system; to be productive members of the foster students. When I decided to run, I was relationships with state representatives to teacher, Ms. Borden, and my P.E. teacher, community in whatever path they choose well aware that in order to really make an supplement any funding that we lose at the Mr. Hackett. I had life-changing surgery in adulthood. impact in education, I need to have partner- federal level. I will advocate against vouch- for rickets and these teachers helped me I will work with parents where they ships with local, state, and federal lawmak- ers in the state of California. I don’t believe through this transition. are—new parents in the K-5 system and ers. I’m the only candidate who has made that public funds should go to private and/ I still look at my yearbook and see veteran parents at the high school level—to these connections a priority. I will ensure or religious institutions. I am ready to acti- what Ms. Borden wrote, “Imelda, you make sure they have the tools to be in- that at the local level, working with the L.A. vate my relationships with elected officials have grown so much from a girl who volved with their children’s education at County Board of Supervisors, we ensure to get what our community needs and is was being picked on to a person who is each grade level. safety and protections for our students and entitled to. a leader. I hope you remember that you I will work to keep public educa- have an immense amount of potential; tion public, and that it stays public for every- please fulfill it.” one regardless of who they are, where they’re Mr. Hackett, my P.E . teacher, was always coming from, and what their background is. Paid for by Students, Parents, and Educators in Support of Pa- very straightforward with me. When I re- A Community School is what the Schools dilla and Zimmer for School Board 2017, Sponsored by Teachers turned to school from being home schooled L.A. Students Deserve means to me. Unions, Including United Teachers Los Angeles, Major Funding for four months after surgery, he deliber- ately told me to smile more and stop being What will be a major focus in by Political Action Council of Educators, Sponsored by Teachers so tough all the time. Now that my surgery your first six months as a Unions, Including United Teachers Los Angeles. This advertise- was over I could focus my energy on being School Board member? friendly and didn’t have to be so tough to A major focus will be to sit down with ment was not authorized by a candidate for this office or a com- defend myself all the time. all of my principals and UTLA chapter mittee controlled by a candidate for this office. Additional infor- In high school my English teacher, Ms. chairs. I want to know where we are at mation is available at ethics.lacity.org. Michelle Martin, and my history teacher, on each campus, what has impacted each Dr. Ron Lehavi, were my inspiration. They campus, what are the important issues were more than teachers; they were like on each campus. I want to meet with all godparents. They encouraged me and of the department heads at Beaudry and helped me navigate the college admission immerse myself with all the decision process, together with the rest of the Poly makers. I also look forward to meeting and Stay connected with UTLA Magnet team. Ms. Martin didn’t talk to us working with each School Board member. as if maybe we would make it to college, I want to make sure that my votes reflect If you move, be sure to update your contact info with UTLA. it was always when we go to college. Her what is needed at the school sites and for greatest gift to me was teaching me the the sustainability of our district. Two options: endurance of reading over 100 pages a day like a college student! What are the long-term goals that ❯❯Call UTLA (213-487-5560) and ask to Dr. Lehavi taught me about govern- the School Board can address? speak to the Membership Department. ment, politics, and theory and always em- I will make sure that the schools are fully phasized the need to be a well-rounded funded back to pre-recession levels. I want ❯❯Request that Membership contact you by student if I wanted to go far in leadership to be able to say that we trained parents on emailing [email protected]. in my community. Thus he made sure that the differences between the school choices in addition to getting good grades, I also that they have, such as pilots, magnets, af- stuck to sports and leadership on campus filiated charters, and independent charters, and out in the community. and that they stayed in LAUSD as a result. I am a coalition builder. I will work with A priority for UTLA is building parents and community partners. I want to coalitions around Community be able to show that we retained students Schools and the Schools L.A. in LAUSD, starting from kindergarten. Students Deserve. What does this mean to you? How has the recent presidential That is music to my ears because that election, and the appointment means there is room for coalition building, of U.S. Secretary of Education which is what I’m all about. Betsy DeVos, impacted you? I will be a School Board member who I’m no stranger to dealing with com- works with UTLA and other community plicated issues. LAUSD helped me partners to build parental involvement, become a critical thinker. increase student services, and increase This generation of students is attending spaces that will get our students career- our campuses when we have many new and and/or college-ready. My vision is that all complicated education policies and increas-

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Honoring top-notch teaching It’s time again to honor our own with UTLA’s Nominations for UTLA Platinum Apple awards 18th Annual are due February 24.

You know who they are: Those site, from early education centers UTLA members at your school who to K-12 schools to adult educa- Platinum Apple perform at an exceptional level, tion campuses. Your chapter chair day in and day out. Let this be the should hold a meeting to select your year that your school nominates nominee; all members are encour- Awards one of these deserving educators aged to participate. If your school for a UTLA Platinum Apple Award. hasn’t had a nominating meeting yet, for Excellence in Education At a time when too many outsid- ask your chapter chair when your ers are trying to define what good meeting will be. Packets were mailed

teaching is, the Platinum Apple to chapter chairs with the nomination Awards are our chance to show forms and judging criteria in January Each UTLA chapter may submit a nomination for this great award, what excellence in our profession (info is also available at utla.net). looks like. The deadline to submit nominees is given by our own, for our own, for excellence in education. Your school UTLA members at every site are Tuesday, February 24, and winners should hold a nomination meeting to select your nominee; all members encouraged to nominate an indi- will be honored at a special dinner are encouraged to participate. Winners will be honored at Taix French vidual from your school for a Plati- on May 19. num Apple Award. Nominees can be Restaurant in Los Angeles on Friday, May 19, 2017. classroom teachers, substitutes, or For more information: Nomination Please note: Nominees must be current UTLA members health and human services profes- forms and additional information is sionals, such as nurses, counselors, available at www.utla.net/about-us/ and librarians, and they can work platinum-apple-awards or contact Nominations are due in the UTLA office no later in any discipline and at any LAUSD Princess Sykes at 213-368-6220. than Tuesday, February 24, 2017, at 4:30 p.m.

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Involvement opportunity CTA State Council CTA Unexpired Term elections Unexpired Term election notice Are you interested in representing UTLA/NEA members at the state level? CTA (California Teachers Association) State Council, a policy-making body that meets By Laura Carls & for representatives are covered by CTA, quarterly, has openings for representatives to fill unexpired terms. If you wish to Deborah Schneider-Solis including hotel, mileage, and food costs. run for one of these positions, complete and return the self-nomination form by U.S. UTLA/NEA Election Committee Meetings begin at 9 a.m. Saturday, 7:15 mail to UTLA/NEA VP Cecily Myart-Cruz at UTLA. The form must be received a.m. Sunday, and usually end around 4 by 5:00 p.m. on February 6, 2017. The election will be held at the February 22, 2017, UTLA/NEA members will elect CTA p.m. both days. Subcommittee meetings Area meetings. For those members who cannot vote at their Area meetings, voting State Council representatives for unex- on Friday evenings and voluntary caucus will also be held at the UTLA building from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on February 22, 2017. pired terms at elections scheduled this meetings before and after the general year for the February 22 Area meetings. weekend meeting times can enrich the Self-Nomination Form These delegates will join the other UTLA representative’s knowledge of issues representatives when the council begins facing California educators. UTLA del Name for the 2017-18 school year. egates are rewarded for their time and The State Council acts as CTA’s pol- effort by getting a chance to make a state- Employee number icy-making body, meeting four times a wide difference in education. year. Each representative is expected to If you find the idea of participating Address serve on a standing committee, which on a statewide level intriguing, fill out debates business items involving aca- and mail in the self-nomination form on City Zip demic freedom, retirement, civil rights, this page to run for CTA State Council. political action, teachers’ rights, and state- Forms are due by February 6 via U.S. mail Home phone wide negotiation issues. State Council (no faxes or emails). Forms may also be representatives also vote for CTA’s state- dropped off at UTLA headquarters on the Non-LAUSD email address wide officers. In the 2017-18 school year, 10th floor (attention: Cecily Myart-Cruz, all State Council meetings will be held UTLA/NEA VP) during regular business School in Los Angeles. All necessary expenses hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. School Phone

I certify that below is the signature of the candidate whose name appears above. CTA State Council Signature Date Year-Round Absentee Ballot Request (Required) I am requesting an absentee ballot for the CTA State Council Election for the Return this request to UTLA/NEA VP Cecily Myart-Cruz by 5:00 p.m., February unexpired term. 6, 2017, via U.S. mail to UTLA, 3303 Wilshire Blvd., 10th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90010. Forms may also be dropped off at UTLA headquarters on the 10th floor My vote will correspond to CTA’s election guidelines, which allow for voting by during regular business hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (attention: Cecily Myart-Cruz). mail for CTA members on formal leave. This request must be received by 5:00 NO FAXES OR EMAILS. p.m., February 6, 2017, by U.S. mail to UTLA, 3303 Wilshire Blvd., 10th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90010, Attn: Cecily Myart-Cruz, UTLA/NEA VP. I understand that Form must be received by UTLA by February 6, 2017. my request will be checked for accuracy by election committee members. Absentee ballots will be mailed February 12, 2017, and must be received via U.S. mail by 5:00 p.m., February 22, 2017.

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Address December 16, January 27: Nomination March 6: Deadline to submit election City Zip forms, time line, and absentee ballot challenge in writing to Cecily Myart- request forms in UNITED TEACHER. Cruz, UTLA/NEA Vice-President, pro- Home phone vided a runoff election is not required. February 6: Self-nomination forms and absentee ballot requests due to UTLA March 16: Absentee ballot for runoff Non-LAUSD email address building by 5 p.m. by U.S. mail (no sent. faxes or emails). Forms may also be School dropped off at UTLA headquarters April 5: Runoff election, if needed, at (see the receptionist on the 10th floor) Area meetings and at UTLA headquar- School Phone during regular business hours, from 9 ters from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. a.m. to 5 p.m. UTLA area (Circle one) N S E W C VE VW H April 5: Absentee ballots due back to February 7: UTLA by 5 p.m. by U.S. mail only (no Absentee ballot requested for: Letters sent out acknowl- edging receipt of nomination forms. faxes or emails). CTA State Council February 12: Absentee ballots sent out. April 7: Area and absentee ballots February 22 April 5 counted. Letters sent to winners and February 22: Elections at all UTLA results will be posted at www.utla.net Check one: CTA/NEA Board member Formal LAUSD leave Area meetings and UTLA headquar- by the end of the next business day. ters from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Those who are not elected delegates I hereby declare that the above information is accurate. will become alternates. February 22: Absentee ballots due back Signature Date to UTLA by 5 p.m. by U.S. mail only April 17: Final date for challenges Return this request to UTLA/NEA VP Cecily Myart-Cruz by 5:00 p.m., February (no faxes or emails). to be submitted in writing to Cecily 6, 2017, via U.S. mail to UTLA, 3303 Wilshire Blvd., 10th Floor, Los Angeles, CA Myart-Cruz, UTLA/NEA Vice Presi- 90010. Forms may also be dropped off at UTLA headquarters on the 10th floor February 24: Area and absentee ballots dent, provided an additional runoff (attention: Cecily Myart-Cruz, UTLA/NEA VP) during regular business hours counted. Letters sent to winners and election is not required. Please contact from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. NO FAXES OR EMAILS. results will be posted at www.utla.net Vivian Vega for appropriate form at by the end of the next business day. (213) 368-6259. Form must be received by UTLA by February 6, 2017. 19 United Teacher • for the latest news: www.utla.net January 27, 2017

Involvement opportunity CTA State Council Election CTA State Council Elections Notice for 2018-20 Term Are you interested in representing UTLA/NEA members at the state level? CTA (California Teachers Association) State Council, a policy-making body that meets By Debby Schneider & Laura Carls tatives are covered by CTA, including quarterly, has openings for representatives to fill expired terms. If you wish to run UTLA/NEA Election Committee hotel, mileage, and food costs. Meetings for one of these positions, complete and return the self-nomination form by U.S. begin at 9 a.m. Saturday, 7:15 a.m. Sunday, mail to UTLA/NEA VP Cecily Myart-Cruz at UTLA. The form must be received by UTLA/NEA members will elect CTA and usually end around 4 p.m. both days. 5:00 p.m. on March 2, 2017. The election will be held at the April 5, 2017 Area State Council representatives in annual Subcommittee meetings on Friday evenings meetings. For those members who cannot vote at their Area meetings, voting will elections scheduled this year for the and voluntary caucus meetings before and also be held at the UTLA building from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on April 5, 2017. April 5 Area meetings. These delegates after the general weekend meeting times will join the other UTLA representatives can enrich the representative’s knowledge Self-Nomination Form when the council begins for the 2017-18 of issues facing California educators. UTLA school year. delegates are rewarded for their time and Name The State Council acts as CTA’s policy- effort by getting a chance to make a state- making body, meeting four times a year. wide difference in education. Employee number Each representative is expected to serve on If you find the idea of participating a standing committee, which debates busi- on a statewide level intriguing, fill out Address ness items involving academic freedom, and mail in the self-nomination form on retirement, civil rights, political action, this page to run for CTA State Council. City Zip teachers’ rights, and statewide negotiation Forms are due by March 2 via U.S. mail issues. State Council representatives also (no faxes or emails). Forms may also be Home phone vote for CTA’s statewide officers. In the dropped off at UTLA headquarters on the 2017-18 school year, all State Council meet- 10th floor (attention: Cecily Myart-Cruz, Non-LAUSD email address ings will be held in Los Angeles. UTLA/NEA VP) during regular business All necessary expenses for represen hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. School

School Phone CTA State Council I certify that below is the signature of the candidate whose name appears above. Signature Date Year-Round Absentee Ballot Request (Required) Return this request to UTLA/NEA VP Cecily Myart-Cruz by 5:00 p.m., March 2, I am requesting an absentee ballot for the CTA State Council Election. 2017, via U.S. mail to UTLA, 3303 Wilshire Blvd., 10th Floor, Los Angeles, CA My vote will correspond to CTA’s election guidelines, which allow for voting by mail for 90010. Forms may also be dropped off at UTLA headquarters on the 10th floor CTA members on formal leave. This request must be received by 5:00 p.m., March during regular business hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (attention: Cecily Myart-Cruz). 2, 2017, by U.S. mail to UTLA, 3303 Wilshire Blvd., 10th Floor, Los Angeles, CA NO FAXES OR EMAILS. 90010, Attn: Cecily Myart-Cruz UTLA/NEA VP. I understand that my request will be Form must be received by UTLA by March 2, 2017. checked for accuracy by election committee members. Absentee ballots will be mailed March 18, 2017, and must be received via U.S. mail by 5:00 p.m., April 5, 2017.

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City Zip January 27, February 17: Nomination April 17: Deadline to submit election forms, timeline, absentee ballot request challenge in writing to Cecily Myart- Home phone forms in UNITED TEACHER. Cruz, UTLA/NEA Vice President, provided a runoff election is not required. Non-LAUSD email address March 2: Self-nomination forms and Please contact Vivian Vega for appropri- absentee ballot requests due to UTLA ate form at (213) 368-6259. School building by 5 p.m. by U.S. mail (no faxes or emails). Forms may also be May 2: Absentee ballot for runoff sent. School Phone dropped off at UTLA headquarters (see the receptionist on the 10th floor) May 10: Runoff election, if needed, at Area meetings and at UTLA headquar- UTLA area (Circle one) N S E W C VE VW H during regular business hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ters from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Absentee ballot requested for: March 3: Letters sent out acknowledg- May 10: Deadline for absentee ballots April 5 May 10 ing receipt of nomination forms. to be received back by U.S. mail (no faxes or emails). Check one: CTA/NEA Board member Formal LAUSD leave March 18: Absentee ballots sent out. May 12: Election Committee meets at I hereby declare that the above information is accurate. April 5: Elections at all UTLA Area 9 a.m. to count all ballots. Letters sent meetings and at UTLA headquarters to winners and results will be posted from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at www.utla.net by the end of the next business day. Those who are not elected Signature Date April 5: Absentee ballots due back to delegates will become alternates. UTLA building by 5 p.m. by U.S. mail Return this request to UTLA/NEA VP Cecily Myart-Cruz by 5:00 p.m., March 2, only (no faxes or emails). May 22: Final date for challenges to be 2017, via U.S. mail to UTLA, 3303 Wilshire Blvd., 10th Floor, Los Angeles, CA submitted in writing to Cecily Myart- 90010. Forms may also be dropped off at UTLA headquarters on the 10th floor April 7: Area and absentee ballots Cruz, UTLA/NEA Vice President, pro- (attention: Cecily Myart-Cruz, UTLA/NEA VP) during regular business hours from counted, 9 a.m. Letters sent to winners vided additional runoff election is not 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. NO FAXES OR EMAILS. and results will be posted at www.utla. required. Please contact Vivian Vega net by the end of the next business day. Form must be received by UTLA by March 2, 2017. for appropriate form at (213) 368-6259.

20 United Teacher • for the latest news: www.utla.net January 27, 2017 CTA State Council delegates UTLA with terms expiring in 2017 honors and respects Ricardo Abreu Mel House the many years you have given Karla Alvarado-Goldberg Matthew Kogan to your profession and our students and Olga Calacuayo David Lyell Alex Caputo-Pearl Blanca Mejia invites you to celebrate at the 2017 Laura Carls Rosa Melendez Marcela Chagoya Paul Ngwoke Sue Cirillo Alex Orozco RetirementDinnerDance Wendi Davis Deborah Schneider-Solis Lisa Dinwiddie Colleen Schwab Carmen Esterman Loren Scott Saturday, May 13, 2017 Kelly Flores Elgin Scott Marco Flores Eddie Smith Luminarias Betty Forrester Adrian Tamayo Leonard Goldberg Yolanda Tamayo If you are retiring between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017, request a formal invitation online at Michael Gonzales Don Tarquin www.utla.net/events/2017-retirement-dinner-dance or complete coupon below and mail before April 1, 2017 Karla Griego Zulma Tobar to UTLA, Attn: Rosa Beasley, 3303 Wilshire Blvd., Darlene Haezaert-Caraveo Ingrid Villeda 10th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90010. For more information, contact Rosa Beasley Sergio Hernandez Sydney Yarbrough-Baune at [email protected]

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January 25, 2017: Declaration of intent forms for UTLA-R Officers must be submitted to Tara Thomas on the 12th floor at UTLA no later than 10:00 a.m. Candidates for office must have been a UTLA-R member as of September 17, 2016. THROUGH THE ENTIRE SCHOOL YEAR, January 27, 2017: Candidate statements and photos for President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer for publication in the UNITED TEACHER must be sub- GET $20 OFF PER COURSE...UNLIMITED! mitted to Tara Thomas at UTLA by 3:30 p.m. All candidates are urged to submit a photo and statement to be used in both the election and runoff election (if needed). SESSIONS BEGIN JANUARY 20, 2017

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21 United Teacher • for the latest news: www.utla.net January 27, 2017 COMMITTEE EVENTS

STUDENT EMPOWERMENT through CULTURE and LANGUAGE

A forum presented by: UTLA Raza Education Committee and UTLA Bilingual Education Committee

Speakers:

DR. STEPHEN KRASHEN Professor Emeritus, Rossier School of Education, USC

DR. DANIEL SOLÓRZANO Professor Chicana/o Studies, UCLA

Moderator: Ingrid Villeda UTLA South Area Chair

TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2017

4:30PM – 8:00PM

UTLA BUILDING 2nd Floor — Auditorium 3303 Wilshire Blvd., 90010

RSVP Yvonne Furbush [email protected]

UTLA African-American Education Committee EDUCATORS…….

Presents the KNOW YOUR BENEFITS…….. Forty-Fourth Annual Community Conference

Are you new, in the middle or towards the end of your career in Education? “Black Students Matter:

Unlocking the Chains That Bind Us” This conference is for you!!!!

Saturday, February 4, 2017 Learn about………

7:30 AM to 4:30 PM  CALSTRS Benefits  Social Security Windfall and Offset Acts

 LAUSD Health Benefits UTLA Building 3303 Wilshire Blvd.  403b and 457 Retirement Benefits Room 815 Los Angeles, CA 90010 Please bring your most recent CalSTRS Retirement Progress Report

Panel Discussion “How Do We Reach the African American Student?” UTLA

Presenters, Panel Discussion, Entertainment, Food & White Pre-Retirement Issues Conference Elephant Sale Saturday, February 4, 2017 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. Continental Breakfast and Lunch (Registration starts at 7:30 a.m.)

United Teachers Los Angeles (Auditorium) Donation $25.00 3303 Wilshire Blvd., 2nd Floor, Los Angeles *Teachers, you can use AAEC Conference hours to Directions: 2 blocks west of Vermont at Berendo build point credits. For more information, contact: UTLA Conference Secretary: *Free Parking Available* Debbie Reid at UTLA (213) 368 -6232 *UTLA Parking Structure located off Berendo

Registration at the door- $5.00 per person Open to all UTLA Members Conference is limited to the first 300 attendees *Access for the disabled is available through the elevators in the UTLA basement

22 United Teacher • for the latest news: www.utla.net January 27, 2017 Note from UTLA-Retired President What rising costs and a Trump presidency could mean for our health care. Get

By John Perez UTLA-Retired President connected

Health Care Item 1: Increased costs general medical care and prescription the passage of the ACA now have health to UTLA We already know that the upcom- drugs is a storm warning. The average insurance. Right after the November ing negotiations for our health benefits American is less able to pay for these election, Speaker Ryan was calling for between the LAUSD and the unions, in- increases today than they were 15 to 20 “repeal and delay.” He wanted to repeal cluding UTLA, that make up the Health years ago. Compared to the low increase ACA with a repeal date that would be Benefits Committee (HBC) are going to in the CPI-U and the minimal increase in two years in the future (2018) in order be difficult. These negotiations will start wages, the increases in medical care and to give the Republican Congress time to later this year for a contract that will prescription drugs are high by historical replace it with something else. Currently begin January 1, 2018. Now comes in- standards. millions of formerly noninsured, low- formation on the rising cost of health income Americans are getting federal care nationwide that will color these Health Care Item 2: What will help to pay for their insurance. The Re- negotiations. happen to the Affordable Care Act? publicans don’t like this provision of the Supposedly the inflation in health care Immediately after Donald Trump’s law and one of the reasons they have not costs has been low, but low compared to victory, the Republicans, led by House repealed ACA is because they cannot what? Inflation has been low for more Speaker Paul Ryan, said that they figure out how to help the working poor than 10 years, and it is predicted that the wanted to repeal “Obamacare,” the Af- keep their health insurance without CPI-U (Consumer Price Index-Urban) fordable Care Act (ACA). Many people federal subsidies. Now Speaker Ryan is will remain at 2% or lower for the next are skeptical because if Speaker Ryan saying he wants to “repeal and replace” year, but the increases in health care costs could have passed a repeal bill he would the Affordable Care Act. This is going are going to be considerably higher. Ac- have done so in the past five years. Since to be hard because there is no consen- cording to the consultant to the HBC, the the Republican Party controls all three sus in the Republican Party on what to cost for prescription drugs is going to go branches of the federal government, a replace ACA with. Many Republicans up 12%. This is a real problem because repeal law signed by Trump would have want to just repeal the law and go back drug costs for us, as retirees, are higher a friendly Supreme Court to uphold the to where we were before it was passed. Facebook: per person than they are for our active repeal. Remember, the ACA is not health The inability of the Republicans to figure facebook.com/UTLAnow colleagues. The picture comes into better care reform; it is insurance reform. True out what to replace ACA with is why focus when you add to the increased health care reform would be the passage many people are skeptical that it will Twitter: @utlanow prescription drug costs the fact that the of a single-payer system that UTLA as be repealed, but we need to watch this medical part of our health care will go up well as many other groups has been closely, because the health care for mil- YouTube: by 3% or more in 2017. At a time when calling for. lions of working-class Americans is on general inflation is in the 1% to 2% range We should also remember that the line. youtube.com/UTLAnow and the increase in wages for workers is upward of 20 million Americans who not much better, the increased cost for did not have health insurance before John can be reached at [email protected].

LAUSD HUMAN RESOURCES Bilingual issues Post-passage, how will Prop. 58 roll out? Presents Now that Prop. 58, the multilingual these models, 50% of the curriculum initiative, has passed overwhelmingly, is delivered in English and 50% in the how will it be implemented? The lan- target language. Currently LAUSD offers REDUCED WORKLOAD guage of the proposition is very clear dual-language programs in English plus about when schools may offer bilingual Spanish, Korean, Mandarin, Armenian, classes: “When parents of 20 students at or Arabic. Going forward, other languag- INFORMATIONAL a grade level or parents of 30 students es may join in if the requisite number of in a school request a bilingual program, parents request it. School capacity, of the school shall offer a program, to the course, is a major consideration. MEETING extent possible.” This is not your old Model A, Model Additionally, LAUSD has very clear B programming. This is dual language, requirements for the establishment of an approach that consistently produces 9:00 A.M. TO 10:30 A.M. such programs. There must be agreement the highest test scores for all students of the administrator, the teachers, and the of all language programs nationwide. SATURDAY, February 25, 2017 parents that a program is wanted. All Joint UTLA/LAUSD Task Force on BEAUDRY BUILDING, 15TH FLOOR three groups must sign on to developing Implementation: They say that the a program. Implementation cannot take devil is in the details. How will Prop. place if all three groups are not on board. 58 actually work? UTLA and LAUSD Reduced Workload is a leave granted by LAUSD and CalSTRS. Schools must apply by a certain date of will be talking about this and writing the year preceding the implementation of plans for how to bring these amazing the program in order for all stakeholders programs to as many students as pos- All new applicants must meet the following to be exposed to all the information and sible. Curricular plans, teacher recruit- minimum requirements by July 1, 2017: training necessary to make the program ment, teacher training, and monetary successful. It begins with kindergarten, incentives will all be dealt with. If you • 55 years of age or TK. At this time ETK participation would like to be part of this planning, is being discussed. A grade per year is please contact me at [email protected] or • 10 years of full-time service with LAUSD, added until a K-12 strand is reached. A UTLA Elementary Vice President Juan the last five of which are continuous balance (30% to 70% in either direction) Ramirez at [email protected]. must be maintained between language Please join us for the next Bilingual Edu- • HR and CalSTRS approval groups in every classroom. cation Committee Meeting on February 8, A different program, called Mainte- 2017, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 828. Space is limited to 25 participants. Please email Maria Salazar at nance, is permitted in schools where there is no significant English-speak- —Cheryl Ortega [email protected] to RSVP and you will receive an email ing enrollment. In these classes 100% Director of Bilingual Education confirmation.Registration deadline is February 22, 2017. of the students may be ELs. In both of [email protected]

23 United Teacher • for the latest news: www.utla.net January 27, 2017 New book brings alive our state’s labor history

Review by Linda Tubach aircraft of World War II. “movement” in the labor movement. Social studies teacher • How mostly female parks and recre- It reminds us that we have a special Collective Bargaining ation workers, with Northern California part to play as teachers in keeping alive Education Project union organizer Maxine Jenkins, went on the successes of collective action. How? the first strike for “comparable worth” in By teaching labor history in our class- From Mission to Microchip is a new book 1978, now a national job standard that has rooms. You can use this book to bring from California Federation of Teachers enabled fairer pay for millions of women. this drama and important skill set to communications director and labor his- • How Southern California and Central your classroom together with Golden torian Fred Glass, who published it as a Valley farm workers united and stood up Lands, Working Hands (DVDs available at companion to his 10-part video documen- for dignity in the fields many times suc- cft.org). Please also consider having your tary series, Golden Lands, Working Hands. cessfully, in various labor organizations, class participate in the UTLA Collective For social studies teachers who have used bringing talented organizers to L.A. in the Bargaining Education Project (see flyer Golden Lands for years in our classrooms, 1980s, such as Miguel Contreras. on this page), which teaches students this long-awaited text deepens the details • How catastrophic outsourcing led to about the labor movement through a and the analysis. the last auto assembly plant standing in hands-on simulation of contract negotia- In the book, Glass brings alive our Van Nuys in 1982 (five had closed between tions, aligned to content and Common state’s labor history with a compelling 1978 and 1982) and a successful campaign Core standards. and combative narrative, filled with high to keep it open another 10 years, while drama and individual and collective vic- more than 70,000 industrial jobs were lost Order From Mission to Microchip online tories and defeats as our state evolves in the Alameda corridor. and save 30% with the special union discount. through periodic “gold rushes.” Some of • How the Battle of Century City by Go to www.ucpress.edu/9780520288409 and the insightful stories and themes that stand mostly immigrant workers in the 1990s use source code 16M4197 at checkout. out include: turned the tide for shrinking unionism • How the indigenous peoples launched in the building services industry, a story large-scale agriculture in the missions and memorialized in the Hollywood film Bread then the ranchos. and Roses. • How the West Coast longshore workers • How a statewide coalition of teach- first achieved a six-hour day in 1934 (we ers, nurses, and firefighters stood up to NEGOTIATIONS teachers are one of the few groups who have Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger with this guaranteed in our contracts today, at a successful media and street campaign a living wage thanks to our L.A. teacher against his propositions to defund our LABOR MOVEMENT union organizing in the 1970s and on). unions and our pensions, and give himself • How a “labor-socialist fusion” pre- emergency powers over funding public dominated in early L.A. politics and almost services. elected a Socialist mayor in 1911 were it • How our teachers’ union work on the successful Proposition 30 Millionaire’s Tax BARGAINING not for a mysterious confession by two union workers accused of bombing the restored funding to our schools in 2012. L.A. Times. Glass’s book, illustrated with more • How L.A. women were almost half than 50 images, brings the labor story 25th Annual Collective of the labor force that mass-produced the up to date and challenges us to keep the Bargaining Institutes for UTLA meeting board LAUSD High School Students

Upcoming meetings FEBRUARY 22 Be one of the lucky teachers to bring UTLA’s award-winning UTLA Area Meetings: See times and Collective Bargaining Education Project to your school site locations at utla.net. FEBRUARY 8 Early Childhood Education Committee: this school year! The following committees meet on 7 p.m., UTLA building. At our Collective Bargaining Institute, your students will spend the same day as the House of Repre- sentatives from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. several exciting hours learning about the labor movement by (unless noted) in the UTLA building: MARCH 8 participating in a hands-on simulation of contract negotiations, Elementary Committee: 4 p.m., UTLA Arts Education Committee, Asian-Pa- building. aligned to content and Common Core standards. cific Education, Bilingual Education Secondary Committee: 4 p.m., UTLA Committee, Chicano/Latino Educa- building. The Collective Bargaining Institute engages ALL students. They tion, Gay & Lesbian Issues, Health African-American Education Commit- will be grouped into small (4 students) union and management & Human Services, Human Rights, tee: 4 p.m., UTLA building. teams, and each student will be responsible for a different Inner City, Instructional Coaches, PACE Committee: 6:30 p.m., UTLA bargaining issue. And it gets better! All teams will be mentored Kindergarten Teachers, Library building. Professionals (4:45-6 p.m.), Middle by labor relations professionals who volunteer to “coach”! Capably Disabled Committee: 4:30 Schools, Multi-Track/Year-Round p.m., UTLA building. Schools, Non-Classroom/Non-School There is no cost to your school. Our UTLA Collective Bargaining Tech Committee: 4 p.m., UTLA Site, Options Committee, Physical Education Project is co-sponsored by the L.A. County Federation building. Education Action and Dance, Profes- of Labor AFL-CIO and the Labor and Employment Relations sional Rights & Responsibilities, Pre- Association, with support from LAUSD. Retirement Issues, Salary & Finance, MARCH 17 School/Community Relations, School UTLA-Retired General Assembly Deadline: ASAP. Scheduling a CBI day requires three weeks in Readiness Language Development Meeting: UTLA building. advance to recruit the team “coaches” from the L.A.-area labor Program, Secondary School Counsel- movement. Also in advance, students need to be released from ors, Special Education, Substitutes, MARCH 20 Violence Prevention & School Safety, classes for the CBI (with a “trip” slip), to a large space with tables UTLA/NEA Service Center Council for 3 to 4 hours. Women’s Education. Meeting: UTLA building. Contact Linda Tubach, Collective Bargaining FEBRUARY 21 Upcoming conferences Unjustly Housed Teachers Commit- Education Project teacher, ASAP at (626) 233-2284 tee: UTLA building, 4:30 p.m. See committee events on page 22. or email [email protected].

24 United Teacher • for the latest news: www.utla.net January 27, 2017 WHO awards: A chance to honor someone you know

Monday, April 24, 2017 Nominations due March 1.

Ever wonder how you can recognize a UTLA/NEA members who have given UTLA/NEA “WHO” colleague or chapter chair who has shown outstanding service in support of UTLA/ true leadership by going above and NEA and its members at the state or na- Awards Dinner beyond the call of duty to help members tional levels of UTLA, CTA, and NEA. at your site? Or maybe a member who • The UTLA/NEA Community Gold is involved in the Area steering commit- Award may be awarded to any person or See you there! tee or House of Representatives and has organization whose leadership, actions, dedicated time to speak to our members, and support have demonstrated that the help where needed, and walk that mile person or organization is a true friend of or two for the good of all our members? public education, educators, or students Or what about that colleague who has and merits UTLA/NEA recognition of their spoken about professional matters at the accomplishments. state or national level to make sure our The WHO Awards Committee looks We voices are heard? forward to honoring special members who Here is your chance to recognize them you know are doing what it takes to make by nominating them for the We Honor us stronger, keep us united, and stand for Honor Ours (“WHO”) awards, which are given the good of all. annually in these categories: • The WHO Local Award is for active Deadline for nominations is Monday, Ours UTLA/NEA members who have given March 1. Nomination forms and more outstanding service in support of UTLA/ info are at utla.net/about-us/who-awards. NEA and its members. Recipients will be honored at a dinner on • The WHO State Award is for active April 24.

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HOUSES FOR SALE ed for job sharing from 10:50 a.m. to 2:10 p.m. Job share partner wanted for the 2016-2017 and With faculty meetings on Tuesdays. You would be beyond. (The deadline is April 15.) I have a special LAUSD POSITIONS AVAILABLE LA County Los Angeles area. Homes 2br, 1ba, 3br responsible for all Language Arts curriculum. You education preschool classroom (PALs) open to a 2ba, recently refurbished. Call Broker Office at (323) must have fewer than ten years in L.A. Unified due split schedule at my school or your school, pref- Saturn Street Elementary is looking for a fifth-grade 299-4881 or cell (323) 419-6914. to seniority issues in our school. Please call: Cindy erably South or West local district. I have 10 plus teacher who works well in a collaborative environ- Berger at (310) 612-5067 and email your resume years of teaching special education/general edu- ment. Applicants should be willing to work as part of and letters of recommendation to cbergerlausd@ cation preschool Contact Leah: (310) 916-6229 or a team, creating a Common Core curriculum that is gmail.com. We must have all paperwork into HR by [email protected]. filled with technology, differentiated instruction, and TAX SERVICES April 15. There’s not much time! Kindergarten P.M. job share position at my school project-based learning. As a member of the team, CPA firm in Woodland Hills appreciates teachers Looking for long-term sub for 6 weeks, end of Sep- in Mission Hills for fall 2016. I have five years applicants will engage in extra-curricular activities for their services. We’re making tax time STRESS tember to November. I teach at a small high school of job share experience. Please contact Amy at for the fifth grade students. Applicants should be FREE. Offering tax filing starting at $75 per tax in South Gate, 10th Grade World History and elec- (818) 269-7244. flexible and interested in creating life-long learners. return and one-hour complimentary consulting. tive Intro to Psychology. Please contact me at: Interested applicants please contact Tiffany Cullen (818) 703-8410 [email protected]. [email protected] or call cell (505) 514-9089. I’m looking for a job share partner for Spring Se- at Saturn Street (323) 931-1688. mester or S.Y. 2016-2017 at your school, prefer- UTLA MEMBERS! FREE 2015 tax reviews and 2016 Seeking a long-term sub for 3 months starting Jan- ably South or East local district. I have 17 years Various positions are open and available for quali- filing DISCOUNTS! UTLA-R Andy Griggs, certified uary 2017. I teach sixth-grade science and seventh- of teaching experience in Elementary General Ed. fied teachers at Birmingham Community Charter tax preparer, specializes in taxes for educators and grade health. Great school in Sherman Oaks. Prefer (562) 291-8038. High School. Join a vibrant community of educa- offers year-round consulting. (310) 704-3217, dh- someone tech savvy who can use Google Class- tors at BCCHS. Apply on EdJoin.org [email protected]. room to collaborate with me while I’m overseas in India on a Fulbright award. Please contact Garry at (310) 487-7336 or [email protected]. LAUSD EMPLOYMENT Interested in job sharing a PLTW teaching posi- How to Place Your UT Classified Ad Job share/employment tion for 2016-2017. Like to be at a school within Print your ad from your computer or use a typewriter. If you’re using available ads in LAUSD 12 miles of Long Beach. Call or text (562) 977- the coupon below, please print clearly. Count the number of words employment section are FREE. 7721, [email protected]. in your ad. Area code and telephone number count as one word. Email and web address count as one word. 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26 United Teacher • for the latest news: www.utla.net January 27, 2017 UNITED TEACHER GRAPEVINE Salary point workshops study is available. Participants may earn 24, at the UTLA building from 4 to 9 p.m. evening. For more information, please visit at Inner-City Arts two salary points. For more information and your fee will be $75. See the flyer in www.lacma.org/programs/education/ Inner-City Arts, an oasis of creativity or to register, go to www.inner-cityarts. this issue and please sign up via UTLA by evenings-educators or call 323-857-6093. in downtown Los Angeles, provides ex- org/citc or contact Valerie Miller at PD@ contacting Jenny Lam at [email protected], by periential training for PreK-12 teachers in inner-cityarts.org or 213-627-9621, ext. 113. phone at 213-368-6229, or at utla.net (putting Evening on comic books and the visual and performing arts through its “Manzanar” in the search bar will take you making history engaging popular program “Creativity in the Class- Asian Pacific Committee announces to detailed info on each session and allow The Southern California Social Sci- room: Transforming Practice.” The series of its 48th Manzanar Conference you to register). If you have questions ences Association (SCSSA) is sponsoring five Saturday workshops provides teachers If you have always wanted to participate regarding sessions, please contact Diane an evening with author Max Brooks on with an opportunity to explore a variety in the UTLA annual pilgrimage to Man- Newell at 818-642-0981 or dnewell@lausd. “Comic Books: The Cure for Digital Dis- of different media, ideas, and methods for zanar, the timing could not be more mean- net (please put “Manzanar” in the subject traction” and increasing historical literacy integrating the arts across the curriculum ingful. With the new president wanting bar when emailing for a prompt response). with graphic novels. The Harlem Hellfighters and grade levels. The latest brain research to “register all Muslims,” we must get the tells the story of the first African-Amer- and implications for the classroom are ex- word out about how important it is to re- Teach in Japan program looking ican regiment to fight in WWI. Despite plored, as are using creativity and the arts member and not repeat Executive Order for experienced educators institutional racism, poor training, and for supporting social-emotional learning, 9066. This year marks the 75th anniver- Teach in Japan at a public high school, inadequate equipment, the Hellfighters implementing restorative justice practices, sary of the signing of that order, requiring August 1, 2017, to July 31, 2019. Sister City became one of the most successful, but and developing strategies for working internment of all Americans of Japanese program seeks an experienced teacher in least celebrated regiments in the war. with English learners. The program em- ancestry. To earn 1 or 2 salary points you ESL/ELD, ELA, or foreign language at the Brooks will discuss the power of comic phasizes joyful learning and participants MUST attend the Pilgrimage on Saturday, secondary level. Flexibility, cross-cultural books as instructional devices and why will experience many ways to deepen April 29. The four session dates are in your sensitivity, and a two-year commitment re- these groundbreaking accomplishments student engagement, strengthen school UTLA pocket calendar: March 11, April 24, quired. Return rights to District. Visit http:// are left out of most history texts. Cost for communities, and expand their repertoire April 29, and May 6. The May 6 session is a tinyurl.com/teach-japan or call Joan at 323- nonmembers is $65; members, $40. Fee of activities for the classroom. Hands-on PD that looks closely at what happens when 600-7643 (early evenings only, please.) Email includes tacos, soft drinks, copy of The workshops include drawing, painting, we racially profile American citizens. The to [email protected]. Harlem Hellfighters, and a no-host bar. ceramics, dance, music, drama, poetry, workshop fee of $125 covers the costs of two The evening talk takes place February and playmaking. Five Saturdays: Febru- salary points, charter bus transportation, Free salary point workshop 25, 2017, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Gene ary 25, March 11, March 25, April 22, and food, and materials. If you wish to attend on traditional East Asia Autry Museum of Western Heritage (4700 May 6, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Cost is the pilgrimage only, we ask that you also “Traditional East Asia: Origins to 1800” Western Heritage Way, LA, CA 90027). $225. Discounted tuition through work- attend our pre-trip session Monday, April is a free seminar offering in-depth presen- Register at www.socalsocialscience.org. tations on the history and culture of the region and supports K-12 educators in in- Workshop on Charles Lummis and corporating these learnings into their cur- the culture of the Arroyo Seco riculums. The course consists of six Monday Since 2006, the professional develop- evening sessions (5 to 8 p.m.) and three ment workshop “The River Runs Through We’re with you Saturday sessions (9 to 3:30 p.m.) at USC. It: Charles Lummis and the Culture of the On-campus parking and refreshments will Arroyo Seco” has been taken by more than all the way be provided. See china.usc.edu/seminars 200 teachers, grades kindergarten through for full schedule. This program is sponsored 12, in an educational experience that en- by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the Na- courages the use of experiential learning tional Consortium for Teaching about Asia. to help foster community through a sense Participants who complete the seminar and of place. A new session will take place its requirements are eligible to apply for on two Saturdays, February 18 and 25, the next USCI-sponsored summer study 2017. Conducted by retired LAUSD teacher tour to East Asia. Seminar also offers $250 Carmela Gomes, the place-based education stipend and six continuing education units workshop involves the participation of (processing fee applicable) OR 2 LAUSD Wilderness Way Magazine, the Arroyo Seco salary points (no fee), and resources and Foundation, the Audubon Center at Debs materials (must complete seminar require- Park, Los Angeles Department of Recre- ments for stipend and CEUs/salary point). ation and Parks, Friends of the Los Angeles Visit china.usc.edu/seminars for details River, Highland Park Heritage Trust, the and application requirements. Rolling ac- Autry and the Tongva/Gabrielino and the ceptance until February 17, 2017. Chumash/Tatavia Tribes. On Day One participants walk in the wilds of the Arroyo Supporting communities with union Evenings for Educators at Seco River through the communities of expertise and long-term alliances. LACMA: Picasso and Rivera Pasadena and Highland Park. Audubon For over 30 years LACMA’s Evenings Center naturalist conducts a workshop At UnitedHealthcare, we’re dedicated to those for Educators series has provided K-12 that emphasizes creating a sense of place we serve — providing affordable, innovative teachers with opportunities to talk about, in all disciplines through environmental discover, and create works of art. Famed education. A knowledgeable docent wel- health care programs that honor hard work and contemporaries Pablo Picasso and Diego comes participants to the Lummis Home commitment with comprehensive solutions. Rivera are two of the most influential and Garden after which they get up close We provide a broad portfolio of customizable artists of the 20th century. “Picasso and and personal with the Los Angeles River health care plans as well as dental, vision, life Rivera: Conversations Across Time” will with Friends of the Los Angeles River. and disability offerings to help you get the right explore how these 20th-century masters On Day Two docents lead a walking tour coverage at the right price. of modernism engaged with their ancient of historic houses in the Sycamore Grove Mediterranean and pre-Columbian past. community. In the afternoon they learn For more information, call The workshop takes place on February 7, about the Ethno Botanic Gardens at the Anthony Campbell at 415-778-3845. from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Enjoy complimen- Southwest Museum and sit with holders tary parking and dinner catered by the of Chumash and Tongva traditions for a ©2015 United HealthCare Services, Inc. Health plan coverage provided by or through UnitedHealthcare Insurance Company and UnitedHealthcare of California. Administrative Patina Group as well a thematic curricu- hands-on workshop. To receive one salary services provided by United HealthCare Services, Inc., OptumRx or OptumHealth Care Solutions, Inc. Behavioral health products are provided by U.S. Behavioral Health Plan, lum containing images, lesson plans, and point credit for the workshop, teachers California (USBHPC) or United Behavioral Health (UBH). UHCCA732195-000 resources. Tickets are $15 per person for the (continued on page 17) 27 1701-01 UTLA January Newsletter Ad | FINAL | 1-3-17 10” x 13.5” | Four Color | Non Bleed