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Rise up and Defend’ Over Extremist Agenda Coming out of D.C n An Online Publication of United University Professions The Nation’s Largest Higher Education Union Working For You THE Vol. 3, No. 3 EchoEcho ise up Rand defend — CoveRag e begins! with video link, page 2 To the Point THE Echo Volume 3, Number 3 The Echo is an online publication of United University Professions (UUP), bargaining agent for the more than 35,000 academic and professional employees of the State University of New York. Contact UUP at P.O. Box 15143, Albany, New York 12212-5143. Telephone (518) 640-6600 or toll-free at (800) 342-4206. UUP’s Internet site is www.uupinfo.org. UUP is Local 2190 of the American Federation of Teachers (AFL-CIO) and is affiliated with NYSUT and the National Education Association. UUP STATEWIDE OFFICERS FREDERICK E. KOWAL President Marching with Momentive UUP MARCHES IN SOLIDARITY WITH STRIKING MOMENTIVE PERFORMANCE MATERIALS CHEMICAL PLANT WORKERS IN WATERFORD, N.Y. CLICK HERE TO WATCH. J. PHILIPPE ABRAHAM Vice President for Professionals An Online Publication of United University Professions The Nation’s Largest Higher Education Union Working For You THE JAMIE F. DANGLER Vol. 3, No. 3 WHATthis’S issue INSIDE Vice President Echo for Academics 3 Tell Regents to back task force Cover photo by UUp members are pressing their regents to Karen L. Mattison EILEEN LANDY support the recommendations of the edtpa task Secretary Force that would go a long way in addressing ISE UP RAND DEFEND — COVERAG E BEGINS! WITH VIDEO LINK, PAGE 2 the state’s flawed teacher certification exams. ROWENA J. Resist! 9 Vote No on con con BLACKMAN-STROUD 4—UUp members are standing up for labor noting that a constitutional convention is a waste Treasurer and collective bargaining, public education of taxpayer dollars, the union wants members to and health care, and to trump administration tell their friends and colleagues: vote no! on this policies that threaten public education, health fall’s referendum for a constitutional convention. care, labor and collective bargaining. THOMAS C. HOEY Membership aLso: Delegates prepare to fight back Development Officer ALSO: 6 Dinapoli addresses Winter Delegate assembly 8 Let the advocacy begin! 11 esC Chapter holds Cap event UUP COMMUNICATIONS DEPT. FOLLOW UUP 12 ny tops all states in union membership MICHAEL LISI ON FACEBOOK, Director of Communications 12 Labor notes TWITTER AND senate conference opposes “right to work” KAREN L. MATTISON 13 Associate Director of Communications INSTAGRAM! 14 in the news briefs DONALD FELDSTEIN 15 spotlight shines on UUpers Media Relations Specialist Go to www.UUPinfo.org 16 election procedures DARRYL MCGRATH to sign up today. 20 Candidate statements due March 10 Communications Specialist 21 Union benefits ANGELL M. VILLAFAÑE Communications Assistant THE ECHO VOL. 3, NO. 3 2 Teacher education Members’ voices matter in pending Regents vote By DaRRyl MCGRath • Establish a Standards Setting panel • Increase the voucher program for to determine whether the edTPA pass- student certification exam costs he postponement of a vote by ing score should be reset; (which requires legislative allocation the state Board of Regents • Invoke an emergency action to of funds). on proposed changes to the remove the Academic Literacy Skills There will be a public comment state’s teacher certification Test; period following the vote. process means that UUP members • Establish a Multiple Measures have more time to contact their Re- Review process for cases where there gents and urge them to support the pRobleMs with d esign , T is evidence that a teacher candidate Rollout sCoRing changes. , is ready to teach but did not pass the The proposed changes come out of Jamie Dangler, UUP’s statewide edTPA (with conditions for such can- the recommendations of the statewide vice president for academics, hopes didate review); edTPA task force that the that members will make the most of • Extend the edTPA safety net Regents reconvened last spring. UUP that extra time. pending completion of Standards members serving on the task force “Our members’ own words are the Setting Panel work and establishment with Dangler are Ken Lindblom of best way to effect change,” Dangler of a Multiple Measures Review SUNY Stony Brook and Joette Stefl- said. “The first-person accounts of process; Mabry of Albany. members who have Dangler and her worked with this statewide task force co- deeply flawed chair, David Cantaffa, certification system UUP is asking members to contact SUNY assistant provost helped us get this far. for teacher preparation, The Regents listened, SED Commissioner MaryEllen Elia presented the task and then they started force’s recommendations to ask many of the and members of the Board of Regents to the Regents at their same questions we Jan. 10 meeting. have been asking— and urge them to support the In their presentation, with the main question task force’s recommendations. Dangler and Cantaffa being, if this system is told the Regents that the so broken, why are we recommendations still using it?” developed by the The Regents had been scheduled to • Establish a process to review task force seek to vote on proposed changes to the certi- edTPA handbooks based on claims address longstand- fication exams at their Feb. 13 meet- brought forth by education profes- ing criticisms ing. That meeting was canceled sionals, with two possible outcomes: about the rollout, because of a snow storm. The Regents handbook revision or approval of an design and scoring are expected to vote on the proposals alternative performance assessment of the mandatory at their March 13 meeting. if handbook revision is not feasible DANGLER educative Teacher for the certification area under Performance id ea s to iMpRove teaCheR ed At the meeting, the Regents will evaluation; Assessment and other certification consider a number of proposals, • Provide for annual release of infor- exams. The edTPA is supposed to which would: mation revealing the qualifications of evaluate a student teacher’s compe- • Set up a process to review the Edu- edTPA scorers; tence in the classroom through written cating All Students exam, and extend • Establish a clinical practice work analysis and actual teaching, but, as the safety net for that exam until it is group to review the length and require- Dangler noted, there is no proof that it revised; ments of student teaching; is a valid predictor of ability to teach. VOL. 3, NO. 3 THE ECHO 3 Cover story ‘weUUP delegates will unite rise up and defend’ over extremist agenda coming out of D.C. By KaREn l. MattiSon he 2017 Winter Delegate Assembly felt less like the union’s traditional policy- making convention and more like a counterdemonstration. It wasn’t just President Fred Kowal’s Tclarion call for UUP members to rise up and defend our democracy. Or keynote speaker Comptroller DONALD FELDSTEIN Thomas DiNapoli’s unscripted remarks UUP PRESIDENT FRED KOWAL CALLS ON UNION MEMBERS TO RISE UPAND DEFEND AGAINST FORCES HELL BENT ON DESTROYING THE VERY FABRIC OF OUR NATION. about Donald Trump’s “unbelievable” election and chaotic first weeks in office. It was the absolute belief that free all that is good and just, and right and topics ranging from intellectual prop- public education, labor and collective hopeful,” he said. erty/copyright issues, to online labs, to bargaining rights—nay, the very fabric UUP joined the resistance from the the upcoming referendum on whether to of our nation—could soon unravel. onset, first when it partnered with the his- hold a New York state constitutional con- Delegates to the Jan. 29-30 Winter DA toric Women’s March on Washington; vention (see related story, page 9). proved they are ready to act. More than hundreds of UUP members joined hun- Dangler asked members who have ex- 80 members boarded buses to support dreds of thousands of protester in Wash- perience with simulated labs and online striking Momentive chemical plant work- ington, D.C., New York City and areas lab modules in STEM fields to consider ers in Waterford, following an impromptu around the state. UUP then began working attending the FACT2 symposium April 7 collection that raised nearly $2,000 for with SUNY to stem the “explosion of hate in Albany. The symposium will look at their strike fund. The strike ended just language events” on campuses and, once the role virtual labs may play in class- weeks later (see related story, page 7). again, with its demands to establish SUNY room and online education at SUNY. Delegates also passed resolutions as sanctuary campuses to defend the col- “This is the perfect opportunity for our condemning Islamophobia; opposing lege community against the “cruel hand of members to provide input on the possible Trump’s executive order to ban travel to government.” expansion of online labs,” she said. the U.S. by refugees and immigrants “This is a sign of what we can do in the UUP is offering limited reimbursement from seven predominantly Muslim coun- Trump Era,” Kowal said. “We saw it in for members who attend the symposium. tries; and against the then-confirmations the many hundreds of UUPers who Contact Dangler for more details at jdan- of five Cabinet nominees. joined in women’s marches. We saw it [email protected] or at (800) 342-4206. when we joined the picket line with IUE- Meanwhile, dozens of professional fiRed up CWA Local 81359 outside the gates of members were part of an in-depth discus- In his 35-minute speech, interrupted Momentive. And we are seeing it in those sion on how to achieve salary increases often by applause and shouts of agree- wanting to take part in our plans to con- and promotions. The discussion was led ment, Kowal noted that unionists and po- front members of New York’s Congres- by Darryl Wood, a UUP/NYSUT labor litical progressives “didn’t do enough” to sional delegation who support Trump’s relations specialist.
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