https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich Three Frames of Unionism en-us 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC 2023-04-03 23:35:33 UTC hello@padlet.com rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107009 Engage all stakeholders on broader issues of equity, class, race, etc]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107009 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107011 Work with all stakeholders to ensure quality and expand teacher leadership]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107011 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107012 Collective power of workers to fight management for fair pay, classroom conditions, and to limit duties ]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107012 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107014 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107014 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107015 Management prerogatives respected on a school and district level. Teachers grieve management decisions through their union. ]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107015 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107016  Democratic input by all stakeholders creates processes for institutionalized teacher, parent, and student empowerment. ]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107016 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107017  Expands teacher decision-making and instructional leadership at school and district level. Joint decision making expands teacher and union ownership ]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107017 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107018  ▪Emphasizes alliances with parents and the community to organize for social justice to help all children succeed – schools and the conditions around schools must both change to improve educational outcomes. 
▪Race and class challenges and socioeconomic segregation must be addressed if achievement gaps are to be narrowed. ]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107018 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107019  ▪Emphasizes building professional learning communities and building the craft and the profession of teaching. 
▪Union promotes and protects high quality teaching as a craft, resists threats to teacher professionalism and asserts teacher leadership. Conflicts between teachers and administrators can become de-emphasized. ]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107019 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107020  ▪Emphasizes separation of management and union roles in defining teacher work. “Boards make policy, administrators lead, teachers teach.” 
▪The role of the union is to limit what teachers can be asked to do and to increase the pay they get for doing it. ]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107020 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107022  ▪Assumes labor-management relations are hostile and adversarial. Defends teacher rights & responds to grievances. 
▪Fights for teacher priorities and standard of living in the budget. Organize teachers as an independent force. ]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107022 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107023  ▪Values labor-management collaboration and partnership to improve and preserve public education and the profession. 
▪Emphasizes programs and priorities to improve school quality and student achievement in the public interest ]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107023 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107024  ▪Management and labor are partners in engaging families, community and ethnic groups to build support for public education. 
▪Advocate together for levy referenda, grants, foundation support, and to resist inequitable solutions based on race & class. ]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107024 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107026  ▪Parent outreach when we’re in bargaining crisis or labor/mgmt. conflict. 
▪Limit parent intrusions into the classroom to protect teacher autonomy ]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107026 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107027  ▪Reaches out to community allies in strategic alliances to improve the quality of teaching and teacher cultural competency. 
▪Seeks to maximize parent role in improving school effectiveness. ]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107027 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107028  ▪Works with parents to improve individual parent support for their child’s learning, but believes professionals have unique expertise. ]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107028 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107030  ▪Broad scope and interest-based bargaining are a way to address teaching quality and support issues. 
▪Agreements outside contract. 
▪Contracts are a way to codify change once the bugs have been worked out. ]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107030 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107031  ▪Infuse bargaining with concerns that address race, class, democracy, empowerment and equity issues. 
▪Change can only be institutionalized and sustained by organizing rank-and-file members and the community. ]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107031 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107032  ▪Win/lose bargaining; 
▪Limit scope of bargaining to bread and butter issues of salary, hours, and “working conditions.” 
▪Views the teacher contract as way to institutionalize all changes. ]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107032 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107033 ▪Primary role of union is to improve wages, benefits, retirement, and equal treatment for all members. 
▪Curriculum, professional development, assessment and grading policy are the responsibility of the district management. 
▪Teachers are responsible for teaching and students are responsible for learning. 
▪Teachers must not be evaluated primarily based on student test scores because that unfairly and inaccurately credits teachers for low performance that has other causes. ]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107033 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107034  ▪ Union safeguards teachers’ role in promoting critical thinking, critical pedagogy, and a broad curriculum, not aimed primarily at standardized tests. 
▪Teachers encouraged to make curriculum relevant to students’ lives and to incorporate student’s lives into learning – cultural competence. 
▪Union advocates for a “Broader Bolder Approach” to building a movement to improve the social context for schooling – health care, jobs, housing, etc. ]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107034 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107035 ▪Union promotes additional responsibility and pay for teacher instructional leaders. 
▪Union brings the teachers’ voice to the design, implementation and evaluation of curriculum, assessment and instruction. 
▪The role of student test scores and other factors in teacher evaluation is negotiated and monitored by the union. 
▪Union accepts necessary role of student achievement/learning in teacher and school accountability, because that is how public schools are judged. ]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107035 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107036  ▪Belief in “effort-based intelligence”--all students can learn if adequate resources are equitably distributed and available. 
▪Cultural competency/proficiency for teachers to reach all students. 
▪School district funding, equitable distribution of accomplished teachers and school resources are priorities. ]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107036 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107037  ▪Teachers have limited ability to control conditions that cause the gap. If students come to school unable or unwilling to learn, or if school conditions aren’t adequate, teachers must not be blamed. 
▪Efforts to close the achievement gap must not be based on unreasonable expectations and the union’s role is to ensure that training and accountability measures don’t contribute to an un-sustainable working and learning environment. ]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107037 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107038  ▪Quality teaching is critical to closing the achievement gap. It is possible to define and measure quality teaching. The union’s role is to make sure good methods are used, and that tools like “value-addedmodeling” are used judiciously and carefully. 
▪Union takes a leadership role in improving the quality of teaching/learning and professional development. ]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107038 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107040  ▪The union works to improve conditions of teaching (Class size, adequate text books and supplies, hours, etc.) 
▪Union emphasizes protection of teachers’ rights – files grievances to resolve conflicts. 
▪Seniority provisions are the best protection against employer favoritism. ]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107040 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107041  ▪Assignment of teachers to schools ensures high-quality, experienced teachers in hard-to-staff schools. 
▪The union supports preferential teaching and learning conditions (e.g. lower class sizes) for high poverty schools. 
▪Seniority-based reductions in force will be modified by the union so as not to disproportionately impact high-poverty, high-turnover schools ]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107041 rhathaway5 https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107042  ▪The union is willing to take control of the improvement of teaching, support for teacher effectiveness, and quality control in the profession. 
▪Alternatives to seniority-based transfer, assignment and layoff procedures are developed by the union to balance needs of younger and older teachers and the program needs of the educational enterprise. ]]> 2023-03-31 16:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rhathaway5/tou2atfd2v28tich/wish/2540107042