If you have worked for 20 days or more, you will receive a rating from the principal within the last 10 days of the school year, but not less than four days before the end of the school year. It will either be Satisfactory (“S”), Unsatisfactory (“U”), Doubtful (“D”) or Not Applicable (“N/A”). Tenured teachers’ rating sheets can only have their rating, as well as attendance information. If you are a probationer, the “U” rating could lead to discontinuance of your probationary period. Since there are ramifications to a “D” or a “U” rating, you should go the UFT Brooklyn borough office at 335 Adams Street immediately at the end of the day you receive your rating for assistance. Specialists there will help you file an appeal of your adverse rating and explain the various options available. Contact me as well and I will forward the information to our district rep.
TEACHERS CHOICE
We do not yet know how much, if anything, we will get for Teacher’s Choice this upcoming school year. Keep checking UFT.org and the DOE web site periodically. I will email as many people as I can when I hear.
It is the school’s obligation to provide you with basic instructional supplies and books, including textbooks, paper, chalk, and math manipulatives. That’s a contractual right, written into Article 7R of the UFT teachers contract, which states that schools are responsible for providing “appropriate and sufficient basic instructional supplies and books to deliver an effective educational program” for students. “Basic instructional supplies and books” are defined as those without which classroom instruction will be impaired.
BE READY FOR ACTION IF THE MAYOR ANNOUNCES LAYOFFS
If despite the city’s $3.1 billion budget surplus and all our best efforts, Mayor Bloomberg should announce teacher layoffs from now to any time in the summer, we’ll need each and every one of you to be ready to respond immediately and in force. At a moment’s notice we must be ready to rally. This union leaves no educator behind. If the mayor should opt for the drastic and unnecessary recourse of layoffs, we must be ready. We, and our most vulnerable members, will be counting on you. We protect everyone. That is why I need your contact information. I need to collect the non-DOE email address and telephone number of every UFT member in the building. If you haven’t provided me with it yet, email it the email address at the top of this page today.
FIRST DAY BACK
We return to school on Tuesday, September 6, 2011. Both Sept. 6 and 7 will be Chancellor’s Conference Days, and will run from 8:00 AM – 2:50 PM. You are not required back until then. However, if you want to come in a week earlier to set up your room, call in advance. Please do not take furniture from other rooms if you come in earlier.
SUMMER PENSION CLINICS
Tuesday, July 19: Part I, for Tiers I & II, 3:30 to 6:30 p.m., 52 Broadway.
Wednesday, July 20: Part II, for Tiers I & II, 3:30 to 6:30 p.m., 52 Broadway.
Thursday, July 21: Tiers III & IV, 3:30 to 6:30 p.m., 52 Broadway.
Tuesday, Aug. 23: Part I, for Tiers I & II, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., 52 Broadway.
Wednesday, Aug. 24: Part II, for Tiers I & II, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., 52 Broadway.
Thursday, Aug. 25: Tiers III & IV, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., 52 Broadway.
SUMMER CONTACTS UFT Brooklyn Office, 335 Adams Street (718) 852-4900 M-Th, 9-4 UFT Headquarters, 52 Broadway (212) 777-7500 M-F, 9-4 UFT Welfare Fund (212) 539-0500
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