UASF Updates #10 – 1.22.21
Negotiations/Meet and Confer/Caucus
1.21.21-Joan and Jolie attended a caucus with the Unions of SFUSD and discussed our proposed cleaning and disinfecting plans. Our next date to negotiate with the Unions of SFUSD and the District is January 29, 2021.
2.4.21-UASF has scheduled a negotiation meeting with the District on February 4, 2021 to discuss professional development.
UASF Cohort Meetings
1.20.21-Jolie met with Cohort 2 and there were many concerns shared around movers on site, one site had multiple workers on site without social distancing and wearing masks, what will summer look like, and the expectation of the site administrator to do both distance and in person duties. Lastly administrators want to know if their budgets will be cut or swept this spring.
Meetings with the District
1.11.21-Follow up- Attached UESF Non Classroom Evaluation Agreement
1.20.21-Caroline met with Dr. Matthews to discuss updates from the Committee of the Whole meeting the previous evening that he shared at the weekly meeting with over 100 site leaders during the inauguration.
1.20.21-The EDs and Officers met with the Superintendent and his Leadership Team. We discussed: on-going increases in responsibilities for UASF members, status of site and department budgets, overall feedback from Wave 2 site leaders regarding safely opening schools to in-person learning, short notice regarding the Student Engagement Logs expectations and impact on staff and site leaders.
1.20.21-Chris Armentrout and Myong Leigh shared with UASF leadership the Re-naming Guideline updates that incorporated additional clarity, the deadline extension and supports UASF members have requested.
1.21.21-EDs met with Deputy Nikki Ford Morthel, Chief Dr. Priestly, Chief Jean Robertson, and Director Joya Balk to share UASF Members’ concerns, recommendations and ideas. We shared WAVE 1 and 2 Administrators’ common concerns and District supports requested prior to reopening sites. We also shared the CO Administrators requests for clear priorities for alignment and focusing their work supporting sites.
We learned site leaders who need support with the dissemination of any C&I student materials and supplies are encouraged to contact C&I leaders for support. More supports and instructional and site readiness models are to be shared with Administrators. Wave 3 Administrators are starting to engage in the Partnership Protocol meetings. We still recommend phase-in reopening sites by Waves to learn from them.
Meetings with CAUSA and Other SFUSD Unions
1.21.21-Caroline, Jolie, and Joan met with CAUSA (California Association Urban School Administrators) The other Districts that were in attendance: San Diego, Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Juan, Oakland and West Contra Costa. The Districts shared whether their administrators were required to report to their worksites with or without students, and the status of re-opening sites.
Meetings with BOE Members
1.21.21-Caroline met with BOE President Gabriela Lopez to discuss building communication structures between our members and the BOE and she graciously accepted an invitation to meet with your executive board representatives
Internal UASF Meetings
1.19.21-The Officers and EDs met. We reviewed budgets, gave updates on meetings with BOE members, began to plan for our upcoming election, and planned questions for the Ex. Bd meeting with Commissioner Matt Alexander on 1.25.21.
1.20.21-Caroline, Jolie, Joan and Shelby met with our web designer and began to narrow down our new logo, font, and color patterns in addition to getting information for the website gathered by next Friday.
CalSTRS Retirement Workshop RSVP Thursday, February 25, 2021 4-5PM
REMINDER-SIGN THE UNIONS OF SFUSD PETITION FOR SAFE SCHOOLS REOPENING The Unions of SFUSD asked each bargaining unit to continue to obtain signatures on the attached petition. UASF has already obtained 42% of our members’ signatures. Please take time to sign the petition (if you have not already) so we can use the data to support our joint work to open schools safely. Please sign if you have not yet signed! The Unions of SFUSD will be sharing the survey response information at this Tuesday’s BOE meeting.