San Juan Teachers Association and San Juan Unified School District 1
A PARTNERSHIP FOR HIGH QUALITY TEACHING 2
3 OVERVIEW The BTSA/PAR Model in SJUSD -Our Beliefs -The People Who Ensure Its Success -The Process Our Challenges and Successes Your Questions
4 Principles and Beliefs Ensure high quality teaching and learning for all students in the San Juan Unified Collaboration and partnership built upon trust and transparency between the District and Union Support for beginning and veteran teachers by teacher leaders
The People Who Ensure Our Success 5
6 The Governance Panel Four teachers and three administrators, includes co-directors Consensus decision making whenever possible Responsible for all personnel, budget, and programmatic issues for BTSA and PAR
7 The Co-Directors Currently SJTA President and SJUSD Assistant Superintendent of Secondary Meet jointly to set agendas and discuss programmatic issues Meet with the Lead CT regularly Serve as communication conduits to their organizations
8 Lead Consulting Teacher Can serve a term of four years with option of two-three additional years upon approval of panel Responsible for day to day operations Has a caseload of beginning teachers and PAR teacher Responsible for ‘staff meetings’ and supporting calibration among CTs
9 Consulting Teachers Four year term Demonstrated knowledge of teaching and learning and ability to work with adults Highly skilled and calibrated (weekly teamwork) Released full time
THE PROCESS 10
Two Types of Support Peer Peer Assistance Assistance and Review Voluntary Involuntary Targeted Support Targeted Support Determined by with a Mandatory the Teacher Improvement Plan
12 Peer ¡Assistance ¡ ¡ Teacher self-identifies need for support and contacts SJTA CT assigned to support teacher Completely confidential process with no evidence collected CT only reports to governance panel if resources are needed or resistance is encountered Principal remains in the role of evaluator
13 PAR ¡(Peer ¡Assistance ¡and ¡Review) ¡ ¡ Improvement plan developed with CT, principal, and teacher Minimum of 3 hours weekly support: observations, coaching, resources Up-dates to panel every 6 weeks At the end of the first year, the governance panel makes a recommendation to HR
What we have learned… 14
Positive Impacts BTSA/PAR collaboration has carried over to other labor-management issues Collaboration, transparency, and trust are norms between union and district Capacity Building of teachers Improvement of teacher quality is our shared responsibility
16 Direct Positive Impacts Some Referred Teachers were competent teachers that needed support and are now excelling Others saw the objective evidence presented and resigned before the year ended
17 On-going challenges… New superintendents and/or school board members can lead to changes in focus and resources Panel and/or CT turnover creates the need for recalibration and training Availability of qualified Consulting Teachers when needed
Extension of this work… Evolving from evaluation to A System of Professional Growth
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