Evaluation Advisory Team

The parties agree to continue the work of the Advisory Group which shall review the evaluation processes and procedures annually through the 2016-2017 school year and recommend adjustments to the parties, as well as discuss other parts of this evaluation noted as needing further negotiations. Recommendations from this group shall be forwarded to the parties for negotiations and ratification. 

Meeting Dates
September 23 - Reconstitute working group - membership & charge of subgroups

October 14 - First subgroup meeting - determine meeting schedule & timeline
January  6 -  Subgroup work

March 24 - Subgroup reports
May 26  - Reflection & Agenda 2105-16

Members

Julie Babson

Tricia Clifford

Janice Darias

Cliff Gallant

Denise LaPolla

Kathryn McCabe

Erin McCarthy

Craig McMahan

Kathryn Mitchell  

Mary Pederson

John Phelan

Dori Pulizzi

Dan Richards

Lindsay Rinder

John Sullivan

Belmont School Committee Meetings

October 7, 2014

6:30 - Reception for Professional Status Teachers

7:00 - Recognition of Professional Status Teachers

7:30 - Business Meeting 

October 21, 2014

6:30 - Reception with Boston parents - Boston Elder Services 

October 28, 2014

7:30 - Business Meeting 

Building Powerful Organizations

October 23, 2014

4:00-7:00

Building Powerful Organizations
Common Grounds

319 Broadway Street, Arlington

4:00-Welcome and Introductions

4:15-Developing Organizational Structures to Maximize Power

4:50-Running Powerful Committees

5:30-Dinner & Fostering Communications with One-on-Ones

6:30-Building Effective Communications: (Re)Starting Your Charting

7:00-Thank you and good bye

First Friday - October 4th

What: First Friday Monthly BEA Social
When: Friday, October 4th - After School (3:00)
Where: Miller’s Ale House - 617 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA 02472
Why: Opportunity to connect with Belmont colleagues.

Honk! Festival Oct. 10-12

Participate in the Honk! Festival and march with labor in the Red Bandanna Brigade 

More than 20 activist street bands from around the world will be coming to Somerville for the annual Honk! Festival Oct. 10-12.  The bands will be linking up with unions and economic justice groups on Friday, performing for free in Davis Square on Saturday afternoon and evening and marching in a huge parade from Davis Sq. to Harvard Sq. with community groups on Sunday.  Learn more about the entire Honk! Festival here.

The Sunday parade to "Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet" will include over 60 bands and community groups!  Learn more about the SundayParade here.  The parade leaves Davis Square at 12 noon, travels down Elm Street, then Beech Street onto Massachusetts Ave to Harvard Square.

The union-backed Red Bandanna Brigade* will (with creative input from you!) again be marching in this year's parade.  Our pro-labor message for thousands of parade spectators will promote winning Earned Sick Time for Massachusetts workers and "Yes on Question 4."  Other pro-labor messages are welcome too!  Please RSVP on Facebook or email rand.wilson@gmail.com.

* Red bandannas were worn by miners in the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain -- the largest armed uprising in American labor history -- when between 10,000 and 15,000 coal miners confronted company-paid private detectives in an effort to unionize the southwestern West Virginia mines. During the battle, coal miners wore red bandannas around their necks to identify themselves as union supporters.  The Red Bandanna Brigade keeps that militant spirit alive by wearing red bandannas and marching in parades to spread labor's message to thousands of people in the greater Boston area!

NEA Survey

Good morning/afternoon,

You should have received an email from Ramona Oliver, National Education Association Senior Director in the Center for Communications, regarding a survey that Lake Research Partners is conducting on behalf of NEA. Your individual answers are confidential and will be aggregated for analysis. The survey includes a portion in which you will hear a spoken message, so you will need to turn your speakers on in order to complete the survey.

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GOOD MORNING MISSION HILL SCREENING

You're invited to the Boston-area premiere of the filmGOOD MORNING MISSION HILL, a documentary portrait of the Mission Hill School in Boston, a democratically-run, progressive public school that educates a diverse student body.

The screening will be Thursday, Sept. 25, at the main branch of the Somerville Library, 79 Highland Avenue at 6 pm.

“We want to use the film to spark a community-wide discussion about our hopes and dreams for the Somerville Public Schools to complement city-wide discussions about the kind of leadership our school district needs,” says Sarah Phillips, a parent at East Somerville Community School parent who is one of the organizers. Somerville will choose a new superintendent this year.

So will Boston.

Geralyn McLaughlin, one of the school's founding teachers, will be there, as will the two film makers,Amy and Tom Valens, who are here from California.

There's more about the film at goodmorningmissionhill.com.