001um hi folks sorry we're late welcome to the study session on the 301 committee um [Music] which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice forever this is a review and uh discussion of the 301 committee plan let's so as we had mentioned before with the committee we wanted to have the committee present proposition on how continental has come to how we distribute funds just since we have new board members today go through the history of 301 and what's been done at continental ny so the committee is here to present to you and we will um it's open a study session is open for questions any clarifying questions that board members have or that teachers have that you want to ask of the board so again a study session is intended for
002dialogue for us prior to making a specific decisions and we know that we're not proposing the 301 plan until may so this is just informational time to clarify questions that you might have so take it away committee so as you know and it's changing as we speak there are three components to the pay for 301 so we have the 20 that went to the base then we have the 40 for the meeting performance goals and then the third one was 40 for duties fulfilled from a list of menu items teacher compensation so part b is uh the performance part of and that's based on the performance paid goals provided by the state of arizona and the 301 committee has the following goals for this school year we're in session right now so we have student
003achievement goals for school year professional development and teacher evaluation demonstrated skills then all certified teachers will use the assessment data stipulated in the 2017 teacher evaluation plan adopted by the governing board in july 2016. then individual teacher performance pay will be determined by the teachers evaluation performance classification of effective or highly effective on their evaluation rubric and pursuant to those particular subsections paragraphs so then this was like written into the plan probably three years ago for the state that 33 of this 40 of part b has to come from this right there from our actual evaluation and the rubric that follows that then for part c which tends to be more of the in question of our plan is that we have one category we have category one committees and we have category two committees
004and then we have a category three which is in the involvement of after school activities with regular meeting attendance active participation and committee activities required and then a reduction in pay if you do not fulfill these so in category one it's all about academic leadership for students to achieve we have at least one meeting per month per committee so we have the 301 which is ongoing all the time overseeing and then we have up to this year we have six members on it we have our child support team then we try to have two teachers from that particular area pk through three and then teachers from grades one through eight and then we have the curriculum committee with this year working very very diligently in a new map curriculum then and again we try to
005get a variance of all the different overview with teachers giving their input then the next committee is the emergency committee and through the years that has really driven on how we look what we do from fire drills to um if we would have to evacuate the school all of that stuff so it's done really well so then we go from that into the one of the last committee's instructional technology committee and they basically um work with albert on assisting him for all of the different things that are out there programs ideas and so forth and they also show us in professional development some of this so then we have pbis and so pbis is our whole look of trying to have students be safe kind of responsible and how that program looks and we have
006about four members then lastly we have the administration advisory committee that meet with our administration and they are a sounding board as well as working with ideas for the whole flow of the school and again we try to have a teacher representation throughout the school on that committee so then in category two um it is our employee welfare and morale for student achievement because it all needs to be one combined trying to be for student achievement and success so we have the audio visual committee and it explains there what they do with the setups takedowns and everything else that they need to do then next we have the um the foundation board and us working with the teachers who are on it working with the continental foundation and making that a success for our school
007then we have the ptc uh liaisons that work with ptc on the different things from whether it's the holiday store or it's the teacher appreciation whatever it is that they're working on we're there to assist them we have our red ribbon week which is an anti-drug campaign that we do with else and our love of reading we have the sunshine committee which is again reaches out if there is a death in one of the staff members family whether there is a wedding a birth whatever it is surgery there there the sunshine committee then the volunteer recognition committee which in the past has been like our volunteer brunch has a different look this year but we want to recognize all those great volunteers that help our school so then each one each person who is in
008301 is also with the family activity night which looks different this year we've had to go digital with it but have had some great nights presented so we've had the art night the literacy night i think math night was recent and science night i noticed then lastly will be the career day which will again look different but it's been really a neat way to be able to reach out to the families though we can't bring them on the campus we still are reaching out to have that rapport with our families so then it tells you requirements about meetings and um again meetings again via email as opposed to in person and that's just for the family activity night and so all of that is laid out so that nobody asks questions everybody understands what they're
009committed to then we need the next one um we do have guidelines for teachers being respectful of one another as far as being on time and the meetings how they are going to be run and how if you're sick or not able to attend a meeting than how you make it up and it's way more than just attending meetings it's a lot of time involved before and after in all of these activities we do and all these people can attest to the time that they have put in so then we also have it laid out um that you can do an alternate duty if you miss something and then next one monica and then um when things need to be turned in so we also have guidelines that like this activity night is a one-time
010shot so we need everybody's attendance and participation because when we were live on campus we were anywhere from 50 to 75 people coming to it so it needed the whole committee effort again we talk about if you miss things and what you would be penalized for not participating as a committee member and then um then we go into um the after school things so keep going monica so we have the sports supervision but it didn't look like that this year and so that we track need supervision again did it happen this year but it really bonds us those of us yeah it does when we're out there and if kinder and first grade teachers are seeing their sixth seventh and eighth grade teachers participating it's it's a real it's exciting and it's a lot of
011fun okay and just to clarify those track meets like the t the teachers are all working the track meet we're not there just supervising we're lane timers we're the long jump it we are raking the pit and that's usually two track meets in the spring and we're usually here until about six o'clock easily after but we we are known for having some of the best run track meets in southern arizona i mean the schools that come to our district parents are impressed parents from other schools are very impressed and it's they're a lot of work yeah and so then also we assist ptc because sadly to say they don't give the parent involvement that they used to so we're a big shot and they are for the teacher part of ptc and then normally we
012have our evening fall winter spring performances and we all pitch in and supervise and help and do whatever we need to do that mr ferguson mr merzin would have job duties for everybody so then again it talks about if you have missed and doing alternate duties if they are available and then how to get all of this into we have a very sophisticated spreadsheet that it all goes into individual one for each teacher because the auditors definitely want to make sure that the school is that the teachers are doing what they committed to do and mrs collay has perfected that in a really nice individual sheet for first semester second semester then we talk about not being able to fulfill things and then go on it is optional we do vote at the end of
013school of the school year for the next year's plan you have to get 70 of the votes of teachers uh to be in that and then we also have that part-time teachers can participate and theirs is on a ratio of their employment contract and so then we talk about when it is distributed at winter break and the last hate period in june so then we have some things for the teachers to remember um and big tips about if you're at the game and signing in and that um let's see that minutes when they are due so that we can make sure we have everything tallied to tell the business office yes this person has met their uh commitment of 301 for first semester second semester and the due dates so to speak and then we
014talk about the pay because the plan the state said we have to specifically have some type of thing that the teachers can see how they're paid of 301 whether they get 100 percent of the part c is what we're talking about right now depending on their work assistance meetings and follow through of every day and then so same thing are we there monica yeah okay then i also gave kind of just a brief history letter from me to the board um since i'm the only staff member that started with 301 um i did try to explain that as we started what continental would look like for 301 that we had teachers super attendant and two board members that devised uh what we were going to do we looked with some advice from aea watch other
015districts after the first year second year of where we should be headed what was a good thing to do in the 301 plan not to do an israel one plan but i feel like it's in the years that i've been in it and helped organize it that it truly assists teachers to be compensated for their hard work for more pay and it's been a hiring lure for our district to say our 301 teachers have earned this um we're always in the bottom half and i would even probably say probably the bottom quarter or third of pay in the state as a school district so 301 it's not anything that somebody has not worked really hard to be part of to gain 100 of the money and the voters intended when they passed it in 2000
016that teachers were to get 100 percent of the money the state put parameters through the years we have had especially for part c tried some different things suggestions from the state and then we fine-tuned it to where we're at when 301 started i think wendy and jenny and myself can attest that we did all this stuff with no pay so when 301 came it was let's make it fit that we are compensated for all these additional duties that we do and it's not that we're complaining about the duties because i think it's what makes continental a great school all of these different things we do but that we receive compensation so any questions and it could look a lot different next year in parts or the year after we're not sure where they're headed with
017it but um truly it's not it's not 301 where teachers just go to meetings so all of you can attest it's a lot of work with whatever committee you're on okay well and two i think the well done [Applause] when you look at arizona as a state where it ranks nationwide it is it is difficult to find teachers in the state of arizona every year schools are deficient in being able to fill teaching positions so this 301 was passed with the idea of trying to make us more attractive to people to attract teachers to the teaching profession because nationwide we are again at the bottom what um [Music] i checked with two districts because i have a husband that's in one district up the road and i have a brother-in-law that's in a district down
018the road um the districts do have the choice to use that towards teachers you know um you know filling positions with some of that money but they really try to give schools are committed to giving 100 of that money to the teachers um i will say this compared to the two other districts that i can compare to continental teachers work in incredibly a great deal more for that 301 money than what i see my husband having it dude for his 301 i came from one of those districts and i can definitely attest to that it's a lot of work um what you saw on the slide shows was when we meet and how many times we meet either a month or semester but what you don't see on that is how many things we have
019to do outside of that and how much we have to do i'm in the child support committee so we only meet once a month however i'm meeting four times a week with kids in preschool through third grade to check on how they're doing academically socially emotionally and then ms wilcox and i are pulling about 30 kids in the next month or so to go over testing strategies things like that and that's all on our own time so our lunch our planning time things like that so it's not just the meetings that we're attending it's a lot of work [Music] so we got it like we do here however for our through one money we did get all of it but all we had to do was attend one meeting every two months and it was
020almost like a like a training class so you'd go we'd read a book it's usually a book study and then that was it yeah and it fairs yes exactly because tusd at one point was putting some into the medical right um different sites had different goals when we had the seven of them from salvation district one their goals was as teachers who turned lights off in rooms yeah curb electricity it just has been some have um things about your certification and being tusd at one time paid an additional 301 to those teachers who are nationally um i do know somebody the school district puts more towards the base so they don't get that christmas payment that we all love very much um they just get the they just get the uh they'll get a lump
021sum in the summer which is comparable to what we get so more is added to their face and each district it depends like i can find kyreen really they can find some districts 301 plans on their website and it's very accessible and through the years i would scan them and look at them and bring them back to the committee well they're doing this and so and so they're doing this and what do you think about this and then we had feedback from our auditors too as well on documentation what could be in the plan or not in the plan so um it just varies the and obviously won't be the three what i call buckets you know that a b and c next year of how they're doing but they've not given any clear guidance
022of how that base pay and performance pay and then being careful with um with the monies and stuff and not i don't know i'm i'm curious to see what guidelines the state finally comes up with it's very unclear for the future is there somebody who's doing it better than we are i don't think anybody's doing better what we do what i see is i see many so what we're doing is in the best interest of the teachers and the students in the school because i feel like all of those category one committees on part c and the category two and then and the three right they really well-rounded our school and our kids and really pushing for academics and stuff so yeah i haven't been truly i think we are the most hardworking and when
023we tell other teachers about it they always look at us like ours yeah they're doing all that you know so but i really think it drives continental so what can we do better in which way the distribution of the funds the awarding of the teachers the ensuring that we can attract the top talent within so my biggest concern is that i see it looks like in that senate bill that's the only thing i can see is where they marked us in senate bill and others tell us it's passed and so forth i can't see the completed bill yet but what worries me is that it does allow for other programs to come out of 301 like summer program but our district already has the money for that so my concern is in leaving and retiring
024is that these that stay that they are compensated well for what they do and real one is part of that that you know there have been years that we many of us that have been here have been frozen for several years seven years and you know at least we had our little pie in the sky that we worked hard for with the 301 and that continued and stuff so i really hate to see anything started at continental that would take from the 301 that was it because it was to compensate teachers because arizona has not done a good job of doing that have you used the request to speak to address the bill yeah has anyone so just to clarify right now our part c is considered the compensation increases on the bill that's what
025they're saying which is what the bill is saying will be no longer right they're saying that the funds will be in the base paid and performance what percentage do we happen to see it does talk about teacher compensation and that's again where i'm confused when i went through the senate bill there is something and that's why i'm like so what's it gonna look like because i'm seeing a lot on the base and performance but then somewhere else i read on the senate bill 11 39 about other teacher compensation i think where they talk about the summer programs and tutoring programs and stuff like that so it is still compensation it increases for summer school or for nationally board certification or for hard to fill positions or whatever right it's not the compensation like like we've
026been doing so again as i mentioned to you as a committee when our superintendent county soups met you know we don't understand why this was even on the table the superintendents didn't know it was coming and you know most of the superintendents are like what we're doing is working because we've had committees of teachers and board members already come to an agreement so those were going to be our questions in terms of you know what can we do to get our opinion out there yeah it's like they've written something but there's no directions yet on how to use it how or really when right and that's so we need to have a plan that aligns to this or is it something like with the state standard that they can they give you a couple years
027to put something into place and follow and be able to teach those standards so right now if it's just kind of up there we kind of have an idea from this senate bill but beyond that we don't have clear instructions we just know they're eliminating the three pops that's why it's important over here questions from you folks suggestions thoughts i don't have a question but i have more of a statement this is my first year so i didn't do all the track meets and all of that so the school i came from we didn't have to do all of that either it was we had to give benchmarks and however they scored that's what it was but i took a paid cut to come up here which was odd for me because i'm coming i
028came from border towns like my kids you know it just to come up here to the more affluent area i was very surprised um this would be my 12th year teaching at my master's like i found everything that i'm supposed to have but to hear that we our funds are trying to be taken away like that or we're separating them like well let's use it to pay for this that is what fathers at least meet because i know i suppose and i literally came to the school because i was told it was the best i couldn't i don't know anyone here i didn't know anyone here i literally was told it's a great school they have sports i have three kids um and they always have the community involved it's on the circus but it's
029in carnival i haven't seen it but i purely applied at the school just based off of the suggestions of the community and so it it's known that continental is a really good school and that we have all of these extra things it's just this year was a little different which was out of our hands we couldn't do anything so we all tried i'm on all the committees and everything you know we were meeting late we were staying again i have three kids i have one sitting in the car right now i have two at home and they had to sit out and wait while we stay after school or we come ready for meetings so it's just slightly disheartening to hear that we want to pull some of your funds to pay for something else
030and even though we're the ones out there working hard for it after school before school we're here with kids that's why we're all teachers we're here for kids that's why we do what we do that's what i want to say it's a good hiring a good hiring because the 301 over you know counteracted my decrease in what i was getting into my contract so that is part of the reason why i was like oh that's even more so because i don't know so you understand that some of the people on your border are fighting for you in the senate right yes but i just want to make sure that we're getting it we don't want any of it to be full to start paying for other funds for other things right it's a senate bill
031though and that's why i would encourage all of you to get involved and do the request to speak and you know i know you probably can't leave school but maybe during your planning period or your lunch hour you can get on and you can get a request to speak or you can give a thumbs up or a thumbs down and they they are paying attention to that and i think at the last board meeting i mentioned you know we we need to stay on top of this stuff uh we don't know as a school i don't think we as a board i don't believe that we have a lobbyist that's working but we are watching those bills and i think you know i'm watching them and i we are concerned as well because we want
032to keep the top talent that is here and we want to attract top talent to work with you do we know the impetus for timeness what what what the rationale is for this change does anybody know really though yeah yeah i know yeah our first question is what's miracle in january that they were talking about doing this and then it has just kind of kept going which i didn't expect it to with the copied and everything like how can you act one more layer to a school district right now during these times and yeah it is and from what you said right right it is now passed yes it's the status of this bill is signed and is assigned to chapter 67. so it doesn't say governor's sign it just says sign but i can
033give you a little bit of a background this was actually a senate bill that was introduced last year but died in the senate education so we've never made it out of the education this year it's there was a there was one in a house last year as well and i believe he had also died in the house education committee um but there's a bill in both houses they both passed they reconciled and this is where we're at i mean there's not much that we can do from this point um as i told dina there hasn't been a whole lot of guidance that has come out i have no idea what the effective date of this is going to be because some bills have effective dates that are a year down the road some have you
034know at the beginning of the fiscal year so i as of right now i still don't have that information there's been no guidance from ade or anyone else as to how that that performance pay and the base pay is supposed to be allocated so there's nothing there i mean right now the way i'm reading it it's all up in the air it's up to you guys to propose something to the board whether it be a 50 50 split 60 60 40 if you want to just using round numbers if total 301 payments five thousand dollars you have to propose and it would be up to the board to approve that four thousand nine hundred ninety nine dollars performance pay and a dollar went into your base or vice versa or you know but right now
035there is no guidance as to how to do any of that so then because of that there's no effective date there's no guidance whatever is it possible to try to not fix something that isn't broken as far as concern would it be possible to vote on the plan as we have it since if you're asking for an opinion i would say to propose like you would normally propose and if we have if work comes down down the road that this is how it has to be and it's completely different than how our plan is and we'd have to go back to the drawing board bring to another plan and get it voted on and get it approved but i my opinion would be status quo until we give more information and i have a superintendency
036in pima county soup meeting on thursday so we will bring this to the table and this is where i mean we might form letters for the governor to you know maybe get a letter with all of your signatures on it coming from continental um to address that and also as they look at it which now permits bending for student support services which is otp and as you know the cost to educate special needs students is very expensive and so we don't get the money the full funding for a special needs student so i imagine that districts nationally are struggling paying otpts and they don't in the past they haven't benefited from 301 monies because it was strictly classroom teachers and the support services for otp were not included in that right so with the whole
037movement on equity and special needs students i imagine that really had um you know a play in this decision so job site i i'm just looking for a little a little bit of clarity which i think all of us are on on the bill but it's my understanding that the bill the bill does a couple things it it changes the framework for 301 um and how to construct a 301 plan um it it makes it easier to allocate 301 funds to to to expenditures that elsewhere other than other than performance pay but it doesn't it doesn't make it harder to get those 301 funds to teachers you just need to adjust the framework is that is that true correct okay so we though we may be required to adjust the framework we could still or
038the district could still do decide to invest the same percentage of 301 fun 301 monies received by the state to teachers correct so the state is not saying that you can no longer distribute 100 to teachers you have okay so thank you so maybe this will help because i've got the bill in front of me um here are the changes to how the money can be distributed um it originally said teacher compensation increases they've struck increases and put in including a base pay the performance pay component and then they added student support services which was the new new otp and school psychologists those are the only changes to the framework as to how but to go to your point the 20 40 40 is gone does that help answer your question joe no that answered
039my question i was just curious if the state was saying um you you can are moving forward you can only uh you can only distribute 60 to teachers and the other 40 needs to go elsewhere there isn't there's no language in there that says that okay so if you kind of put this in that smorgasbord of items that it can be used for it can still be used for classroom size reduction they can still be used for assessment intervention programs teacher development dropout prevention programs teacher liability insurance framework those are still in there we as continental have never at least as far back as i can see we have never done any of that and all of this has gone strictly into teacher compensation incomes so it could be that performance paid whatever percentage we
040decide to go for um based base pay and salary pay we could still include a percentage of performance k to look like some of part c does it say we can't have buckets within the two buckets right no okay so so on the 15th so thursday when i meet with the superintendents we'll have more direction as to what we can do but we really do have to start to begin thinking proactively to get our word out to the governor because he's the one that's gonna determine when this is gonna go into effect and really what the parameters will be for arizona for our teachers but i thank you very much for this time two minutes left so real quick in the years that i've been on the board in that that we really try to
041put as much money as available to you guys i mean seriously there's not anything getting over i mean there's a little of course for a rainy day in case we've got to fill a position but that's it it's like when the red bread came about all that money women out so i don't see any reason why the 301 would be any different obviously we don't know what color it's going to look like when it comes in but just to be sure that we recognize where arizona is on the totem pole which is shameful even if you add all the other stuff into it but we as a district are doing the best we can to to help you guys as best we and we really do appreciate you thank you thank you for the comment
042i you know it was strictly up to me and it wasn't finances whatsoever i think every starting salary for a teacher ought to be sixty thousand dollars right that's my opinion uh and ten fifteen years later uh if you're a good teacher and you're and the kids are learning and they're progressing we ought to have six digit salaries for some teachers i really believe that um and so yeah we're going to do and continue to do everything we can to enhance the the compensation of of the staff here at continental and work in any way we can with the restrictions that we get out of phoenix thank you all for choosing us for coming to work here um many of you have have taught my kids very graciously my dad and i do really appreciate
043everything that you guys do and it's my understanding all these hoops you have to jump through to earn the 301 funds you guys came up with that yourself i i was i'm really impressed compared to other school districts how much less harder they are working for theirs i i think it says a lot about this the school and whom they have working here so thank you very much thank you so i just wanted what will be happening you know and maybe i'm reading into this i just i do want to just share this because i i've been here in the school district since 1995. um my father-in-law was on the school board and i remember our superintendent steve mcallister who along with my father-in-law would regularly go to phoenix to advocate for education for teachers
044and i remember steve mcallister one of his favorite things to say was he said public enemy number one in the state of arizona is public education and so i and maybe i'm reading too much into this bill but i feel like you know you have all these school districts saying fund us fund us school districts are wanting funding and all this kind of stuff and i just kind of feel like this has been opened this bill so that we're scrambling and fighting amongst ours not fighting amongst ourselves that's just a word but like we're scrambling because you know all these extra programs that are needed for kids otp which you know when you have a student with an individ individualized education plan that those services have to happen and now they're opening it up and
045saying well gee if you really want it and you know it's necessary take it from 301 and then you won't have to worry about it being funded and so i i hate to sound kind of jaded but i i do feel like because education is not properly funded in in arizona maybe i'm reading into it too much but i that that's my take on the background that's why i asked the question if people know where this bill is coming from so there's another little piece of that as well um there's some plantings lost within the state of arizona the way we do this okay if we were already had otp that we were paying we cannot use the 301 to supplant those payments we have to continue to pay those people out if we have
046school psychologists on staff and we're already paying them out of our ml funds we cannot supplant that that that salary with that real loan okay okay so in some of your larger districts that actually have those positions that are paid for it's it's essentially safe but when you've talked to your smaller districts like us who don't have otp on staff who don't have a psychologist allows the opportunity to get that staff but they were out of the real life and also our federal title funds are decreasing so as you saw in the powerpoint we're gonna have you know a hundred thousand dollars less than federal grant money for title one title two type of port which is what we use to pay summer school and we're it's 25 000 for us to run summer school
047for the month of june so again we have to figure out where in our budget where we're going to cut that hundred thousand dollars because we feel that money's valuable for our materials our resources curriculum teacher compensation for professional development book studies summing school so again we have to figure that out too yeah so you very much