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eakout session topics here until now the innovative assessment demonstration authority iada has been open to a maximum of seven states or consortia of states but only a handful have participated and none have applied since 2020 to jump start interest used officials lifted the cap on the number of states that may apply as you probably remember the iada allows states to use competency based and other models in the assessments they use for federal accountability in exchange for two types of flexibility in their testing programs states can run their new and previous assessment systems at the same time without requiring students to take both tests and they can try out new models with a subset of districts before deciding whether to scale them statewide by the end of the program scott marion the leader of the center for assessment asks the crucial question most people agree that the factory model of education doesn t work if we don t want students learning the same knowledge and skills at the same time as if they re on one big conveyor belt why would we require all the adults in k 12 education to use essentially the same accountability or assessment system we are moving towards significant changes in the assessment and accountability process and continue to ask how can the process help teachers to improve their practice we must be part of the process including teacher unions at the table the board of regents suggests watching a presentation of another approach to assessment watch here i m hopeful 1 comment posted in uncategorized are we replaceable the uaw and writer strikes and technology lesson for teacher unions posted on october 1 2023 leave a comment for the last half century unions have been under attack and the numbers of non government workers in unions has steadily declined today only 6 of non government workers belong to unions in the 1973 movie sleeper uft president shanker is parodied as being responsible for a nuclear war watch video clip here surprisingly public support for unions has increased nick kristoff in a ny times editorial praises the roles of unions and the increasing public support labor unions are a powerful force for equality elevating underpaid workers who otherwise are often treated as doormats the central reality is that as unions declined over the past half century workers were stiffed they were paid poorly they lost health care and retirement benefits and they lost control over their schedules they were robbed of dignity and sometimes of wages as well deaths of despair from drugs alcohol and suicide surged among blue collar workers what happened in the 1970s the united auto workers uaw had over a million members today 150 000 members non unionized facilities in southern states with anti union sentiments competition from foreign car companies automation and the emergence of electric vehicles ei requiring fewer workers and the automobile companies being slow to respond to the growth in demand for evs in 2008 the great recession exploded the combination of an historic recession and financial crisis pushed the american auto industry to the brink of collapse access to credit for car loans dried up and auto sales plunged 40 percent auto manufacturers and suppliers dramatically curtailed production and the automobile industry was a victim faced with catastrophic economic issues faced with bankruptcy the federal government bailed out the companies and the uaw in order to curtail layoffs agreed new employees would not be eligible for pensions and receive salaries 1 3 lower than pre recession members the resurgence of the auto industry was swift the loans from the federal government were repaid and the big three auto companies returned to profitability as the post recession years passed the number of uaw members in the new tier no pension and 1 3 lower salaries than in the pre recession tier continued to increase political divisions within the uaw widened and in the 2022 union election the incumbents were defeated in a very close election with a platform attractive to the post and pre recession members shawn fain the new uaw president immediately set the stage for a strike the uaw strike which includes demands for 40 higher wages and a shift to a 32 hour workweek is part of a more general labor revival in the u s a wave of major strikes is spreading across the country the strike activity in 2023 has already reached levels that haven t prevailed since the 1980s i think the strike is ultimately going to run up against even more powerful forces that severely limit its effectiveness the auto industry is in the middle of a wrenching change like nothing it s ever seen since its creation over a century ago the switch from internal combustion cars to battery powered electrics that change is necessary and even inevitable but it s going to make life a lot more difficult for unionized auto workers in the u s even if the uaw wins on all their demands the shift to electrics is going to reduce the importance of traditional heavily unionized industry clusters like detroit and will transform the nature of auto manufacturing itself how flexibly u s institutions the car companies the government and labor itself can respond to these changes will determine whether union friendly states can avoid a new miniature version of the rust belt just as the movement to ev impacts the automobile industry the power of artificial intelligence ai threatens employment among writer and actors the threat of ai vividly cast the writers plight as a human versus machine clash with widespread implications for other industries facing a radically new kind of automation after a five month strike the writers strike has a tentative settlement with lessons for all unions the tentative deal announced this week by the writers guild of america includes many industry specific aspects such as the size of writers rooms and improved residuals for streaming but everyone from autoworkers to white collar middle managers should be paying very close attention to how this deal was achieved because it sets a monumental precedent for labor relations in a digital future in the past management would often make nearly all technology related decisions before negotiations even began workers and their unions were excluded from early conversations about technology the w g a contract establishes a precedent that an employer s use of a i can be a central subject of bargaining it further establishes the precedent that workers can and should have a say in when and how they use artificial intelligence at work in the past when labor has sought to simply resist or impede technological change it s been completely run over but a i is coming for workers in every sector no matter their academic pedigree or sartorial choices the w g a s success will also reverberate in more traditional ways negotiators for the united auto workers are currently focused on the transition from gas powered to electric vehicles a shift that requires reskilling the work force and potentially shifting production from unionized manufacturers gm ford and stellantis to smaller nonunion suppliers the union is not looking to curtail a shift to electric vehicles but it does want to secure a share of the profits generated by the transition in the form of wage increases investments in reskilling and worker relocation the w g a agreement points a way toward that resolution union and management negotiators can now look to screenwriters for a little precedent and a lot of inspiration teaching is not immune from the generational changes the impact of technology enrollment in teacher preparation programs continue to decline teacher shortages are endemic will technology begin to replace teachers read my blog the teacher shortages can chatbots be unionized here the teacher shortage can chatbots be unionized the new uft contract contains a lengthy section attempting to define virtual teaching with a long list of caveats what management can and cannot do with considerable uncertainty read here p 14 ff the importance of the section of the agreement is the use of new technologies is negotiable chatgpt is less than a year old and already is being used in classrooms how long before a chatbot for every student a virtual teacher personal assistant replacing brick and mortar schools and flesh and blood teachers leave a comment posted in uncategorized teaching migrant children posted on september 25 2023 leave a comment twenty thousand migrant children entered the nyc school system in the 22 23 school year and children continue to arrive while numbers far exceed previous years the city has welcomed migrant children for decades listen to three educators who have devoted their careers to teaching migrant children you are invited to participate in a zoom conference education alumni affiliate group of the alumni association of ccny virtual conference teaching migrant children wednesday september 27 6pm est virtual event zoom free three experts tatyana kleyn principal investigator cuny initiative on immigration and education cuny iie and professor ccny programs in bilingual education tesol lara evangelista executive director internationals network for public schools and katherine kurjakovic coordinator of esl bilingual programs at the uft teacher center will address strategies regarding how teachers and schools can address instruction of migrant children audience participation q a will be encouraged to register click here leave a comment posted in uncategorized how should city unions fight mayoral proposed budget cuts posted on september 23 2023 leave a comment the writers guild has been on strike for 143 days actors are on strike as well as the united auto workers any time you have a labor dispute it s not just between the workers and the management the public s involved too because the public feels the impact of the strike if the public feels it s the union s fault then they can be mad at the union if they feel its management s fault they re going to be mad at the management so both sides are very eager to change public perceptions to make sure that they get the public on their side peter coy ny times 9 21 23 according to polling public support of unions is the highest since 50 s however management is taking tough stances workers at starbucks across the nation and amazon on staten island have formed unions management has refused to enter negotiations the uaw strike could be the beginning of a wave of organizing however there are pitfalls a contract with substantial wage increases and other concessions from the three automakers could announce organized labor as an economic force to be reckoned with and accelerate a recent wave of organizing but there are also real pitfalls a prolonged strike could undermine the three established u s automakers general motors ford and stellantis which owns chrysler jeep and ram and send the politically crucial midwest into recession if the union is seen as overreaching or if it settles for a weak deal after a costly stoppage public support could sour steven ratner in the ny times is in support of the union and also warns unions have an important role to play in redressing imbalances between owners and workers and the autoworkers are certainly deserving of a substantial pay raise that said we need to be careful about killing the goose that lays the golden egg among the uaw s demands is the reopening of the defined benefit plans at all three automakers in addition to the re establishment of retiree healthcare and cost of living adjustments plus 40 salary increases and a reduction to a 4 day 32 hour work week heather cox richardson in her daily blog letter from an american writes shawn fain the new leader of the uaw s position is not just about autoworkers it is about all u s workers our fight is not just for ourselves but for every worker who is being undervalued for every retiree who s given their all and feels forgotten and for every future worker who deserves a fair chance at a prosperous life fain said w e are all fed up of living in a world that values profits over people we re all fed up with seeing the rich get richer while the rest of us continue to just scrape by we re all fed up with corporate greed and together we re going to fight to change it auto plants can be moved to non union states or other nations accelerating what the companies have been doing for decades there is a thin line between aggressive bargaining and overreaching public employees work for a governmental authority strikes in most states are illegal and salaries and other benefits are funded through taxpayer dollars management is elected members of a school board or city councils or state legislatures who negotiate with public employee unions and are also responsible to voters who pay for the raises in the tax dollars in new york city taxes are determined by the state legislature and the governor not the city and by constitution budgets must be balanced new york city is a strong mayor system the mayor appoints about 300 commissioners deputy and associate commissioners and the city council plays no role the city charter gives the council oversight responsibilities meaning hold public hearings and approves the budget due each year by july 1 public employee unions are actually negotiating with management and the public if the public is hostile to the police or teachers it is unlikely the governmental authority will negotiate a contract opposed by the voters public employee contract negotiations in new york state are governed by the public employee relations board perb under perb rules all contracts remain in full force and effect until the successor contract is ratified and perb if both parties accept provide mediation fact finding and non binding arbitration politics is at the core of public employee negotiations and public employee unions commonly reach out to community and advocacy organizations politics has become a dirty word it conjures corruption however politics is the process by which representatives are elected and laws passed and public employee collective bargaining agreements are negotiated a week ago i met justin brennan the chair of the city council finance committee mayor adams is proposing widespread peg cuts 20 million at community colleges and brennan is facing a tough opponent in the november election i set up a meeting between brennan and cuny rising a coalition of twenty organizations fighting for adequate cuny funding all of us should become citizen lobbyists joining local political organizations visit electeds in their local offices face to face meetings speaking at hearings get up from the couch and move beyond facebook and computer screens strikes are a last resort the writers and actors strikes are for the survival of their jobs and the uaw strike also over jobs as the industry shrinks and of course if you choose to strike everybody must join you public employees unions work closely with electeds...