MORE Weekly Update #65, Sept. 2, 2013

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Join MORE Today COMMITTEES: High Stake Testing Committee testing@morecaucusnyc.org Fri. Sept. 6 at 4:30PM Bryant Park / Tables @ NE Side Steering Committee steering@morecaucusnyc.org Mon. Sept. 2nd at 8PM Phone Meeting - RSVP for details Mon. Sept. 16th at 5PM CUNY Grad Center, Rm. 5409 Meeting minutes here Contract Committee contract@morecaucusnyc.org After the citywide CL meeting Wed. Sept. 12th at 6PM Au Bon Pain 70 Myrtle Ave Newsletter Committee news@morecaucusnyc.org Chapter Organizing Committee chapters@morecaucusnyc.org Happy Hour/Discussion: Evaluations Thurs. Sept. 26 ​at 5pm  - Killarney Rose  Meeting minutes here Media Committee media@morecaucusnyc.org FALL GENERAL MEETINGS 3rd Saturday - Noon to 3pm Sep 21 (Evaluations) Oct 19 & Nov 16 Locations & other topics TBA - reply if you have suggestions STAYING IN TOUCH:  Comments? Suggestions? Email update@morecacusnyc.org with items for future updates Want more info? Click below to join our listservs:  News (announcements/articles) Discussion (debate/back-and-forth) Chapter Leader (discussion for chapter activists) Facebook Twitter Email MORE Needs help with folks who can join our Evaluations Working Group. The first conference call will be conducted on Tuesday at 8:30 PM.  Please reply for additional info! Most teachers, students, and parents agree that the city's new teacher evaluation system is a misguided attempt to distract New Yorkers from the real challenges faced by our schools and students.  But what's a teacher to do? Take Action - Share the video and sign the petition for a moratorium on the new evaluations system "We, the educators, parents and community members of New York City, call on State Education Commissioner King, the new Mayor of New York City, and the UFT leadership to implement a MORATORIUM ON THE NEW YORK CITY TEACHER EVALUATION SYSTEM. This system disproportionately weights the use of high stakes test scores over qualitative assessments to determine the quality of teacher performance..." Read the full petition here: http://tiny.cc/MOREpetition In her piece "The Noose or the Sword: Choosing Your Evaluation," Julie Cavanagh (Chapter Leader, PS15K) examines the pros and cons of the three paths - compliance, uber compliance, or the middle way - individual teachers and school-based committees must make in the coming weeks. MORE Newsletter MORE's newsletter is hot off the press.  Sign up to help distribute! And read the newsletter online: morecaucusnyc.org/newsletter Brunch Fundraiser: Saturday, October 5th – 11:30AM-1:30PM Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew 520 Clinton Ave (betw. Fulton St. and Atlantic Ave.) C train to Clinton/Washington Clinton Hil,  Brooklyn   First MORE Meeting: September 21st - 12-3PM NYC location (pick up hard copies of the petition and newsletter; focus on explaining eval and how we are fighting back against it) MORE-DA Action: October 9th – outside/city-wide at schools What We're Reading: New York Times Editorials Reveal A Complete Ignorance of Common Core Stop-and-Frisk City: Does Bloomberg Really Care About Kids' Safety? From the Archives: Ravitch on "Why Teachers Should Never Be Rated by Test Scores"  Moving? If you are changing schools, phone numbers, or addresses, make sure we can stay in touch by updating your information with MORE.

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