Showing posts with label MORE Weekly Update. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MORE Weekly Update. Show all posts

Friday, May 23, 2014

MORE UPdate - VOTE NO Then Attend a MORE Happy Hour Today

I'll be at Freddy's in Park Slope for the happy hour from 4-6 - just one of the many MORE happy hours around the city today -- see below.

Reasons to VOTE NO: PDFs you can print and distribute for your colleagues:

Tentative Agreement Fact Sheet
Vote No Flyer
Retro delayed is retro denied (Eterno)
Why the wait is not over (Cavanagh)
What happens if we vote it down? (Lamphere)

Inform yourself about the contract proposal

Join MORE Today! IMPORTANT EVENTS

Happy Hours
Friday, May 23
Park Slope, Brooklyn
Freddy's Backroom
627 5th Ave. 4-6pm

Kew Gardens, Queens
Austin's Ale House,
4:30-7pm

Next General Meeting
Saturday, June 7, 12-3pm
Location TBA

Steering Committee
steering@morecaucusnyc.org
Thursday, May 22, 5:30 pm
Skylight Diner (9th & 34th)

 

Vote NO! 

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Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Next MORE Meeting: What do you think about the Common Core?

Some of you might think why does MORE need to decide on a position on the common core? It should be a no-brainer. Well it is not. There are many progressives out there who are not clear about the issue, especially with the propaganda mill from the UFT/AFT, major corporations, the entire educational top level leadership etc. MORE has not had time and now is the time to refine things. Even if you can't make the meeting email MORE with ideas: more@morecaucusnyc.org.


Come to the general meeting November 16th
to help decide MORE's position on the Common Core
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Our next general meeting will discuss what position our caucus should take on the Common Core. Check out some of the links below for the latest commentary.  Join us to add your voice!

Anthony Cody: Common Core Fails the Test
NYC Educator: Common Core Geniuses
Perdido Street: Why Common Core Will Fail

   
Check out pictures of the Oct 30th "Funeral" to protest colocations at the PEP. Video on Ed Notes
The campaign for a moratorium on test-based evaluations continues!  

Please make sure you have collected signatures on our petition from your colleagues.
Please consider bringing it before a chapter meeting so your chapter can endorse (see model letter here)
Print a copy here.   Sign and share the electronic version of the petition, as well.

Petitions can be returned before November 13th (scan and email to to more@morecaucusnyc.org or send hard copies via mail to 305 E. 140th #5A, Bronx, NY, 10454). 

Test Boycotts spread!

 

Students at Stuyvesant high school became the latest to boycott the new tests from the evaluation system.

Sign a petition in support of the Castle Bridge Elementary School parents who boycotted.
Read more in the Indypendent and hear from the school's principal in Schoolbook about why she supports the boycott.

Resistance News Roundup

Nearly 1,000 Rally Against Senator Flanagan
Port Jefferson Teachers Association

Who's Really Behind Campbell Brown's Sneaky Education Outfit?
Mother Jones

Small High Schools are Better, Say Small School Advocates
Assailed Teacher

Chris Christie and Why Teaching Intersects With Women's Rights
The Jose Vilson
Read more about the event and download a flyer by clicking above.  Join an ongoing support group of educators dealing with supervisory harassment by emailing DTOE+subscribe@googlegroups.com 

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Make Sure You Join Our Listservs!
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News (announcements/articles)
Discussion (debate/back-and-forth)
Chapter Leader (discussion for chapter activists)

NEXT GENERAL MEETING
Sat., Nov. 16th, 12-3pm
224 W 29th St 14th fl.
(btwn 7th and 8th ave)

SAVE THE DATE!
Holiday Party!
Friday, Dec. 6th, 5-9pm
O'Reilly's
21 W 35th St (betw. 5th & 6th).

COMMITTEES:

Newsletter Committee
news@morecaucusnyc.org
TODAY Tue., Nov. 5th, 5PM
Karavas Place
162 W 4th St @ 6th Ave

Steering Committee
steering@morecaucusnyc.org
Mon. Nov. 11th, 5PM
Meeting minutes here

Membership Committee
membership@morecaucusnyc.org
Sat., Nov. 26th, 11AM - 1PM
Park Slope
Email for exact location

Contract Committee
contract@morecaucusnyc.org
Next Meeting Wed. Nov. 20th after DA
Location TBA

Chapter Organizing Committee
chapters@morecaucusnyc.org
Planning Meeting Nov. 21st, 5PM
Location TBA

High Stake Testing Committee
testing@morecaucusnyc.org

Media Committee
media@morecaucusnyc.org

STAYING IN TOUCH: 
Comments? Suggestions?
Email update@morecacusnyc.org with items for future updates

Friday, October 25, 2013

MORE Weekly Update #72: Petition vs. Evals, Parent Anti-test Revolt, PEP Protest, and MORE!

Protest Colocations at the PEP on October 30th
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Weekly Update #72
October 24, 2013

Join MORE Today
 The campaign for a moratorium on test-based evaluations continues!  

Please make sure you have collected signatures on our petition from your colleagues.
Print a copy here.   Sign and share the electronic version of the petition as well.

Petitions can be returned before November 13th (scan and email to to more@morecaucusnyc.org or snail mail to 305 E 140th #5A, Bx, NY, 10454). 

Support the Parent Test Boycott!


80% of Castlebridge parents opted their children out of K-2 testing.80% of families at Castlebridge elementary opted out of K-2 exams imposed by the new eval system.

Sign a petition in support of them
Read more from the Daily News, Real News Network, and Diane Ravitch.

The latest from MORECaucusNYC.org...

There they go again. The newspapers are filling their pages with stories about “bad teachers”.... It’s all part of this mayoral administration’s continued push to transform the profession of teaching into an ‘at-will’ job, so that it can fire as many of us as it would like. Read more...
Carry out the UFT Resolution on Diversity!
One of the defining features of mayoral control in NYC under Bloomberg has been a sharp decline in the hiring of Black and Latino educators since 2002. Read more...
When “Advance” Really Hit Home: The Very Human Cost of High Stakes Testing

My students did not take the news about the Performance Assessment well. In fact, it was kind of a wrenching experience- their faces could not have been more pained if I had run over their dogs. Read more...
Please help out with this action. Click here for quarter sheet flyers to distribute to your colleagues.
Outraged that teachers are evaluated on tests for subjects they don't even teach?
 
City-wide Chapter Organizing Happy Hour!
 
Share reports about how the new teacher evaluation system is being implemented and plan resistance to this unfair and fraudulent method of evaluating teachers.

Friday, November 1st, 5pm

The Ginger Man Bar: 11 E. 36th St
(btw 5th & Madison)
Any train to Herald Sq. or 6 to 33rd.
Read more about the event and download a flyer by clicking above.  Join an ongoing support group of educators dealing with supervisory harassment by emailing DTOE+subscribe@googlegroups.com 
Our Schools are Not for Sale! - Watch an 8 minute mini-documentary about the fight to defend public education in Philadelphia against massive budget cuts.
MORE Newsletter

Sign up to help distribute MORE's newsletter, "MORE Stuff in Your Mailbox," to your colleagues.

Reply to this email if you can pick up copies or would like to help distribute it, or pick up copies at our general meeting.

And read the newsletter online:
morecaucusnyc.org/newsletter
 
Make Sure You Are On Our Listservs!
Click below to join: 

News (announcements/articles)
Discussion (debate/back-and-forth)
Chapter Leader (discussion for chapter activists)

NEXT GENERAL MEETING
Sat., Nov. 16th, 12-3pm
224 West 29th St 14th fl.
(btwn 7th and 8th ave)

COMMITTEES:
Chapter Organizing Committee
chapters@morecaucusnyc.org
Happy Hour Fri., Nov. 1st, 5pm
The Ginger Man Bar
11 E. 36th St (btw 5th & Madison).

High Stake Testing Committee
testing@morecaucusnyc.org
Sat., Nov 2nd, 2pm
Location TBA

Steering Committee
steering@morecaucusnyc.org
Phone Meeting Mon. Nov. 4th, 8PM
Reply for details
Meeting minutes here

Newsletter Committee
news@morecaucusnyc.org

Tue., Nov. 5th, 5PM
Karavas Place

162 W 4th St @ 6th Ave

Membership Committee
membership@morecaucusnyc.org

Media Committee
media@morecaucusnyc.org


Contract Committee
contract@morecaucusnyc.org

STAYING IN TOUCH: 
Comments? Suggestions?
Email update@morecacusnyc.org with items for future updates