Message from President Josephine Libassi
Hello everyone and Happy Fall! There are a few topics that I just wanted to take a minute to communicate about. These are things that we are talking to the district about as we meet in our regularly scheduled meetings.
Safety is something that MITA has always been concerned about and in conjunction with the District's Safety Committee, we are helping devise a plan to improve the very unsafe daily situation at the HS during the AM arrival time. If there are chronic safety issues at your building, please be sure to communicate them to us.
We have concerns with some extreme student behaviors in our elem. buildings. It is very important that we document these as they occur. If you experience this in your classroom and are reluctant to document, please contact us via your building representative or directly at the MITA office. We are keeping our own documentation of these situations just for MITA. We will not include names when we discuss with the district unless and until they will take an action, such as placing the student in a more appropriate setting, but it is important that we know what is taking place in our elem. classrooms and how it is (or is not) being addressed.
MITA members should all be able to log in to Right Reason and view their SLOs and Targets. If you are not currently able to do that, please utilize your building Technology Coaches and work it out so that you have access. We have issues with the district in terms of the timeliness of information being uploaded and accessible to us on Right Reason. We, however, are not using it collectively with enough consistency for me to be certain who is able to view it and who is not. So it will help us to be able to enforce this if we are all using it and providing feedback as to what we are able to access, and when.
I would also like to give a big THANK YOU to all MITA members who helped out at the NYSUT phone banks for Election Day calls.
Most importantly, I want to thank you all for the support you have shown to me and the entire MITA team. It is much appreciated. I wish you all a very Happy and Healthy Thanksgiving!
