Committees

Instructional Contract

Article XIII. Teacher Appraisal

Section 14. Appraisal Committee

(a) The Association and the Superintendent agree to form a Teacher Appraisal Committee.  The committee shall be composed of five teachers, appointed by the Association, and five administrators, appointed by the Superintendent.  The committee shall elect one of its members to serve as chairperson.

(b) The committee will be charged with an annual review of the current collective bargaining agreement language with respect to teacher appraisal, current observation and appraisal forms and will make any

Instructional Contract

APPENDIX K

Alachua County Teacher Assistance Program
Revised April 2005

Purpose and Overview:

It is the intent of the Alachua County Teacher Assistance Program to involve teachers in the responsibility of maintaining teaching standards at the highest level.  Teachers will share the responsibility for identifying teachers in need of assistance, providing expertise and peer support in the role of Consulting Teacher, offering professional judgment with regard to the identified teacher’s performance, and recommending further action to be taken.  Teacher participation in the

What is A-TIGER?

ACEA does not directly donate funds to political campaigns.  However, there are many political issues that impact public education.  It’s important for those ACEA members who want to participate in the political process to have an avenue for doing so. Therefore, a Political Action Committee was formed called Alachua Totally Involved in Government and Education Reform (A-Tiger).  Since no regular union dues are given to political campaigns, A-Tiger serves a vital service in promoting political candidates and issues that directly impact our public schools. 

How does A-Tiger decide

Instructional Contract

Article V, section 3. School Calendar

The Association and the Superintendent or his designee will develop a tentative school calendar(s) including those items commonly found in the districtwide twelve-month school calendar(s).  This calendar(s) will be submitted to the Board before March 1 for its consideration and will include an indication of the desires of teachers in relation to the calendar(s).  Calendars may be for more than one (1) year.

Should the Board determine that it is necessary to change the calendar(s), the Association and the Superintendent or his designee

Wages and working conditions are all negotiated through a  collective bargaining process.  The School Board and ACEA each have representatives who come together throughout the year to collectively bargain the terms of the two different contracts.  There is a contract for all instructional staff and another contract for non-instructional staff, or ESPs.   As new language is agreed to by the collective bargaining teams,  it is submitted to the School Board members and to members of the bargaining unit for ratification.

Instructional Collective Bargaining Committee Members:

• Carmen Ward: ACEA

Instructional Contract

Article XV. Professional Development (CREATE) Council

Section 1.  Membership

The Association will provide the Board with a list of teachers and career service personnel qualified to serve on the Professional Development (CREATE) Council, from which the Board will appoint teacher and career service council members.  The initial list will be given to the Board by the Association no later than July 20 of each year so appointments can be made by the Board on or before September 1.  If vacancies occur, the Association will submit name(s) to fill the vacancy (ies).

Section 2

Elections for ACEA officers and other members of the Executive Board, held in the spring, are supervised by the elections committee.

Instructional Contract

Article XVIII, section 3. Insurance Committee

There will be an insurance committee to evaluate available coverage and make recommendations to the Board, including any bid specifications which may be needed.  Upon requires of the Board, the committee may also serve in a liaison capacity with the insurance carrier(s) and the Insurance Risk Management Department on matters of concern to teachers and other staff.  The committee will be appointed annually and composed of three teachers; one Education Support Professional; and either one currently employed bargaining unit member

The Retired Alachua County Educators(TRACE)

The Retired Alachua County Educators (TRACE) provides opportunities for members to continue their membership and involvement in matters concerning education.  Membership is open to any retired education union member.  We maintain unifed membership with FEA-Retired, NEA-Retired and AFT-Retired.  Because of unified membership we can offer the following benefits:

• least expensive medigap insurance

• magazines from FEA, NEA, AFT and the Alliance for Retired Americans

• political power through lobbying to protect Social Security

• low interest credit cards

• estate

There are several committees that the Senior ACEA Representative at each school is responsible for monitoring.  Each one of the committees involves an election at the school.

​Building Concerns:

There are 3-5 ACEA members on this committee at each school and the details can be found in the contract (Article V, sec 6).  ACEA coordinates the election in the Fall and only ACEA members may participate in the voting. There are no term limits.

Placement Review.

This committee addresses situations involving grossly disruptive students and details can be found in the contract (Article XVI, sec 2). There