Important FTA Email Addresses - Fontana Teachers Association

Volume 38, Issue 1
August 2016
Welcome Back
Sue Felt
FTA President
I hope that you all had time to get away and enjoy yourselves and are refreshed and ready to get back to work. I
know the beginning of the year can be exhausting so, I want
to thank you for all your hard work and dedication. You’ve
make school a great place to be for all of our students.
The beginning of the year once again finds us in search of
a new superintendent. The good news is that that the interim superintendents want to continue on with business as usual during the search. We
have been assured that negotiations will go on as scheduled and we are
meeting on a regular basis with the co superintendents to find solutions
to current issues. If you’ve been out of the loop, the superintendent job
is being shared by Randy Basset, current Associate Superintendent of
Business Services and Dr. Porter, who is a retired superintendent from
the Bay Area. Randy has been in the District for many years and has
always been someone FTA can work with while Dr. Porter came highly
recommended from our CTA colleagues in the Bay Area.
In this issue of the Fontanan you will find the list of available conferences. If you are interested please call or email the office and let Mandy
know. You will be sent an application. The conference committee will
select attendees based on previous attendance, relevance to their work
and on how the information will be used. (All of these questions are on
the application.) We welcome all of you to apply. Last year many were
on the interest list but failed to turn in applications. You must turn in an
application to be considered. If you want additional information about
the conferences you can visit the app CTAGO or the CTA website under
member benefits tab at the top of the front page. Click member benefits
then events then conferences.
If you are having any issues at your site remember you can ask your
Site Rep, your Director, or call the office for help. We want to make this
year as stress free as possible.
Here’s to the best year yet!
Important
FTA Email
Addresses
Sue Felt
ftapres@
fontanateachers.org
Nancy Hofrock
ftavp@
fontanateachers.org
Barbara “Bubba” Smith
[email protected]
Grievance Team
grievance@
fontanateachers.org
Social Chair
social@
fontanateachers.org
Nathalie
nalvarez@
fontanateachers.org
Mandy
apeters@
fontanateachers.org
FTA Office
ftaoffice@
fontanateachers.org
Elementary Director
elemdirector@
fontanateachers.org
Middle School Director
middleschooldirector@
fontanateachers.org
High School Director
highschooldirector@
fontanateachers.org
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Conferences
The following is a list of conferences available
through CTA this school year. There’s also information
on grants that are available for attendance. We do not
require you to receive a grant but would like for you to
apply, if applicable, as this saves FTA money. Preference will be given to first time applicants and to committee chairs who can show relevance to the job they
perform. University credit is available for most of these
conferences for a small fee.
Grants
The CTA Board of Directors will award New Member, Minority and Small Chapter Incentive Grants for
attendance at the following statewide conferences:
GLBT Conference, Issues Conference, Good Teaching
Conference-South, Equity and Human Rights Conference and Good Teaching Conference-North. The grant
application deadlines are different for most conferences,
please click here to learn more.
IMPORTANT NOTE: CTA uses an online grant ap-
plication that is connected with Falcon, the CTA membership database. All applicants will be required to
register as new users by entering their email addresses
and filling out the required fields. If the email address
entered is the same as that which is on file in Falcon,
then some of the information will be prepopulated and
will only require verification.
San Gorgonio Fall Leadership Conference
September 30th - October 2, 2016 Location: Omni Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa
Pathways to leadership. Please follow this link for
more information. https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.
aspx?EventID=1868865
If you are approved to go, we will register you.
GLBT Issues Conference
Date: Dec 9-11, 2016 | Location: Riviera, Palm Springs
CTA’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues
Advisory Committee (GLBTIAC) is proud to present the
annual CTA conference addressing issues involving
GLBT educators, students and community. This conference is open to all CTA members and will serve as a
forum to discuss a variety of subjects affecting the entire membership and California’s youth. Participants will
have a variety of workshops to choose from, organized
into three strands addressing the needs of the CTA
Membership, the Students and the Community.
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Stay in the Loop!
Check out what’s going on
with FTA at
fontanateachers.org
Fta Social Events
TGIF at Pancho Villa’s
16-17 Rep Council
Meeting Dates
August 17
September 14
October 12
Nov. 9
Dec. 14
January 18
February 8
March 8
April 12
May 10
16-17
TGIF Dates
August 12
September 9
October 14
November 4
December 9
January 13
February 10
March 10
April 7
May 12
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9/9/16 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Knotts Berry Farm Tickets
$39.00 Adult (ages 12 and up)
$34.00 Kids
(ages 3 - 11 or 62 and up)
No Block Out Days
Tickets Expire December 31, 2016
Cash Only
Fontana
Teachers
Assocation
16850 Seville Ave
Fontana, CA 92335
909.829.0940
fax 909.829.0466
ftaoffice@
fontanateachers.org
(prices subject to change)
Movie Tickets
Regal/Edwards - $8.50
Harkins and AMC - $8.00
Restrictions, see ticket for details
Extra Charge for 3D
Cash Only
Issues Conference
January 20-22, 2017 Location: Rio All-Suites Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
This conference provides an opportunity for educators from rural, urban, and ESP
local areas, throughout the state, to learn, share, strategize and unite together to
determine the future of public education. As members with diverse interests and
multiple perspectives, don’t miss this opportunity to reconnect with fellow educators,
reenergize your skillset and help strategize solutions to confront the challenges we
are facing together.
EMLD
Feb 17-18 Location: Mission Inn Riverside, CA
ELMD is the Ethnic Minority Leadership Development program. The conference
focuses on leadership development as well as educational concerns faced by ethnic
minority students.
Good Teaching Conference South
March 17-19, 2017 Location: Hyatt Regency Orange County, Garden Grove
The CTA Good Teaching Conferences are designed to support excellent teaching
and learning practices for classroom teachers. Offering a variety of diverse workshops in curriculum content areas for K-12 teachers, the conferences provide opportunities for professional development and offer time to network and share ideas with
colleagues and experts in the field.