Irvine Teachers Association

Ed Specialist members! Please check your personal email for your link to an important survey being conducted to help the ITA Bargaining Team advocate for your working conditions. (Please respond only ONCE to avoid causing more work for those analyzing the data.)

For Gen Ed and SpEd teachers, CTA’s first ever conference focused solely on special education! Heather Calomese, Special Education Director for the CA Department of Education, will be one of our keynote speakers along with Brian Donovan, Producer and Director of Kelly's Hollywood! (Free for ITA members. Get district pre-approval for salary credit.)

Reminder that during Ramadan, some of our students who are Muslim will be fasting, so they might be tired, hungry, thirsty.

Hoping no one needs this but CTA has a disaster relief fund.

The rapidly evolving Silverado Fire, which has significantly affected the city of Irvine, is at zero percent containment according to the Orange County Fire Authority. As a result, all IUSD schools will be closed tomorrow, Tuesday, October 27, including IVA. There will be no instruction. Please continue to check your email for additional District communications.

(glad that middle and high schools are not in session today) Mandatory Evacuations Canyon View Elementary School Eastwood Elementary School... Loma Ridge Elementary School Northwood High School Portola Springs Elementary School Santiago Hills Elementary School Stonegate Elementary School Suggested Evacuations Beacon Park K-8 School Brywood Elementary School Cadence Park K-8 School Cypress Village Elementary School Jeffrey Trail Middle School Northwood Elementary School Portola High School Sierra Vista Middle School Woodbury Elementary School https://iusd.org/article/iusd-updates-related-silverado-fire

Evacuation maps

"While students remain safe, the following IUSD elementary schools are under mandatory evacuation: Canyon View, Santiago Hills, Portola Springs, Eastwood, Stonegate and Loma Ridge. Parents/guardians at these schools have been notified. For those who cannot pick students up at these schools, students will be transported by school bus to Irvine High School. These families should check email, voicemail and text messages for updates."

https://www.cityofirvine.org//vegetation-fire-silverado-fi

Proud of Genée. Greater Irvine Chamber gave her an award celebrating Irvine’s resilience. She accepted on behalf of all Irvine teachers & the world languages te...am she leads at University High School. Also on behalf of the Irvine Teachers Association & our great schools that attract the best/hardest-working to our business community. Ceremony: https://bit.ly/35nLVnQ See more

Our students, schools and community will reap the benefits when we look for ways to work together, setting aside ideological differences and understanding we have so many shared goals.

Cyril Yu, endorsed by ITA and Rep Katie Porter for IUSD schools!

The following Own Voices books provide authentic narratives written by authors telling the tales they have inherited, lived, or created specifically for children who also identify as indigenous.

As newly elected president of the 3 million-member National Education Association, the nation’s largest union, Pringle, 65, is now the highest-ranking Black female labor leader in the country.