Fairfield-Suisun Unified Teachers Association

Local teachers enthusiastically endorse Jim Frazier for State Assembly.

Cliff Gordon, Joan Gaut and Ana Petero have not only been endorsed by FSUTA in the FSUSD Governing Board election. All three were also endorsed by the Napa Solano Central Labor Council. The support of these organizations speaks to what quite a few folks think of the three candidates. Your choice is your voice. Make your vote count.

Meet the three candidates endorsed by FSUTA for the FSUSD Governing Board election. Cliff Gordon, Joan Gaut and Ana Petero will discuss the issues and answer questions from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89385243116.

Here's the three School Board candidates endorsed by the Fairfield-Suisun Unified Teachers Association.

FSUTA has three of a kind for the FSUSD Governing Board election Nov. 3 with our endorsed candidates - Clifford Gordon in Area 1, incumbent Joan Gaut in Area 2 and Ana Petero in Area 6. Joan is a retired teacher, Ana teaches at Solano Community College and Cliff owns Gordon's Music and Sound in downtown Fairfield.

Join us at 6:00 tonight!

Just a reminder that our FSUTA Town Hall meeting will be at 6 p.m. Wednesday. The FSUSD Governing Board candidates endorsed by FSUTA - Joan Gaut, Cliff Gordon and Ana Petero - will speak and answer questions. FSUTA also endorsed Judi Honeychurch, who is running unopposed as an incumbent. You can access the meeting by going to https://meet.google.com/aiw-zdkg-gqy.

Meet the three Governing Board candidates endorsed by FSUTA during the Town Hall meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday. Cliff Gordon in Area 1 is the owner of Gordon Music and Sound in Fairfield, so his business expertise will benefit the board. Incument Joan Gaut in Area 2 is a former teacher who respects and values the input of FSUTA members. Ana Petero in Area 6 is a teacher at Solano Community College and an advocate for equity. To access Wednesday's meeting, go to https://meet.google.com/aiw-zdkg-gqy.

Do your part to support our endorsed candidates for the FSUSD Governing Board by allowing us to put a candidate sign in your front yard. Contact President Nancy Dunn at 707-389-6623 or [email protected] to have a sign delivered. FSUTA is endorsing Cliff Gordon in Area 1, Joan Gaut in Area 2 and Ana Petero in Area 6.

California’s educators want to remind you that quality public schools make a stronger California for all of us.

We’ve been working hard to make school buildings safer because no one wants to be back in the classroom more than teachers.

We want to be back in the classroom with our students, but staying safe is the most important thing we can do right now.

Stopping off in Dixon to help their educators ensure a safe learning environment this fall!

If you are unable to get into our town hall because we are full please join our second room: https://meet.google.com/zwo-ooff-vrj

We look forward to see you tonight at the town hall! Please join us at 5:00!

We invite you to our continuing conversation with parents and community members on safety in our schools. Join us on Wednesday, July 15 at 5:00 and partner with us to reimagine schools. #wearefsuta

The Executive Board met Monday via Zoom with (top row from left) Christina Kling, Keith Aguilar, Janet Renfrow and Art Sullivan; (middle row from left) Audrey Jacques, Nancy Dunn, Katie Molina and Dan Pozzesi; (bottom row from left) Amanda Horel, Laurie Thompson, Alex Diaz and Jamie VanWart.

Funny because it's true. @primarytechie

Every student deserves a clean slate.

Teachers at Suisun Elementary kill two birds with one stone by spreading the message of "Be Kind" with orange shirts, which show their pride in the Fairfield-Suisun Unified Teachers Association.

Louise Craig (third from right) receives a rousing round of applause after being named as Teacher of the Year in the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District on Thursday evening. Craig was one of 14 teachers honored as Site Teachers of the Year at the Governing Board meeting and then was surprised by her selection as the district's best.

Hanging this in my classroom...

Go to http://www.FSUTA.org to find a strategy in handling parent-teacher conferences!

Here's hoping our members had a boo-tiful Halloween. Check out more photos at www.FSUTA.org.

I love seeing AMAZING teachers who find creative ways to greet, empower, inspire, and educate.

This Teacher & her Class killed it!! // THRILLER

Michelle Victores, a Site Representative at Dover, assists a first-year teacher with her FSUTA membership application during the Great Beginnings orientation for first-year teachers Friday at the district office.

Here is an update from Organizing chairperson Dan Pozzesi: Choices choices. We are all faced with important choices throughout our careers. Many of our members have chosen to move on to new positions in other districts, change careers or retire. For those of us returning, rest assured your FSUTA leadership will continue to represent your interests in an open and transparent way. You have spoken, we have listened. Your FSUTA bargaining team represents our membership and you ar...e clearly against management restructuring our daily schedules with management in control of the agenda for the majority of the weeks. What is clear from management’s proposal is the time isn’t for collaboration and you have rejected it nearly unanimously. They will claim we are against collaboration. You’re not against collaboration. In fact, nearly all of us are for collaborating when necessary and beneficial. They will claim you aren’t participating in professional development opportunities. You are. They will claim it’s just the union. YOU are the union. So now management has a choice. Do they make a real effort to change the management culture that has resulted in a near unanimous rejection of their proposal or do they continue pushing their faulty agenda against the wishes of the teachers of this district? Are they willing to collaborate with their teachers or continue to impose a top down, non-collaborative management style? What does it say about management if they do not consider the input of the professionals in the classrooms? Good and effective managers listen to their employees. Good management provides employees with what they need to succeed and they work to create employee buy-in. Let’s be crystal clear. If something is effective and efficient with our students, teachers will use the tool or participate in a program voluntarily. Our Governing Board also has choices. Do they make a change or do we continue down this path of heavy handed, top-down management? This is a path that has led to high employee turnover, flat and declining scores as measured on the California School Dashboard, and a disastrous lack of employee buy-in as shown by our survey results. The paradigm shift that management and the Governing Board claim to want to occur needs to happen with management. The question is does our current management have the capability to change or do we need a change in management? We need open and transparent management that focuses on allowing us to innovate and gives us the time to do our jobs in a safe and supportive environment. The choice is clear and completely up to the Governing Board. Perhaps it’s time they choose to make a change to our executive management team. The choices that are made will impact what direction we take as an association in the fall. Stay tuned and be ready. It’s going to be interesting.

Write-in votes determined three new Members at Large who will join the FSUTA Executive Board. Keith Aguilar, Karen Hall, Amanda Horel and Art Sullivan accepted the positions after being informed they had received write-in votes. Sullivan had been a Member at Large but did not to seek reelection. Alex Diaz was the only incumbent in the race for four Member at Large positions and retained his. Also winning reelection were President Nancy Dunn and Vice President Katie Molina. Audrey Jacques won as the only candidate for Corresponding Secretary after serving as a Member at Large. Stephanie Cobb (below) won a three-year term as a State Council Representative, and Christina Kling won a two-year term.

FSUTA honored 22 retiring teachers Wednesday at Cast Iron Grill & Bar in Suisun City. A good time was had by all.

Green Valley Middle School teachers know what to wear on Tuesday!

CTA is offering our members an opportunity to teach one-hour workshops at the Cordelia Instructional Leadership Conference on Nov. 2, 2019. If you are interested, go to www.FSUTA.org and find a link to the application on our Home Page.

The newly-formed FSUTA Equity Team is seeking 15-30 people to join the team. Those interested are invited to attend the Equity Social from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 9 at Johnny Carino's, 1460 Gateway Blvd. If you ready to join and collaborate with other educators in addressing social justice, contact Christina Kling at [email protected], Shawn O'Neal at [email protected], Ted Foreman at [email protected] or Hazel Quintanilla at [email protected]. Team members must commit to attend both days of a Matrixes of Bias Workshop on June 11-12 at the CTA office, 4751 Central Way, and monthly Equity Team meetings.

Here are results of our election: President: Nancy Dunn Vice President: Katie Molina Corresponding Secretary: Audrey Jacques (below) Member at Large: Alex Diaz... State Council Representative (three years): Stephanie Cobb State Council Representative (two years): Christina Kling See more

To see more photos of our "Greet the Trustees" event Thursday, go to http://www.FSUTA.org.