What the DCFT Does
It's
not just what we do, it's how we do it!
- Cooperatively negotiates teachers'
salaries.
- What we call general
compensation
- Work with district in the
development of compensation budget
- Cooperatively administrates the
Performance Pay Contract.
- Implementation Team
- Outstanding Teacher
- District Responsibility
Pay
- Site Responsibility Pay
- Group Incentive
- Master Teacher
- Skills Blocks
- Cooperatively manages the
teacher's benefit package.
- Insurance Committee
- Sick leave management (sick
leave bank)
- All the other leaves specified
in the contract (jury, bereavement,etc.)
- Contract Maintenance
- Grievance procedures
- 21st Century Partnership (A
progressive contract wavier program)
- Teacher Evaluation Procedures
- Due process
- Complaints against teachers
- Standards for Instruction
- Personnel records
- Working Conditions
- School facilities
- Year-round, Multi-track Issues
- Job assignments and equity
- Transfers
- Large class assistance
- Assistance with inclusion
- The professional
responsibilities of a teacher
- Non-contact days
- Professional Development
- In-service days
- Development of new programs
such as "Foundations of Education," a DCFT skill
block as well as "Reading" and "Thinking
Math" programs
- Classroom Issues
- Discipline standards
- Books and other educational
materials
- Academic standards and their
implementation
- Help with state and federal
legislation
- Testify on educational bills
- Lobby for K-12 funding
- Communication with School Board
- Express teacher concerns
- Represent teachers at Board of
Education meetings
- National & Local Benefits
- $1,000,000 Liability insurance
- Legal assistance
- Scholarships and conventions
- AFT Plus benefits package
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