ABCFT - YOUnionews - November 6, 2020
KEEPING YOU INFORMED - Negotiations Update By Ruben Mancillas
So, has anything noteworthy happened lately? But seriously, I’m hoping to exhale soon myself. There are so many consequential outcomes and implications to consider about all of the recent news but in terms of negotiations our focus remains, first and foremost, on the safety of our members and our students.
Our much discussed hybrid model has had a fitful couple of weeks. Dr. Mayfield and Dr. Zietlow gave a preview of a new plan during a YOUnion chat where a number of members asked some very practical questions regarding logistics and implementation. Clearly, there were not yet satisfactory answers to some of these pressing issues. Briefly, the new proposed plan was to have teachers work with students in person and virtually at the same time from their classrooms in the interest of being less disruptive. To their credit, our district partners acknowledged that a number of these concerns would fall under the scope of negotiations so the proposed Wednesday information session was canceled. During negotiations we came to the conclusion that there remained a number of questions to answer so the latest model, in our understanding, was tabled for the moment with the understanding that we would revisit it when we had consecutive weeks of being in a more favorable color in terms of our county wide positivity rate. It was thus a surprise to hear this model discussed at last night’s board meeting as an option for parents and the community.
During the school board meeting, Ray spoke eloquently in response about the need for safety and pointedly about the fact that it appeared we were beginning to somewhat negotiate in public. He calmly but forcefully pushed back against an overly optimistic scenario of members gliding around their classrooms plugged into a multitude of screens and apps all while effortlessly providing rigorous curriculum and management to two groups of students simultaneously. He proposed that ABCUSD first focus on all of the necessary PPE before moving forward and noted that other districts had a COVID dashboard that we might emulate. ABCFT is aware of the political realities on all sides. The district and school board feel pressure from some families to return. Families that see neighboring districts return to in person instruction want to know when we expect to do the same. Some students are clearly not thriving in a virtual environment and all parties involved are concerned with their well being.
But our position continues to be based upon the well being of our members and a transparent communication process for the community. Parents can’t be expected to meaningfully vote for their preferred option if what that choice actually entails isn’t clearly explained. What does “hybrid” really look like at every site and for every student? Similarly, teachers should be able to understand just what each model would mean for their workplace conditions and their ability to deliver instruction. What shouldn’t happen is a model be presented that promises more than it can deliver because the inevitable frustration and backlash will primarily fall upon us. The negotiating team is also concerned over a method where hypothetical solutions are offered to the community that we are then expected to make a reality.
We bargained a MOU over the summer for a hybrid model that involves some teachers staying in a virtual academy and some moving to in person instruction. We still have details to work out but this plan, which I will call Option A, was put on hiatus when state and county guidelines indicated that we would open August in a virtual only model. Option B is what I would describe as the dual model of teaching in person and virtually at the same time. This appears to be the model favored by some district personnel because it is deemed the least disruptive. But my question is, least disruptive to whom? Each of the models is disruptive, neither is ideal. Unfortunately, very little about this school year will be about best practice. The facts on the ground will dictate much as well; we are required to have a plan for what may occur in the future but we also need to be prepared to stay in our all virtual format until positivity rates improve overall. Current health data trends may make it unlikely that we return to a hybrid model until the beginning of the school year next summer.
So we will continue to bargain for a reasonable plan and be transparent with our members about just what that option would mean for you in your workplace. Until we can share more details, try and relax this weekend and enjoy our school holiday next week. It is the first one we have had since Labor Day!
In Unity
Here are the video excerpts from this week’s school board meeting:
ABCUSD Hybrid Presentation, ABCFT Employee Report , Hybrid Presentation Response
KEEPING YOU INFORMED - ELECTION 2020
Local School Board Elections
There are two ABC School Board Trustee positions that are up for this election cycle. The typical term for a board member is four years and in total there were supposed to be four board members for re-election but because two of those seats were uncontested Chris Apodaca and Brad Beach will be elected without an election contest. ABC Board Member Sophia Tse is up for re-election and the early results show her delivering a decisive victory in her trustee area.
Current ABC School Board member, Letty Mendoza is running for re-election for the Artesia Trustee School Board Position. Mrs. Mendoza who is a teacher in the Los Angeles school district has been a strong teacher advocate for ABCFT members during her four years as a school board member. The early results have her trailing in the polls. We will keep you updated next week as to the results of this election contest.
NOTE: Over the weekend ABCFT was made aware of a negative ad flyer that was distributed by the Mendoza campaign that had on its face an endorsement from ABCFT. We were unaware of the contents of this flyer and as an organization we pride ourselves in sticking to the issues in any of our political campaigns. We regret learning after the fact the impact of our lack of oversight over what our endorsed candidates put out to the public. In the future, ABCFT will work with our endorsed candidates to ensure that an ABCFT endorsement and a candidate campaign are aligned with our philosophical campaign beliefs.
Large rallies are planned in Los Angeles and the Bay Area, with many more taking place in every corner of the state.
The elections are in the balance and every vote cast needs to be counted. The most important political right you have as an American is your ability to choose your democratically elected leaders. Join with others from across the Los Angeles area to make your voice heard. Below is the link for this event.
Los Angeles: November 7th – 11 a.m.
Pershing Square (532 Olive St.)
MEMBER BENEFITS - WELLNESS WEDNESDAYS
Maintaining our mental health and well-being is important for all of us. ABCFT will be offering Wellness Wednesdays. Wednesdays from 3:00 to 3:30 pm members will have an opportunity to virtually participate in Guided Meditation and Chair Yoga. These weekly sessions will give members a chance to practice self-care.
In partnership with Kaiser Permanente, you can also access mindfulness resources for all ABCFT members. For Kaiser members, you have free access to the app Calm and myStrength which offers personalized self-care programs based on the cognitive behavioral therapy model.
Please be kind to yourself and find time in your busy schedule to take care of yourself.
This week, Donna focuses on creating a calm mind. Participants used 4 square breathing exercises, V.U.C.A - volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity meditation, and using your 3rd eye to calm the mind. The session ended with a quote from Timber Hawkeye, “You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.”
NOVEMBER ACADEMIC SERVICES UPDATE
This month’s academic service update is vital for all teachers. We hope that you will take a moment to look at this monthly report which discusses changes in academic services. This document provides the union with a means of giving the District feedback on the many programs or changes they are proposing at any one time. Without your feedback or questions on these changes, it is harder for ABCFT to slow down and modify the district’s neverending roll out of new projects. Please submit your comments and questions to the appropriate ABCFT liaison.
For Elementary curricular issues please email Kelley at Kelley.Forsythe@abcusd.us if you have any questions or concerns.
For Secondary curricular issues please email Rich at Richard.Saldana@abcusd.us if you have any questions or concerns.
For Special Education issues please email Stefani at Stefani.Palutzke@abcusd.us if you have any questions or concerns.
Click Here For This Month’s Full Report
ABCFT PRESIDENT’S REPORT - Ray Gaer
Communication is a union’s most important tool for advocating for its members at the bargaining table. Every conversation with the membership is focused on the end result of negotiating for the future prosperity and wellbeing of ABCFT members. This weekly report aims to keep the membership informed about issues that impact their working/learning conditions and their mental well-being. Together we make the YOUnion.
By the time this Wednesday I’m sure all of you were feeling the same as I was and I was ready for a mid-week holiday. We didn’t get that break this week but next Wednesday we will all be free from professional development and staff meetings as the country takes a day to honor our nation's veterans. When I looked it up on Google, I got an explanation much clearer than anything I could write.
What is Veterans Day and why do we celebrate it?
Veterans Day honors all of those who have served the country in war or peace — dead or alive — although it's largely intended to thank living veterans for their sacrifices. It was originally called Armistice Day, commemorating the end of World War I.
Why is Veterans Day on November 11th?
Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect. At the urging of major U.S. veteran organizations, Armistice Day was renamed Veterans Day in 1954.
Now that we all have a better understanding of why this holiday exists, I hope you will join me this next week to take a moment to think about the men and women who currently serve or have served our country.
I hope that your Friday is “seamless” (the new ABCFT beverage drinking word) and that we can all enter the weekend with some kind of clarity on the results of our national elections. All Americans deserve a moment of respite.
In Unity,
Ray Gaer
President, ABCFT
CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
The latest CFT articles and news stories can be found here on the PreK12 news feed on the CFT.org website.
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
AFT Executive Council Passes Resolution to Protect American Democracy
WASHINGTON—The American Federation of Teachers’ executive council passed a resolution today outlining the union’s plan to defend American democracy, including the exercise of the right to vote and the requirement to count every vote, in light of ongoing threats by President Trump and his allies.
It highlights four key areas the union’s leadership identified that must be protected:
· Every American citizen registered to vote must be able to vote. In the context of the current pandemic, voters must have the ability to cast their ballot in ways that do not endanger their health, such as mail ballots and early voting, as well as have sufficient ways to vote on Nov. 3. There must be sufficient numbers of polling stations and election officials for all voters to vote. Intimidation of voters must not be allowed to stand.
· Every vote must be counted. Given the unprecedented numbers of votes that have been cast early and by mail, the final tally will not be known on election night. Indeed, there may not be enough of a vote count available on Nov. 3 to project who has won. Counting must continue until all votes have been counted.
· The electoral verdict of “we the people” must be respected. It is not the right of those in power—whether they be in the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court, or in state capitols and local governments—to decide who governs us. It is the right of the people, and the people alone. The reins (or leadership) of government must be transferred peacefully to the choice of the people.
We will not be intimidated. AFT members have a proud tradition of engaging in the peaceful struggle for American democracy. In the tradition of our teachers, Martin Luther King Jr. and A. Philip Randolph, we will organize and participate in peaceful, nonviolent mass protests against any efforts to thwart free and fair elections and to undermine American democracy. When democracy is in danger, we will be in the streets and in our workplaces with our colleagues in the labor movement and allies in the community, defending it against its enemies—foreign and domestic.
The resolution goes on to outline the unique role educators and other professionals must play in defending democracy during these historic times, and explains:
“While our opposition to Trump is clear, our defense of the right to vote, the requirement to count every vote and the assurance that the will of the voters must determine who is president must not depend on a presidential preference. In the coming days, we will do everything in our power to support our fellow citizens in the effort to exercise their democratic franchise and cast their votes. We will remain engaged with fellow democracy defenders to see that those votes are counted and that the will of the people is reflected in the peaceful transition of power to the legitimate winners of our free and fair elections.”
In response to the resolution’s passage, AFT President Randi Weingarten said:
“We take very seriously any threat to the sanctity of our elections and the peaceful transfer of power. It is our job as educators, healthcare professionals, public employees and, most importantly, human beings to defend democracy, which requires fighting for Americans’ right to vote and then counting every vote. That is the first step to building a fairer and more democratic society. I feel this keenly as a teacher, particularly a teacher of civics. I feel this even more keenly watching President Trump undermining the foundational underpinnings of our democracy—the consent of the governed.
“And I am not alone. Our executive council, representing our entire union of 1.7 million people, feels this same urgency. We vow to stand—masked, safely—with our fellow citizens in this fight to preserve our beloved country, whatever form that fight make take.”
Full text of the resolution can be found here.
Follow AFT President Randi Weingarten: http://twitter.com/rweingarten
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Keeping teachers motivated through disruption
Principals and superintendents assert tips for keeping teachers motivated amid the continuing education disruption caused by the pandemic. Susan Kessler, executive principal at Hunters Lane High School in Tennessee, asserts: "We don’t have to solve the crisis of the pandemic or the economic or social implications worldwide. We have to connect with kids by caring about them first and teaching them second. When we commit ourselves to doing those two things well, everything else can get worked out by everyone else." Joe Sanfelippo, superintendent at the Fall Creek School District in Wisconsin, comments: "We have been trying to ensure that our staff can start the day and end the day with joy. If you trust your staff with time, they will fill in the gaps with whatever makes them better." Richard Gordon IV, principal at Paul Robeson High School in Pennsylvania, adds: "No matter how engaged they may be with students, we must keep our teachers from feeling as if they’re isolated on their own island. They should know we are all in this together and we can all rely on one another for support, even from a distance."
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SAT and ACT problems persist
Prospective college students are still encountering problems sitting for the SAT and ACT, the two most common admissions tests, a trend that has persisted since the spring. Exam provider The College Board says that, as of October 27, some 96,000 students of the 312,000 who had registered to take the SAT this Saturday would be unable to test. Thirty percent of the testing sites are closed. The College Board also estimated that 178,600 of the roughly 402,000 students who were registered to take the SAT at the end of August were unable to test as of mid-month because of sites shutting down or reducing their capacity. Just over half of the testing centers were open at that point. The ACT does not release comparable data, but said on October 22 that "COVID-19 continues to challenge us with the complexities of late test center closures" and "reduced capacity at sites due to social distancing requirements."
President Trump creates 1776 Commission to promote "patriotic education"
President Donald Trump yesterday announced the creation of a “1776 Commission,” to promote "patriotic education” and counter lessons that he says divide Americans on race and slavery and teach students to “hate their own country." The order, which came on the eve of election day, criticized “radicalized” historical accounts that he claims have “vilified” the nation’s founders. The commission’s 20 members will be appointed by the president and serve for a term of two years. Ex-officio members will include the secretaries of State, Defense, Interior, Housing and Urban Development, and Education, along with assistants to the president for domestic policy and for intergovernmental affairs.
U.S. schools scramble to find substitute teachers
In a nationwide EdWeek Research Center survey of 2,000 school leaders conducted in January 2020, more than half reported being “very concerned” about being able to fill their need for substitute teachers in the 2020-21 school year, with only 54% being able to fill an estimated 250,000 teacher absences each day. Nicola Soares, president of Kelly Education, a talent company that hires educators from pre-K through higher education, says that over the years, as the national teacher shortage has worsened, the need for substitute teachers has steadily increased. She attributes the growing vacancies to early retirements, extended Family Medical Leave Act, and resignations. In addition, she notes an uptick in absences, due to quarantines and teachers’ concern for their own health or the health of their family, all of which contribute to a substitute teacher shortage.
K-12 community braced for election results
While the presidential election obviously matters hugely for education, with President Donald Trump and rival Joe Biden offering competing visions for the future of schooling, Evie Blad explores how many of the decisions voters make in local school board races and state legislatures will have significant repercussions for everything from the immediate COVID-19 crisis to long-term education policy. States will likely have to make some tough decisions about education budgets as revenues decline, she asserts, and suggests that the current climate has driven home the importance of school board races for many voters. “The pandemic has proven that leadership at every level of education matters, whether that’s in the White House or on your local school board,” agrees National School Boards Association President Charlie Wilson. Voters around the country will also consider a raft of weighty education-related ballot issues, Blad notes. An Arizona ballot question would raise income taxes for the highest earners to boost school funding, a Washington ballot question would make comprehensive sex education mandatory in all schools, giving families the choice of opting their students out, while California voters will consider a measure that would change the way commercial properties are taxed to provide additional funds for K-12 schools. Separately, Chris Dier, a high school history teacher in New Orleans who is also the 2020 Louisiana Teacher of the Year, outlines his thoughts on what teachers could say to their classes after the results come in. "There is no question that teaching this election will be a challenge but we will only do our students justice by addressing their legitimate concerns and engaging them in unbiased ways that support their emotional well-being, intellectual growth, and human dignity," he asserts.
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California school districts revert to A-F grades this fall
While many California high schools and middle schools adopted pass-fail grading at the start of the pandemic in order to hold students harmless as they adjusted to distance learning, districts have largely reverted back to the traditional A-to-F system. State law doesn’t require districts to go back to letter grades. The set of standards approved by the Legislature in June only requires schools to track student participation and provide feedback to parents and guardians on students’ academic progress. The return to letter grades this fall appears to have been influenced by the University of California and California State University’s decision to no longer accept pass/fail or credit/no credit grades earned by high school students this school year when or if they apply for admission. The California Department of Education doesn’t track districts' grading policies, so it doesn’t know how many districts have returned to an A-F grading system. However, California School Boards Association spokesman Troy Flint said it appears as though almost every district in California that wasn’t doing A-F grading before is doing it now.
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Corona-Norco district reopening elementary schools
Corona-Norco USD has been granted a waiver to reopen its 30 elementary schools for in-person instruction, with the board to decide next Tuesday on a date for students to return. “We’ve reviewed the district’s precautions and safety plans and they meet all current state criteria for precautions. We want kids back in school, but we want to do it safely, and this will not only give us that chance but also the real-world understanding of how we can safely operate large school districts during the pandemic,” said Cameron Kaiser, Riverside County Public Health Officer. Families who are not comfortable sending their children back to schools may transfer to the virtual program.
LA district coaches given OK to resume conditioning workouts next week
Los Angeles USD Superintendent Austin Beutner has announced plans to allow coaches to begin directing voluntary on-campus sports conditioning outdoors from November 9. Coaches have been unable to work in person with athletes since LAUSD shut down campuses in March. They will receive training this week on how to conduct conditioning workouts. Coaches and students will need a negative coronavirus test, and strict safety measures will be in effect, including limiting groups of athletes to small pods. There is still no indication when competitive games will start; Beutner said a December 14 official start of practices in the City Section is unlikely to take place because of state restrictions for Los Angeles County, which is in the purple Tier 1.
Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Daily News
Cupertino parents concerned by proposed school closures
Cupertino USD has outlined six possible options for school closures, as it looks to make up for $5m-$7m in projected revenue losses because of declining enrollment. The district has seen student enrollment drop 13% over the past eight years, from 19,194 in 2012 to 16,720 in 2019, according to data on the district website. Within the scenarios presented, 10 elementary schools and one middle school are variously proposed for closure. The district currently operates 20 elementary and six middle schools. Parents have expressed their disquiet at the plans, and have formed “Save All Cupertino Schools,” a committee made up of members of all impacted school communities. “Our goal is to increase community awareness (of the proposed closures), demand transparency from CUSD and the board, and work with them in unison to find a solution to this problem and to delay school closures,” said parent Kelly Crosby.
San Diego-area districts say they’ve proven schools can open safely
Parents in San Diego and South County, where COVID-19 has flourished, will have to wait until 2021 for their children to go back to district schools. The prevailing fear is that it’s not yet safe enough in those communities and that reopening schools could lead to more COVID spread. But in other parts of San Diego County, most school districts have opened and are finding few COVID-19 cases on their campuses, leading school officials and local experts to say that schools do not seem to be hotbeds of COVID-19. The number of cases detected in local schools so far is showing a mixed pattern, with some districts appearing to have higher rates than the countywide average, but others’ rates appear lower. Officials from five San Diego County school districts that have been open for at least a month said last week that they traced every student and staff COVID-19 infection and found that none were tied to another positive case at school. The evidence for all cases pointed to outside or community sources of infection, they said.
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Concerns raised over pandemic learning loss
A complete picture has yet to emerge of how much learning was lost by students during the pandemic. Most states aren’t requiring all districts to administer uniform tests to measure students’ slippage. Rather, districts generally are using the tests they give each fall to guide instruction for the school year and, in many cases, also assessing students’ mental health and well-being, an approach favored by many experts and educators who say a rush to quantify learning loss could demoralize students and teachers. However, as many schools continue distance learning or brace for more virus-related closures that could further slow progress, the patchwork approach to testing this fall worries some advocates and policymakers who say it’s difficult to plan academic recovery this year without consistent data across districts and states. “We’re in this data black hole,” said Kyle Rosenkrans, executive director of the New Jersey Children’s Foundation, an advocacy group that plans to hire researchers to estimate how much students have fallen behind. “You can’t prescribe solutions unless you have a sound diagnosis of the scale of the problem.” Using data from past school closures, researchers have estimated some students might have lost several months to a year’s worth of academic growth after school buildings around the country closed last March. To measure learning loss on a large scale, researchers need more recent test results from across districts, but consistent data will be hard to come by. “It’s information that everybody wants to have,” said Daniel Domenech, executive director of AASA, the School Superintendents Association. “But, right now, the priority is focusing on kids’ needs.”
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Improving teacher retention rates
Using strategies to prevent teachers from leaving the profession could save schools money and lead to better outcomes for students, including those with disabilities, said panelists during a recent webinar on teacher retention hosted by the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs. “The more supported teachers are in their early careers, the more likely they are to stay in the profession,” said OSEP Director Laurie VanderPloeg, who facilitated the webinars and urged school systems to “challenge the status quo” when developing solutions to retain teachers. Practices recommended by the panelists include empowering teachers through training and leadership opportunities; making sure teachers feel valued; and forming partnerships with local and state governments, school systems, and teacher preparation programs, to help reduce taxes for educators, offer discounted housing and provide student higher education tuition loan relief.
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Saugus approves suspension of child development program
The Saugus USD board has voted to suspend its child development program due to constraints placed on the district by the COVID-19 pandemic. Enrollment within the program dropped from approximately 12% of the district in March to 2% in October. Hawkins said earlier this month that the program costs $250,000 a month to operate, but the number of children currently enrolled in the program now only generates approximately $80,000 a month. Superintendent Colleen Hawkins commented: “We agree with everyone that this is an essential program that must continue. By suspending the program as of December 31, 2020, we are able to preserve funds to support a restart of the program and ensure its future preservation.”
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To guard against COVID transmission, some schools move classes outside
Seeking ways to teach safely during the pandemic, schools across the United States have embraced the idea of classes in the open air, as Americans did during disease outbreaks a century ago. “The outside provides much more flexibility,” said Sharon Danks, the chief executive of Green Schoolyards America and the coordinator of the National COVID-19 Outdoor Learning Initiative, which formed in May. “You can have a six-foot-apart seating chart, and have enough space to move around.” The efforts to throw tents over playgrounds and arrange desks in parks and parking lots have brought new life to an outdoor education movement, inspired in part by Scandinavian “forest schools” where children bundle up against frigid temperatures for long romps in the snow.
How masks and face shields differ in curbing COVID spread
As teachers and students cope with in-person learning during the pandemic, many educators are looking for clearer ways to connect with their students behind masks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics both recommend all adults and children over the age of two wear a face mask in addition to social distancing, other than in cases of medical issues. Widescale mask-wearing has been shown to reduce COVID spread, particularly in conjunction with social distancing and regular hand and surface cleaning. However, there are drawbacks in an educational setting, particularly in communication and interpretation. In contrast to opaque masks, transparent face shields allow students to see a teacher’s full range of expressions, although they are ineffective in curbing the spread of the virus. In August, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared a transparent plastic surgical mask for use in hospitals and schools during the pandemic. There have not yet been experimental studies comparing the relative effectiveness of transparent versus cloth or fiber face masks in reducing COVID-19 transmission. Allysa Dittmar, president of ClearMask, which makes the mask, says it could be useful for “those who can benefit from improved visual communication, such as children, older adults, deaf and hard of hearing people, and those who do not speak the same language.”
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Trump administration proposes change to rules on international students
The Trump administration has put forward a change to student visa rules, adding a fixed end date of up to four years. Currently, student F-1 visas are good for “duration of status,” meaning students can stay in the U.S. indefinitely if they remain enrolled in school to finish their degrees. The new proposal would set most visas to expire after four years, even if a student is enrolled in a longer graduate program or needs extra time to finish a degree. The new rule says applications for visa extensions could be approved “if the additional time needed is due to a compelling academic reason, documented medical illness or medical condition, or circumstance that was beyond the student’s control.” The new rule says applications for visa extensions could be approved “if the additional time needed is due to a compelling academic reason, documented medical illness or medical condition, or circumstance that was beyond the student’s control.”
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NTA Life Insurance - An ABCFT Sponsor
About three years ago ABCFT started a working relationship with National Teachers Associates Life Insurance Company. Throughout our partnership, NTA has been supportive of ABCFT activities by sponsorship and prizes for our various events. This organization specializes in providing insurance for educators across the nation. We have been provided both data and member testimonials about how pleased they have been with the NTA products and the opportunity to look at alternatives to the district insurance choice.
To All Members of the ABC Federation of Teachers,
National Teacher Associates (NTA) is committed in our efforts to helping educators through tough times. It’s what we do. After all…in our eyes you are the heart and soul of our communities.
Protecting you and your families has been our goal for over 45 years. Despite the current global pandemic, we are not about to slow down now. We know that many of you have had our programs for years and sometimes forget the intricacies of how they work. NTA wants to help facilitate any possible claims for now and in the future. Fortunately, all claims and reviews can be done by phone and on-line. I personally want to offer my services to guide you in the right direction with your NTA benefits.
We also apologize for not being able to finish the open enrollment for those of you who wanted to get our protection. We are still able to help by extending our enrollment window for the near future. Again, this can be done over the phone, email, or on-line.
Please contact Leann Blaisdell at any time either by phone or email.
562-822-5004
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