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“Ought
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I think most Americans can agree to the importance of teaching civic education in our schools. We as a nation inherently recognize the importance of our youngest citizens being given the specific knowledge that is necessary in order for them to build a strong civic foundation during the crucial primary and secondary school years that they can continue to develop throughout their lives. The aim of such teachings being the hope that our children will grow up to become the active and informed citizens that
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The Tampa Bay Area Coalition and VALIC Host
FASA’s April 27, 2010 Summit
by Cathy Davis
Attendees to the FASA Summit began arriving at
Jefferson Senior High School in Tampa, Florida, as early as
10:00 AM. Some of the fifty-five participants had come from
as far away as Santa Rosa and Okaloosa Counties located in the
Northwest area of Florida’s panhandle and from Dade County,
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state. From 11:30 to 12:00
noon attendees were treated to assorted platters of fruits,
cheeses, vegetables, and other refreshments. From 12:00 to
1:00 PM all in attendance were seated and served a wonderful
lunch prepared by Jefferson High School’s Culinary Arts
teacher and his students. The meal included a tossed salad, a
surf and turf plate of steak, shrimp, baked potato, and green
beans. The meal was topped with a tasty dessert of white
chocolate mousse with pistachios.
Jim Warford, FASA Executive director,
introduced the special guests: Dr. Earl Lennard; Dr. Jack
Lamb; Tee Solomon; Jean Leone; Ester Twitchell,
President-elect of the Florida Retired Educators Association,
(FREA), an organization with over 13,000 members; Tony
Anderson (administrator of the Florida Panhandle Consortium);
Dan Valdez; Chris Brown and David Allen, (VALIC’s Regional
Managers and Business Partner of FASA and HASA, who sponsored
the Summit’s luncheon); and Eddie Ocasio, (Regional Account
Executive for Bryn-Alan/ Lifetouch), a FASA and HASA business
partner was also present and took pictures of the event.
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Legislative Wrap-up
by
Dr. Ken Allen, Legislative Committee Chair
The frenzied legislative session of 2010 has
closed and, in general, a sigh of relief is in order. Thanks
to the strong voices of educators in Florida, with
a huge amount of support from HASA and FASA,
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HASA proposed that we undertake the process of creating a salary
schedule which recognizes the assignment of administrators based
upon the need to maintain qualified, certificated
leadership-oriented individuals as the educational leaders of
Hillsborough County Schools both in school level and district
level positions. With HASA Executive Board approval,
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Administrative Salary Study
by Richard Martinez
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Hillsborough Association of School Administrators
Executive Director John Miliziano approached me in the fall of
2007 to conduct a salary study for HASA. The current salary plan
was developed in the spring of 1994. The plan was instituted to
replace the Administrative Range Plan. The current plan was
changed in January, 2000. These changes included collapsing salary
schedules for each pay grade. The elimination of the initial steps
of each pay grade was most dramatic in the middle and upper
management pay grades (IV-XIV). This resulted in a higher entry
level for those pay grades. The entry level management pay grades
(I-III) were not reduced as much as other pay grades. This has
resulted in a salary increase that is minimal at best and often
results in a salary that is dramatically less than what that
person would make if they continued as a teacher.
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HASA Invites
Administrators to
a Gates Grant
Presentation
HASA Officials Dr. John Miliziano and
Mrs. Tee Solomon welcome
Dr. Steele and his team to
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On March 11, 2010 HASA sponsored
a presentation by Dr. David Steele and his team of
grant directors to discuss the Empowering Effective
Teachers “Gates Grant”. Over seventy school and
district level administrators, both HASA members and
non-members, weathered the rain soaked night to attend
this function. Mr. Lewis Brinson, Assistant
Superintendent for Administration, and Mr. Steve
Hegarty from the Office of Public Information were
also in attendance.
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2010 Scholarship Winners |
Joriene White
Hillsborough Education
Foundation Scholarship
Shelby Masuck
Hillsborough
Education Foundation Scholarship
Kim Moore
Tom Rao Memorial Scholarship
Jason Pepe
Patricia Z. Smith Scholarship
Michelle Willis
HASA Teacher Scholarships
Carol Coon
HASA Administrator
Scholarship
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2010 HASA Award Winners
Raymond O. Shelton Award
Holly Saia
Dr. Earl J Lennard Leadership Award
Jeff Eakins
Professional Involvement Award
Owen Young
Public Relations Award
Pam Peralta
Lyle Flagg Award
Richard Martinez
Business Partner of the Year
Award
Greg Fenlon of Balfour
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BOWERS / WHITLEY
CAREER CENTER
“Building Winners for
Careers and for Life”
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Others stay for awhile and we are never, ever the
same. Students who attend Bowers/Whitley Career
Center (B/WCC) may well be able to reflect on their B/WCC
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experience in just such a manner. Bowers/Whitley is
a Dropout Prevention program for 400, 16-18 year-old
students through an application process, who are then
placed in the eleventh grade. Our students are
considered “at-risk” but they are “at-risk” of
dropping out of school, not of being bad kids.
Students see themselves successful for possibly the
first time in their educational career. We are a
school of “Happy Feet” as typified in the movie by the
same name. The traditional setting was not working
for our students but here, they embrace their careers
and their academics because they see relevance. “Our
students can’t sing but, man, they can dance.”
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Positive Predictors of
Teacher Effectiveness
by Jason Pepe
I
always looked forward to the spring season as a
principal. It was the perfect time to reflect on the
year as we began creating plans for the future. Spring
also brings the transfer period, vacancies, and
opportunities to hire the very best personnel for your
team. Offering a candidate a position is arguably the
most important decision a principal makes every year.
All of us have experienced the elation when
discovering that rare jewel in the classroom, as well
as the devastation when
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Quote of the Month
Teaching is not for Sensitive Souls
While
reviewing future, past and present tenses with my ninth-grade English
class, I posed the question, “I am beautiful” is what tense?
One
student raised her hand. “Past tense.” - Reema Rahat
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