WITHOUT PREJUDICE
LETTER OF AGREEMENT OUTSIDE THE COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT
BETWEEN
THE DIVISION SCOLAIRE FRANCO-MANITOBAINE (DSFM)
AND
THE ASSOCIATION DES ÉDUCATRICES ET ÉDUCATEURS FRANCO-MANITOBAINS (AEFM)
SUBJECT: WORKLOAD
The Division will establish joint advisory working group composed of Division and Association members. This group will have the following objectives:
• Survey locally, individually and in a confidential manner, division teachers and administrators concerning workload and classroom challenges;
• Analyse survey results;
• Make recommendations.
Decisions made by the working group, will be made by consensus. Working group members will alternate as chairperson at each meeting.
Following this work, the Division will have the following objectives:
1. Review the identified challenges and target those that could be eliminated or reduced to facilitate the teacher’s workload.
2. Review the services offered by the division office.
3. Continue to support the work of the school administrators through the Leadership Academy.
4. Update the support guide for the school administrators which will have as its objectives:
a) To quickly recognize the challenges in the classroom;
b) To further support the teachers in need;
c) To explain the services offered by the division office.
5. To convene the working group to inform its members of the recommendations identified for follow-up.
Schedule
• May 2015: Establishment of the working group
• 2015-2016: Development and administration of the survey, and collection of data
• March 2016: Analysis of results, and identification of challenges and recommendations
• June 2016:
o Presentation of the targeted recommendations to the working group
o Dissolution of the working group
• September 2016: Preparation of the support guide for school administrators
• November 2016: Presentation of the support guide to the school administrators and then to the AEFM members
• 2016-2018: Implementation of the targeted recommendations
• 2016-2018: Follow-up with workload issues at the liaison committee meetings
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the DSFM’s and the AEFM’s commitment to this Agreement is duly attested by the signatures of the proper officers in their behalf on this 27th day of May, 2015.
ASSOCIATION DES ÉDUCATRICES DIVISION SCOLAIRE
ET ÉDUCATEURS FRANCO-MANITOBAINS FRANCO-MANITOBAINE
OF THE MANITOBA TEACHERS' SOCIETY
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President of the Economic Welfare Committee President
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President Secretary-Treasurer