In 2011 The Florida Legislature passed into law Senate Bill 736. With it's passage the Florida Statues were changed regarding how teachers would be paid in the future. Teachers hired after July 1, 2014 are required to be paid using a performance pay system based in part on the results of the Value Added Model or (VAM). The law also has other requirements for how unions and school districts negotiate to create and maintain performance pay plans as well as maintain their grandfathered step pay schedules. This creates a very complex negotiating environment that will make it very challenging to reach agreement on new contracts. The United Teachers of Dade wants to hear from you regarding this crucial issue and is beginning a process for this interaction with a short survey. We appreciate your feedback and will continue to work with our members to create the best contract possible. Your answers will be made anonymous so that no one will know what your particular answers were. It is preferable that you respond to this survey from a computer not connected to the MDCPS system. What is your name? What is your employee number? * Employee number is for identification only. Personal information in this survey will not be shared with anyone outside UTD. What is your personal, non-dadeschools.net email? What position do you hold in the school system? Are you a member of UTD? YesNoNo, but please have someone contact me so that I can join UTD to help achieve our goals in these negotiations. What is your contract status? * - Select -ProbationaryAnnual ContractProfessional Service ContractContinuing ContractI don't now my contractual status How many years have you completed working in MDCPS? * one to threefour to sixseven to teneleven to fifteensixteen to twentytwenty to twenty twomore than twenty two You can read the Florida Statutes regarding teacher pay systems (here.) Click the back button in your browser to return to this survey. Please indicate your current level of knowledge regarding the following aspects of the new Florida Statutes created by SB-736. No KnowledgeVery Little KnowledgeSome KnowledgeFully Understand Knowledge of how the VAM works. Knowledge of how the VAM works. - No Knowledge Knowledge of how the VAM works. - Very Little Knowledge Knowledge of how the VAM works. - Some Knowledge Knowledge of how the VAM works. - Fully Understand Knowledge of the implications of Annual Contracts. Knowledge of the implications of Annual Contracts. - No Knowledge Knowledge of the implications of Annual Contracts. - Very Little Knowledge Knowledge of the implications of Annual Contracts. - Some Knowledge Knowledge of the implications of Annual Contracts. - Fully Understand Knowledge of how Performance Pay would work under the law. Knowledge of how Performance Pay would work under the law. - No Knowledge Knowledge of how Performance Pay would work under the law. - Very Little Knowledge Knowledge of how Performance Pay would work under the law. - Some Knowledge Knowledge of how Performance Pay would work under the law. - Fully Understand UTD and MDCPS have worked over the past several years to create a grandfathered pay scale that can work with the new law but significant funding challenges have limited the progess we have been able to achieve. The current scale has a step that is worth over $6000. This would make funding a performance pay schedule, and a step schedule, extremely difficult without massive funding increases from the legislature or sacrifices from certain groups of employees. UTD is working to solve these issues but needs your input and participation in order to reach a successful resolution. Would you be interested in changing how teachers are paid through the elimination of a salary step schedule? * - Select -YesNo Would you be interested to learn about a hybrid pay model that solved many of the problems we currently have with performance pay and the grandfathered step schedule? * - Select -YesNo Would you prefer a salary model where employee salaries increased by a percentage each year rather than moving on the step schedule? - None -YesNo In your opinion, what is the most important thing to accomplish during negotiations regarding performance pay? Would you be interested in participating in "town-hall" style meetings to develop the union's approach to negotiating the salary schedule(s) of the future? * - Select -YesNo Share your ideas for a possible solution to the performance pay issue here UTD provides real-time updates of bargaining on Twitter: You can follow us at: https://twitter.com/UTD_AFT1974 Do you follow UTD on Twitter? https://twitter.com/UTD_AFT1974 * - Select -YesNo UTD provides real-time updates of bargaining sessions on our Facebook Page: You can like our page at: https://www.facebook.com/UnitedTeachersofDade Have you clicked "Like" on our Facebook page? * - Select -YesNo Leave this field blank
