WSPA this Week, December 23-27, 2024
SUPPORT, ADVOCACY, AND PROFESSIONAL LEARNING FOR THE K-12 HUMAN RESOURCE PROFESSIONAL
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MESSAGE
Good morning! Don't forget to sign up for the Brown Bag Series: Classified Administrators which starts January 7th and runs for 5 weeks (Topics: Climate and Culture, Discipline/Counseling, Evaluations, Communications, and DEI Awareness). January 9th Equifax folks will be doing a webinar on Unemployment, Non-Renewals, RIFs, and Reasonable Assurance Letters and why they are so important. January 23rd, Garrett Williams of Stevens Clay will put on a webinar on RIF's and then non-renewal process and how to do both mistake free. There is still room in the 21st Century Bargaining Workshops 101 and 201 but they are starting to fill up if you and your team are interested, please get signed up. Registration for the two Career Fairs (one in Spokane 4/23/25 and one in Tacoma 4/30/25) is open for Recruiters and for Candidates. And yes, you read that correctly, we are having both career fairs one month later this year at the end of April. WSPA's Annual Conference being held at the Clearwater Resort in Suquamish, WA in February is now Open (See Below).
What's Happening Now:
- Registration for the following:
- Classified Administrator Brown Bag Series (OPEN NOW)
- RIFs/Non-Renewals/Reasonable Assurance Webinar (OPEN NOW)
- Certificated RIFs/Non-Renewals Webinar (OPEN NOW)
- WSPA Annual Conference at the Clearwater Resort in Suquamish, Washington (OPEN NOW)
- 21st Century Bargaining Workshops (OPEN NOW)
- Washington Educator Career Fairs (Spokane and Tacoma) (OPEN NOW)
Membership Renewal: As of today, we are up to 638 members, If you want to get a discount on any of the trainings we offer please join. Please reach out to Kaley VonVolkli (kvonvolkli@wasa-oly.org) to make that happen. Here is a reminder that we are contracting with WASA again to manage our membership roster and payments. Membership for 2025 (September 1, 2025 - August 31, 2026) will begin July 1, 2025 when renewal notices will be sent to you and/or your District.
2024-25 Membership Renewals:
Below is information on the renewal process. For questions, please contact Kaley VonVolkli.
July 1, 2024: Renewal Notices sent to districts with a deadline of August 31 to submit any membership changes for the upcoming 2024-25 school year.
*District Membership: Must have at least 10 members renewing or joining for 2024-25 SY to retain District Membership.
*Retiring Members: WSPA offers a retiree membership at $100/year. Please contact Kaley VonVolkli to join as a Retired Member. Eligible retirees may receive first year of retiree membership complimentary. Those with 5+ years of membership are eligible.
August 15, 2024: WSPA begins making the membership changes in our database.
September 30, 2024: Invoices have gone out to districts for the 2024-25 SY. Please make checks payable to:
WSPA's Address:
WSPA
PO BOX 14459
TUMWATER, WA 98511
Please contact Kaley VonVolkli at kvonvolkli@wasa-oly.org with membership and billing question(s). To add new members from your district, please complete a return a membership application to Kaley VonVolkli.
If you are retiring this year, please consider continuing your support of WSPA through a Retiree Membership at $100/year. To join as a Retiree member, please complete and return the membership application to Kaley VonVolkli.
WSPA Leadership 2024-25
Jennifer Koskovich, Director of HR, Federal Way Public Schools, WSPA President:
jkoskovich@fwps.org
Melissa Kreuder,
ESD 112, Vancouver, WA:
melissa.kreuder@esd112.org
Jane Stencel, Director of HR at East Valley SD Spokane; WSPA President 22-23; WSPA Professional Development Coordinator:
stencelj@evsd.org
Tara Santucci, Union Gap School District, WSPA Treasurer: tsantucci@uniongap.org
Traci Cox, Human Resource Coordinator, West Valley (Yakima) School District, WSPA Secretary: coxt@wvsd208.org
Darrell Heisler, Executive Director of WSPA: dheisler@wspa.net
Member Requests this week:
Funny of the week: Of course I talk to myself, sometimes I need expert advice!
SAVE THE DATES! THE TIME TO REGISTER IS NOW FOR THESE TRAININGS/EVENTS.
January 9, 2025-UNEMPLOYMENT RIFs/Non-Renewals/Reasonable Assurance (ZW)
January 2025-Classified Brownbag Series (ZW)
1/7/25-Climate & Culture (ZW)
1/14/25-Discipline/Counseling (ZW)
1/21/25-Evaluations (ZW)
1/28/25-Communications (ZW)
2/4/25-DEI Awareness (ZW)
January 23, 2025-Certificated Non-Renewals and RIFs (ZW)
January 27, 2025-Beginning Bargaining 101 (IP)
January 28, 2025-Advanced Bargaining 201 (IP)
February 3, 2025-Beginning Bargaining 101 (IP)
February 4, 2025-Advanced Bargaining 201 (IP)
February 11, 2025-Certification (ZW)
February 23-26, 2025-Annual Conference-Clearwater Casino Resort (IP)
March 4, 2025-Leaves (ZW)
March 25, 2025-Pathways to Certification (ZW)
April 1, 2025-Interviewing and Hiring Best Practices (ZW)
April 23, 2025-Washington Educator Career Fair-Spokane (IP)
April 30, 2025-Washington Educator Career Fair-Tacoma GTCC (IP)
May 30, 2025-Legislative Impacts on Bargaining (ZW)
Have a great week everyone!
Darrell Heisler
WSPA Executive Director
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Unemployment Insurance: Sign up now for upcoming SOC code webinars
Learn more about Standard Occupational Classification codes on May 20 or June 3
Do you have questions about Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) codes? Sign up for one of our upcoming webinars!
All employers will be required to report SOC codes when they submit their quarterly tax reports starting with their fourth quarter 2022 report. At that time, you could get a penalty for incorrect SOC reporting. Reporting SOC codes is currently optional and is available only to single filers.
Upcoming webinars
If you have questions or want to learn more about using SOC codes, register for one of our free webinars.
During these webinars, we’ll talk about:
- What are SOC codes?
- When are SOC codes mandatory?
- How to look up SOC codes.
- How to add SOC codes with keyed or imported wage data.
Note: We will provide the same information in both webinars. However, questions could vary in each webinar, so you are welcome to sign up for both.
What is SOC?
SOC is a federal coding system that helps government agencies and private businesses compare occupational data.
In 2019, the Washington State Legislature passed a law requiring employers to report SOC codes in their quarterly reports for unemployment insurance.
Other resources on SOC
- Watch this short video.
- Try out the SOC code search tool. Under “Occupation Keyword Search” you can search by keyword, SOC code or industry.
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
2022 Legislative Report
Dan Steele, WASA Assistant Executive Director, Government Relations and WSPA Legislative Liaison has completed a 2022 End of Session Report and you can find it here.
The End of Session Reports includes full details of the 2022 Supplemental Operating Budget and the 2022 Supplemental Capital Budget, along with a comprehensive review of the many education-related bills the Legislature addressed this session.