EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MESSAGE

Hello everyone! 

The Annual conference is next week at the Silver Cloud Hotel (Rustin Point in Tacoma).  The Title IX training offered the day before the Annual Conference on February 26 from 9 to 4 is a stand alone in-person workshop and can be purchased separately.  There is still room for participants in that workshop and the draft agenda can be seen here.  The TWIO Week Six is here for your reading pleasure! Please pay particular attention to the bills on special education, SB 5311 in the Senate Ways & Means Committee and HB 1436 in the House.  Last week I sent out information on our March Zoom series on Worker's Compensation.  Please check it out at the link below.  See you next week at the conference if you will be there. 

Member Request this week:

No member requests this week

Funny for the week: "I thought my dryer shrank my clothes, turns out it was the refrigerator"

UPCOMING EVENTS:

• February 26 - March 1, 2023 - Annual Conference - Silver Cloud Hotel - Tacoma
• March 8, 15, 22, 2023 - Worker's Compensation Series
• March 9, 2023 - Reductions in Force
• March 14, 2023 - Career Fair - Spokane Convention Center (registration is open)
• March 23, 2023 - Bargaining Workshop (registration is open)
• March 28, 2023 - Career Fair - Greater Tacoma Convention Center (registration is open)

DRAFT Topics for the Annual Conference

• Calculating Salary & Benefits by Union Group
  
• Legislative Update
  
• Recruiting and Retention
  
• Surviving the Acronym Puzzle
  
• Certification Requirements
  
• Dealing with Conflict
  
• Grievances, Demand to Bargain
  
• Working with Labor Unions
  
• Special Education
  
• Drug Free Business
  
• Educator Equity Tool
  
• Working with School Boards
  
• Workforce Secondary Trauma Initiative
  
• Investigations & Reasonable Suspicion
  
• Fitness for Duty
  
• Paraeducator Law Updates
  
• E-certification Tool
• ADA & Accommodations
• Retirement Information
  
• Balancing your Workload
  
• RIFS - What is happening out there?
  
• HELP & SHRM - What are they all about?
  
• Public Records Requests
  
• Electronic Records
  
• HR and Payroll Team Collaboration
  
• HR & District's Strategic Plan Alignment

Have a great week everyone!

Darrell Heisler

WSPA Executive Director