Highlights of the Provincial Executive Council meetings held Aug. 14 at Banff and Aug. 22 to 23 via electronic mail.
Amended Council committee and representation assignments for 2023/24 and named field members to Association committees.
Highlights of the Provincial Executive Council meeting held Sept. 14 and 15 at Barnett House, Edmonton.
Amended the Declaration of Rights and Responsibilities for Teachers by removing reference to the Association’s code of professional conduct and replacing it with the Government of Alberta’s code of professional conduct for teachers and teacher leaders.
Approved the final form of four electoral ballots proposed by local associations and one Council-sponsored electoral ballot for distribution to the membership.
Approved a statement of Association program emphases for 2023/24.
Authorized disbursement of the 2023/24 international co-operation budget for international goals, including Project Overseas, Change for Children PD by Alberta Teachers, Tools for Schools Africa Foundation and Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan.
Approved a $2,000 donation to MediaSmarts in support of Media Literacy Week, taking place Oct. 23 to 27.
Purchased a table of eight for the Friends of Medicare Fundraising Gala, taking place on Oct. 25.
Directed the Resolutions Committee to review Association policy to ensure policy related to 2SLGBTQIA issues is appropriately reflected and strengthened where needed.
Directed staff to collect and report to Council information on policies, procedures and practices relating to current and past dangerous behaviours exhibited by students in their care and implications for safety of staff and students.
Approved the name of one teacher for inclusion in the name bank from which Association instructors are selected and approved the names of four teachers for inclusion in the name bank from which professional development facilitators are selected.
Received the report of a hearing committee that found a teacher guilty of four counts of unprofessional conduct for exposing students to risk of injury by placing them on a raised automobile hoist for purposes of a group photograph; for transporting students in the open box of a pickup truck, thereby placing them at risk of injury and contravening Alberta traffic laws; for attending and participating in a protest rally in a manner that failed to uphold the dignity of the profession; and for maintaining relationships with students that failed to respect the boundaries of a teacher–student professional relationship. The hearing committee imposed a penalty of fines totalling $2,250 and a letter of severe reprimand. Received the report of a professional conduct appeal committee (PCAC) on the decision of a hearing committee of the professional conduct committee (PCC) that found a teacher guilty of three charges of unprofessional conduct. The PCAC found the decision made by the PCC hearing committee on guilt and penalty on one of the charges to be reasonable and, as a result, the appeal on that charge was denied. The PCAC further found the decision made by the PCC hearing committee on guilt and penalty on the other two charges not to be reasonable or sustainable and found that they contained errors in principle. As a result, the appeal of the two charges was allowed and the findings and orders of the PCC hearing committee were quashed with regard to those charges.
Amended the administrative guidelines relating to procedures for known, extended and approved absences of district representatives and directed table officers to consider guidelines for extended absences of vice-presidents for Council’s consideration.
Approved, as the position of Council, recommendations on the six-year review of policy (as amended) and authorized that locals be informed accordingly.
Approved, for submission to the 2024 Annual Representative Assembly, the proposed Disposition of Immediate Directives.
Approved four executive resolutions for submission to the 2024 Annual Representative Assembly.
Approved proposed timelines and appointed Council members to a selection committee for the recruitment of the position of executive staff officer, Teacher Employment Services.
Amended the Standard Local and Sublocal constitutions and the Standard Student Local Constitution to include implementation to give force and effect to the Human Rights Statement.
Named field members to field experiences committees and amended the Resolutions Committee frame of reference.
