On Saturday, March 12, almost 100 classified members from the surrounding area gathered for their annual professional development conference at Giaudrone Middle School in Tacoma. Locals represented were Tacoma Federation of ParaEducators, AFT Renton Classified, United Classified Workers Union (UCWU), and Federation of Head Start Employees. They attended workshops on Civility in the Workplace, Poverty: Understanding the Realities So That Children Can Learn, Using True Colors to Understand Personalities; Responding to Challenging Student Behaviors; and Engaging Your Membership = A Stronger Local.
Understanding Poverty and its effect on students by Betsy Minor Reid
Working in groups
Discussions in the Civility in the Workplace workshop
Understanding personality types through the True Colors program
Responding to Challenging Student Behaviors workshop
Responding to challenging behaviors
Learning ways to engage members
Inspirus Credit Union had a table and donated a door prize
Assessing their True Color personality profile
Close to 100 attendees at the conference
Sunrise Dental Mike Williams at our conference. They also donated a smart TV as a door prize!
Winner of the grand prize!
Janet and Beth giving out door prizes. This prize donated by United Business Bank.
Another great door prize! Donated by Renton Printery.