Dear Colleagues, NTA leadership has asked you not to share feedback with the district on your overall experience of Thrive day. Why? Because there was a clear dissonance between what we have been hearing from members about Thrive and what district leaders were telling us they were hearing. We were, and remain, concerned that the district's interpretation of its own survey data suffers from confirmation bias. Anna Nolin repeatedly has challenged the union position. I am not i

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Dear Colleagues. This eBulletin includes a Negotiations Update from Ryan Normandin, Second Release Officer and Chair of the NTA Negotiations Committee. In these introductory remarks, I want to address the larger purpose and trajectory of negotiations as well as questions about building a negotiations “campaign.” Negotiations I: Why Is It That Just When They Come to an End, They Begin Again? The simple answer to this question is: It’s the law. By Massachusetts law, public edu