Scheduled Items and Todos

• Upcoming Items

  • Session 5: Organization-specific or mixed Groups

    • Zoom Link for Plenary Session Track B (June 4, 6pm MST)

    • Zoom Link for UFPA local breakout meeting (June 4, between 6pm to 8:30pm)

    • Session 5 agenda and description

      • Support Materials

        • Organizational Jeopardy

        • Wall Chart Training and Checklist

        • Full chapter on the UTLA Strike

        • UTLA structure test

        • Discussion Questions

        • Guiding Questions for Structure Tests

        • Standard Organizing Chart

        • Sample Online Worksite Charts

    • Pre-Session Group Exercises

      • Get together with your group to do this Organizational Jeopardy exercise. We will collectively review the answers in Session 5. Also discuss how your organizing group currently tracks and manages worker participation, using as a reference the structure tests you will have read about in the UTLA chapter.

• Todos and Past Items

  • ***Join our UFPA-specific Whatsapp Chat***

  • Session 1

    • Do Exercise 1: Leader Identification (this was done in the Whatsapp group chat)

    • Plenary Session 1: Core Concepts and Leader Identification (slideset here)

    • Session 1 evaluation

  • Session 2: Semantics and the Words We Choose

    • Session 2 agenda

    • Pre-session discussion:

      • Discuss the Structure of UFPA

      • Tracy’s spreadsheet

    • Break Out Exercise: Semantics

      • Chat copy from Breakout Session

      • Semantics “Illustrated Guide”

    • Observer sheet for facilitation practice - I think this is so you can evaluate/criticize my efforts LOL.

    • Session 2 evaluation

  • Session 3: 6-Step Structured Organizing Conversations

    • Pre-Session Group Exercises

      • Meet with your group and make sure you have read through the petitions and scenarios above. Evaluate recent attempts to move hard conversations in your organization. What worked, and what didn’t?

    • Session 3 agenda and description

    • Script for role play

    • Majority Petition for Role Play

    • Scenario for role-play 

    • Debrief sheet

    • My Notes on the 6 steps, as written in the Whatsapp Group

  • Session 4: Credible Plan to Win and Building Strong Structure

    • Pre-Session Group Exercises

      • Meet with your group to practice the 6-step role play discussed during the Week 3 session. For those who have time, read the full chapter on the UTLA strike, then read this UTLA structure test list and answer the accompanying discussion questions with your group.

    • Session 4 Slideset

    • Session 4 agenda and description

      • Support Materials

        • Full chapter on the UTLA strike

        • UTLA Structure Test

        • Documents mentioned in Agenda:

          • “using this scenario”

          • observer debrief sheet