ESP Committee

ESP Committee

November 3, 2025

Agenda

ESP Lunch at MSEA RA

MSEA ESP Conference

2025 ESP Bargaining Guide

Down with boring content in your presentation: make it entertaining

ESP Lunch at MSEA RA Update

Stacey Albrecht, Martin Diggs

MSEA ESP Conference

Review past sessions offered Review feedback

2024 Sessions

2024 Sessions

What do you want to see offered at future MSEA ESP Conferences

2024

2025 Sessions

• How to Advance in Your Career
• 10 Ways to Supercharge Your Member Communications
• ESP Power and Respect
• How to Activate the Members in Your Worksite Through Building Mapping
• Building the Movement through ESP Leadership and Organizing Mentoring Program
• Public Speaking: How to get More people to see things the way you do and help spread your message
• The ESP Bill of Rights is a Movement for Racial, Social, and Economic Justice
• ESP Employment Rights
• How to Turn the Bill of Rights into Local Wins
• Trauma and De-Escalation
• Labor Relations and Resolving Issues
• MSEA ESP Bargaining Goals
• Unleashing the Power of ESPs: Summer Organizing Explained
• Coping with Difficult Personalities
• Organizing and Advocacy: A Look at the History of NEA and MSEA

Text in Red means it was a repeat session from the previous year

What do you want to see offered at future MSEA ESP Conferences

2025

Right to Union

Calvert County

Association Leave

Access to new hires

Full Time Release President

ESP Bargaining Guide

Safe and Healthy Working Environment

Calvert County

Safety Concerns

Diapering & Tolieting

Handling Bombs

Workload & Staffing

Calvert County

Paid Leave

Calvert County

Health Room Coverage

Extended Vacancies

MSEA RA: Professional Leave

Bereavement Leave

Interpreting Services

School Closure

Career Advancement

Calvert County

Interviews for Promotional Positions

Nurses NBC

Transitioning to new position

The employee who provides back-up coverage to the health room shall receive specialized training and a stipend of $300 per year. If more than one employee takes on this role, the stipend will be split between the employees.

Whenever possible, instructional assistant, building services worker, food service worker, and secretary positions vacant for more than four (4) weeks shall be filled by a substitute until a qualified candidate has been obtained, hired, and placed.

Support staff who are asked to interpret or sign during the duty day and outside of assigned duties will be paid an additional ten (10) dollars per hour.

An employee who is scheduled to interview for a promotion within CCPS during his/her assigned workday shall not have their accrued leave decremented. The employee will minimize the time away from his/her regular work assignment before and after the scheduled interview.

School nurses with National Board Certification In School Nursing (NBCSN) will receive an annual salary adjustment of $1,000 provided their certification remains in good standing.

Employees who accept a promotion shall not be required to carry out the duties of the former position while transitioning to the new position. The transition period will begin no later than two (2) weeks after accepting the position.

In the event the MSEA Fall Conference falls on a non-student day, employees will receive approved professional leave to attend the Maryland State Education Association (MSEA) Fall Conference provided they submit proof of conference attendance to their supervisor upon their return. In the event the MSEA Fall Conference falls on a student day, the CAESS President will submit to the Superintendent or designee, in advance, a list of up to fifteen (15) employees requesting professional leave to attend the Maryland State Education Association (MSEA) Fall Conference. Employees approved to attend will submit proof of conference attendance to their supervisor upon their return.

12-month employees will not be required to make-up days designated as either Code Red or Code White, unless the system opens on a previously closed day for all employees.

Not more than five (5) working days of absence with pay shall be allowed for each death in the immediate family, including child, stepchild, parent, father-in-law, mother-in-law, grandchild, stepparent, brother, sister, spouse, or any person who has lived regularly in the household of the employee. Not more than three (3) working days of absence with pay shall be allowed for pregnancy loss due to miscarriage or termination of pregnancy for medical reasons.

CAESS officers and/or representatives shall be permitted to draw upon a pool of thirty (30) paid days for use in CAESS business. Any additional leave will require the approval of the Superintendent/designee in advance and satisfactory arrangements for substitutes and any necessary substitute expense shall be borne by CAESS. The use of the aforementioned leave shall require the approval of the president of the Association or his/her designee. Association leave will not be used for joint CAESS/CCPS committees, CCPS-sponsored committees requiring CAESS participation, and joint CAESS/CCPS negotiation sessions (excluding preparation time and planning meetings). CAESS shall be allowed to carry over up to ten (10) unused association leave days that may be applied to the fiscal year when negotiations are held, not to exceed forty (40) total days during the negotiations year.

CCPS shall notify the Association regarding the scheduled processing of new or returning employees ten (10) days prior or as soon as practicable. In the event that ten (10) days prior notice is not provided for the scheduled meeting and the Association is unable to attend, the Association shall be allowed to meet with the employee during their duty day for up to fifteen (15) minutes. The Association shall be entitled to one-to-one and/or small group meetings with employees during or immediately following their intake session. Non­ participation of the Association shall in no way delay an employee's start date.

CCPS agrees to the Association having the right to a full-time released president with the Association paying the salary and benefit costs. The president, upon return to CCPS, is guaranteed to continue his/her salary scale equivalent to the position they occupied prior to their leave. The Association agrees to provide notice to CCPS by April 1 if it will exercise this option for the following fiscal year.

No employee shall be required to handle any object suspected of being a bomb or similar device. Employees shall not be used to search for a suspected bomb or similar device.

Calvert County Public Schools will take reasonable steps to provide a safe working environment and shall collaborate with CAESS in an effort to address safety concerns that are brought to its attention.

This is a foot in the door... needs to be expanded on!

A witness shall be present whenever an employee is required to diaper or assist with toileting a student except in emergency situations.