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Learn more about leadership, SBTA bylaws, the organization structure, and our history.
SBTA Leadership
Executive Board 2022-23
President
Hozby GalindoVice President
Janette Peinado, Goleta Valley Junior High SchoolSecretary
Amy McMillan, San Marcos High SchoolTreasurer
York Shingle, Santa Barbara High SchoolRep-At-Large
Shannon Hamilton, Goleta Valley Junior High SchoolRacial/Ethnic Minority Director
(Open)Membership
Ashley Cornelius, Santa Barbara High SchoolChild Development Director/Rep-At-Large
Eric Eisenberg, Washington ElementaryCTA State Council delegate
Joel Block, La Cuesta Continuation High SchoolSpecial Education
Kristyn Hastie, Santa Barbara High School
Bargaining Team
Adoni Coronado, Franklin Elementary School
Ashely Cornelius, Santa Barbara High School
Lani Day, District Office
Derek Drew, San Marcos High School
Warren Takaya, La Cumbre Junior High School
Monica Wassef, Alta Vista Independent High School
Tracy Womack, La Colina Junior High School
Tiffany Yeh, Dos Pueblos High School
Andrew Oman – CTA Staff
Elections Committee Chair
Anna Guerrero, Dos Pueblos High School
Insurance Committee
(open)
Organizing Team
James Libhart, San Marcos High School
Office Manager
Karen McBride
Grievance Chair
Alexa Levesque, Instructional Support Specialist
SBTA Bylaws
The SBTA bylaws are available to in pdf format and cover the purpose of the association, affiliations, membership, dues and assessments and more. Please contact us with any questions.
Organizational Structure
Santa Barbara Teachers Association (SBTA) consists of over 700 plus members from elementary and secondary schools in the Santa Barbara Unified School District (SBUSD). Our mission is to improve the working conditions for all teachers in Santa Barbara and to ensure that the contract is being upheld. SBTA is proud to maintain a collaborative relationship with Santa Barbara Unified School District, working together for improving the education of all of our students.
Within our local SBTA chapter, we have an elected Executive Board made up of the various officers. The Executive Members meet once a month. The President’s position is full time release and is supported in the SBTA office by a part time office manager. Each school site has one or more elected Reps whose job it is to provide two way communication between certificated staff and union leadership about working conditions at school sites and about union events and opportunities.
SBTA’s Regional UniServ staff support person works out of the Santa Maria Regional Resource Center. The Service Center that serves SBTA is the Channel Islands Service Center in Ventura. SBTA is in District G and part of Region III in California. The Regional office is in Santa Fe Springs.
CTA headquarters is in Burlingame. Within NEA our Directorial District is District 5 (Channel Islands and Bay Valley). SBTA is part of NEA Pacific Region located in Burlingame and the NEA headquarters, is located in Washington D.C.
The History of the SBTA
by Frank Stevens
Former SBTA President and the father of Past President Ken Stevens
SBTA’s office was originally on the Rivera campus, just up from the Rivera Theater; the theater was used for Rep Council Meetings. SBTA was made up of both administrators and teachers. It was a more formal group than the earlier Certificated Employees Club, which was more of a social gathering group.
SBTA was part of the southern section of CTA. Compared to most of CTA, the southern section was more aggresssive and outspoken for teacher’s rights and wanted to remove administrators from the association. In the late 60’s CTA unified by removing section identifications. This begain the State Council framework that exists today.
About that time, SBTA moved from the Riviera to rent space on Hope Avenue. A full-time secretary was hired. Her name was Marge Ummel, and she served for more than 20 years. During the late 60’s and early 70’s SBTA and CTA went through a major transition period attacking the “meet and confer” process dealing with salaries and benefits. An advocacy plan for a true negotiating process was established.
Teachers were divided because it created a image of unionism vs. teacher professionalism. By eventually gaining a negotiating process, SBTA advanced into contract language in a number of employer-employee relationship areas. it was time to begin the advocacy process to move from advisory grievance processing to binding arbitration of grievances.
Association leaders in the 60’s and 70’s fought many battles for public education and teacher rights. Here are a few names that stand out: Morris Jenkins (deceased), 1st State Council and CTA Board of Directors representative; Hal Hamm, Dave Short, Hank Schiff, Jean Reiche, Curtis Ridling,Bob Young and Ron Liberatore.
These individuals among others, faithfully provided the groundwork for protections and benefits enjoyed by teachers today. They knew, as today’s teachers know, that protection of benefits is an endless journey. Times have changed however — where we once battled at the local level with superintendents and school boards, now the battles are at the State and Federal levels. We cannot deny that public education and public school educators must be assertive, sometimes agressive, political activists.
If teachers believe in what they are doing, they must be willing to stand up and be counted.
Join us and let your voice be heard.
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