CONNECTICUT SUN

CEA members save up to 27% on professional women’s basketball at the Mohegan Sun. Catch the season home opener, May 20, with tickets as low as $20.

RED-HOT AND ON A ROLL

The Yard Goats have won seven of their last nine games. Catch all the action May 5 when they play the Portland Sea Dogs at CEA Teacher Appreciation Day.

HELPING YOUR STUDENTS WITH TRAUMA

When students are exposed to bullying, violence, or neglect, the impact on their social and emotional well-being can be profound. Learn strategies you can use in your classroom to help your students deal with the impact of trauma. Get details on CEA’s members- only workshop on May 10 in Rocky Hill.

TEACHER LEADER FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM INSTITUTE

Sign up now to attend the second annual Teacher Leader Fellowship Program Institute on May 22 at Central Connecticut State University. Internationally known and influential education thinkers – Dr. Peter Gamwell and Dr. Pasi Sahlberg – will discuss the importance of teacher leaders and administrators emphasizing creativity, collaboration, and innovation in classrooms and schools.

ROTTEN APPLES

A rotten apple to greedy CEOs and special interests trying to divide and limit union members’ collective bargaining power. Read more.

SHINY APPLES

A shiny apple to 31 legislators who joined a progressive caucus to fight for issues of importance to the state’s middle class. Read about the legislators who are part of this progressive movement.

HELP REGISTER STUDENTS TO VOTE IN YOUR HIGH SCHOOL

CEA is partnering with the Registrars of Voters Association of Connecticut on a month-long voter registration drive in Connecticut’s high schools, beginning May 1.

Read how you can help encourage all students who will be 18 years old on or before Election Day to register to vote.

IT’S TIME TO ROLL BACK THE TEACHER TAX

We have a little over a week to urge legislators to do what’s right and roll back the teacher tax. Legislators are currently considering action on a budget bill, so…