POSITIONS OPEN FOR NOMINATION
CEA may be eligible to elect up to 30 state delegates to the NEA RA in 2020. Here are descriptions of the open positions:
Category 1 At-Large/State Delegate: Fifteen Positions (Term: two years)
Category 1 At-Large/Ethnic Minority Concerns: Four Positions (Term: 2
years)
These categories must have Active classroom teachers (Membership Type AC-1) or NEA Life members (Membership Type AC-7) in local affiliates are eligible for these positions.
Aspiring Educators: one Position (Term: 1 Year)
Only Aspiring Educators with a SEA and NEA membership are eligible for this position.
Membership Units: nine positions from specific Membership Units (Term: one year)
Only active members (Membership Type AC-1) or NEA Life members (Membership Type AC-7) who teach in a local CEA affiliate in one of the seventeen Membership Units may be nominated for these positions. The nine open units include E, F, H, J, K, L, M, P & Q.
Unit E:
Bethel, Brookfield, CEA New Milford, Easton, NEA Danbury, New Fairfield, Sherman
Unit F:
Amity, Bethany, Branford, Derby, East Haven, Milford, Orange, Oxford, Seymour, Woodbridge
Unit H:
ACES, Cheshire, Hamden, North Haven, Wallingford, Wolcott
Unit J:
Berlin, Farmington, Newington, Plainville, Plymouth, Southington, Thomaston, Wethersfield
Unit K:
Cromwell, East Hartford, Glastonbury, Manchester, Rocky Hill
Unit L:
Bloomfield, CREC, East Windsor, Enfield, South Windsor, Suffield, Windsor
Unit M:
Avon, Canton, East Granby, Granby, Simsbury, West Hartford, Windsor Locks
Unit P:
East Lyme, Groton, Ledyard, Montville, New London, North Stonington, Preston, Project LEARN, Stonington, Voluntown, Waterford
Unit Q:
Clinton, East Haddam, East Hampton, Guilford, Haddam-Killingworth, Madison, Old Saybrook, Regional 4, Regional 13, Regional 18, Portland, Westbrook
Category 2 At-Large: One position (Term interim position open this year)
Nominees for the Category 2 At-Large position must be Active members (Membership Type AC-1) in supervisor/administrator positions or NEA Life members (Membership Type AC-7) who are no longer teaching—but only if they are not also NEA-Retired members. (NEA Life membership is a special category terminated in 1973.) Members with Active Life Memberships who are not retired from teaching are eligible for Category 2. NEA-Retired Members for Life (Membership Type RT-7) or annual Retired members (Membership Type RT-8) ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR CATEGORY 2
I have been reading about these issues, and even wrote about it (http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/2010/03/whos-responsible-for-failing.html).
And, yes, I feel like teachers are ignored about education issues. Politicians, who don’t seem to really understand the true issues, are the ones making all the rules and decisions with no input from teachers. Even at the school and district level, administrators, who are sometimes more politician than educator, make changes to things with no input from the classroom teachers who actually know and will have to implement their ideas.
If you want to fix education, you need to involve teachers. Period.
Teacher, and parent involvement in the initial planning of school/education reform is absolutely essential for success of any reform of U.S. schools.
The impotence of teachers and parents, especially those involved with high risk student populations, has caused a huge morale problem, and energy drain, on the adults that are actually necessary to turn around minimally-motivated and under-prepared students. The teachers working with our at risk students are exhausted, and they are asked to constantly push that rock back up that mountain, again, and again. The commitment that I have seen in teaching in those schools is phenomenal. However, this anti-teacher climate is draining the energy from even the most devoted teachers, no matter WHAT their age.
I was so hoping that the new administration would refocus money and support into positive and research-based (not necessarily data-driven) education, but this is not the case. When children are proven to respond to positive, focused, non-competitive environments by achieving substantially, why would this not be true of teachers, and parents?? It IS true of adults, as well as children. If the 21st Century Learner research has shown nothing else, it has shown us THAT.