Millennials Motivated and Empowered at CEA New Teacher Conference
“You are in the trenches every single day, and you are all heroes and heroines,” CEA President Sheila Cohen told the nearly 400 educators and future educators attending CEA’s New…
Read Across America Day Kicks Off With a Parade of Characters in Berlin
The classrooms at Hubbard School in Berlin were filled with book characters, including Little Red Riding Hood and the big bad wolf, Amelia Bedelia, Captain Underpants, Pinkalicious, and Thing 1…
CEA Unveils Sculpture Honoring Sandy Hook Victims
“It’s outstanding and emotional.” Those were the words of CEA Vice President Jeff Leake today as he formally accepted and displayed for the first time, a bronze sculpture from Connecticut…
New CEA TV Ad Focuses on Teachers Rising for Student Success
Connecticut teachers go above and beyond every day for their students, despite ever-changing demands that threaten to weigh them down. This is the core message of a new public awareness…
Derby Teachers Say Collaboration is Key to School Improvement
More than 100 educators gathered in New Britain today for an Alliance District Convening to discuss innovative strategies being used to improve student performance in some of the state’s lowest…
Teacher Evaluation Pilot Study Released
The Connecticut Department of Education today released the UConn Neag School of Education report on the implementation of SEED, Connecticut’s system for educator evaluation and development, in the 10 pilot…
Waterbury Grad Keeps Connecticut Updated on Space Activities
NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, a Waterbury native and Crosby High School graduate, successfully completed a series of spacewalks on Dec. 24. Watch highlights of the spacewalk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOrzKtEW0xg. Mastracchio is…
Should Schools Close on Election Day?
The group looking into a uniform school calendar for Connecticut heard from Secretary of the State Denise Merrill today about the need to close schools on Election Day.
Statement from CEA President Sheila Cohen on Sandy Hook Anniversary
Our lives changed one-year ago today, and they will never be the same. Today, families, friends, and educators in the small town of Newtown, across Connecticut and the entire country,…
Tomorrow, Remember 26 Innocent Lives Lost with Green Ribbons
It’s still so fresh in our minds that it seems like it happened just yesterday, but Saturday will mark the one-year anniversary of the horrific massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary…