Celebrating American Education Week
By CEA President Sheila Cohen Today kicks off American Education Week — a wonderful opportunity to celebrate public education and honor everyone who makes a difference in ensuring that children receive…
Teachers Can Do
“Those that can, do. Those that can’t, teach.” It’s a phrase that educators everywhere are sick of hearing. UConn Professor Robert M. Thorson calls it “an odious and offensive insult”…
Community Forum Discusses Successful Strategies for Family Engagement
Successfully engaging families and communities is one of the most important means schools have of ensuring student success, yet people frequently don’t make community engagement the priority it deserves to…
New CEA TV Ad Takes a Closer Look at Success in the Works
What’s considered the biggest shift ever in the structure and substance of Connecticut public education—intense and focused change in the state’s most challenged school districts—is yielding early success. “Our students,…
ACES Educator Selected as Patriotic Teacher of the Year
Teacher Bill Jacobs is known for honoring veterans with an assembly he organizes for his special education students, and this year Jacobs himself is also being honored. Jacobs learned earlier…
Four Education Experts Take a Hard Look at New Teacher Evaluation System
Connecticut’s new teacher evaluation system is a work in progress, and, if it is to succeed, then policymakers must aggressively solicit feedback from teachers, make continuous improvements, and take the…
Public Education Supporters Win in Bridgeport
In yesterday’s Bridgeport Board of Education election, we could not be prouder of the many teachers who contributed their hands and hearts in electing pro-education candidates. These candidates took on…
Make the Season Bright for a Child in Need
You have the opportunity to make a child’s holiday brighter this year by participating in the Holiday Bear Project, sponsored by CEA’s charitable organization, the Connecticut Education Foundation (CEF). The…
Wallingford Students Experience Ups and Downs of Science
Students in Wallingford’s STEM Academy program were excited this morning as they prepared for a chance to talk with an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. But after many unsuccessful…
CEA Webinars on Writing SLOs
Do you have questions about writing Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) that make sense for your students? Do you want to be more informed in case you need to change your…