CEA-Retired Members Speak Up at the State Capitol
While many of their former colleagues were busy in the classroom today, retired teachers did their part to improve education in Connecticut by talking with their elected representatives at the…
CEA Joins Congressman Courtney for Announcement on Bill to Repeal Tax that Would Hurt Educators
CEA President Sheila Cohen joined U.S. Congressman Joe Courtney today as he unveiled legislation that would eliminate the excise tax on higher-cost health insurance plans scheduled to take effect in…
10 Free Activities, Lessons, Videos, and More
Looking for free resources for your classroom? Below are some great websites compiled by NEA where you can find printables, books, instructional videos for you and your students, lesson plans, and…
More Than Word Gap Drives Differences in Children’s Language Learning
Thirty million: In the world of early-childhood education that number represents the supposed gap between middle- and low-income children in the number of words heard by the time they are…
Connecticut Schools Celebrate Earth Day
Earth Day offers a wide range of learning opportunities for the youngest preschoolers to high school seniors, and schools around Connecticut took advantage of those opportunities yesterday by getting involved…
10 Free Mother’s Day Activities and Projects
Ideas for celebrating Mom with students at all grade levels compiled by Phil Nast, retired middle school teacher, for NEA. 1. Acrostic Mother’s Day Poems Students in grades 1-2 write…
Withholding Recess for Disciplinary Reasons Declining
Children are sometimes kept in from recess as a disciplinary measure, but thanks to studies showing play and exercise support classroom learning, fewer students are now having recess taken away,…
Former CT Public School Teacher Selected to Lead State Department of Education
The next Connecticut commissioner of education is a long-time educator with many years of experience in the classroom and as a school leader. Dr. Dianna Wentzell was today named commissioner…
U.S. Senate Education Committee Passes NCLB Rewrite
The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions unanimously passed a bipartisan rewrite of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB)/Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) this afternoon. Education…
Bloomfield Educators Encourage Reading, Build Community
Bloomfield families now have many new-to-them books to read thanks to a great idea by teacher Jen Coleman. Coleman and other Bloomfield educators organized the first annual Bloomfield Education Association (BEA)…