Donate to Your Favorite Runners and Support CEF
If you’re not already a runner, you probably don’t have time to get marathon-ready before this year’s Hartford Marathon on October 11. Fortunately, you don’t have to be a runner…
Retired Members Active and Learning
CEA-Retired members gathered at the Aqua Turf Club in Southington today to catch up with their colleagues and learn more about issues of special interest to retirees. CEA-Retired works in…
Discounted train tickets available–Join colleagues in a history-making march in New York City
From Connecticut to California, we’ve all been experiencing the effects of what many experts are calling a climate crisis—from the historic brush fires out west to the flooding across the…
Teachers learn to work collectively
Individually, teachers are champions of quality education. But sometimes the challenge can be to help them see how much more they can accomplish collectively—rather than individually— to accomplish their goals.…
With the focus on organizing, CEA’s leadership conference is under way
A teacher is one of the most trusted people in his/her community, according to public opinion polls. So, it stands to reason, when groups of teachers band together to organize…
Teachers abuzz about Kozol’s speech
Jonathan Kozol’s speech this morning at the CEA Summer Leadership Conference hit a nerve with teachers when he said, “Using test scores to judge teachers is an absolute atrocity, even…
Teachers Celebrate 20 Years of Golf, Generosity, and Giving Back
Champions for students in need It was a hot and humid day, and the meteorologists called for heavy rain and thunderstorms in the early afternoon. But thankfully, the bad weather…
Anti-toxic testing measure/Call for Duncan resignation
A bold measure passed by the NEA RA probably has the testing industry as well as high-level national policymakers buzzing with concern today. Connecticut’s 129 teacher delegates joined nearly 9,000…
Doing the Association’s top business: See what teachers are up to
Emotions like excitement, passion, and enthusiasm along with ideas like teacher professionalism, student-centered leadership, and association organizing are on full display at the National Education Association’s Representative Assembly (NEA RA…
Future and Retired Educators’ Book Drive Brings Smiles to Students’ Faces
“We get books to take home?” excited students at Mayberry School in East Hartford asked members of the CEA Student Program (CEA-SP) and CEA Retired as they carried boxes full…