Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late – Lobby for Issues That Make a Difference
“You’ve made a difference in the lives of so many children,” CEA President Sheila Cohen told more than 100 retirees at the CEA Retired Annual Spring Meeting at the Aqua Turf…
Community Forum Stresses Essential Component of Student Success: Family Engagement
“If you have no family and community engagement strategy, there will be no school improvement,” Karen Mapp, Ed.D., a community engagement expert, told a room crowded with over 120 people at the…
Learn More About Changes to Teacher Evaluation at a CEA Meeting or Webinar
Teacher evaluation in Connecticut is changing for the better thanks to recent flexibility options adopted by the Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC). The new flexibility options, along with earlier changes…
Why Parental Involvement Absolutely Is Important
A recent New York Times op-ed claimed that parental involvement isn’t important to student achievement and may hamper kids’ success in school. Controversy draws readers, but an article in NEA…
CEA Workshop: Addressing Students’ Mental Health to Improve Educational Outcomes
What are the warning signs? How can educators effectively identify and address students’ mental health issues? Come to a workshop presented by the CEA Human and Civil Rights Commission on…
Retired Teachers Ask Legislators to Honor Commitments
Retired teachers turned out in droves today at the State Capitol to tell their legislators why it’s so important that the state fully honor its commitments to retirees. “It’s extremely…
Linking for Learning: Attend a Family Engagement Forum May 6
Cultivating and sustaining effective family engagement is some of the most important work educators do, and yet, with everything else on educators’ plates, sometimes the link home to families doesn’t…
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…
Naugatuck’s Read Across America Day Cements Community Ties
In Naugatuck, Read Across America Day not only fosters children’s love of reading, it’s also a day to strengthen relationships and ties between students and schools. High school students gave…
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…