Give the Gift of a Book: Ideas for Children
Looking for book ideas for the children on your holiday shopping list? Wisconsin teacher Pernille Ripp has compiled lists of book ideas for children from preschool to high school. Click…
Building Meaningful Relationships Between School and Home
Successfully engaging families and communities is one of the most important means schools have of ensuring student success, yet community engagement frequently isn’t the priority it deserves to be. Today,…
Future Educators Enhance Skills, Give Back to Community Thanks to CEA Student Program
Over 100 future educators from around Connecticut will be giving up their Saturday tomorrow to come together for professional learning and networking opportunities at the CEA Student Program (CEA-SP) Fall…
Experience as Student Motivates Teacher of the Year
How will your students remember you? That was the question Waterbury history teacher and Connecticut 2016 Teacher of the Year Jahana Hayes posed to her fellow district Teachers of the…
Corporate Program for Disadvantaged Children Under Fire
An experimental preschool program for low-income students, funded by Goldman Sachs, is drawing criticism. The program is geared toward helping underprivileged students in Utah, but it makes money for investors…
What the United States’ Inordinately High Poverty Rate Means for Education
Teachers have been calling attention to the effects of poverty on students and the achievement gap for years. Now new analyses are offering new evidence of what educators have known…
On New State Panel, CEA Pushes Ahead to Improve Testing Practices
Over-testing students is a real thing across the U.S., according to Scott Norton, strategic initiative director for Standards, Assessment and Accountability at the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO),…
Obama Administration Calls for Less Testing in Schools
Teachers have been calling attention to the problem of overtesting in public schools for years, and this weekend the Obama administration finally responded by releasing a plan to reduce testing,…
Preventing Bullying by Focusing on School Culture
Many schools talk with students about bullying during the month of October, which is known as National Bullying Prevention Month, but not all techniques for combating bullying are equally effective.…
Lessons from 40 Years in the Classroom
When English teacher Molly Pollak retired after 40 years teaching middle and high school her former students compiled a book filled with 75 heartfelt letters. The letters spanned her entire…