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…
Great News: State Investing in Expansion of High-Quality Pre-K
Legislative leaders and educators gathered at the State Capitol this morning to announce Connecticut Smart Start, an historic 10-year, $200 million plan to provide 50,000 children with a high-quality early…
National Healthy Schools Day
Children’s health and safety while at school is the primary concern of all educators, but sometimes we don’t realize all that a safe school climate includes. The indoor air and…
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…
Questions Raised About Funding for New Charters
Following the State Board of Education’s approval yesterday of four new charter schools for Connecticut, the senator who co-chairs the legislature’s powerful budget-writing committee has said she’s “sort of outraged…
State Board Approves New Charter Schools
Today a local CEA leader — representing Bridgeport teachers — made an impassioned plea to the State Board of Education asking that the board reject new charter schools in the city because…
Common Core Implementation Task Force Takes First Steps
Common Core and the challenges districts are facing when it comes to implementation continue to be in the spotlight here in Connecticut. Yesterday the state’s Common Core Task Force, charged with…
Impact of Education Reform on Teachers
Why did you become a teacher? What motivates you? How do you want to be remembered? These are some of the questions Berlin social studies teacher and Connecticut’s 2012 Teacher…
SBAC Field Test Delayed
The State Department of Education today sent a memo to Connecticut superintendents saying that the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) — the group developing assessments aligned to the Common Core State…