POSITIONS OPEN FOR NOMINATION
CEA may be eligible to elect up to 30 state delegates to the NEA RA in 2020. Here are descriptions of the open positions:
Category 1 At-Large/State Delegate: Fifteen Positions (Term: two years)
Category 1 At-Large/Ethnic Minority Concerns: Four Positions (Term: 2
years)
These categories must have Active classroom teachers (Membership Type AC-1) or NEA Life members (Membership Type AC-7) in local affiliates are eligible for these positions.
Aspiring Educators: one Position (Term: 1 Year)
Only Aspiring Educators with a SEA and NEA membership are eligible for this position.
Membership Units: nine positions from specific Membership Units (Term: one year)
Only active members (Membership Type AC-1) or NEA Life members (Membership Type AC-7) who teach in a local CEA affiliate in one of the seventeen Membership Units may be nominated for these positions. The nine open units include E, F, H, J, K, L, M, P & Q.
Unit E:
Bethel, Brookfield, CEA New Milford, Easton, NEA Danbury, New Fairfield, Sherman
Unit F:
Amity, Bethany, Branford, Derby, East Haven, Milford, Orange, Oxford, Seymour, Woodbridge
Unit H:
ACES, Cheshire, Hamden, North Haven, Wallingford, Wolcott
Unit J:
Berlin, Farmington, Newington, Plainville, Plymouth, Southington, Thomaston, Wethersfield
Unit K:
Cromwell, East Hartford, Glastonbury, Manchester, Rocky Hill
Unit L:
Bloomfield, CREC, East Windsor, Enfield, South Windsor, Suffield, Windsor
Unit M:
Avon, Canton, East Granby, Granby, Simsbury, West Hartford, Windsor Locks
Unit P:
East Lyme, Groton, Ledyard, Montville, New London, North Stonington, Preston, Project LEARN, Stonington, Voluntown, Waterford
Unit Q:
Clinton, East Haddam, East Hampton, Guilford, Haddam-Killingworth, Madison, Old Saybrook, Regional 4, Regional 13, Regional 18, Portland, Westbrook
Category 2 At-Large: One position (Term interim position open this year)
Nominees for the Category 2 At-Large position must be Active members (Membership Type AC-1) in supervisor/administrator positions or NEA Life members (Membership Type AC-7) who are no longer teaching—but only if they are not also NEA-Retired members. (NEA Life membership is a special category terminated in 1973.) Members with Active Life Memberships who are not retired from teaching are eligible for Category 2. NEA-Retired Members for Life (Membership Type RT-7) or annual Retired members (Membership Type RT-8) ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR CATEGORY 2
Thank you for setting up this site. As a Sandy Hook resident, and Monroe teacher, I will do whatever is in my power to help my community heal.
My sympathy and heart goes out to all. As a retired teacher, I would be willing to volunteer if needed in any effort to ease the pain of this community. I’m sure other retirees would be willing to, also.
CT teachers are grieving with you, and are proud of heroic efforts made by fellow teachers for their students. I am an elementary Music teacher, and I hope that I would be as protective and brave as Sandy Hook’s Music teacher. We all work hard to make schools a safe place for children, and I for one am furious this has happened.
I cannot imagine what you are all going through right now. As a mother and grandmother my heart just cant seem to stop aching. Please know that I am sending you all lots of hugs and i know there is nothing any of us can say or do that could ease your pain. But know that arms across america and europe are holding you close and we are all here for you anyway we can be!
My thoughts and prayers to the families of the victims…..There are no words to ease your pain and loss. I know they are in the arms of Almighty God and through faith you will be reunited with them again one day. These words are the only words I can offer you at
a time like this…..My sincere condolences are with you. Lean on the Lord to give you the strength to get through this unbearable tragedy. God Bless….
Our thoughts are with you in this sad time, and tears flow when we see the pictures of the little innocent children who never had a chance to grow into youth. Our prayers and love are with you. keep strong.
Words cannot begin to convey the heartache and profound sadness that has occupied my very existence since this terrible tragedy occurred. The loss of so many beautiful, innocent children and the educators who tried so valiantly to protect them is hard to comprehend, but they will never be forgotten. My deep and sincere condolences to the the families of the victims and the community of Newtown.
Dear colleagues,
I am a teacher in Colorado – I live in close proximity to locations of 3 school shootings (Columbine HS, Platte Canyon HS, and Deer Creek MS). I became a teacher the year that the Columbine tragedy occured and remember starting my career wondering if this would be something I would have to get used to. Now, over a decade later, it seems that it is. It seemed that as a secondary teacher I was more vulnerable to such random and senseless acts of violence, but after last week I now know this is not the case – such tragedy can happen anywhere at any time. As the mother of 5 children, the youngest a 4th grader, I cannot express how horrified I am that even our youngest students are no longer safe from this type of threat. I grieve for you, and the whole world grieves with you, as you try to put your lives back together and move on somehow. Know that there are millions who send you strength to bring what sense of normalcy that you can to those who must go on with their lives. God speed and comfort you all in this dark and troubling time…may you be blessed with light and love to get you through the difficult times ahead. We will learn from your sorrow, and hopefully our society will find a way to keep this from ever happening again.