Lack of teacher diversity takes focus amid teacher shortage
Read about biggest barriers to recruiting more teachers of color, expanding reciprocity with other states and more.
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Join Your Colleagues for a Night of Networking and Training
CEA county forums allow you to network, socialize, and connect with your colleagues. You can also learn new information from CEA staff trainings and presentations that relate directly to you, your students, and your profession.
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Tell Legislators That Improving School Air Quality Can’t Wait
Your voice can make a critical difference in ensuring our schools have clean air, with working, well-maintained ventilation, heating, and air conditioning systems that keep students and staff healthy and safe.
Save on Spring Break Plans and More Through NEA Member Benefits
As an NEA and CEA member, this March you save on tax filing, meal kits, spring break fun, and more. Check out the highlighted offers for March below, and view all the discounts available to you at neamb.com and cea.org/discounts.
What You Don’t See in Connecticut Classrooms: Soaring Rates of Trauma, Depression, Anxiety, Stress, and Suicide
Educators, parents, students, and legislators are joining a CEA social media campaign.
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CEA Podcast Focuses on the Burnout Causing Teachers to Leave the Classroom
Sheena Graham, Connecticut’s 2019 Teacher of the Year, had always found joy in teaching and, prior to the pandemic, planned to teach for another five to ten years. Instead she retired early this January—one of many teachers being forced out due to burnout, stress, and a lack of respect for teachers.
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CEA Earns Eight Awards for Excellence in Communications
CEA’s Communications Department has been recognized by the Public Relations Society of America and State Education Affiliate Communicators for a variety of campaigns and materials supporting CEA members and highlighting public education in Connecticut.
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Basketball Stars Put a Spin on Read Across Connecticut Week
The Connecticut Education Foundation’s (CEF) 2022 Read Across Connecticut Reading Bus Tour rolled on this week with various stops, including New London’s Harbor School on Wednesday, where students were treated not only to free books, literacy-themed craft projects, and a spirited read-aloud but also a team of MVPs who shared how books in the classroom…
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Teachers, Legislators on What’s Real in Education
The last several months have seen classrooms and board of education meetings turn into battlegrounds for everything from COVID protocol to curriculum. What are educators to do when they’re faced with angry accusations, confused parents, and misinformation about what they teach?
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Haddam-Killingworth Teachers to School Board: ‘Do the Right Thing’
Wearing #RedForEd, teachers, paraeducators, custodians, nurses, and other unionized school staff turned out in force at the Haddam-Killingworth Board of Education meeting last night. Their demand? That hundreds of thousands of dollars they contributed to a now-discontinued health insurance reserve fund be returned to them—instead of going into the board’s general fund.