While we remember the history of the labor movement this weekend and the sacrifices of generations of union members who went before us, this Labor Day weekend we also stand with our colleagues in Arizona and around the country whose plight shows so clearly why unions are still so vital today. In places like Arizona,…
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Just two weeks ago, Plainfield Memorial School students and teachers had no idea where they’d be starting their school year after a fire caused extensive damage to their school building. Yet, thanks to the generosity, hard work, and dedication of a community pulling together, 350 fourth and fifth graders are back at school today with…
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“This is a great way to start the year off right,” said Clover Street Intermediate reading teacher Terri Faucher, who gathered with her fellow Windsor Education Association members for a social earlier this week at Carbone’s Kitchen in Bloomfield on Windsor teachers’ first day back at school. WEA members who attended agreed it was the…
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Despite the oppressive heat, hundreds of students, parents, and siblings lined up yesterday afternoon outside Northville Elementary School in New Milford, eager to meet their new teachers at the preschool through second grade school before today’s first day of classes. “I can’t wait to get to know the kids and hear the questions they have,”…
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CEA’s new leadership team welcomes you back to school with a fresh perspective on Connecticut public education and our future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GygrgcxuDc?rel=0
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Attend CEA’s free New Teacher Conference on October 20 at the Heritage Hotel in Southbury and learn new skills that can improve your pedagogy and your ability to make a difference in the classroom.
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“Thank God for the Janus Decision.” “It takes them out right at the knees.” “It gives us more power with the union leadership.” Those are just some of the anti-union comments gubernatorial candidate Bob Stefanowski made in just :40 seconds. Watch the video.
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Local unions across the state are holding luncheons, parties, BBQ’s, and other social events to welcome new and returning teachers into their districts and letting them know all the union does to support them in the classroom and in their careers. Here are a few of the celebrations. A Warm Waterbury Welcome for New Teachers.…
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CEA’s new leadership team welcomes you back to school with a fresh perspective on Connecticut public education and our future.
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Forget the crowded auditorium and the motivational speeches. At Haddam-Killingworth schools, convocation is about dunk tanks, pool races, DJs, and human games of Hungry Hungry Hippos. “All that fun and energy, that’s who we are as people, and it’s what makes us successful as teachers,” says Haddam-Killingworth Education Association President Donna DiGregorio, who came to…
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