The discounts and special offers from NEA Member Benefits save teachers a considerable amount. Remember to check www.neamb.com for the latest savings. Below are the special NEA Member Benefits offers for May. NEA Click & Save “Buy-lights” for May 2015 Mother’s Day, graduations, and weddings—oh my! NEA Click & Save, the online discount buying service…
DetailsTeachers impact more lives than they can possibly know. As a teacher your reach extends out through your students to the wider world for decades and decades to come. CEA President Sheila Cohen said, “Teachers give so much all year long. You give to your students, your communities, your colleagues, and of course your own…
Details“We need to stand together and when we do, we do great things,” NEA Executive Committee member Greg Johnson told CEA-Retired members this morning. Johnson, a high school choir director in Mustang, Oklahoma, was the keynote speaker at the CEA-Retired Annual Spring Business Meeting. Johnson thanked retired educators for their many years of service as…
Details“We need educators from across the state to stand up and speak out to end burdensome, high-stakes testing in Connecticut,” said CEA Executive Director Mark Waxenberg. Waxenberg told Hartford County CEA leaders at a forum in Hartford earlier this week that legislators are considering a testing bill, Senate Bill 1095, but it must be amended…
DetailsThere’s always strength in numbers. The more individuals you can rally together, the better. Truer words have never been spoken when it comes to teachers and health care. In fact, if teachers can get—though legislative action this year—the option of joining the state employees’ health care plan, then many educators, as well as the towns…
DetailsWhile many of their former colleagues were busy in the classroom today, retired teachers did their part to improve education in Connecticut by talking with their elected representatives at the State Capitol. More than 80 retired teachers — members of CEA-Retired, AFT Connecticut, and the Association of Retired Teachers of Connecticut — sought out their legislators…
DetailsCEA President Sheila Cohen joined U.S. Congressman Joe Courtney today as he unveiled legislation that would eliminate the excise tax on higher-cost health insurance plans scheduled to take effect in 2018. The Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act has 65 cosponsors and would repeal the tax that unfairly burdens Connecticut educators and other members of…
DetailsLooking for free resources for your classroom? Below are some great websites compiled by NEA where you can find printables, books, instructional videos for you and your students, lesson plans, and much more. The USGS Water Science School Water is unique and vital to all life on Earth. These resources for K-8 science learners cover water…
DetailsThirty million: In the world of early-childhood education that number represents the supposed gap between middle- and low-income children in the number of words heard by the time they are three years old. The original study that generated that 30 million number is now 20 years old. The number has frequently been used to explain…
DetailsEarth Day offers a wide range of learning opportunities for the youngest preschoolers to high school seniors, and schools around Connecticut took advantage of those opportunities yesterday by getting involved in their communities and the natural environment. Advanced Placement environmental science students at New Fairfield High School held an Earth Day Celebration for middle and…
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