Governor Dannel P. Malloy is expected to sign several bills that improve early childhood education. This past weekend, the state legislature approved the Office of Early Childhood, the School Readiness Expansion, and Smart Start…
DetailsCongratulations to all of the 2014 State Teachers of the Year who were honored at the White House yesterday. We’re looking forward to hearing Connecticut’s own John Mastroianni speak tonight at the CEA Representative Assembly in Hartford.
This year it has cost the Norwich Public Schools approximately $1.5 million to implement the Common Core State Standards (CSSS) in the city’s K-8 system. This money has come from state funds Norwich has received as an Alliance School District and from other grants, according to Joe Stefon, Norwich’s curriculum and instruction director. He presented…
DetailsA Stamford third-grader is a finalist in the Doodle 4 Google contest, and your vote could help him win a $30,000 scholarship and a $50,000 Google for Education technology grant for his school. Jason E. Rosado is in Audra Greer’s class at Hart Magnet Elementary School in Stamford. In response to Google’s invitation to draw…
DetailsTeacher evaluation in Connecticut is changing for the better thanks to recent flexibility options adopted by the Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC). The new flexibility options, along with earlier changes adopted by PEAC, give districts more flexibility that can be used to promote better practice. What do these changes mean for your district? Come to a CEA regional meeting or attend an online webinar…
DetailsA recent New York Times op-ed claimed that parental involvement isn’t important to student achievement and may hamper kids’ success in school. Controversy draws readers, but an article in NEA Today explains the many problems with this assertion and the study the op-ed authors cite. Anne Henderson, a leading expert on family and community engagement…
DetailsUPDATE: The Senate passed the bill mentioned below 33-2 Friday night and it now awaits a vote in the House. At a news conference this evening Senate leaders announced that they will run an early childhood bill tonight that will expand access to pre-K for young children around the state. CEA President Sheila Cohen told reporters,…
DetailsBY CEA PRESIDENT SHEILA COHEN Connecticut has parted company with those who would reduce teaching and learning to a single test score. Today the Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) voted to recommend the prohibition of the further use of a single, isolated standardized test score in teacher evaluations. The recommendation will be forwarded to the…
DetailsTime demands associated with the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) were front and center among teachers and administrators at today’s meeting of the state’s new CCSS task force. Wallingford K-2 school principal Vicki Reed told her colleagues that her district has made progress in designing its curriculum with the CCSS. “The work…
DetailsWhat are the warning signs? How can educators effectively identify and address students’ mental health issues? Come to a workshop presented by the CEA Human and Civil Rights Commission on May 7 and hear the answers from experts in the field. Dr. Andrea M. Spencer, Dean of the School of Education at Pace University, will…
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