Teachers have a renewed spring in their step this week at Uncas Elementary School in Norwich thanks to the thoughtful efforts of the school’s PTO. Parents honored educators during Teacher Appreciation Week with fabulous events and tokens of gratitude that left the teachers feeling valued and supported. “It was just so great,” said kindergarten teacher…
DetailsWaterbury Teachers Association Vice President Ray Santovasi has an impressive resume to share with his students. The music educator, who is based at Wilby High and North End Middle Schools, performs often with national acts and is a sought-after transcriptionist for some of the music industry’s famed drummers, including Melvin “Melly” Baldwin of Justin Bieber’s…
DetailsWhile self-proclaimed education reformers have been huddling, trying to hoist more change than ever before on our public schools, students and teachers have been plugging along doing the hard work of teaching and learning. Now the jury is in. And it’s the students and teachers who can claim success. Known as the “Nation’s Report Card,”…
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The State Board of Education early this afternoon approved changes to Connecticut’s Guidelines for Educator Evaluation. The State Board acted on…
Details“If you have no family and community engagement strategy, there will be no school improvement,” Karen Mapp, Ed.D., a community engagement expert, told a room crowded with over 120 people at the Holiday Inn in East Hartford this afternoon. The group of parents, community members, educators, future educators, and administrators attended the Community Forum — Linking for Learning…
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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…
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