Wilton teacher Maria Corti is officially a star, as far as her fifth graders are concerned, now that her 76-foot-tall Norway spruce has been chosen as Rockefeller Center’s Christmas tree. “I’m a celebrity. They see me in a new light suddenly. They’re very excited and proud – as they should be,” says Corti, who has…
DetailsTeacher cash bonuses for AP scores not effective CEA Executive Director John Yrchik has an editorial in today’s Hartford Courant. Read the complete piece here.
DetailsFeeling discouraged? Facing a classroom with more students than ever before? Frantic about how to make more programs like SRBI work with even fewer resources? Now there’s another wallop in store for local communities already struggling to support school budgets stretched to their limits. The State of Connecticut has a hole in its current budget…
DetailsKristi Luetjen, a kindergarten teacher at Whiting Lane Elementary in West Hartford, is Connecticut’s 2010 Teacher of the Year. She is featured in the December-January CEA Advisor, which will soon be arriving at your home. The video below was filmed October 14, immediately after Luetjen was named Connecticut Teacher of the Year. She speaks about…
DetailsTony Mullen, 2009 Connecticut and National Teacher of the Year, is speaking tomorrow at a Capitol Region Education Council (CREC) conference. The conference is titled Career Pathways – Connecticut Connections, and is taking place in Waterbury. Mullen will talk about the passion, professionalism, and perseverance it takes to reach vulnerable at-risk students, and the link…
DetailsOn November 18th the Final guidelines and invitation for applications to the so-called Race to the Top competition were published in the Federal Register. The 102 page application for Phase I funding is due by January 19, 2010 less than eight weeks from now. The monetary stakes are high. According to the published non-binding estimates…
DetailsWhy did I apply? Every person has a defining time in their life. For me, it was when I was a student at Barkhamsted Elementary School in Barkhamsted, CT. The entire school was gathered into the gymnasium/cafeteria to watch the first shuttle launch. You can just imagine what it was like with about 250 students…
DetailsThis year the Connecticut Education Foundation (CEF), CEA’s charitable organization, is again sponsoring the Holiday Bear Project. This project brings CEA members, the public, businesses, and needy public school students together during the holiday season. Emily Taylor, a social worker at Helen Street School in Hamden, has been involved with Holiday Bear for many years. …
DetailsRachael Manzer was featured on the cover of the September-October CEA Advisor. She is one of seven teachers nation-wide selected as the first astronaut-teachers to participate in the nonprofit Teachers in Space program. Manzer, a science teacher in Suffield, will be contributing a few posts to BlogCEA. Use this opportunity to leave a comment and…
DetailsIn recent weeks two men who have made significant contributions to public education passed away. Ted Sizer, founder of the Essential Schools Movement died at age 77 after a long battle with colon cancer. Gerald Bracey, 69, one of America’s most persistent critics of education reform, unexpectedly passed away in his sleep. Sizer’s prominence began…
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CEA may be eligible to elect up to 30 state delegates to the NEA RA in 2020. Here are descriptions of the open positions:
Category 1 At-Large/State Delegate: Fifteen Positions (Term: two years)
Category 1 At-Large/Ethnic Minority Concerns: Four Positions (Term: 2
years)
These categories must have Active classroom teachers (Membership Type AC-1) or NEA Life members (Membership Type AC-7) in local affiliates are eligible for these positions.
Aspiring Educators: one Position (Term: 1 Year)
Only Aspiring Educators with a SEA and NEA membership are eligible for this position.
Membership Units: nine positions from specific Membership Units (Term: one year)
Only active members (Membership Type AC-1) or NEA Life members (Membership Type AC-7) who teach in a local CEA affiliate in one of the seventeen Membership Units may be nominated for these positions. The nine open units include E, F, H, J, K, L, M, P & Q.
Bethel, Brookfield, CEA New Milford, Easton, NEA Danbury, New Fairfield, Sherman
Amity, Bethany, Branford, Derby, East Haven, Milford, Orange, Oxford, Seymour, Woodbridge
ACES, Cheshire, Hamden, North Haven, Wallingford, Wolcott
Berlin, Farmington, Newington, Plainville, Plymouth, Southington, Thomaston, Wethersfield
Cromwell, East Hartford, Glastonbury, Manchester, Rocky Hill
Bloomfield, CREC, East Windsor, Enfield, South Windsor, Suffield, Windsor
Avon, Canton, East Granby, Granby, Simsbury, West Hartford, Windsor Locks
East Lyme, Groton, Ledyard, Montville, New London, North Stonington, Preston, Project LEARN, Stonington, Voluntown, Waterford
Clinton, East Haddam, East Hampton, Guilford, Haddam-Killingworth, Madison, Old Saybrook, Regional 4, Regional 13, Regional 18, Portland, Westbrook
Category 2 At-Large: One position (Term interim position open this year)
Nominees for the Category 2 At-Large position must be Active members (Membership Type AC-1) in supervisor/administrator positions or NEA Life members (Membership Type AC-7) who are no longer teaching—but only if they are not also NEA-Retired members. (NEA Life membership is a special category terminated in 1973.) Members with Active Life Memberships who are not retired from teaching are eligible for Category 2. NEA-Retired Members for Life (Membership Type RT-7) or annual Retired members (Membership Type RT-8) ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR CATEGORY 2
Standing Committees of CEA-Retired are appointed by the CEA-Retired President with the advice of the Advisory Council after the CEA-Retired Annual Meeting in May. This typically takes place in June with additional appointments made in September. Terms will be for one year commencing on August 1.
If you are interested in serving on one of the committees, please indicate your willingness below. Please remember that committees have a limited membership and not all of the requests can be filled. By giving a first and second choice, CEA-Retired members will have a better chance of being chosen. If you filled out a form and returned it at the Annual Meeting, please do not fill out another form.
Connecticut Education Foundation
c/o Joslyn Delancey
21 Oak Street, Suite 500
Hartford, CT 06106
For inquiries or donations, visit http://henrybarnardfund.org/index.html
Contact CEA Retirement Specialist Robyn Kaplan-Cho at 860-525-5641, 1-800-842-4319, or [email protected].
Your contract can serve as an important vehicle for protecting your rights and advancing your concerns as a teacher working with special education students. In this workshop, teachers will learn how to integrate special education issues into the collective bargaining process. Participants will study the pros and cons of negotiating contract provisions related to performing health procedures, teacher notification and scheduling of PPT meetings, professional development opportunities, class-size limitations, local dispute resolution procedures for special-education-related problems, placement decisions, and many more related topics. Model contract language will be provided. This workshop is ideal for negotiating committees and teachers with a particular interest in this area of the law.
Length 2+ Hours
Presenter: Robyn Kaplan-Cho, CEA