NEA President Visits Bridgeport CommPACT Schools

NEA President Dennis Van Roekel heard encouraging reports from teachers, parents and principals during a visit yesterday to two Bridgeport CommPACT schools.  The new school reform experiment in Connecticut’s neediest cities may be the best hope for solving some of the vexing problems of America’s urban schools. CommPACT, headed by the University of Connecticut’s Neag…

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2009 New Teacher Conference

On Saturday, March 21, new teachers from around Connecticut gathered at Mohegan Sun for the annual CEA conference. The 2009 conference offered 13 breakout sessions on subjects from special education principles and practices to podcasting. The keynote address by Sally Ogden was titled “Words Will Never Hurt Me: Dealing with Power Struggles, Difficult People and…

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