POSITIONS OPEN FOR NOMINATION
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.
Unit E:
Bethel, Brookfield, CEA New Milford, Easton, NEA Danbury, New Fairfield, Sherman
Unit F:
Amity, Bethany, Branford, Derby, East Haven, Milford, Orange, Oxford, Seymour, Woodbridge
Unit H:
ACES, Cheshire, Hamden, North Haven, Wallingford, Wolcott
Unit J:
Berlin, Farmington, Newington, Plainville, Plymouth, Southington, Thomaston, Wethersfield
Unit K:
Cromwell, East Hartford, Glastonbury, Manchester, Rocky Hill
Unit L:
Bloomfield, CREC, East Windsor, Enfield, South Windsor, Suffield, Windsor
Unit M:
Avon, Canton, East Granby, Granby, Simsbury, West Hartford, Windsor Locks
Unit P:
East Lyme, Groton, Ledyard, Montville, New London, North Stonington, Preston, Project LEARN, Stonington, Voluntown, Waterford
Unit Q:
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
Although I didn’t teach in a full size classroom as a speech-language pathologist, I found that my students seemed to appreciate my smaller classroom, decorated with seasonal decorations, small lamps, attractive items in the hall window, a flag or poster on the door, an attractive bulletin board and books displayed on top of the bookcase. I think it made my room comfortable, homey and indicated my sincere care for my students and their comfort.
Teachers and parents complimented me on the surroundings and the change in the appearance of the room, a spartan look, after my retirement. Children recognize who truly cares, which goes beyond delivery of services for which one is hired.
It took nearly twenty years for me to have a room of my own which I did not share with other itinerant specialists. During that time, I always attempted to put my stamp on the space I shared with one or more specialists. I think it indicated it was my students’ space when we used it together. They knew they were welcome and their needs were important.
I do not agree with or understand the use of a spartan room unless a student is so distractible or in danger of hurting himself or others with items in the space.
Ok who does the studies! Students appreciate their work displayed on the walls of the classroom and the decorations indicate that the teacher cares about herself or himself, the students, and the environment. Spartan classroom will just says I don’t care how my room looks because it’s just a room. Are the decorations in your house and child’s room a distraction? Or does it say this is who I am,these are the people I want to be happy, and it’s not just a job? In my 31 years of experience, a Spartan classroom told me and the students that they weren’t worthy enough for the teacher to spend time making the room look more like home than a place that they had to be but we’re not welcomed.