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Dec. 2011 – Jan. 2012 • Vol. 54 No. 3

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  • Advocating
    • ECS Task Force building momentum
    • Educators grateful to PRI for opportunity to explore Standards Board
    • Let your voice be heard at CEA’s Education Reforums
    • CEA intervention helps ensure JROTC certification and retirement benefits
    • Next deadline for NCLB looms in February
    • Educators grateful to PRI for opportunity to explore Standards Board
  • Endorsing
    • CEA endorses Chris Donovan for Congress
  • Featuring
    • Race to Nowhere focuses on pressures facing today’s students
  • Updating
    • Public supports increased spending for public schools
    • NEA and Horace Mann Insurance end 20-year partnership
    • Holiday Bear Project donations collected
  • Congratulating
    • Connecticut’s 2012 teachers of the year
    • Award-winning teacher hopes to improve education in Connecticut, inspire more students to enter the profession
    • Governor Malloy appoints CEA-Retired member to chair State Teachers’ Retirement Board
    • Lessons in eating healthy
    • Make CEA’s award-winning website part of your daily online activities
  • Teaching
    • Handling everyday classroom disruptions and disrupters
    • America’s dream substitute teachers
    • Teachers’ perspective on professional development
  • Introducing
    • Experienced professionals fill UniServ Representative positions
  • HELP! It’s time to get our educational feet back on the ground
  • Attend a “Reforum:” Take the economic, educational bull by its horns
  • May 27, 2012

ADVOCATING

ECS

ECS Task Force building momentum

With seven meetings under their collective belts, members of the Education Cost Sharing (ECS) Task Force appointed by the governor are zeroing in on strengths and weaknesses in the state’s current school funding formula. The testimony of Rodriguez came during a task force meeting that … [Read More...]

CONGRATULATING

Hutton

Award-winning teacher hopes to improve education, inspire more students to enter the profession

Douglas Hutton, a Glastonbury High School physics teacher, recently earned the prestigious Milken Educator Award, which honors early- to mid-career educators with effective instructional practices and … [Read More...]

Advocating

Let your voice be heard at CEA’s Education Reforums

What are your issues?  School funding? Tenure?  Seniority?  Teacher assaults? CEA is holding ten important meetings around Connecticut in … [Read More...]

Connecticut’s 2012 teachers of the year

All 97 local 2012 teachers of the year were recognized recently at a ceremony at The Bushnell in Hartford. They are enthusiastic, energized … [Read More...]

Next deadline for NCLB looms in February

State education officials should be making arrangements to "meaningfully" engage with teachers, unions, parents and community organizations as they … [Read More...]

President’s Perspective | Phil Apruzzese, CEA President

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HELP! It’s time to get our educational feet back on the ground

I have a confession: I can’t get the Beatles song “Help!”, out of my mind. It’s been decades since I sang along to the hit as a teenager. A great deal has intervened since then—my family, my … [Read More...]

Executive Director’s Viewpoint | Mary Loftus Levine, Executive Director

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Attend a “Reforum:” Take the economic, educational bull by its horns

A recent cover of The New Yorker magazine used cartoon-like characters to spoof the Occupy Wall Street movement that has sprung up in Manhattan, Hartford, New Haven and across our nation. The real … [Read More...]

Advocating

Educators grateful to PRI for opportunity to explore Standards Board

There is no official proposal for a Professional Standards Board for Educators before the legislature at this time. However, the Legislative Program Review and Investigations (PRI) Committee has taken a significant first step by holding a public hearing on the idea of a Professional Standards Board for Educators. Stay tuned for the PRI Committee's report on the board scheduled to be released this … [Read More...]

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Professional Development necessary for continued growth

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Featured stories

  • Professional Development necessary for continued growth
  • America’s dream substitute teachers
  • Attend a “Reforum:” Take the economic, educational bull by its horns
  • Award-winning teacher hopes to improve education, inspire more students to enter the profession
  • CEA endorses Chris Donovan for Congress
  • CEA intervention helps ensure JROTC certification and retirement benefits
  • Connecticut’s 2012 teachers of the year
  • ECS Task Force building momentum
  • Educators grateful to PRI for opportunity to explore Standards Board
  • Experienced professionals fill UniServ Representative positions
  • Governor Malloy appoints CEA-Retired member to chair State Teachers’ Retirement Board
  • Handling everyday classroom disruptions and disrupters
  • HELP! It’s time to get our educational feet back on the ground
  • Holiday Bear Project donations collected
  • Lessons in eating healthy
  • Let your voice be heard at CEA’s Education Reforums
  • Make CEA’s award-winning website part of your daily online activities
  • NEA and Horace Mann Insurance end 20-year partnership
  • Next deadline for NCLB looms in February
  • Public supports increased spending for public schools
  • Race to Nowhere focuses on pressures facing today’s students
  • The value of early childhood education needs more attention

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