Is Your CTA Death and Dismemberment Beneficiary Information Correct? As an active CTA member, you are automatically eligible for benefits under the CTA Death & Dismemberment Plan. This plan is provided by the CTA Economic Benefits Trust and requires no premium payments from you. It provides up to a $2,000 death benefit, up to a [...]
Educators have great ideas about how education should be reformed in America. Most of these ideas have nothing to do with using the standardized tests that are choking off the joy of teaching and learning. Unfortunately, we don’t spend enough time sharing those ideas with eachother, let alone with those outside of education. The people [...]
From NEA: http://www.nea.org/tools/41411.htm
Click here to read the most recent newsletter NOV 1 – Issue 2 Jan’s President’s message is posted below: As always, the aftermath of an election offers some challenges and some opportunities. Three of our current school board members, Charles Uhalley, Arthur Bustamonte, and Clyde Francisco (otherwise known as “Mr. Chaffey”) were running for re-election. [...]
From NEA Opening Bell: The Chicago Tribune (11/3, Cullotta) reports, “Heather Moorefield-Lang, the education and social-sciences librarian at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., and a former middle school librarian, is aware of the frustration both parents and educators experience when students limit their research efforts to Google and Wikipedia, when a wealth of online tools [...]
If you are being evaluated this year, there are two parts of the evaluation process that should have been completed to date: By the second week of October: Unit members to be evaluated during a particular year shall be advised of the criteria (teaching and objective standards) upon which the evaluation is to be based, [...]
Council Decides Oct. 22-24, 2010 Voter Turnout is Key to Win Election, Sanchez Says Turning out the vote for CTA-supported candidates and initiatives was the take-home message from CTA President David A. Sanchez in his remarks to the State Council of Education on Saturday – a little more than a week before the [...]