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NEA President Kicks Off Year Two of Priority Schools Campaign
September 12, 2011 by
“One of the things I love about teaching is that you get to start brand new with the beginning of each new school year,” NEA President Dennis Van Roekel said today. Van Roekel was in Dayton, Ohio on Monday visiting…
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Change Agents: Profiles of Union Leaders Driving Education Reform
September 8, 2011 by
The Summer 2011 issue of NEA Today magazine highlighted union-led efforts to help transform priority schools in some of America’s neediest communities. Here are the stories of five union leaders who were featured on the magazine’s cover and who are…
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Spotlight Shines on NEA’s Priority Schools Campaign
July 5, 2011 by
Just two years after the 2009 Representative Assembly mandated NEA to create a program that would focus resources to transform struggling schools, delegates had a front row seat to view how the union is leading the way to change the…
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Morale Takes a Hit, but Commitment is Strong
July 2, 2011 by
In a perfect world, every public school teacher in America would be able to influence classroom instruction and size, have quality conversations with administrators, determine the best professional development and have the right resources needed to create student success. But…
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Collaboration and Contract Make a Difference for Students
June 20, 2011 by
Marjorie Punter made a shocking discovery two years ago on her first day of school at Belmont: there were no textbooks for her students. “It was devastating to find out how far behind we were,” said Punter, who teaches 11th…
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Creating a Safe Learning Environment
June 3, 2011 by
Belmont was a school run by the students. They skipped class and roamed the halls in the hundreds. Fights were a near daily occurrence. Police cars regularly parked outside. An emergency alarm sat next to the cash registers in the…
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Building 21st Century Skills in Columbus
October 4, 2010 by
By Barbara Moldauer Suffering from geographic isolation, under-resourced facilities, and mounting discipline problems, Linden-MicKinley High School met just two of the state’s 12 indicators for student achievement during the 2007-08 school year. The graduation rate was 52 percent. Students —…
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Service-Learning and Innovation in Columbus, OH
August 31, 2010 by
Disciplina in civitatem – Education for citizenship. The official motto for Ohio State University is taking on a new, stronger meaning for public school students in Columbus, OH, thanks to a grant designed to help priority school students excel at…
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