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  • Ruben Murillo, President, Clark County Education Association and Tammy Wawro, Vice President, Iowa State Education Association, lead a panel at NEA's 1st Annual Day of Learning to discuss how their unions worked to get the community involved in school transformation. There are many challenges in school reform, but NEA members are working their way towards success.

    Morale Takes a Hit, but Commitment is Strong

    July 2, 2011 by Brenda Álvarez

    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…

  • Carol Montgomery, from Gwinnett County, takes notes at the NEA Joint Conference on Concerns of Minorities and Women

    Sharing the Wealth

    June 30, 2011 by Staci Maiers

    School reform. It’s the hot topic du jour. It seemingly produces a daily silver bullet answer that changes with each person asked. But what really works to transform public schools that have persistently struggled? Research gathered by the National Education…

  • New Report: How Labor-Management Collaboration Is Transforming Public Schools

    May 31, 2011 by PSC Editor

    A new report out today highlights how strong labor-management partnerships between teachers’ unions and administrators are transforming schools in communities from coast to coast. The report, from American Rights at Work Education Fund, presents nine case studies demonstrating how “collective bargaining has…

  • The Mitchell Twenty

    May 25, 2011 by PSC Editor

    By Kathy Wiebke, PhD, Executive Director of the Arizona K12 Center and National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT) “In every school and in every classroom, every student deserves to be taught by an accomplished teacher. In ‘those schools’ they deserve to…

  • NCLB Doesn’t Measure Miracles

    April 11, 2011 by PSC Editor

    By Jennifer Skellet, a National Board Certified Teacher and active member of the California Teachers Association. She teaches 4th grade in Oceanside, California.  I’ve been struggling professionally for the past few months, not with my students who are amazingly bright…

  • Quality Teaching According to Me

    March 10, 2011 by PSC Editor

    By Jennifer Skellett, National Board Certified Teacher. Skellet is a 4th Grade teacher in Oceanside, California and an active member of the California Teachers Association. I heard the other day on the news that teachers are bad, greedy, and bringing down…

  • Where Educators Lead Reform, Achievement Gaps are Closing

    March 7, 2011 by Mary Ellen Flannery

    Julie Palacios didn’t want to be a teacher. In college, she first studied to be a dentist. But she always enjoyed her class work in human development and she knew she was good with kids… “I guess I had to…

  • Member-Led Reform Rewriting the Anti-Union Narrative

    February 24, 2011 by Steve Snider

    At the same time educators in several states face legislation to strip their right to bargain with school districts on most issues, teachers and support professionals in those states and across the country have entered a new era of collaborative…

  • California: Transformation Tour in Richmond

    December 3, 2010 by PSC Editor

    By Christy Levings, NEA Executive Committee How do you define leadership?  Is it being brave enough to try all new things when the comfortable that you know might be okay?  Is it taking a stand and giving it your all? Is…

  • This chart from the CTA report shows that since QEIA began in 2007/08, QEIA schools have experienced a growth of 62.7 points, compared to 49.3 points in non-QEIA schools.

    Report: Teacher-Led Reform Helping in California

    November 30, 2010 by Amy Buffenbarger

    A new report out today finds a 50 percent better academic growth rate at nearly 500 California schools, and all of it is the result of successful union-led reforms put in place as the result of a lawsuit by the…

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