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  NEA Program Provides Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners

  January 20, 2012 by Rebecca Logan

  Through NEA’s English Language Learner Culture, Equity and Language Professional Development program, a cadre of member-leaders share strategies with educators to better serve ELL students in priority schools.

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  Disproving the “Failing” Label

  December 5, 2011 by Amy Buffenbarger

  Educators and staff at many priority schools have seen their school ranked, labeled and listed on a recurring basis that’s rarely positive. Kit Carson Elementary School is no stranger to that trend. The school is located in West Las Vegas,…

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  ESPs Making Parents a Priority

  September 23, 2011 by John Rosales

  It’s late. The school day is over. Outside the rain-soaked grounds of West Seattle Elementary School in Washington, parents begin arriving for a meeting with Elizabeth Enriquez, a bilingual instructional assistant. Many of these parents are Latino immigrants. They are…

• NEA Leaders Focus Media Attention on Priority Schools

  September 19, 2011 by PSC Editor

  Standing Strong for Students Fall marks the start of Year Two of PSC providing intensive support to 34 schools across 16 states. To engage educators early in the school year, NEA executed a back-to-school tour showcasing NEA members helping students succeed…

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  Change Agents: Profiles of Union Leaders Driving Education Reform

  September 8, 2011 by PSC Editor

  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 Amy Buffenbarger

  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…

• Amidst Budget Battle, Opportunity & Community in Vegas

  March 7, 2011 by PSC Editor

  By Princess Moss, NEA Executive Committee No one said that transforming schools would be easy work.  It is not. Rancho High School, the largest high school in North Las Vegas, has more than 3,000 students.  Of the 3,000, approximately 1,000…

• 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…

• Fourth “R” Drives Priority School Improvement in Las Vegas

  January 21, 2011 by PSC Editor

  By Princess Moss, NEA Executive Committee Clark County Education Association (CCEA) President Ruben Murillo met the NEA team at 6:30 a.m. Thursday and drove us to Carson Elementary School in West Las Vegas.  At Carson, we met CCEA board members…

• The Power to Transform Schools

  May 19, 2010 by Mary Ellen Flannery

  What happens when you give educators power? What happens when you let them decide how to spend their school’s budget or schedule their students’ time? Good things, it turns out. “My kids love coming to school,” says Las Vegas fifth-grade…