Great teachers and support professionals, with the right policy supports and resources, are the ideal agents of permanent change – the true education experts. That’s why NEA’s Priority Schools Campaign is partnering with educators in struggling schools to provide additional professional development, trainings and resources that will help teachers and support professionals be the leaders in their profession. Read the stories below to learn more about the professional educators working in priority schools.
By Paula Monroe My first site visits to NEA Priority Schools were today. What a day! The morning started at Cleveland High School. Seattle has three SIG schools and I got to visit two of them today. I was joined…
By Princess Moss Walking in the shoes of NEA members at our Priority Schools in Washington State. Free and organic conversation. This is how my day started and ended on Oct. 5. It is a day that has forever left…
Watch Dr. Sheila Simmons, Director of NEA’s Priority Schools Campaign, talk about collaboration and engaging educators, administrations and the community to achieve results during her testimony to the West Contra Costa School Board in Richmond, California.
In the opening minutes of the new education “reform” documentary Waiting For Superman, director Davis Guggenheim has a moment of candor about the charter schools he hails as a panacea for urban education — he admits that most of them…
The average teacher spends $356 a year out of his or her own pocket on classroom supplies. The items run the gamut from hands-on activities to improve learning to school supplies for students. The spending can be particularly heavy for…
A nice piece on PSC in the September edition of Worlds of Education, the magazine of Education International, based in Brussels. EI is a global union federation, including NEA, of 348 member organizations in 169 countries. One of the largest…
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…
From Columbus Education Association National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel stopped in Columbus on Wednesday, Aug. 25, as part of his week-long, multi-city, back-to-school tour. The veteran high school math teacher arrived at West HS at 6:20 a.m. on the…
Negotiations continue in Seattle between the Seattle Education Association and the school district. Negotiations continue today (Thursday) according to a post last night: “Much progress has been made at the negotiation table this week. As you know, Monday was added this week…
National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel conducted a nationwide back-to-school tour from August 23-27, meeting innovative educators and touring priority schools throughout the country. One of his first stops was at Denver’s Math and Science Leadership Academy (MSLA), a…
Educators in priority schools are rising to a superhero challenge every single day. Nominate educators in your community and support others at classroomsuperheroes.com
Keith G. Pemberton is a social worker at Oak Hill Elementary School in High Point, N.C., where he has built a strong and steady pipeline for parental involvement, specifically among fathers and male mentors. Check out his Classroom Superhero profile and leave some words of encouragement.