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  Parent Partnership Solutions

  July 25, 2012 by Cindy Long

  This article outlines six of the most common communication challenges between educators and parents, as reported by a recent Parenting/NEA survey, along with NEA member-tested solutions.

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  Wealth of Experience

  August 25, 2011 by PSC Editor

  By Rebecca Bright When Angie Lucero arrives at Tomasita Elementary each Monday, two once-shy first graders greet her, eager to share details about the past week’s activities, read together, and get help writing in their journals. Lucero, a retired teacher…

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  No Longer Just a Dream

  May 18, 2011 by John Rosales

  Standing in front of her eighth grade honors reading class, Patrice Fletcher personifies the hard-working, dedicated teacher. Steadfast and compassionate, she sets high goals for her students. She has for them, as Charles Dickens wrote, “great expectations.” Patrice Fletcher also…

• Broad Acres Continues to Achieve

  May 12, 2011 by Amy Buffenbarger

  Last year, NEA’s Priority Schools Campaign reported on Broad Acres Elementary School, the highest-poverty school in Montgomery County, Maryland. In 2000, the school was on the verge of being taken over by the state when the Montgomery County Education Association…

• Bargaining and Agreements: Essential Tools for Education Reform

  February 17, 2011 by Amy Buffenbarger

  DENVER – Educators and school leaders meeting here challenged the conventional wisdom that labor-management relationships are a roadblock to education reform, strengthening their commitment to work together on a shared goal: improving student achievement. “Collaboration is such a friendly-sounding word,”…

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  NEA President, Education Secretary Talk School Reform

  December 1, 2010 by PSC Editor

  U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today joined NEA President Dennis Van Roekel for a classroom visit and roundtable discussion on school reform at G. James Gholson Middle School in Landover, Md. It is one of four schools in Prince…

• Collaboration Results in Transformation at Maryland School

  March 11, 2010 by Sara Robertson

  In the fall of 2000, then-Superintendent of Montgomery County (MD) Public Schools (MCPS) Jerry Weast identified Broad Acres Elementary School for “reconstitution,” which meant removing its new principal and bringing in a new teaching staff. But Montgomery County Education Association…