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Schools Awarded Funding for Classroom Projects
December 20, 2012 by PSC Editor
Meaningful partnerships are needed more than ever. That’s why, the NEA Foundation and DonorsChoose.org teamed up to award several Priority Schools with hundreds of dollars in grant funding.
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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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Photos: The Lorax Visits Priority Schools
February 29, 2012 by PSC Editor
Bringing $1,500 donations for materials and new books for school libraries, NEA’s Read Across America Tour – Driven by Mazda has stopped at several priority schools. View the slideshow of Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax celebrating the joy of reading with the students.
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NEA’s Read Across America – Driven by Mazda Tour Visits Priority Schools
February 24, 2012 by Staci Maiers
With a message of “Read! Read! Read!,” and a beloved Dr. Seuss character, NEA’s ‘Read Across America Tour- Driven by Mazda’ is bringing books and cash donations to priority schools in California and Nevada.
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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…
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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…