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  How Family Involvement is Helping in Utah

  January 10, 2012 by Cindy Long

  As family involvement at Glendale Middle School increases, student behavior is improving. The school has seen a 50 percent drop in referrals for both bullying and fighting, with tardies and discipline referrals down by 30 percent.

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  Having Faith in the Students

  December 6, 2011 by Cindy Long

  Dedicated teachers and staff at Glendale Middle School in Utah show how hard work and a boundless belief in students can raise achievement in an environment where most of the students live in poverty and many have enormous challenges in their home lives to overcome.

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  NEA’s Priority Schools Campaign Addresses Needs at Utah School

  October 12, 2011 by PSC Editor

  By Michael Kelley and Sara Jones, PhD, Utah Education Association In May and August 2011, leaders from the Salt Lake Teachers Association (SLTA) and the Utah Education Association (UEA) met with administrators and teachers at Salt Lake’s Glendale Middle School…

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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…

• 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,”…

• Utah: For Schools and Associations, Priority Schools Campaign is a Real Opportunity

  December 16, 2010 by PSC Editor

  By Sara Jones First, I’d like to set the stage for you a bit. Utah is not a collective bargaining state. We are also a local option state. I’m going to give a little bit of background and then talk…

• Don’t Be Timid About Twitter

  June 27, 2010 by PSC Editor

  At NEA’s Priority Schools Campaign, Twitter is used to track and link to news reports and key commentary on school improvement. And live Tweets are often posted from events. If you aren’t among the more than 500 people and organizations following…