The Cambridge Education Association is angered that the U.S. Supreme Court sided with right-wing billionaires in their attacks on workers and unions in the Janus v. AFSCME case. But we are neither surprised nor intimidated. We know that our ability to organize and to bargain fair contracts means that our students have access to the best possible education and that our community’s public school employees are treated fairly. The forces behind the Janus case do not want educators and other … [Read more...]
NEA, MTA and CTQ Teacher Leadership Institute Fellowship Applications Open
The Teacher Leadership Institute is a cohort-based learning experience that runs from October 2018 to August, 2019. Its aim is to prepare classroom teachers for leadership roles. Each cohort consists of about 300 participants from around the country honing their expertise and engaging in leadership work in schools, associations and state houses. The TLI experience consists of: A rigorous Competency-Based Curriculum. Applied experience through a self-selected, … [Read more...]
Building Equity Bridges Grant
Dear colleagues, I’m writing to officially launch our CEA work on the “Building Equity Bridges” grant. As you might recall, the grant is a partnership between CPS and the CEA to deepen our understanding of the root causes of inequity in our schools. On the “CEA side” of the grant, we’ve created structures for robust grassroots participation by educators -- here are the details and I encourage you to join the movement! Here’s how you can engage with this work right away: Read … [Read more...]
2017 School Committee Candidate Responses
The CEA asked all 2017 Cambridge School Committee Candidates to answer the following eight questions about issues that are important to our members. The questions were emailed to all candidates at the email listed on http://vote.cambridgecivic.com/ on September 28 and were told to respond by Monday, October 16. Candidates were asked to keep their answers to a few sentences. All responses received by October 16 were copied and pasted as they were sent (no grammatical or other editing was … [Read more...]
Testimony to Senate Education Committee on High Stakes Testing
On Tuesday, September 12, CEA president Dan Monahan testified before the Senate Education Committee urging them to support S. 308. In particular, he spoke about the impacts of our over reliance on high stakes testing and how S. 308 can put us on a better track. Here is his verbal and written testimony. … [Read more...]