In Transforming School, Educators Draw Inspiration From Students

By Cindy Long Greg Mohammed, also known as “Mr. Moe,” is the kind of teacher who always has students surrounding him or sitting outside his classroom just to say hello. He’s the kind of teacher serious enough to motivate kids in his science class, but playful enough to craft a giant, wooden hall pass the [...]

Disproving the “Failing” Label

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, Nevada, the state with the highest home foreclosure rate in the country. With an unemployment [...]

NEA Priority Schools Conference Highlights Promising Practices

By Amy Buffenbarger NEA’s Priority School’s Campaign has brought together more than 300 teachers, education support professionals, union leaders, district administrators, community members and parents, representing 36 Priority Schools from 17 states, in New Orleans for a three day forum to share lessons learned, challenges and strategies for success in school transformation efforts. Declaring “the [...]

Raising Student Aspirations in Rural Maine

By Cindy Long Doug Woodsum was a substitute at Carrabec High School in North Anson, Maine, before he was hired as a full-time English teacher three years ago. He knew it wouldn’t be an easy assignment, and a few of the students even warned him not to take the job. “You don’t want to work [...]

Parent and Community Outreach in the Spotlight

By Alain Jehlen and Sara Robertson NEA President Dennis Van Roekel and Michigan Education Association President Steve Cook joined forces to bring the National Education Association’s Standing Strong for Students Back-to-School Tour to the Detroit area on Tuesday. The day began with local radio interviews, outreach to education bloggers, and breakfast with some two-dozen local Association [...]

NEA President Begins 2011 National Back-to-School Tour

By Stacey Grissom and Tim Walker “One of the things I love about teaching is that you get to start brand new with the beginning of each new school year,” NEA President Dennis Van Roekel said today. Van Roekel was in Dayton, Ohio on Monday visiting Westwood Elementary School and Belmont High School to kick-off [...]

Boosting Parent Involvement in Schools

By Cindy Long Few teachers would deny that successful partnerships with parents are critical to student achievement and are key in transforming public schools into true communities. But engaging parents can be a formidable challenge, especially for newer educators. Anne T. Henderson is a Senior Consultant with the Annenberg Institute for School Reform and based [...]

Summer School for Educators

By Staci Maiers What did you do over your summer vacation? It’s the classic question posed to students every year when they return to the classroom. But that’s an inquiry not usually made of teachers. Instead of trips to the beach or a day at the ballpark, hundreds of teachers went to “summer school” to [...]

A Struggling School on the Path to Success

By John Rosales It’s one of the comeback stories of the year among certain educators in North Carolina. Three years ago, Oak Hill Elementary School in High Point had one of the lowest academic performance scores in the state. Two years ago, still floundering, Oak Hill became one of the lowest-performing schools in the nation, [...]

RA Spotlight Shines on Priority Schools Campaign

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 lives of students through NEA’s Priority Schools Campaign. The campaign is a movement [...]

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