In this month’s issue you’ll find: Looking for Superman? NEA RA delegate elections and nomination forms SIUC employees unite, fight, win support of students, fair contracts REA funded audit brings truth to financial projections An organization that reflects Illinois Check it out below, or watch for it in your mailbox in the next few weeks. [...]
Featured Story: Decatur teachers, students reaping rewards from program that pairs them outside of the classroom Roxie Dotson, a 10- year teaching veteran, thought she knew what the kids she was teaching daily at Durfee Magnet School in Decatur were going home to at night. Durfee has a 96 percent poverty rate. She’d attended trainings, [...]
In this month’s Advocate, you’ll find a lot of helpful information, including: Reasons to hold your head high as public education employees. Advice on how to protect your reputation in this high tech world. The story of one local who won a battle in a harsh environment. Do you know a great ESP, humanitarian or [...]
Does winter have you down? Are you looking for inspiration? Look no further than a story about Annice Brave, Illinois’ Teacher of the Year and an IEA member. Have you ever considered letting your students make a movie about how to accomplish the most basic classroom tasks? We know one teacher who does it regularly [...]
Your September 2010 Advocate should be arriving in your mailbox soon. In it, you will find several articles related to the Nov. 2 election, including an article on one of your fellow IEA members, Sheila Simon, who is running for lieutenant governor as Gov. Pat Quinn’s running mate. You’ll also be able to read about [...]
Check out the Advocate Did you know one of your Illinois colleagues helped restore a one-room schoolhouse in Galena and then wrote an historically-based children’s book about it? Or, that the Living Library is getting an overhaul that will make sharing lesson plans and other teaching tips easier? Take a look at this issue of [...]
Bensenville high risk Pre-K program a big success The Pre-K program at Tioga Elementary School in Bensenville has been around for more than two decades. Its recipe for success can be credited to many things, including a proven screening method to catch students who are most in need of the help in can provide, and [...]
This spring, Naperville Transportation Association bus drivers were able to do something many thought couldn’t be accomplished, they won back jobs that the school board attempted three years ago to outsource. How did they do it? By showing school board members of District 203 their strong ties to the community; by being politically savvy; and [...]
Kathy Fuller, a seventh and eighth grade teacher at Unity Point in Carbondale, has been named the 2009 history teacher of the year by the Illinois State Board of Education, which awarded Fuller the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History prize. Fuller is a 24-year teaching veteran who prides herself on making history come to [...]
In a one-of-a-kind gathering July 30-31, local association presidents got together to help shape the future direction of IEA’s statewide conferences and training. In March, delegates to the Representative Assembly authorized putting the Summer Leadership Academy and Winter Advocacy Conference on hiatus for one year and funding a study of IEA statewide conferences. As part [...]
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