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Legacy Foundation honors educators and best practices

Posted on February 7, 2011 by ceawhatworks

Colorado’s Teacher of the Year, Michelle Pearson, will be honored on Tuesday, February 8, at the Legacy Foundation’s celebration of top public school educators and their best classroom practices. Michelle is a teacher of gifted students at Hulstrom Options School in Adams District 12. She’s a CEA member in District Twelve Educators Association. You can [...]

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Time to “TELL” Again: Jan 31-Feb 28

Posted on January 31, 2011 by ceawhatworks

Because we want Colorado educators to have the supportive working conditions they need to help their students achieve, CEA is a partner in the second TELL Survey for teachers and administrators. The survey will be open for four weeks: January 31 through February 28. “TELL” stands for Teaching, Empowering, Leading, and Learning. School-level results of [...]

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Remembering Christa McAuliffe

Posted on January 28, 2011 by ceawhatworks

Those of us who were educators 25 years ago likely felt the same feeling on January 28, 1986, as we did when we heard that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated or as we felt on September 11, 2001. Anyone of school age or older in 1986 remembers the exact moment that the Challenger Space [...]

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CEA President in Today’s Denver Post; SB 191 Testimony Begins

Posted on April 21, 2010 by ceawhatworks

Today, CEA President Beverly Ingle has a guest commentary in The Denver Post. Please take a minute to review it and share it with your friends and neighbors! Also today, the Senate Education Committee begins two days of hearings on SB 191. A number of CEA members, staff and other experts will give testimony against [...]

Filed under: Evaluation, Funding, News, Quality Teachers, Race to the Top | Tagged: Beverly Ingle, CEA, CEA President, Colorado, Council for Educator Effectiveness, education funding, legislature, Race to the Top, SB 191, school funding, teacher effectiveness, teacher quality | 4 Comments »

Better Educator Evaluation System is Costly, Complex Process

Posted on April 19, 2010 by ceawhatworks

“Why…don’t we have fair and balanced evaluation of teachers with simplified due process rules for the removal of those who are persistently ineffective?” A great question. It was posed by Richard Rothstein, a Research Associate with the Economic Policy Institute, in his recent column titled “Unions not an important impediment to removing ineffective teachers.” His [...]

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Not so fast! CEA opposing SB 191

Posted on April 15, 2010 by ceawhatworks

A critical component of student achievement is a quality teacher. Ensuring we have quality teachers in every classroom depends in part on an effective and fair evaluation system. But, Colorado’s current system doesn’t work. That’s why the Governor appointed a Council for Educator Effectiveness to assess and recommend a new evaluation system. Unfortunately, State Senator Michael [...]

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Improving Teacher Quality by Improving Evaluation

Posted on March 18, 2010 by ceawhatworks

This past Sunday, the Denver Post published an article called “Schools focus on teaching quality as they seek funding,” by Karen Auge. Her piece provided an interesting perspective on teacher evaluation. The following are some quotes from the article: • “Improving teacher assessment is a primary goal of the governor’s 15-member Council on Educator Effectiveness, [...]

Filed under: Evaluation, Quality Teachers | Tagged: achievement, Colorado, denver post, denver public schools, education, educator effectiveness, Evaluation, student, teacher quality | 5 Comments »

A Quality Teacher in Every Classroom

Posted on February 10, 2010 by ceawhatworks

The need for a quality teacher in every Colorado classroom is important to all of us. It has been a central part of the discussion around Race to the Top and school funding. But when we use the term quality teacher, what exactly do we mean?

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