Learn how to get through rough patches and bounce back quickly with proven ways to build your resiliency skills. When you’re an educator, you have to be on your toes 100 percent of the time—even when things don’t go as planned. You may not be able to avoid or prevent setbacks, but you don’t have
The March 16, Negotiation Session between the Westminster Education Association and Westminster Public Schools has changed location. The Session will be held at Ranum MS Theater. 4:30 – 8:00, Come for part or all of the session.
We care not only because it’s our civic duty to participate in the political process but because we care passionately about our students and about the future of our country. When it comes to our kids, we don’t hold back and we don’t give up. As I travel around the country it is awe-inspiring to
Set your sights to the sky! The National Education Association is taking flight with Southwest Airlines for this year’s annual Read Across America reading program. Millions of students nationwide will pick up a book and set Seuss on the loose in honor of NEA’s 19th Read Across America Day reading celebration and Dr. Seuss’s birthday
Sign Up Now March 15, 2016 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Location Ranum Media Center The Westminster Education Association invites you to learn about student loan forgiveness and how to prepare for retirement with your financial life in order. Location: Ranum Media Center RSVP to Laura Wood at lwood@coloradoea.org Topics: Generation Debt: Student Loan Forgiveness
Even after the historic passage of ESSA, the work in many ways is just beginning. Because the new law does away with so many federal mandates on everything from assessment, accountability and evaluation, state legislatures will be playing a decisive role in determining how ESSA is implemented. It’s now up to the states to work
Not exactly breaking news: Teachers believe their classroom autonomy suffered during the No Child Left behind era. According to just-released federal data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), educators reported less classroom autonomy in school year 2011-12 compared to 2003-04. That teachers felt their independence wane during a decade marked by standardization and
The accountability pressures ushered in by No Child Left Behind more than decade ago reached the nation’s kindergarten classrooms, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Virginia. In “Is Kindergarten the New First Grade?” Daphna Bassock, Scott Lathem and Anna Rorem tracked the level of academic focus in kindergarten from 1998
Representatives for Westminster Public Schools and the Westminster Education Association met January 14,2016. During the session the District presented no language issues. They presented the following issues for discussion: Licensed It ESP Issues • How can we improve the negotiations process? (Licensed Article 5 & ESP Article 5) • How can we ensure further stability