No more handbook''''

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No more handbook....
No more commentaries....
No more daily logs....
No more videotaping 15-minute segments....
The BEST portfolio is done !!!
Whats next? Where can you go to get involved
grow professionally?
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Life After BEST....
getting involved with your
professional
association
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Why get involved ?
1. You are the association
2. association success depends on member
involvement
3. LA CEA offer opportunities you cant
get elsewhere
4. great flexibility for professional
growth
5. ways to help newer colleagues
6. opportunity to mold profession
7. give back to the profession
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How can you get involved?
choose your area of interest.....

• politics

• technology

• helping new teachers

• professional development

• retirement planning

• health care

• writing / news

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politics....

• CEA Capitol Report listserv
• on line newsletter about issues arising in
  the state legislature during the legislative
  session

• CEA Political Landscape listserv
• keeps CEA members informed about our
  endorsed candidates, political events and CEA
  activities, and election news from around the
  state

• CEA Political Action Committee
• decides which state and local candidates CEA
  will endorse, and works to support their campaigns

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politics....

• CEA Legislative Commission
• develops CEA's legislative agenda based on a
  review of CEA's issues, positions, and priorities
  that would improve the quality of education in
  Connecticut

• CEA Political Intern
• works to do grass-roots organizing to
  support political candidates that support CEA
  priorities

more information? Susan Williams /
susanw_at_cea.org http//www.cea.org/lp/index.
cfmcr Vinnie Loffredo / vinniel_at_cea.org
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technology.....

• local association webmaster
• design and/or help maintain
• a web site for your local
• association (see other LAs
• websites via this link
  (http//www.cea.org/about/affiliates.cfm )

• LA educational web site consultant
• develop and/or help maintain an annotated
  list of great web site resources for
  teachers.....on your LA web site

• LA technology workshop presenter
• offer workshops for your colleagues to help
  them keep up-to-date on the use of technology in
  the classroom offer CEUs via the CEA-CEU
  Partner Program

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technology.....

• electronic LA newsletter
• with colleagues, develop and maintain a
  local association
• on-line newsletter.....on your LA web site

• technology the SDE
• keep abreast of whats happening in the SDE
  regarding technology education
  http//www.sde.ct.gov/sde/cwp/view.asp?a2618q32
  1166

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helping new teachers....

• LA new teacher liaison
• start a service of your LA identify 1
  teacher in each building to be the person new
  teachers can go to for help related to
  new-to-the-district issues

• year-long new teacher program planning
• offer a series of sessions over the course
  of the year to help teachers new to the district
  learn about important issues, voice concerns,
  offer suggestions, etc.

httpwww.whea.org/whatsnew.htm
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helping new teachers....

• CEA Peer Mentor grant program
• work with LA leadership to apply for a CEA
  grant to run a program to provide additional
  support to new teachers

• NEA grant programs consultant
• work with LA leadership /or colleagues to
  apply for any of a variety of grants offered by
  NEA that can be used to provide programs
  involving new teachers
• (http//www.nea.org/grants/neafndtn.html )

more information? Linette Branham /
linetteb_at_cea.org
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professional development....

• LA PD liaison
• become your locals PD contact stay
  abreast of PD developments events contribute
  to CEAs PD web page
• ( http//www.cea.org/profdev/index.cfm )

• CEA Summer Leadership track on PD
• attend SLCs track on professional
  development in August at Foxwoods.... bring a
  team from your local

• LA / district PD committee
• work with local leaders to bring in CEA to
  work with district PD committee to
  redesign/improve how district PD is planned
  implemented

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professional development....

• LA PD coordinator
• work with local leadership to begin to offer
  PD opportunities for your members, and offer CEUs
  through the CEA-CEU Partner Program

• PD grant-writer
• work with colleagues to find apply for
  grants that can be used for teacher PD
• http//www.nea.org/grants/archive.html
• http//www.cea.org/edresources/grants.cfm

• CEAs Comm. on Instruction Prof.
• Dev. (CIPD)
• volunteer for a seat representing
• your county with this state-level group

more information? Linette Branham /
linetteb_at_cea.org
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finances / saving / retirement....

• CEAs Summer Leadership
• track on retirement
• attend SLCs track on retirement in August
  at Foxwoods....bring a team from your local

• LA retirement liaison
• stay abreast of retirement developments
  events
• http//www.cea.org/about/retiremen
  t/index.cfm
  http//www.ct.gov/trb/site/default.asp
• contribute retirement / financial /
  savings information to your locals web site or
  newsletter

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finances / saving / retirement....

• member benefits through
• CEA / NEA
• learn about all the financial-benefits
  programs available through CEA NEA for members
  help keep your members (especially new members)
  informed (newsletter, website, etc)
• http//www.cea.org/about/mb/index.
  cfm http//www.nea.org/memberservices/index
  .htmlx

• CEAs Retirement Commission
• volunteer for a seat representing your
  county with this state-level group

more information on retirement? Robyn Kaplan-Cho
robynk_at_cea.org
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health care....
LA health care liaison

• stay abreast of health care developments
  events utilize NEAs Health Information Network
• http//www.neahealthinfo.org/

• learn about different locals contract
  provisions regarding health care
• http//www.cea.org/

• create a health care section for your LAs
  newsletter and/or web site

• keep abreast of developments regarding health
  education within the SDE http//www.sde.ct.gov/s
  de/cwp/view.asp?a2618q320856

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writing / news....

• LA news hound
• keep informed about the latest news in
  the education world - contribute to your LAs
  newsletter or web site with news briefs

Education Week www.edweek.org ASCD
SmartBrief http//www.smartbrief.com/signu
p/education

• work with colleagues to develop an LA
  newsletter or web site

• attend CEAs Summer Leadership Track on
  publishing an effective LA newsletter

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writing / news....

• contribute stories to CEA publications about
  what teachers in your district are doing

• contribute articles to the towns local
  newspaper about things happening in your
  districts schools

• with colleagues, create a news program about
  school events and highlights videotape to have
  aired on your districts local public access TV
  station

more information about CEA publications /
newsletters? Kathy Frega / kathyf_at_cea.org
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another interest?
talk to your local association president about
your interests and how they can contribute to
advocating for children and public
education......