Rep Council Meeting 9/20 at 4 PM Landis Office & SUHSD Board Meeting

SEA and community members were busy on Monday afternoon and evening. Check back soon for a brief report.

Special Education Survey for CTA members

Are you teaching more SPECIAL EDUCATION students?

CTA wants to help and has designed an online survey. Please take the survey by Nov 1, 2010

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/specialedservicedelivery

Read more in the latest edition of the CTA Magazine:

California Educator September 2010 volume 15 Issue 1 page 31

http://www.cta.org/Professional-Development/Publications/Educator-September-10/Educator-Sept-10.aspx

Our Union and Teachers Bring Fame & Funds

September's CTA magazine, California Educator, just published the recipients of both the Institute for Teaching Mini Grants and the NEA foundation grants.

Sweetwater educators were selected in both categories.

Our educators bring funding and proactive energy to our district.

NEA Foundation awards 10 grants to California educators

This year, California teachers have received 10 grants from the NEA Foundation, which awards about 200 grants annually to educators nationwide in support of new ideas and practices to strengthen teaching and learning.

ALEX PICAZO and REBECCA SOCO of RANCHO DEL REY MIDDLE SCHOOL in Chula Vista received a $5,000 Student Achievement Grant (in partnership with Nickelodeon) for a service learning project to promote literacy and ecological awareness. Struggling readers will be paired with motivated readers to read a novel about planting organic gardens. After reading the novel, students will plant their own organic school garden and participate in an art project promoting environmental literacy.

http://www.cta.org/Professional-Development/Publications/Educator-September-10/NEA-Foundation-awards-10-grants.aspx

Volume 15 Issue 1 - September 2010

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Institute for Teaching gives Mini Grants

The CTA Institute for Teaching (IFT) has selected 12 recipients - four local chapters and eight CTA members - for the inaugural IFT Mini Grant program, which supports strength-based, teacher-driven reform that improves the conditions of teaching and learning. The awards, ranging from $4,000 to $20,000, are for the 2010-11 school year. IFT received 49 grant applications, with requests totaling more than $400,000.

SWEETWATER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, $8,200. This project is designed to develop a comprehensive literacy and technology curriculum at Sweetwater High School for use districtwide, modeled on the national Computer Science Teachers Association's K-12 model currently in use throughout the U.S. The grant, which will fund the first year of what is designed as a three-year program, will enable the program coordinator to create a core team of six qualified classroom teachers to determine and drive a curriculum guide for grades 7-12 that would allow all district schools to offer a variety of technical courses.

http://www.cta.org/Professional-Development/Publications/Educator-September-10/NEA-Foundation-awards-10-grants.aspx