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Rep. Assembly members aren't ready to cave-in to politicians who suggest punishing teachers will fix over-crowded classes and under-funded schools. They're standing together to face the next challenges ...
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Gov Gregoire speaks to WEA RA delegates about education reform, budget cuts and school employee layoffs. (Full speech, approx. 22 minutes)
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WEA's Education Support Professional for 2009 is Julie Wickersham, an occupational therapy assistant in Clarkston.
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Pat Nicholson wins the first NEA CLEAN Award, honoring Custodial Leaders for Environmental Advocacy Nationwide.
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Someone's missing from Tori's life: Her dad. See why ESP members in Clarkston and all across the state deserve a Living Wage.
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They're the Yakima School District's quiet secret: longtime employees who live in poverty and are a drain on the region's social services. They deserve a living wage.
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They're education's best value: Bainbridge Island Education Support Professionals. They provide essential services, but are at risk of losing more than a Living Wage.
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Binta should have a long future in school and college: the problem is, her teacher could be fired.
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Binta isn't old enough not to trust lawmakers. So why are they spouting false promises?
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Olympia's Kathie Axtell talks about her 2009 National ESP win after serving as Washington Education Support Professional of the Year for 2008.
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WEA members share flu-fighting tips to help keep Washington students healthy, as part of TV public service announcements that WEA aired during the swine flu scare.
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Olympia, show public schools the money! Legislators are just plain wrong to claim they're helping schools by promising more than they'll pay for, then cutting education funding by $1.5 billion.
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Olympia Education Support Professional Kathie Axtell has been named the nation's 2009 ESP member of the year. Watch as she learns the news!
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With the ratio of administrators ballooning, community college faculty urge Olympia to help restore a balance to the resources devoted to faculty via greater collective bargaining.
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Struggling for a Living Wage: Hear Julie Wulf talk about life as an Education Support Professional and why schools need to offer professional pay for professional work.
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Braving stormy weather, more than 100 WEA members went to Olympia to lobby their legislators in support of education funding. Watch them in action. And then visit OurVoice to join the debate!
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Randy Dorn, the new state schools superintendent, says he can revamp the WASL without waiting for legislative action, and that's just what he plans to do beginning next year.
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Grays Harbor area members, parents and administrators marched in Olympia Jan. 14 in support of school funding in a rally that echoed the statewide Jan. 14 protests six years ago.
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WEA-Sammamish members continue to Take the lead by reaching out to community members about our Living Wage campaign, the NEWS coalition and a major lawsuit over school funding.
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For 2009 Teacher of the Year Susan Johnson, every child is a writer. As co-director of the Central Washington Writing Project, the Cle Elum English teacher says students thrive when their voices are empowered through writing.
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Home work: See how educators around Washington rang doorbells, made phone calls and told friends why it was crucial to help turn pro-education candidates into winners during the 2008 election. |
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How can WEA members make their voice heard? Listen to Seattle educators talk about why they wanted to help bring hope to Washington politics.
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Bad management, declining enrollment, a student lawsuit. Now Bates Technical College is trying to hold employees hostage with regressive contract takebacks. But the Professional Technical Employees aren't giving in -- they're taking their case public.
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Bellevue's 13-day strike ended with a 5 percent local raise over 3 years, restored health insurance funding, and most importantly, an end to the district's plan for robo-teaching -- the required pre-scripted daily online lessons for every teacher.
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It's no secret that Washington's class sizes are too big. Hear first-hand from students and WEA members about how that impacts education in our state.
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Meet Kathie Axtell, WEA's Education Support Professional of the Year for 2008. She didn't seek power, but has become a powerful partner for ESP members.
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Standardized curriculum ... standardized testing ... substandard learning? Teachers know sometimes the best education happens outside the classroom.
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What's National Board Certification? Nationally certified teachers talk about why the rigorous academic process truly makes them better classroom teachers.
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Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to help 4204, the Simple Majority, pass.
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WEA helps sponsor the Dalai Lama's visit to Seattle as part of Seeds of Compassion.
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WEA's Representative Assembly 2008 is a mixture of fun, work, politics, goal-setting and plain old networking with peers.
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Gov. Chris Gregoire speaks out on education and praises teachers with National Board certification as she prepares to seek a second term.
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- Watch Laura in class connecting with Pasco students. (4-minute Flash video)
- Empower your students as a guide on the side (Flash video)
Improve your connections with students to help them learn (Flash video)
- See a 2-minute Flash video as her selection is announced in Seattle.
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A can-do spirit. And a recognition that great teaching comes in part from having great resources. Meet Washington's new Teacher of the Year for 2008, Laura Jones, a career & technical education teacher at Pasco High School. Jones knows one secret to inspiring students is to first connect to their world.
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It was a tough campaign, but a week after Election Day, ballots for 4204, WEA's Simple Majority campaign, finally edged into the victory column. See how all of Washington's living governors united behind the effort in a 3-minute Flash video, or watch 30-second Web ads encouraging WEA's members to get involved.
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Learn about 'Math Buddies' with a 5-minute Flash video or Windows Movie.
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In Washingtons overcrowded classrooms, parent and community volunteers can often be found working tirelessly to ensure students get more 1-on-1 help than they otherwise could. Heres a look at one group at work in Vancouvers schools.
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Learn about WEA members' open letter to OSPA in a 1-minute Flash video.
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Educators converged on state school superintendent Terry Bergeson's office, criticizing her lack of leadership on school funding and her misguided emphasis on the WASL.
Read about the rally in WEA Online's news.
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Watch Carrie Strom in a 5-minute Flash video.
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They tutor our students, deliver them safely to school and return them home again, feed them and offer support and reassurance when things go wrong. And yet they hold jobs that, even when working full time, will barely pay the bills. Hear one member's story, and why WEA wants to make sure our education support employees can earn a living wage.
Read about Living Wage in the WE magazine.
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Hear Tom's story in a 4-minute Flash video.
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When it comes to school funding, Washington seems to have a major blind spot, according to a longtime education writer and former Seattle parent. See how differently Tom Boyer's small town in Pennsylvania views its public schools.
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Watch Kathy in a 5-minute Flash video.
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Kentlake High paraeducator Kathy Cowan truly cares for kids. She is this year's WEA Education Support Employee of the Year for 2007.
Read about Kathy in the March 2007 issue of WE magazine.
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See Chris in a 4-minute Flash video.
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State Sen. Chris Marr says changing state education funding is more like a marathon than a sprint. Having completed more than 40 marathons, Marr offers a compelling portrait of setting goals and changing policy.
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See how Vermont turned around school funding in a 5-minute Flash video.
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Vermont EA members looked at their state's education funding and decided a major change was necessary. So they launched a campaign that literally changed the way Vermont's schools are funded, and the amount of money spent on education.
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Learn about WEA's Take the Lead activities in a 5-minute Flash video.
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How is Take the Lead reaching out to parents and the community? Amy, a Washington fourth-grader, takes us on a tour of state activities intended to help focus public awareness on the need to change the way public schools are funded in Washington state.
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Watch Andrea in a 4-minute Flash video.
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A passion to excel: Washington's Andrea Peterson, National 2007 Teacher of the Year, is driven to teach more than music. The National Board Certified Teacher wants her students at Monte Cristo Elementary in Granite Falls to learn to soar.
Read about Peterson and her Granite Falls students...
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See what they had to say in a 3-minute Flash video.
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Who's taking the lead on public education? Parents. Seniors. Community leaders. Business owners. Students, legislators and, of course, WEA members. Hundreds of people turned out recently at community meetings across Washington to learn how far state education funding has slid, and to voice ideas on how that must change.
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Watch a 5-1/2 minute video as a Flash movie or a Windows Movie file.
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Meet WEA member Ann Pulkkinen, Washington School Social Worker of the Year, and her husband, Steve Pulkkinen, Executive Director of the Seattle Education Association. They work in opposite ends of education, but the couple shares a passion to strengthen public schools.
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Watch a 7-1/2 minute video as a Windows Movie file, or download a cross-platform MPEG movie file
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Take a peek at the sights and sounds from the 2006 Representative Assembly, where WEA members shared the personal numbers behind their Take the lead stories and heard from many of Washington's top civic and political leaders.
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Watch a 4-1/2 minute video as a Windows Movie file, or a smaller, cross-platform MPEG movie file.
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Meet Jill Van Glubt, a state Teacher of the Year finalist and top-10 honoree nationwide by the NEA Foundation.
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Watch a 5-minute video as a Windows Movie file, or a smaller, cross-platform MPEG movie file.
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Teacher of the Year 2006: Take a sneak peek as Sue Barnard helps students overcome enormous challenges.
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You've seen the blurb in your newsletter: "RA is coming." But what is WEA's Representative Assembly? Take a peek in this 5-minute video at the thousand teachers, support staff, counselors, bus drivers, specialists and higher-ed members who provide the voice for public schools in our state.
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Education researcher David Berliner speaks to WEA members at the 2005 WEA Representative Assembly.
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Listen as noted education researcher David Berliner explains why higher scores on high-stakes tests are often bad for students and schools.
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See essays and research on problems with test-driven teaching: Stephen Kramer shares his published essays and dozens of other resources related to testing.
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Watch education come alive with Stephen Kramer, a WEA member who doesn't want the state's WASL emphasis to overshadow what's really important in Washington's classrooms.
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Speaking out: WEA members are telling lawmakers that school employees need a COLA. It's time to restore the annual Cost Of Living Adjustments approved by voters in Initiative 732.
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Meet third-grade teacher Andi Cox. She loves teaching, but knows she needs to make her voice heard if Washington state is to attract and retain great school employees.
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A creative partnership between Tacoma Schools and Hilltop Artists in Residence is helping troubled students complete their educations.
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Tacoma's Hilltop Artists in Residence are teaming up with Tacoma Schools to help struggling students stay motivated to complete their educations.
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Read about Teacher of the Year Tamara Steen in an article from our member publication, Washington Education.
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Tamara Steen is Washington's Teacher of the Year 2005 -- but she says the honor belongs to her entire building. See how Steen promotes peer excellence in rural Mabton, midway between Yakima and the Tri-Cities.
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Read about Felder and "The First Day" in an article from our member publication, Washington Education.
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The First Day: Seattle teacher Donte Felder brings to life the struggle for school desegregation while teaching students to think critically.
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