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A Year of Big Wins - E4E-CT
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Connecticut
Daniel Pearson, Executive Director E4E-Connecticut
This year, we have made incredible progress towards growing a powerful, teacher-led movement, achieving impactful policy victories, and positioning our team and network for success. We proved our impact during...
E4E-Boston: Mental Health Series
Friday, June 3, 2022
Angela Santilli, E4E-Boston Organizer
Educators for Excellence Boston has engaged in lots of dialogue about mental health across the Commonwealth this past academic year. Educators have faced even more challenges and demands in their...
Natasha Ushomirsky - Boston Education Expert Conversations
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Boston
Boston Education Expert Conversations Series E4E-Boston will engage in thought-provoking conversations with individuals in Massachusetts who are making an impact on education or have specific insight into education systems. These...
BPS Must Negotiate the BTU Contract if they Hope to Prevent Receivership
Friday, April 22, 2022
Lisa Lazare, State Director, E4E-Boston
In Boston Public Schools right now, there are only three topics people are talking about: the search for a new Superintendent (which we touched on here), potential “receivership” of BPS...
MEMO: What Boston Educators Want in their Next Superintendent
Friday, April 15, 2022
Gianna Carchia, Organizer
Educators for Excellence Boston is an organization that works with Boston-area educators to build a more excellent school system where every student has a chance to succeed. We have worked...
Let’s rise to the challenge and provide mental health support in Connecticut’s schools
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Connecticut
Steven Tatum
With mask mandates lifting in schools across the state, it’s tempting to let out the collective breath we’ve been holding since the pandemic forced schools to close two years ago....
Dr. Mariel Novas- Boston Education Expert Conversations
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Boston
Boston Education Expert Conversations Series E4E-Boston will engage in thought-provoking conversations with individuals in Massachusetts who are making an impact on education or have specific insight into education systems. These...
Colleagues, time is running out to protect teachers of color
Friday, March 4, 2022
Minnesota
Paula Cole, Executive Director of E4E-Minnesota
On the precipice of a potential teacher strike initiated by the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers, one issue lurks in the background–impending layoffs that will disproportionately affect teachers of color. As...
E4E-CT State Director Speaks on Mental Health Support in Schools
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Connecticut
Daniel Pearson, Executive Director E4E-Connecticut
Dear honorable members of the Public Health Committee and the Committee on Children. Thank you for the opportunity to speak in support of SB2 and HB5001. My name is Daniel...
2022 Black History Month Wrap Up - E4E-Boston
Monday, February 28, 2022
Boston
This month, a powerful group of Boston leaders and educators gathered to celebrate Black History Month at E4E-Boston’s “We Are Black History” event. Throughout the celebration, speakers were asked to...
E4E-CT Organizer Ernest Bailey Speaks on Fully Funding Education at the Appropriations Education Subcommittee Hearing
Saturday, February 19, 2022
Connecticut
Ernest Bailey
Dear members of the committee: Thank you for the opportunity to speak in support of fully funding education by expediting the ECS phase to coincide with the federal dollars running...
E4E-CT State Director Daniel Pearson Speaks on Fully Funding Education
Friday, February 18, 2022
Connecticut
Daniel Pearson, State Director, Educators for Excellence-Connecticut (E4E-CT)
Dear Senator Osten, Representative Walker, and members of the Appropriations Committee My name is Daniel Pearson and I am the State Director for Educators for Excellence, a teacher-led nonprofit with...
Fully Funding Education at the Appropriations Ed. Subcommittee Hearing
Friday, February 18, 2022
Connecticut
Sara Kovack, Organizer
Dear members of the committee: Thank you for the opportunity to speak in support of fully funding education by expediting the ECS phase to coincide with the federal dollars running...
Educators for Excellence-Connecticut Reacts to Governor Lamont’s Proposed Budget
Friday, February 11, 2022
Connecticut
Daniel Pearson, State Director, Educators for Excellence-Connecticut (E4E-CT)
February 10 (Hartford, CT) — Educators for Excellence-Connecticut (E4E-Connecticut), a teacher-led organization, reacted to Governor Lamont’s proposed budget at the 2022 Connecticut legislative session on Wednesday. Lamont’s plan reduces funding...
Educators for Excellence Signs Joint Accountability Letter & National Teacher Leader Council Makes Public Comment
Monday, January 24, 2022
National
Educators for Excellence’s 2021 National Teacher Survey, a nationally representative survey of teachers across the country, found that nearly 70% of surveyed teachers advocated for use of assessments to identify...
A Message to Boston Educators from E4E-Boston’s State Director
Monday, January 10, 2022
Boston
Lisa Lazare, State Director, E4E-Boston
Boston Educators, When I was a teacher, the first week back to school from winter break was always one of the toughest each year. It always took several days to...
Statement from E4E-LA on the arrival of Superintendent Alberto Carvahlo
Monday, December 20, 2021
Los Angeles
As an organization representing educators from the Los Angeles Unified School District, Educators for Excellence–Los Angeles is honored to welcome Superintendent Alberto Carvahlo to our city and excited to partner...
E4E-Boston Educators: We Need to Pass Inclusive Curriculum Legislation
Monday, December 13, 2021
Boston
Three months ago, E4E-Boston educators, staff, and partners testified in a virtual session of the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Education in support of inclusive curriculum legislation. Since that hearing, the...
Educators for Excellence signs Coalition for Teaching Quality Letter
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
National
As the House recently passed the Build Back Better bill, Educators for Excellence joined our partners at the Coalition for Teaching Quality to...
E4E-CT State Director Daniel Pearson speaks on ARP funding and needs in the classroom
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Connecticut
Daniel Pearson, Executive Director E4E-Connecticut
Educators for Excellence-Connecticut State Director Daniel Pearson spoke on Tuesday, November 16th at a ConnCAN event about the American Rescue Plan and how teachers would like to see recent federal...
Letter to Mayor-Elect of Boston Michelle Wu
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Boston
Lisa Lazare, State Director, E4E-Boston
Mayor-Elect Wu, On behalf of Educators for Excellence Boston (E4E-Boston) I want to congratulate you on your historic election as Mayor of Boston. As State Director of a teacher-led nonprofit...
E4E-Boston Fights for Inclusive Curriculum at MA State House Hearing
Thursday, October 14, 2021
E4E-Boston is continuing to fight to pass The Racially and Culturally Inclusive Curriculum Act (H.671/S.304), which...
A Different Kind of “Student Teacher”
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Boston
Enkeleda Gjoni, High School Teacher
When you hear the term “student teacher,” usually what springs to mind is a college junior spending a semester in a classroom as part of their education major, slowly learning...
One Boston Educator's Thoughts on Returning for a Third COVID-Impacted School Year
Monday, August 30, 2021
Boston
Shirley Jones Luke, E4E Boston Educator
Shirley Jones Luke is an English teacher in Boston Public Schools. After 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with the new school year in Boston starting soon, she gave...
E4E Teacher Board Members: We need our Unions to Lead
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Read our Vision for Unions As current classroom educators, we owe labor unions and particularly teachers unions a great debt for all they have won for us. Throughout history, unions...