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CPS testing concerns: Can we get a librarian in every school instead?
They’re going to hire more experts, strengthen policy and improve training without thinking twice, but we still can’t get a librarian in every school?
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Don’t Let Black Educators
Become Black History
The CTU Speaks! podcast is recording a special Black History Month panel on the disappearance of Black educators—in Chicago and across the country—and what teachers unions and community allies can do to reverse the trend.
Hosted by Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson and featuring rank-and-file CTU members, Dyett hunger striker Monique Redeax-Smith and writer/activist/organizer Charles Preston, the panel will discuss issues facing Black educators in schools today, and what is lost when Black teachers become Black history. You won’t want to miss this!
CTU Speaks! co-hosts Andrea Parker and Jim Staros will kick off the night! Never miss an episode—subscribe today on your favorite podcasting platform. The event will also be taped and later released in podcast form.
Cocktails will be served from 5-6 p.m.; panel taping is from 6-8 p.m.
Chicago PEACE Brunch
February 29, 2020, 11 am
CTU Center, 1901 W. Carroll
Keynote Speaker: Pastor William Hall, St. James Community Church
Plus special guest speaker and CPS graduate Dr. Clinton Boyd, Jr.
In addition, the CTU choir will perform musical selections, and stay tuned for a guest musical performer. Plus, there’s still time to join the choir, so get in touch if you’re interested by emailing lupecoyle@ctulocal1.org. The rehearsal schedule will be announced soon!
Sex Ed Works
Healing to Action—a grassroots community group that focuses on worker empowerment and fighting gender-based violence—is holding listening sessions with students, parents and caregivers, community and educators, to get input on their campaign for improved sexual education in CPS.
Healing to Action wants to hear from any and all CTU members who have an interest in the CPS sex ed curriculum and training or for whom it has implications (from PE and Health teachers to clinicians and counselors to members of our Women’s Rights and LGBTQIA Committees, and beyond). Join us at this session to help win the sex ed our students deserve.
NOTE: CTU will also hold a training all day on Saturday, March 28. Any member may attend the Saturday Conference.
Our new contract creates a tremendous opportunity to build our power in the classroom. This spring’s Building Delegates and School Leaders Conference will be a space for learning and collaboration that expands the knowledge learned at the conference in January. Register below.
Workshops topics will include:
- implementing the new class size contract language
- fighting for new sources of progressive revenue
- using PPCs, PSCs, PPLCs, and LSCs to make your school better
- putting new sports contract wins into motion
- the new bilingual education contract language
- sustainable community schools, and many more…
So, join us to
- Build contract knowledge, organizing skills, and leadership experience.
- If you’re new to union activism, learn from veterans about how to find people in your school to work with
- If you’re a veteran, think about who you can bring along to help train a new generation of union leaders.
Your union needs you.
Professional Development
Restorative. Relevant. Reflective. The Chicago Teachers Union Foundation QUEST CENTER for Professional Learning and Teacher Leadership is the premier professional development provider supporting Chicago’s public school educators through re-licensure, National Board Certification, and endorsements in which pre-service through veteran educators collaborate, network, and learn to improve their practice by addressing students’ cognitive development and social-emotional well-being through culturally responsive, trauma-sensitive learning environments.
National Board Certification
Nurturing Teacher Leadership, established in 1997, is the Chicago Teachers Union/Chicago Public Schools 2-year program of professional development and candidate support that prepares Chicago Public School teachers for National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) certification, the highest credential a teacher can earn.
Nurturing Teacher Leadership has a success rate of more than 94%, twice the national average!
Learn more by attending our next Cohort Informational Meeting!
CTU Speaks! Podcast
Our new podcast, CTU Speaks! is hosted by rank-and-file CTU members Andrea Parker and Jim Staros. We’ll chat about our union, enforcing our new contract, and our fight for the schools our children and educators deserve.
