YOUR MNEA WEB SITE
Dates for MNEA meetings
March 3rd- Culbertson
April 7th-MNHS
May 12th-Worrall
June 2nd- Paxon
Task Force News
1. Wear MNEA shirts on Monday (or 1st day of work week)
2. Informational picket and before school and walk-out together on Friday afternoon
3. We need people at school board meetings (305 would be awesome!!)
4. We need to find community members to speak at board meetings on our behalf
5. We need to find community members willing to write letters to newspapers on our behalf
6. We need members to step-up and take a bigger role!
Information on the Race to the Top fund:
Race to the Top (RTTT) is a $4.35 billion dollar education reform program enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The U.S. Department of Education will award RTTT grants to states through a competitive application process. RTTT awards will be made in two rounds, with the first set of awards in April 2010 and the second set of awards in September 2010. A limited number of states (perhaps 10 in each round) are expected to receive awards. All interested states must submit their applications for the first round by January 19, 2010. If a state does not apply, it will not receive any RTTT funding.
Pennsylvania intends to apply for the first round of RTTT funds. The decision to apply for RTTT funding may affect local associations.
Informational links on "Race to the Top":
http://www.psea.org/racetothetop/
http://www.ed.gov/programs/racetothetop/index.html
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/02/01/21ncsl.h29.html?tkn=RZYFwzJqh0vEEf9ItBcBO7jC7B9FdnloYtsH
The article has the 35 page report given by the Obama admin. What are we up against now?
Positive news:
The Technology Education Association of Pennsylvania (TEAP) has awarded
Ed Hine a teacher of Technology at Paxon Hollow Middle School in Marple Newtown School District the prestigious Teacher Excellence Award for 2009-2010 on the middle school level.
The Excellence Award is one of the highest honors given to Technology Education classroom teachers on the elementary, middle or high school levels.
Ed Hine has been a Technology Education teacher at Paxon since 1997.
The Marple-Newtown Football team has won the prestigious Don Hoffman Sportsmanship Award for the fourth time in the last five years. The Suburban Philadelphia Football officials Association gives this award in the post-season. After each Central League Game, the officials score each team using a 10 point scale. MNSD has 89 out of 90 points. Congrats to Ray ulations to Ray Giunta and the MNHS football team.
Patty Roessner was one of 30 teachers selected nationwide to attend the Gilder Lehrman American History Institute. The purpose of this highly regarded training was to help history teacher better integrate technology into history lessons. Patty has developed a website for all of her history lessons. You can check it out at:
http://web.me.com/proessner
Special thanks to all who attended the school board meeting on Tuesday January 26th. We would like more there if we can.
PLEASE ATTEND PR MEETINGS
We need to get a consisten message out there. John Gilleeny, Deb Havrilla, Theresa Appleby, Dorie Martin, Karen Nash, Patty Kelly, and Dianne Blickle have developed a plan for:
1) Ads in newspaper to inform the public of our accomplishments and that we still do not have a contract
2) Updating the MNEA locals website to inform our membership of goings-on
3) Creating and editing our new MNEA web site
4) Brainstorming ideas for further propogation of our message
please go to:
http://www.mnea-info.org
.....to view our new web site.
All information pertaining to this website or PR can be forwarded to Patty Kelly pkelly@mnsd.org
Special thanks to the following Paxon-Hollow teachers who participated in the weekly walk out
Theresa Appleby
Andrea Fiorentino
Cindy Petty
Pat Neilands
Kristen Monosso
Jan Mayer
Stephanie Murray
Elisa Rooney
Emily Koch
Joan Blaschak
Jean Dingle
Nancy Fromhold
Karen Shoemaker
Dianne Blickle
John Gilleeny
Ed Hine
Mary-Anne Hrin
Kathi Peterkin
Patty Kelly
Eileen Doyle
Karen Seigel
Nate Teirney
Amy Snyder
Joe Cox
Herb Staquet
Lisa Facciolo
Deb Havrilla
Kathy Green
Craig Reilly