After 22 years of failed, state-imposed “education reform,” the Newark, N.J., community finally has local control of their schools. “We make the decisions in our house,” said Newark Mayor Ras Baraka at a City Hall event celebrating the return of democratic process to Newark public education in 2017-18. “We don’t need anybody to run us, to govern us, to tell us what to do.”…
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Early Childhood Educators’ Tracks
The tracks listed below are designed to be developmentally appropriate for students in our PK through 2nd grade settings. The workshops will include opportunities for participants to share “staying true” to age appropriate educational, social and emotional expectations in a school system setting. Discussions will also focus on identifying and addressing language, emotional, sensory, and perceptual and other learning challenges.…
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Early Childhood Educators’ Tracks
The tracks listed below are designed to be developmentally appropriate for students in our PK through 2nd grade settings. The workshops will include opportunities for participants to share “staying true” to age appropriate educational, social and emotional expectations in a school system setting. Discussions will also focus on identifying and addressing language, emotional, sensory, and perceptual and other learning challenges.…
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The AFTNJ is happy to announce that we will be partnering again with AFT National to provide high-quality, research based AFT Professional Development. Professional Development hours will be awarded for participants.
The two-day event is structured as two stand-alone professional development sessions in order to allow flexibility for AFTNJ members. AFTNJ members can attend one or both days to double up on their professional learning.…
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Workshop Tracks for All Educators
Foundations of Learning
• Designing a Supportive Classroom Climate
• Maximizing Student Engagement
• Scaffolding Your Way to Student Success
• Using Feedback to Promote Student Learning
Managing Behavior
• Behavior is a Form of Communication – What Are Challenging Behaviors Telling Us?
• The Acting Out Cycle
• Measuring Behavior
• Building Social Competence in the Classroom
English Language Learners 101
• Language Acquisition and Learning: How does language development affect learning?…
Please attend this high-quality, research-based AFT Professional Development. Sign up here to attend on Friday, Nov. 10 and make sure you are signed up for Thursday, Nov. 9 if you wish to “double up” on your professional learning.
On each day there will be sessions offered in the following areas of professional development. Light breakfast and lunch will be provided.…
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Please attend this high-quality, research-based AFT Professional Development. Sign up here to attend on Thursday, Nov. 9 and sign up again for Friday, Nov. 10 if you wish to “double up” on your professional learning.
Light breakfast and lunch will be provided. Boot Camp is free for all AFT members.
Foundations of Learning
AM Session: Designing a Supportive Classroom Climate
PM Session: Maximizing Student Engagement
Managing Behavior
AM Session: Behavior is a Form of Communication – What Are Challenging Behaviors Telling Us?…
Hampton Inn by Hilton Woodbridge, 370 Route 9 North, Woodbridge, NJ 07095
(732) 855-6900
Rates:
$129 Plus Sales and Occupancy Tax for King
$139 Plus Sales and Occupancy Tax for Double
Cut off date: October 19 …
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Contact: Nat Bender, nbender [@] aftnj.org, 908-377-0393
Ed note: Civil Service Commission order
Thirty-days since ordered to correct misclassifications, union questions status
NEWARK…Siding with Newark Teachers Union (NTU) allegations that Newark Public Schools inappropriately changed 485 workers’ titles, resulting in chaos for students, lower pay for workers and out-of-seniority layoffs, New Jersey’s Civil Service Commission ordered the district to fix the problem within 30 days on August 16, 2017.…
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Trump will have to go through faculty to get DREAMers, says AFTNJ VP David Hughes, VP of Rutgers AAUP-AFT, at protest of decision to rescind DACA, Sept. 6 in Newark with Make the Road NJ, Wind of Spirit NJ, progressive activists, #1u.…
Justin Serfozo, Garfield Federation of Teachers
It’s not exactly being played as frequently as the song of the summer, “Despacito,” but the lyrics and vocal delivery of the Beatles’ 1965 No. 1 single “We Can Work It Out” seem to perfectly capture the mixed emotions many educators are experiencing these days.
I was listening to the song as I drove through the Ironbound neighborhood of Newark on my way to an AFT roundtable discussion on improving educational policies in New Jersey.…
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This morning, I was proud to stand with DACA recipients who are high school and college students, my Mayor Wilda Diaz, my Congressman Frank Pallone, Rutgers President Robert Barchi, faith leaders and a host of community, immigration and human rights advocates to call for justice for immigrant children brought to this country. They came as babies, infants and some teenagers.…