Connecticut Education Association

Do you like to golf? Do you like to celebrate teachers? Join us July 15 at the Glastonbury Hills Country Club for the Hands Across the Green Golf Tournament -- morning shotgun still has slots available! Register today: https://bit.ly/3RRN5kx

The Connecticut Education Foundation, CEA’s charitable arm, is hosting its annual golf tournament to benefit Connecticut children in need on July 15. All are invited to participate!

Please welcome CEA's new executive director! Todd Jaeck's two decades of labor organizing experience span the full range of union work, including leadership development, staff management, collective bargaining, education policy, member advocacy, political action, and membership recruitment, retention, and engagement.

Join us until 2pm today at Blue Back Square in West Hartford! We're collecting books for children K-12 and there are a variety of fun craft projects and reading activities for kids!

CEA-Retired members and CEA Aspiring Educators worked together to build little free libraries—and you can help fill them! Support children’s growth as readers by donating books at Barnes & Noble in West Hartford this Saturday 10am-2pm thanks to CEF, iHeartMedia, and Blue Back Square.

Tomorrow is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and E.O. Smith High School history teacher Joe Goldman is one of many CT educators taking on the important work of ensuring today's students understand the darker parts of history so that they can create a brighter future.

Teachers, families, and community members have sponsored a record 750 plus students through the Connecticut Education Foundation’s Holiday Bear Project this year. Watch how the Wallingford community came together to sponsor gifts for students.

Teachers, families, and community members have sponsored a record 750 plus students through the Connecticut Education Foundation’s Holiday Bear Project this year. “The outpouring of support is just remarkable,” says CEF President and CEA Vice President Joslyn DeLancey.

In this episode of CEA's podcast, Avon Education Association President Jon Moss shares how his district is coming together to sponsor a record 110 students this year and talks with Kate and Joslyn about how teachers and community members across the state can help make Holiday Bear a success.

CEA is celebrating our 175th anniversary with a special fundraising gala event on Friday, Sept. 29. Join us and become a sponsor and partner with the state’s dedicated professional teachers, who make all professions possible. The CEA Celebrates Gala will benefit the Connecticut Education Foundation, the nonprofit arm of CEA. CEF provides school and living essentials for children in need, scholarships for high school and college students pursuing teaching careers, gifts that brighten the holidays for families experiencing hardships, books for students in our poorest districts, and emergency assistance for educators facing catastrophic illness or other emergencies. Find out more: https://cea.org/2023gala