Fresno Madera Service Center

Don't forget to sign up for this great conference! "CTA’s New Educator Weekend has everything that educators need to be successful in their first years of teaching. We’re offering new and updated sessions, so if you attended in December, you can attend again for even more great content with a focus on energizing educators and preparing them finish the year strong and motivated." Sessions and electives concentrating on:... - Online Classroom Management Creating a Productive and Inspiring Learning Environment - Best Practices for Distance Learning - Technology Tips and Tricks - Navigating IEP’s and Special Education Areas in the Virtual World - What I Wish I Knew My First Years of Teaching - Working with Colleagues, Administration and Parents - Common Core, State Standards, Assessments and Pedagogy - Teaching is a Career - Student Loan Forgiveness Programs for Educators - Resources and Programs for CTA Members https://fb.me/e/1YINtGR1M

Let’s return to in-person instruction, putting safety first! We are live right now and this is the link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86874771701

You can still register for tomorrow!

The Ethnic Minority Early Identification and Development Program identifies CTA members of color who are interested in expanding their roles in CTA. The EMEID program goal is to increase the number of CTA leaders of color. Once accepted into the program, participants are paired with a coach who assists them in defining goals and identifying appropriate steps to achieve those goals. The program builds on existing CTA/NEA programs, trainings, conferences, events as well as incorporates interaction and coaching with local chapter, CTA, and NEA leadership & CTA Staff. https://www.cta.org/about-us/leadership/emeid

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T-minus 6 days and counting to get the word out about Prop. 15 and the powerful impact it can make on our students, families, schools, and communities! Take action with us today by phone banking easily and safely from home! Training will be made available and a script is provided. Move toward November 3rd knowing you helped to make a difference in getting this proposition passed in California by reaching out to members like yourself. Click on Yes on 15!... https://www.mobilize.us/cta/event/330264/.

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Join us next week for the GOTV event! https://www.mobilize.us/cta/event/338472/

Today is the last day to register! Join us online for the 2020 CTA Region 2 Leadership Conference Home Edition! from September 30 October 3, 2020. The R2LC Home Edition! offers a comprehensive program, including keynote speakers, over 40 elective sessions, exhibitor showcase, and much more. The elective sessions provide our members with a variety of trainings and information from which to choose. Members also have an opportunity to earn professional growth. We would lo...ve for you to join us! The 2020 CTA Region 2 Leadership Conference Home Edition! is open to CTA Region 2 members only and is provided free of charge. Do not miss this extraordinary opportunity! https://ctaregion2.org/leadership/

A difficult topic for anyone to discuss, but an important one. Please reach out to your students whenever possible; and if you yourself are in need of help, PLEASE reach out to someone. The world is a much brighter and better place because you are here with us. #suicidepreventionmonth

We are inspired by the work of the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project and the opportunities they provide for educators to lead educators in professional develop...ment. You’re invited to participate in one of their FREE Workshops on Writing, happening this Saturday, Sept. 12th from 9:30am-12pm. SJVWP Teacher Leaders Judy Duran, Marci Haas, and Kristen Norton will lead a session on how to Use Writing to Support Students' and Teachers' Social Emotional Health. Please click this link to register: is.gd/sjvwp0912 And to learn more about the session and the SJVWP please watch the video below and/or visit their website: sanjoaquinvalleywp.org

We hope you all are having a restful, cool, and safe Labor Day 2020! Thank you for being #unionstrong!

Join other local professionals in our community for this upcoming free webinar series on Anti-Racism practice and pedagogy. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/anti-racism-a-public-professio

Tell your U.S. Senator to pass the HEROES Act now! This much-needed federal funding would address state and local budget gaps, and help our schools during this time of crisis. https://educationvotes.nea.org/issue/covid-19/

Thanks to all of our Delegates from this years National Educators Association Representative Assembly! Over the last two days these amazing leaders advocated on behalf of the members and students of the Central Valley on a National level. For that we thank them! Until Denver, CO 2021!

The members of the Fresno/Madera Service Center Council Equity Team would like to share a message from your California Teachers Association about the Black Lives Matter movement. Your Equity Team absolutely stands in solidarity with and is entirely supportive of the Black Lives Matter movement and of the work that CTA is doing to promote racial and social justice. Below, you'll find the official statement from CTA in which they offer their support to the Black Lives Matter m...ovement and call us to action. Now, more than ever, we need to actively get involved in this work. In solidarity and against injustice, Marina Santos, Human Rights Advocacy Coordinator Meghan Schimmel, LGBTQ+ Advocacy Coordinator Gina Skov, Women's Advocacy Coordinator Blas Manuel De Luna, Minority-at-Large CTA Statement: On social media: As a union of 310,000 educators across California, we have an obligation to act. This is not a time for us to look away. We must grapple with the fact that our schools, our practices, policies and even our own union, are shaped by inequities, bias and institutional racism. Our black students and educators experience schools, the police and this pandemic very differently than our white students and educators. Saying #BlackLivesMatter isn’t enough: we need to actively show it in our work toward anti-racism on a personal, structural and institutional level. We are grieving and we are outraged. Together, we must continue the call for justice and to hold powerful people, organizations and each other, accountable. What are you doing to work toward anti-racism every day? News release: We are grieving, and we are outraged by the hateful racism and white supremacy that continues to terrorize our communities of color. The murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor demand that we, as educators and Americans, recognize and confront the institutional racism that exists in our systems and structures. We cannot allow this moment to define us as a society and as a nation. It is our responsibility to work to abolish racism on a personal, structural, and institutional level beginning in our schools and colleges. It is our responsibility to have these conversations at the dinner table and in our places of worship. This is not a time for us to look away, but to confront for the sake of a fair, just, and equitable future for all students. The past 11 weeks have shined an even brighter light on the divide, and we have seen, firsthand, that our black students and educators experience schools and the pandemic differently than many, if not most, of our white students and educators. Saying #BlackLivesMatter isn’t enough. Together, we must continue the call for justice and to hold powerful people, and each other, accountable. We must come together to stop the chorus of hate and fear and utilize our people power, both personally and at the ballot box. https://www.cta.org/our-a/social-justice/black-lives-matter

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