I have the honor to lead the largest local of AEA.  I am the president of AEA-Retired.  I am a Republican registered voter.  Why do I share that with you?  AEA is non partisan.  We vote our education issues.  I share that little piece of me because I have spent my enti...

I retired from my sixth grade classroom 10 years ago. I started working in the public school system prior to the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, when a teacher's main focus was the act of teaching - not the act of testing. Because a school district did not hav...

This could be the summer that everything changes.  

We are fighting the same fights that we were fighting when I retired 10 years ago.

The same fights as when I was a new teacher 40 years ago.

It all amounts to the same thing - when those in policy-making positions don't...

I love it!  I volunteer once or twice a month on a Saturday morning to knock doors for a candidate.  I knock doors and tell the people I meet at the door that I am a retired teacher working to change the legislature so that it reflects more of the values that I hold:...