Our Issues

Elementary officers requested we send a survey to teachers of Kindergarten and First Grade in December 2015 to determine their reactions to the SuperKids readin pilot.

Kindergarten Results - link

Grade 1 Results - link

FAIR TRADE, UNION MADE, STUDENT PRODUCED  .... Go Tigers!

The Cleveland Heights Teachers Union (CHTU) has initiated a program of advocacy and practice supporting Union Made and Fair Trade products.

Our first effort has used T Shirt 'blanks' made/woven at Lifewear Inc  by Workers United Local #1148 Affiliate of SEIU in Pennsylvania. 

The T shirt design was created/designed by CHHS art teacher Laura Skehan and her students.

Students at the Graphic Arts program at Warrensville Hts. High School (which includes CHHS students) screened the T shirt.

Even better, profits from this joint effort will help

271 Responses  (view as a pdf instead)

Which of these choices is the best start date for the school year for students?

Currently we have 1 or 2 holidays for the Jewish holy days in the fall. If they were added as work days which answer best describes its impact to you: (our opinion is that adding extra work days either requires them to be removed from the calendar somewhere else or paid for at our per diem)

It

239 CHTU members were polled in September 2015 on how they would vote if the presidential election hapened at that time.  See the results and comments.(link)

In May 2015 our local sent out a survey to members asking about the proceudres around testing this year.  We had 4 short answer prompts for people to respond to.  82 people participated from all levels.

Link to survey results PDF file

Here is a list of links that may or may not be useful in working with children who are English Language Learners.

http://www.colorincolorado.org/index.php?langswitch=en

http://www.all4ed.org/files/DoubleWork.pdf

http://www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/summer2008/ae_summer08.pdf

http://www.aft.org/newspubs/news/2012/062712ell.cfm

http://www.ldonline.org/article/12932?theme=print

http://broadyesl.wordpress.com/2012/11/06/american-federation-of-teachers-webinar-common-core-state-standards-and-english-language-learners/  this one is a webinar

Our local along with hundreds of other organizations had endorsed a well-written resolution asking for a hard look at our federal testing requirements for students. Please follow the link, read the resolution and sign it.  http://timeoutfromtesting.org/nationalresolution/

This survey was sent to members after working in person with students in April 2021.  Over 200 responses.

Summary of Results

All results with comments