School-funding Update from the Wisconsin Alliance for Excellent Schools

WAES School Funding Update - Tom Beebe

Another Wisconsin school board, this time in Wausaukee in Marinette County in northern Wisconsin, has voted to close its doors because of unequal and inadequate funding. When it happened, many said the Florence County School District would be only the first of many... More >>

Advice to New Principal

Teacher Magazine

Kim, an educator in the rural Southeast, recently accepted a principal's job at a small K-3 school. Her first impulse was to turn to her virtual colleagues in the Teacher Leaders Network Forum for teacherly advice. What, Kim asked, would teacher leaders like to say to a first-time principal coming to their school?  More >>

James J Ennis Scholarship Awarded

Michelle Streed, pictured with Sue Evans, Chairperson

At a recent dinner for the retirees of the Racine Education Association, future teacher Michelle Streed was awarded the James J Ennis Scholarship in the amount of one thousand dollars. The Scholarship was created to honor the life-long dedication to the teaching profession displayed by James Ennis, a former Executive Director of the Racine Education Association. More >>