Blog - SCTA - Sarasota Classified Teacher's Association

Bipartisan Support for Retiring Teachers

With our statewide shortage of teachers has come a shortage of substitutes. And our Legislature is doing all it can to discourage retiring teachers from becoming the substitutes we need. For example, our state requires retired teachers to wait a year before they can return to the classroom part-time and […]

From Collaboration to “Shape Up or Ship Out” in a Mere 18 Months

For years, the Sarasota District Schools prided itself on a collaborative working environment .... our district was a model of the shared decision making/collaborative school of governance. This model viewed teachers and classified staff as professionals whose opinions should be respected.

New Teacher Workshop

August 2018 New Teacher Workshop with Cyd Quinn Returns! Cyd Quinn returns next Friday with her class for new teachers. She’s been teaching teachers for decades, and will cover topics like: — how to get organized — how to ensure their needs are being met at the school where they […]

2018-2019 Sarasota County Teachers of the Year

April 2018 Learn about our 2018-2019 Sarasota County Teachers of the Year! Cyd Quinn, our teacher mentor, has been teaching teachers for decades. Read her profiles of this year’s 2018-2019 Teachers of the Year, all of whom are members of the Sarasota Classified/Teachers Association: Our representative for Elementary Schools is […]

Superintendent’s sign deals a low blow — and a misleading one!

This sign, posted by the School District administration before Tuesday’s historic teacher’s rally, gives the misleading impression that Sarasota’s teachers are the state’s best paid. Our superintendent knew that hundreds of teachers and staff were going to picket the School Board office on Tuesday evening of this week. So Todd […]