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Lakeview Elementary students receive books to celebrate Kindness

Lakeview Elementary students received 650 books to help celebrate World Kindness Day, and to encourage more reading among children. The books, provided by Bradenton’s Kind Cotton, included “The Bad Seed,” a beautiful story of self love, perseverance, and kindness. Teachers throughout the school also led extension activities to reinforce the […]

Our loss: RIP, Dee White

Dee White, Member Services Representative, is remembered. The SC/TA staff thanks all of you for the expressions of sympathy expressed for the loss of our colleague and friend, Dee White. As many of you know, Dee was tough. What you may not know is her funny side and sense of […]

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 […]