California Educator

June 2009

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CATOR 90 90 ENUJ 0:50 AM JUNE 09 CONTENTS FEATURES 8 18 In the age of testing, can schools teach critical thinking? Providing calm when parents go off to war MAKING A DIFFERENCE 22 23 24 26 26 27 Program helps at-risk students focus on positives Bay Area rallies against Social Security offset law Members celebrate Day of the Teacher, protest cuts QEIA school makes strides, boosts test scores Secretary of Education impressed with San Francisco QEIA site LACEA decries cutting counselors for at-risk youth programs On the cover: Palm Springs Teachers Association member and eighthgrade science teacher Mina J. Blazy at Desert Springs Middle School. Story on page 8. TAKING A STAND 28 28 $1.4 million settlement for misclassified members Sweetwater teachers: no confidence in superintendent ACTION 30 31 31 32 34 35 36 38 2-3 June.09.indd 3 Sanchez tells Council CTA will keep fighting CTA, coalition battle governor over latest cuts What you should do to prepare for second-round RIFs this summer Sixteen winners of John Swett Awards Trend toward teacher retirement on the rise Calexico teachers win hard-fought contract CTA-sponsored and co-sponsored legislation for 2009-10 Member profile: Leslie Hong 6/4/09 1:54:27 PM

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