Future
Teachers
Helping disadvantaged students overcome mental and
societal barriers to become masters of their own destinies on their
way to becoming teachers is a daunting task. Yet NEA member and 2002
Community College Teacher of the Year Clarence Romero has created
a teacher preparation program at Riverside
Community College in California—Latino Educators of Tomorrow—that
has been doing just that.
NEA Higher Ed's Emerging
Leaders Join Forces With the Cat in the Hat
The first graduates of NEA's pioneering Emerging
Leaders Academy emphasized their ties to their K-12 colleagues and
the nation's children when they took time out during the Academy's
final session to promote reading as part of NEA's Read Across America
campaign.
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