Teacher of the Year to Union President

Autor/in	Colvin, Richard Lee
Titel	Teacher of the Year to Union President
Quelle	In: Education Next, 14 (2014) 3, S.8-15 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1539-9664
Schlagwörter	Teacher Associations; Unions; Presidents; Profiles; Career Development; Group Membership; Educational History; Advocacy; Collective Bargaining; Activism; Leadership; Organizational Objectives; Organizational Change; Change Strategies; Change Agents; Teaching (Occupation) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehrerorganisation; Lehrerverband; Lehrervereinigung; President; Präsident; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Berufsentwicklung; Gruppenzugehörigkeit; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Sozialanwaltschaft; Tarifverhandlung; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Führung; Führungsposition; Business goal; Unternehmensziel; Organisationswandel; Lösungsstrategie; Teaching; Lehrberuf
Abstract	In this article, Richard Lee Colvin, provides an uplifting history of the current vice president and next President of the National Education Association (NEA), Lily Eskelsen García, the first Hispanic head of the nation's largest union. Colvin describes Garcia as a powerful labor and political leader. Colvin describes NEA's beginning in 1857 by teachers and administrators as an advocate for public education, not a union, however in the late 1960s NEA endorsed the concept of collective bargaining. It is with this history under her belt that Garcia, a Utah elementary school teacher (1980-1989) and Utah's Teacher of the Year (1989), used her leadership skills to progress through the Utah Education Association (UEA) and the NEA with a focus on the "teacher" and the benefits they were due as they worked hard to educate children, but who were many times unrecognized and under-rewarded for their work. Garcia offers her own feelings about current educational policies that stress testing, accountability, and school choice, and the effects they are having on school children as well as teachers. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10