Find distance teaching strategies, lesson plans, FAQs and more at CTA’s COVID-19 Resource Center.   

Join the conversation and share with your peers in our new Facebook Group: CTA Teaching, Learning & Life During COVID-19.  

Brand your virtual Zoom classroom with these educator-themed backgrounds (see one of them above). 

CTA and partners continue to offer multiple webinars to help educators adapt to the virtual classroom. There are seven tomorrow (April 23) alone!

Next week’s lineup includes sessions led by members of CTA’s Instructional Leadership Corps: How to Create Instructional Videos to Send to Students(April 27) and Boosting Resilience to Combat Uncertainty (April 28).

Sign up here. Can’t make the live trainings? Watch recorded webinars on CTA’s YouTube channel.

Whether you’re a science teacher preparing a lesson, a music teacher leading a video sing-along, an ESP continuing to cook meals or a bus driver dropping them off at students’ homes, we want to know! Two ways to show and tell:    

1) NEA is partnering with NowThis on a video project to highlight the amazing work educators are doing to stay connected with students during the COVID-19 crisis. Share your photos and videos no later than tomorrow, April 23;

2) Take a look at a few CTA members’ virtual classrooms, fave apps, and singular lewks. Then show and tell us how you’re doing.  

Tell Congress to do more to address the coronavirus crisis. NEA is urging Congress to address immediate needs like injecting more funds into state budgets (to avoid layoffs of educators and others) as well as long-festering problems such as the digital divide. Read NEA’s list of top priorities for students and educators along with a letter urging lawmakers to seize this moment to renew America’s promise of equal opportunity and justice for all.   

Tell Congress to include student debt cancellation in COVID 19 relief efforts. NEA along with some 30 other organizations is urging Congress to include student loan debt cancellation in any future COVID-19 relief package. The average educator begins a career with about $35,000 in student loan debt. The Student Debt Emergency Relief Act ( H.R. 6363) would cancel at least $30,000 of this debt, reducing financial strain on educators and others. 

After months of hard work, dedication and member input, we’re eager to show you the results. Our goal is to provide members with a great user experience with a faster, easier-to-navigate, mobile-friendly, visually appealing and interactive space that reflects the power and beauty of our union.

Join us on May 1 to celebrate. Details to come in the next week.