Clarksville Montgomery Co. Education Association

🍎 Remember to Renew Your Educator License by Aug. 31. ⏰ Please remember to check your educator license expiration date and review your licensure status at TNCompass.org. Due to recent changes, educators who hold a 6-year license received an extension. We encourage everyone to check their educator license expiration date and review your renewal requirements before the August 31, 2024, deadline. If you're on a 10-year license and it expires this year, you are required to renew before August 31.

Remember to Renew Your Educator License by Aug. 31. ⏰ Please remember to check your educator license expiration date and review your licensure status at TNCompass.org. Due to recent changes, educators who hold a 6-year license received an extension. We encourage everyone to check their educator license expiration date and review your renewal requirements before the August 31, 2024, deadline. If you're on a 10-year license and it expires this year, you are required to renew before August 31.

🍎📣 Welcome back! We hope CMCSS educators have a great 2024-25 school year. CMCEA is here to protect, support and advocate for you. Educators are Community Champions!

🗳️🍎Congratulations Chris Lanier and Kacie Bryant on your election win. The educators of CMCEA are ready to work with you to keep our public schools a great place to work and learn.

CMCEA leadership spent the morning at CMCSS New Teacher Orientation meeting and greeting all the new educators! Looking forward to another fabulous day of seeing new faces tomorrow! 🍎🍏

🗳️ Don’t Forget! Early Voting ends on Saturday for the August 1 election. We are proud to endorse Dr. Laura Barnett for school board district 2 and Bernard Carter for school board district 6. Get out there and make your voice heard through early voting! 🍎

Members- the virtual TEA Legislative Recap is TONIGHT at 5pm! Be sure you’ve registered at the link provided in the initial post to be able to attend.

Starts Thursday, June 27 @ 5pm CDT/ 6pm EDT 🎤 TEA Legislative Recap with TEA President Tanya T. Coats and TEA Government Relations.💡 FIND OUT: WHAT PASSED, WHAT IT MEANS & WHAT'S NEXT. This 60-minute Tele-Town Hall is exclusive for TEA members. If you registered, we sent you the link and login info. ⬇️

Some of your CMCEA leaders are spending the day with new CMCSS teachers at new teacher orientation today!

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Education Association endorses Barnett, Carter for Clarksville-Montgomery County School Board | OPINION - ClarksvilleNow.com Contributed commentary by Elizabeth Gaskill, CMCEA Secretary.

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Dates & Deadlines

Voter registration deadline for the August 1 election: July 2

Early Voting: July 12 - 27

Election Day: August 1

Thursday, June 27 @ 5pm CDT/ 6pm EDT 🎤 TEA Legislative Recap with TEA President Tanya T. Coats and TEA Government Relations.💡 FIND OUT: WHAT PASSED, WHAT IT MEANS & WHAT'S NEXT! This 60-minute Tele-Town Hall is exclusive for TEA members. We ask you to register as soon as possible to give us enough time to send you a personalized registration link. ⬇️

🍎Free Professional Development Opportunity for Members regarding multilingual learners.

Did you know that more than 55% of US educators teach multilingual learners? That’s why it's vital to understand how parent engagement, legal protections, policies, advocacy, and community initiatives intersect to support these students.

Learn how you can implement educational action plans and create more inclusive classrooms tailored to the unique needs of multilingual learners with NEA’s latest professional development opportunity: Supporting Multilingual Learners Online Blended Learning Courses. Register now>>

Support Multilingual Learners in Your Classroom Today, more than 55% of educators in the United States have at least one multilingual learner (ML) in their classrooms. That makes it critical for educators to understand the key roles that parent and community involvement, legal protections, policies, advocacy, and community organizing play in supp...

Earlier this month, CMCEA sent invitations to all school board candidates to participate in our endorsement meetings. We thank Bernard Carter, Laura Barnett and Ritchie Patton for being responsive to educators in CMCSS by accepting our invitation and being open to discussing their views while listening to ours. CMCEA proudly endorses Bernard Carter for school board district 6 and Dr. Laura Barnett for school board district 2.

Early Enrollment is happening NOW!

THANK YOU to all the CMCSS educators who work tirelessly for our students. Educators are Community Champions!

Thank you, teachers! 🍎

On Thursday we gathered to celebrate our 2023-2024 Distinguished Educators. A special thanks to Rep. Ronnie Glynn for being the keynote speaker of the evening and to all of our honored guests and award recipients.

🔔We have new CMCEA shirts available for purchase! We’ve partnered with local business SheepDog Custom and have a new shirt design in 4 colors options available for purchase. Order yours today at https://www.sheepdogcustom.com/shop/cmcea/258

Aron Maberry, School Board Member from District 7 and Candidate for TN State Representative District 68, attended our monthly building representative meeting to hear some concerns from our members.

Lawmakers Got the Message: Vouchers are Bad Policy 💬 Governor Lee has officially declared that his proposal to drain taxpayer dollars from local schools and send them to private schools has no path forward this year. TEA President Tanya T. Coats said this in response to lawmakers’ choice to abandon the proposal and stand up for Tennessee families:
“90% of Tennessee’s students are educated in public schools, and today is a great day for them and their parents. On behalf of our students, I want to thank the legislators who stood strong for our state’s children. I also want to thank the thousands of Tennesseans, including their local elected officials, who were moved to speak out against the governor’s proposal, and who I’m sure would do it all again in a heartbeat. We’ve seen a lot of bad voucher policies passed around the country, and none of them have lived up to the promise of benefitting parents and students. I hope that next year when folks return to the capital, we focus on good policy that will ensure great public schools in every neighborhood because that is what parents and students ultimately want.” 📙 TNEA.org/vouchers-are-bad-policy

Your association works for YOU not only at the local level in collaborative conferencing( hooray for that proposed 7% overall COLA & STEP) but also at the state level. Check out these CMCEA leaders representing at the TEA-Representative Assembly this weekend! 🍎

Ask today how you can join the only association in town advocating for educators! Check us out at www.cmceamembers.com

🍎📣Educators - it is YOUR Collaborative Conferencing Team that advocated and worked to get those proposed salary changes that were presented tonight.

These include:
>5% COLA ( cost of living adjustment) PLUS the average 2% STEP
>All certified pay beginning above 46K
>An increase in classified pay to begin at $15/hour
>An increase in substitute pay to begin at $15/hour

CMCEA is the ONLY educators association constantly advocating for bettering the working environment for you.

🍎Members of your CMCEA Collaborative Conferencing Team working after school and weekends to better YOUR working conditions. 🍎

Early Enrollment is officially here!