May 4-10 is Teacher Appreciation Week

Teachers in communities across Wisconsin and the nation will be in the spotlight May 4-10 when students, parents, school administrators and the general public thank teachers for working to make public schools great.

The NEA declares May 6 as National Teacher Day, but take advantage and leverage the full week to showcase Wisconsin's teachers and gain support for Wisconsin's great schools.

Members Only: Teacher Appreciation Week resources

E-card: Thank a teacher

Teacher Appreciation Week radio announcement

32 districts qualify for 4K start-up grants

State Superintendent Elizabeth Burmaster notified 32 school districts that their applications were approved to receive state funding for 4-year-old kindergarten start-up grants. Read more

Online opportunities for educators

The Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN) and the Madison Metropolitan School District are hosting two day-long workshops for educators built around the theme "Designing an Equitable Future: Transforming Innovation into Practice." The workshops will be held June 24 at the Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison. Participants can choose to attend a workshop on closing the achievement gap for Latino/a students or a session on inclusive, collaborative and culturally responsive schools.

Find out more about these and other professional development opportunities, events, and classroom resources on the OnWEAC Educators' Bulletin Board.

Vulnerable exterior belies courage

In her latest posting, Today's Classroom columnist Cindy Reitzi discovers how important it is to look below the surface in order to find the true nature of teaching - hope. She reminds us that sometimes, when you're too focused on the big picture, the details escape you. Sometimes, those meaning-of-life perspective lessons come not from the powerful and articulate but from the vulnerable and voiceless. Read more



Spotlight shines on Milwaukee ESP
Bama Brown-Grice works at the grassroots level to open the doors to a bright future for the families she encounters every day.
Member Spotlight


Let us quote your auto and home insurance
Use our online form to receive a premium quote for your auto and home insurance from WEA Trust Member Benefits. Read more

Cartoon Corner
by George B. Abbott



"They told me that today is locker cleaning day at school."
Cartoon Corner

This electronic e-mail is provided as a service of the Wisconsin Education Association Council, P.O. Box 8003, Madison WI, 53708, 608-276-7711. You are receiving this e-mail either because you have provided your e-mail address to WEAC or you have specifically signed up to receive it. WEAC collects e-mail addresses of members through membership sign-up materials, at conferences, via registrations on the OnWEAC Members Only site, and through other online registrations and subscription forms. Membership data, including e-mail addresses, are updated at least once a year on September 1.

OnWEAC Direct is e-mailed once a week, usually on Friday or Saturday. Feel free to forward this edition of OnWEAC Direct to a friend or colleague interested in getting the most out of the Internet. If you are a WEAC member and received this edition from someone else and are not already signed up, you can get automatically signed up simply by setting up an account on the OnWEAC Members Only site. Go to OnWEAC at http://www.weac.org, click on the Members Only button, and follow directions. If you are not a WEAC member, you can sign up for OnWEAC Direct by going to this address: http://www.weac.org/CF/direct.cfm.

You can easily unsubscribe to this newsletter at: http://www.weac.org/unsubscribe/unsubscribe.cfm?Ezine=OnWEAC Direct.