The Orange Education Association held their annual Thanksgiving Turkey Giveaway to feed the needy families in Orange, thanks to the NJEA Pride program.
Robin Cogan, a school nurse at Camden’s Yorkship Family School, was named a 2021 American Academy of Nursing fellow, placing her among 225 distinguished nurse leaders worldwide inducted at the…
The Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), which recognizes excellence in television with the coveted Emmy® Award, is offering the Next Gen Diversity in…
ACEs are adverse childhood experiences that affect children under 18, and include violence, abuse or neglect; bullying; witnessing violence in the home or community; and having a family member attempt…
In a packed program that highlighted excellence across the state, NJEA honored the 2020-21 and 2021-22 Frederick L. Hipp grant recipients, the 2020-21 State Teacher of the Year, Angel Santiago,…
At the NJEA Convention’s Wednesday night Celebration Dinner, Immediate Past NJEA President Marie Blistan received the NJEA Ruthann Sheer Distinguished Service to Education Award. The award honors to those who…
For the first time since the pandemic struck in March 2020, the members of the Bridgewater-Raritan Transportation, Inc.(BRT) gathered in-person on November 24 for a reunion lunch. The BRT’s usual…
By Joe Refinski, East Orange STEM Academy History teacher On Nov. 20, 1789, New Jersey was the first state in the nation to ratify the Bill of Rights. The rest…
By Joe Refinski, East Orange STEM Academy History teacher Six years ago, as a project for my students after taking the AP exam, I realized that East Orange did not…
How union membership affects us in way we don’t always see Join your union. Those three simple words may seem odd as a start to an article in a union…