NEA President Visits Bridgeport CommPACT Schools
NEA President Dennis Van Roekel heard encouraging reports from teachers, parents and principals during a visit yesterday to two Bridgeport CommPACT schools. The new school reform experiment in Connecticut’s neediest cities may be the best hope for solving some of the vexing problems of America’s urban schools.
CommPACT, headed by the University of Connecticut’s Neag School of Education, gives individual schools a significant degree of authority to transform themselves from within – a radical shift from the traditional top-down organization of most school systems.
Find out more about CommPACT Schools.
Read more about NEA PresidentVan Roekel’s visit to Bridgeport.
See photos of his visit and videos of community members talking about CommPACT schools.
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- NEA President Dennis Van Roekel and CEA Vice President Sheila Cohen
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- Cohen and Peluchette visit a Barnum classroom.
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- Apruzzese watches a Barnum teacher at work.
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- Van Roekel listens to students explain a mentoring project.
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- Barnum Principal Lourdes L. Delgado, Van Roekel and Apruzzese converse outside a classroom.
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- Barnum students engage with their teacher.
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- Bridgeport Education Association President Gary Peluchette and CEA President Phil Apruzzese.
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- Van Roekel is interviewed for a cable news program.
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- Van Roekel, Dean of UConn’s Neag School of Education Richard Schwab, and Apruzzese meet a Bridgeport teacher.
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- Representatives from Barnum School, UConn, the Bridgeport community, the Bridgeport Education Association, CEA, NEA, the CT Association of Public School Superintendents and the CT Federation of School Administrators met in the library to discuss CommPACT’s progress at Barnum.
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- Cohen, Van Roekel and Apruzzese listen as Barnum faculty, UConn representatives and parents talk about CommPACT successes.
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- Cohen and Van Roekel meet Barnum students.
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- Apruzzese checks out students’ work.
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- Van Roekel and Barnum students.
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