Democracy in Action! Vote for New Leadership!

It’s Election Time for the Plainfield Education Association Members. The association is at a crossroads. Stagnant leadership has resulted in no forward movement. Evaluate the record of leadership and choose REAL leadership that understands every member has a unique voice that deserves to be heard. I am running to serve as YOUR UNION PRESIDENT. I offer a fresh, positive voice for YOUR interests. I started this blog out of a need to ensure that YOUR needs as a member of the Plainfield Education Association were met, and that YOU could know where to turn for information. Your words of encouragement mean a lot to me. You deserve leadership that LISTENS to your concerns and responds with ACTION, not silence. I hope I have earned your confidence and your vote! Election Calendar and Candidate profiles can be found at the Plainfield Education Association Website (see link on navigation bar at right). Click on the image above to enlarge it--don't forget to vote!

Vote for Veronica “Roni” Taylor for PEA President!

Ballots will be distributed Thurs & Fri, March 21-22 

Ballots must be postmarked by midnight Sat, March 30

 

Annual Herbert Green Forum on Education

This is being posted by invitation from the League of Women Voters of Plainfield, where I served as president after Herb. I also served on the Board of Education with Herb. He is deeply missed. I invite all my colleagues to come out to this important event.

On Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 6:30 pm, the League of Women Voters of Plainfield will present its First Annual Herbert Green Forum on Education, with guest speaker Dr. Arnold L. Glass, Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Rutgers University. The talk will take place in the Anne Louise Davis Room at the Plainfield Public Library, located at 800 Park Avenue in Plainfield.

Dr. Glass, whose research focuses on cognitive learning, heads the Learning and Memory Laboratory of the Department of Psychology at Rutgers, and he has published widely in the American Journal of Psychology, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Memory and Cognition, and other professional journals.

Dr. Glass writes, "When we see something or recall something or plan a sentence, a representation of what we see or recall or wish to say forms in our brain. What are these representations like? If we knew exactly what they were like then we could replicate them in databases that would be used by computers to see and speak the way we do."

Click here to be taken to Dr. Glass's webpage to read a full description of his research.

This event is free and open to the public, and we especially encourage educators to attend to hear Dr. Glass's presentation. Refreshments will be served after the talk.

The Herbert Green Forum on Education is named in memory of our beloved colleague, who died recently at the age of 87 after a brave battle with cancer.