Douglas County Federation

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Join the Douglas County Federation today and join a growing movement of educators in Douglas County Schools united in providing a top quality education for the children we serve!

DCSD educators participate in the Experience Dyslexia event at the Douglas County Federation on January 15, 2020

DCF members and DCSD educators gathered to learn more about Dyslexia and to discuss implications of current research and practice on classroom instruction and student outcomes.

DCF Member Emily Muellenberg appointed to Commissioner's Teachers Cabinet

The DCF is excited for member leader Emily Muellenberg's recent appointment to the Commissioner's Teacher Cabinet! Emily is a Social Studies teacher at Highlands Ranch High School and has been a DCF member since 2005. Congratulations Emily!

The Commissioner's Teacher Cabinet is an opportunity for Colorado teachers to share their hands-on classroom knowledge. This advisory group is made up of 20 practicing teachers from around the state representing small, medium, large, rural, suburban and urban school systems.

AFT grants will give teachers a voice on Common Core

The AFT has awarded AFT Innovation Fund grants for teachers in New York and Connecticut to offer solutions to problems with their state's rollout of the Common Core State Standards.

AFT and other groups release new accountability framework

A broad-based group of organizations has released "A New Social Compact for American Education"—a groundbreaking rethinking of accountability that replaces the current paradigm of "test and punish" with a focus on what is needed to support and improve teaching and learning.

One rotten apple at Time magazine—specifically, the cover of an upcoming issue about teacher tenure—is generating lots of anger and activism among AFT members and our friends and allies.

Report wrongly discounts role of support staff in schools

The AFT is challenging the assumptions of a new report from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute on school support staff, which suggests that the increase in the number of these employees is "adding more hands, but not necessarily more value."

Weingarten takes on critics of due process

AFT President Randi Weingarten appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" television show to make the case for teachers' due process rights, to correct widely held misconceptions about the teaching workforce, and to clarify that problems tied to evaluation are often mislabeled as due process issues.

AFT vows to fight back against attacks on teachers, unions

AFT convention delegates unanimously passed a special order of business—recommended by the executive council—to fight back against attacks on unions and teachers like Vergara v. California and Harris v. Quinn, and to fight forward to reclaim the promise of America.