Texas teacher service buy backs can lead to early retirement. Texas Teacher Retirement System (TRS) participants may buy back years of refunded system service credit. According to the TRS Benefits Handbook, credit for buying back years of service is used to establish early retirement eligibility and...
When interviewed by police recently, he told them that his teacher had started buying him gifts and telling him he loved him, in an inappropriate relationship that unfolded over the next couple of years. Coaccioli even used tape to mark a box on the floor, in a far corner of his classroo...
Rosalind RossiKate Grossman
This summer, I joined this book study with this group in Chatham, Illinois, via Google Docs. My lifetime friend, Pam Hogan, and her team started this move in Chatham in 2016 and as you will hear from the principal, Elizabeth Gregurich, who is an awesome top down supporter, the paradigm...
In Illinois, K-12 teachers in Cook, Lake, and DuPage County are eligible for the annual Golden Apple Award, in which ten teachers are awarded a paid, fall-term sabbatical at Northwestern University, a $2,500 stipend, and an Apple computer system. Northwestern provides the tuition-free sabba...
Mosinee High School lost 12 of 55 teachers to retirement, “three-fourths of them high-end leaders,” said former Principal Ray Przekurat, who now works in Minnesota. In the Parkview School District, in a mostly rural area near the Illinois border, 20 of the 30 most-senior ...
Take it further: Offer your creative skills to a local youth group, school or retirement home. You could play a game, run a class, organize a concert ... Say “Thank you”. Saying a heartfelt “thank you” means a huge amount to someone. If you're a manager at work, take time...