JCEA Publications

On this page you will find JCEA publications: The JCEA Insight (newspaper), Shaping Tomorrow Today (community newsletter), Negotiations Notes (negotiations updates), home and school parenting brochures, contract/rights pamphlets, and jcea backgrounders (our positions and thoughts about educational issues of public interest).

You can view and download them in a .pdf format, using Adobe Acrobat. If you not have Acrobat, click here.

The JCEA Insight: This official publication of the Association is published September through May, with no edition in the month of January. You can view our most recent issue by clicking May 6, 2008.

For archived issues beginning with April 2001,click here! Please note these are large files and may take a while to download. Thanks for your patience!

Contract/rights information pamphlets: JCEA has developed contract-related pamphlets (see list below) to support our members and clarify their rights. You can view and download these pamphlets on our member-only pages!

• 23 facts every selection committee needs to know!
• Promoting yourself: A practical guide to Article 34, the voluntary transfer process.
• Promoting yourself: A practical guide for "temporary" contract teachers
• Writing the resume
• Preparing for an interview
• The Jeffco Teacher Performance Evaluation Process...It shouldn't be a mystery!
• Evaluation Preparation: Using the Process to Improve Performance
• Know where to draw the line; adult/student boundaries
• The Leasership Advisory Team: Getting started and keeping going!
• Leadership Advisory Team bylaws in MSW format
• Cooperative Decision Making: Partnering for Student Success (a JPS publication)
• Maternity leave: What to expect when you're expecting!
• The Child Abuse Law: Your Rights and Responsibilities
• Charged with child abuse: I never though it could happen to me!
• Tips for Witnesses
• First Amendment Rights in the Classroom
• Interviews, depositions & subpoenas: What are a counselor's professional and legal obligations?

Home & School Parenting Brochures: JCEA has developed valuable information for parents that will help their children improve their learning at home and at school. Parents can view and download this helpful information below.

• Ten things teachers wish parents would do to improve student learning
• Make parent-teacher conferences work for you and your child
• Parent tips for report card follow-up
• Make vacations fun and educational
• What can parents do when there are problems at school
• Homework: It can help!
• Dealing with discipline: Helping your teenager get the most out of school.
• Your Child:Ready or Not - Caring today can help your child tomorrow!
• Discipline: It doesn't have to mean bad
• Looking at Academics and Activities: Keeping a Proper Balance:

En Español también:

• Guía de padres de familia sobre los exámenes de sus hijos en la escuela: A Parent's Guide to Testing at Your Child's School
• Guía de padres de familia para incentivar a sus hijos a leer — y lograr que sigan : A Parent's Guide to Raising Ready Readers (a joint project with National PTA)
• Guía de padres de familia para ayudar a sus hijos a aprender a leer: A Parent's Guide to Helping Your Child Learn to Read (a joint project with National PTA)
• Guía para la participación de los padres de familia en las escuelas de sus hijos: A Parent's Guide to School Involvement (a joint project with National PTA)
• Guía de padres de familia para ayudar a sus hijos lograr el éxito escolar: A Parent's Guide to Supporting School Success
• Padres como aliados: un «juego de herramientas» para ustedes como padre: A parenting toolkit

To promote timely communications, JCEA will notify ARs by voice mail and Email that information about bargaining is available. Members are urged to contact their ARs to ensure they will receive timely notice via voice mail and/or Email distribution lists. Please note, Article 24-1 gives JCEA ARs the right to communicate with members using"District-wide communications systems, ....".

You can view and download the archived issues by clicking here!

Shaping Tomorrow Today: JCEA's community newsletter is published as needed throughout the year. You can view and download archived .pdf files of Shaping Tomorrow Today below.

• Winter 2001
• June 2001
• Fall 2001
• Summer 2002
• Winter 2002-03
• October 2003
• June 2004
• October 2004
• June 2005
• October 2005
• October 2006
• March 2007
• November 2007

JCEA Backgrounders:

JCEA Backgrounders are bulletins that state association positions on various issues of public debate. You can view and download the following:

• Alternative compensation plans
• Colorado tax policy: Gallagher, TABOR, Amendment 23, and Senior Tax Exemption
• How do American schools compare internationally?
• Five popular myths about America's public schools
• 'Merit' pay plans vs. the indexed teacher salary schedule
• Responding to disinformation about public schools
• Understanding Jeffco's indexed salary schedule
• Due process & just cause: It's simply fundamental fairness!

Dispelling Association myths:

• Why does the NEA support Roe v. Wade? You may be surprised by the answer

Information for setting up school-based e-mail, voice mail distribution lists, and school-based phone trees:

• Voice mail
• E-mail
• School-based phone tree