Welcome.
In an effort to enhance communication with and between CMAE, educators, and parents in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, the leadership team at CMAE has established a new online presence: the CMAE Bulletin.
The key message that we want you to find here is this: CMAE, and the CMAE Bulletin, belongs to its members. It's meant to give you news, information, and resources that you'll find useful and timely. It's designed to allow you to share its content with your friends, colleagues, co-workers, whether by email or through your own social media platforms.
And we hope you'll take every opportunity to use it for communicating with us the important developments in your own career and worksite, the questions to which you need answers, and your suggestions for making it -- and all of our work -- better and more valuable to you.
We've spent the past few weeks developing the structure and content of our Bulletin, and we're pleased to bring it to your attention now.
This is a public website -- there is no "members only" section of the CMAE Bulletin -- so feel free to take, use, share, and respond to the news and information you find here. Our intention is to make CMAE's work and objectives transparent and accessible to CMAE members AND to readers who may discover the value of becoming CMAE members.
You'll see that, in its appearance, we celebrate our affiliation with NCAE and NEA, and we add our support to the statewide and national "Red for Ed" movement and themes.
In its content, our goal is to make the CMAE Bulletin a "hub" for news, information, and resources that any educator in the public schools of our district would need. That audience includes aspiring educators who haven't yet graduated from college; early career educators; active classroom teachers; active education support professionals; active instructional support professionals; active administrators; and retired educators living in our district. We also include tools and ideas for parents and any groups who are (or could become) external partners in our work.
It is not our intention that the CMAE Bulletin should replace a printed CMAE newsletter, but there will be obvious overlap between the content posted here and the content published in a newsletter. In fact, as we publish our newsletters, they may become archived within the CMAE Bulletin for future reference.
You'll see there's already a stream of columns and information about our members; about what CMAE is doing with and for members; and about upcoming events, workshops, and conferences, including our IPD Academy series. As more of these events are planned, you'll find those details here.
We'll post video content here from CMAE President Lawrence Brinson and other members of the leadership team, and we're talking about posting filmed excerpts of training activities in the future.
Click the headline of each news item to open that item into a separate page. That will give you the option of responding directly to that article, sending us a comment or question, or just posting your thoughts for others to see. (Be aware that notes posted there will be reviewed before they're published, because public websites like this one allow for anonymous comments to be posted, and not all of them are appropriate for publication.)
To let you share anything you find here with others through social media, we've included sharing links -- look for the row of small icons -- below each news item or feature. By clicking these, you can email that item to an address, or instantly post it to your own Facebook page or Twitter feed, or Pinterest board, or weblog.
To make it easy for you to become a regular reader, we've included a subscription option in the right-hand column. Input your personal email address there, and you'll receive a note each time we add new news and other content to the CMAE Bulletin.
Also in the right-hand column are links to separate pages that contain the membership and contact information of CMAE's current leadership team, and CMAE's Constitution, and an opportunity for you to send messages directly to us through an online email system.
If you know colleagues and co-workers who haven't yet enrolled as a member, we've made that easy, too. Send them a link to the CMAE Bulletin, and invite them to enroll by clicking on any of the three organizational logos at the top of the right-hand column. It doesn't matter where they are in the career -- from educators-to-be, to certified and classified educators, to retired educators, and allies of public education -- there's a category of membership available to them, and enrolling online has never been easier.
At the bottom of the right-hand column, we've included dozens of live links to resources that meet the needs of any reader: links to local district administrative resources, state agency resources, federal agency resources; to government agencies at the city, county, state, and national levels; resources available from NCAE and from NEA; and a range of social media platforms.
Finally, at the bottom of the main page, we've included our own internal calendar. It reflects upcoming CMAE events, upcoming CMS board meetings, NCAE events, as well as national holidays and the national designations of purpose for various months. (You should be able to see our calendar if you have a Google account, or a Gmail email account, once you log into your account.)
We believe that the CMAE Bulletin gives us -- and you -- all the opportunities and features we need to communicate with one another, and to let us work together -- including working with our friends and allies in the community -- with ease, convenience, and immediacy.
All that we have to do now is to tell all the parts of CMAE's story through this new online presence. That opportunity is available to you, too. Send us reports and information to post here. Send us good news about our own work, announcements that impact members at your school or worksite, and photographs that depict your achievements in the classroom, in the district, and wherever else you're having an impact.
As educators in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, each of us has a part to play in strengthening and lifting up the profession. Through the CMAE Bulletin, all of us can have access to news and information, all of us can reach out to one another for support, resources, and answers.
CMAE is strong because members make it strong. Thank YOU for being an essential part of that strength.
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