Women in Education Award

Tag January 30, 2019

California Teacher May 1, 2017 CFT Convention Women in Education Award

Melinda Dart: Women in Education Award

The day after Donald Trump was elected president, Melinda Dart, CFT vice president and president of the Jefferson Elementary Federation in Daly City, saw a sixth-grade boy with his head on a desk, sobbing. Girls asked her how a person who’d said the things Trump said could have been elected president. Dart didn’t have an answer for that, but she was glad to see these sixth-graders angry.

California Teacher March 1, 2016 CFT Convention Women in Education Award

Recognition: Fierce advocates share Women in Education Award for fighting corporate charters

When accepting her award for Women in Education, along with her colleague Theresa Sage, for their successful fight against the Rocketship corporate charter school chain, Morgan Hill Federation of Teachers President Gemma Abels gave a speech that brought the room to tears. She talked about the tough personal fight she faced thereafter — stage IV ovarian cancer with aggressive chemo treatments and attendant exhaustion.

California Teacher May 1, 2015 CFT Convention Women in Education Award

Alisa Messer: Advocating for women and diversity

Joined onstage by other women from City College of San Francisco, English instructor Alisa Messer received the CFT Women in Education Award.

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