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<br /> OhioSchools<br /> april 2009<br /> A PUBLICATION Of The OhIO eDUCATION ASSOCIATION<br /> You want to ask,<br /> ‘Where’s the support?<br /> Where do you go?’<br /> We’ve never not worked,<br /> never been out of work.<br /> Do we up and move?<br /> Who’s going to buy the<br /> house? If we move to<br /> Charleston and, in two<br /> years, the company<br /> there says, ‘We don’t<br /> have any more work,’<br /> what then?<br /> Wilmington teacher BarB<br /> Byrne on the effects of the<br /> recession on her family<br /> (see story page 14)<br /> Wilmington:<br /> Tough lessons in hard times p14<br /> OEA prepares for 2009<br /> Leadership Conference p20<br /> 09-ST-100 Home & Auto Ohio 7x9.5” PDFx1a (For April 2009)<br /> Discounted auto insurance for NEA members.<br /> Shaping young minds has its rewards.<br /> Experience proves that educ<a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=1"> OhioSchools </a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=2"> 09-ST-100 Home & Auto Ohio 7x9.5” PDFx1a (For Ap</a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=3"> COVER STORY 14 Wilmington: Tough les</a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=4"> PRESIDENT’S message Sustaining our students, our </a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=5"> NOTEbOOk federal aid is on the way OhIO PUBLIC eD</a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=6"> The legislative process for producing the O</a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=7"> Members focus on Ohio budget bill at OeA educator</a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=8"> ExTRA creDit National Poetry month celebration I</a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=9"> There is an old saying that the course of civiliz</a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=10"> MAkING the graDe For a special radio</a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=11"> OeA on the Web fIND MANY Of TheSe STORIeS AND feA</a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=12"> fEATuRE The magic of words </a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=13"> A round Ohio, students, their</a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=14"> At one of the many other events taking plac</a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=15"> Central OEa/NEa reaches out to readers On March 1</a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=16"> COvER story Wilmington: Tough lessons in hard</a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=17"> “I think that for some of them, school is a</a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=18"> The Byrne’s oldest daughter Brooke, a gradu</a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=19"> Ohio Schools series to focus on the personal and </a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=20"> Protecting our priorities IN A TIMe Of eCONOMIC U</a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=21"> The State Teachers Retirement System (STRS) board</a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=22"> Conference Timeline Registration begins 7:30 a.m.</a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=23"> PROGRAM SeLeCTION: n Participants may select firs</a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=24"> COLLECTIVE BARGAINING This Bargaining Program off</a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=25"> POLITICAL ADVOCACY Dramatic changes to public edu</a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=26"> listening, learning, leading: keys to empowering </a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=27"> ASSOCIATION OeA Board of Directors actions A t i</a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=28"> OEa Spring 2009 representative assembly scheduled</a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=29"> Michael Jordan (Bath) Candidate for NEA Director </a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=30"> Fifteenth annual OEa awards Banquet fRIDAY, MAY 8</a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=31"> 05-ST-115 7x9.5 Alamo Ohio PDFX1a (Ap</a> <a title="April 2009 Ohio Schools page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cdeeab7c?page=32"> OhioSchools 3Protect your pension and secu</a>