Supporting Teachers
Support CCS Admin October 21, 2024At Support CCS, we’re committed to ensuring Carmel residents know exactly where our organization and its endorsed candidates stand. We want residents to vote confidently and share their enthusiasm about our candidates with their neighbors and friends.
Support CCS stands on six pillars–six values we believe will ensure the continued success and improvement of the Carmel Clay Schools:
- Global Preparedness
- Academic Excellence
- School Safety
- Supporting Teachers
- Parent Partnership
- Mental Well-Being
Let’s focus on the “Supporting Teachers” pillar today, showing:
- Why it matters;
- Why Jon and Kristina are the right candidates to uphold it; and
- How YOU can help CCS thrive by promoting them.
What Supporting Teachers Means to Us
Support CCS recognizes that none of our goals can be achieved without our amazing teachers. We are proud to have some of the greatest educators in our state working right here in Carmel. In fact, just this year, CCS’s Teacher of the Year, Barbara Glenesk, was recognized as one of Indiana’s Top 25 Teachers of the Year!
Attracting and retaining world-class educators is not a matter of luck. It requires a community that appreciates them; it requires hiring district leadership they respect and trust; it requires electing school board members who know their value, listen to their concerns, and have the skills and experience to ensure they are fully supported to do their jobs well.
Support CCS is committed to promoting school board candidates who demonstrate respect for teachers by acknowledging their expertise, listening to their concerns, and seeking to ensure they are given the time, funding, appreciation, and resources they need to succeed in their work. We know that teachers’ working conditions are our children’s learning conditions, and that we all need to work together to ensure a first-rate experience for all.
We are honored that the Carmel Teachers’ Association chose to endorse Jon Shapiro and Kristina Wheeler. Like us, the CTA recognized that Jon Shapiro and Kristina Wheeler are incredibly qualified, and that their professional experience and demonstrated volunteer engagement in our schools over the course of more than a decade each would be tremendous assets in facilitating an environment of excellence for teachers and students alike. Fundamentally, as indicated in the announcement that accompanied their first-ever endorsement, the CTA knew that Shapiro and Wheeler can transcend partisan politics in order to best serve all Carmel’s students.
The Risks Of Getting It Wrong
School board members make decisions that affect the lives and livelihoods of our teachers. To ensure those decisions are supportive of our educators and their ability to serve our community, board members must be willing to listen to them and trust their expertise. They must seek to build relationships based on mutual respect. In a national media landscape where teachers are often vilified, we need Board members who will stand up for the truth, cut through misinformation, and advocate for collaborative problem-solving when issues arise.
If we do not truly listen to our teachers and make them feel heard and valued, we risk losing them to other districts or even to other industries.
Why Jon Shapiro and Kristina Wheeler are the Right Candidates to Support our Teachers
“CCS has been one of the top performing and rated school districts in the state, and a primary reason families choose to live here. In order to maintain our success and build on it, as a board member, I would focus on a continued effort in seeking innovative ways to pursue academic excellence, strengthen partnerships between families, educators & administrators as well as ensuring our tax dollars are invested in meaningful and measurable ways.”
-Jon Shapiro
“Our educators are our district’s most valuable resource. We must offer them competitive salaries (enough for them to live comfortably in Carmel, should they choose), excellent benefits, and, importantly, the respect they deserve. We should also prioritize hiring more substitutes and Instructional Assistants for classroom-level support.”
-Kristina Wheeler
Hear from Stacy Brake – Former school employee, Carmel graduate and parent to Carmel graduates on the importance of Supporting Teachers at CCS.
There are LOTS of ways to help us make the case that Supporting Teachers across CCS will best be accomplished by electing Shapiro and Wheeler!
- Send an email to your core groups of friends and neighbors
- Your support of our candidates is the greatest power we have! Share your support for Jon Shapiro and Kristina Wheeler by sending an email to your circles of friends. Knitting group? Book Club? Pickleball crew? Let them know you’re voting for Shapiro and Wheeler and why.
- Display yard signs at your home
- Your neighbors KNOW that you care about safety within our schools. When you put up a “Shapiro” or “Wheeler” yard sign, that tells your neighbors you trust Jon and Kristina to build on the success your family has found at CCS.
- Share your stories of Supporting Teachers across CCS with us
- We’re always looking for testimonials to share on our website! What does “Supporting Teachers” mean to you? How have you seen your children benefit when their teachers are empowered to be the experts in their classroom’s education? Share your stories here!
Support Carmel Clay Schools: Who We Are
Support CCS is a non-partisan political action committee working to support Carmel Clay Schools. We believe that public education is the foundation of a healthy democracy: accessible to all, it brings communities together across differences while respecting the individuality of all. We therefore seek to support the election of school board candidates who will fulfill the mission and guiding principles of Carmel Clay Schools.
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