Mike Zilles
June 27 E-bulletin
It is a time when collaboration among all stakeholders concerned with the education and safety of the children in our city and in our...
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Mike Zilles
Jun 26, 20207 min read
June 27 COVID-19 Update (excerpt from eBulletin)
Yesterday, Governor Charlie Baker released DESE's reopening guidelines and, almost immediately, David Fleishman followed up with an email...
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Mike Zilles
Jun 20, 20203 min read
June 21 EBulletin
We made it to the end! This has been one of the most difficult, most challenging years of my life, and I am sure, of yours as well. I...
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Mike Zilles
Jun 13, 20204 min read
June 14 EBulletin
Thank you to all of you who have participated in an NTA sponsored focus group in your buildings. The participation rate has been...
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Mike Zilles
Jun 7, 20203 min read
June 7 EBulletin
I think I speak for all of you when I say that each day reveals in fuller detail how dangerous, frightening and uncertain these times are...
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Mike Zilles
May 29, 20206 min read
May 30 EBulletin
This EBulletin will largely be a follow-up to David Fleishman’s Friday Update from May 23. I am putting it out early because I understand...
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Mike Zilles
May 25, 20206 min read
May 25, 2020 EBulletin
We have four weeks of school remaining. Distance Learning remains exhausting, exacerbated by so much uncertainty. Even as states begin...
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Mike Zilles
May 17, 20205 min read
May 17, 2020 EBulletin
On Friday, you received an email from David Fleishman in which he references a conversation between him and me in which we shared...
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Mike Zilles
May 10, 20205 min read
May 10, 2020 EBulletin
I hope all is well, and that everyone is surviving these times. Like all of you, this just seems to go on and on--with no clear end in...
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Mike Zilles
May 3, 20206 min read
May 3, 2020 EBulletin
I hope you were able to enjoy some of this glorious weather this weekend. Finally, spring is here, and it looks like the weather will be...
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Mike Zilles
May 3, 20203 min read
Support Asian and Asian-American Students, Educators and Families––and Reject Hate**
This statement has the unanimous endorsement of the NTA Executive Committee.
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Mike Zilles
Apr 21, 20203 min read
Schools Closed for Remainder of School Year--Reflection
As you are all aware, yesterday Governor Baker closed schools for the remainder of the school year. We are now not quite six weeks into...
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Mike Zilles
Apr 19, 20205 min read
April 20 EBulletin
COVID-19 Update April 20 I appreciate that, once again, so many of you--1,150--took the survey we sent out last week. I spent a good many...
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Mike Zilles
Apr 12, 20203 min read
April 12 EBulletin
Trying to bring some normalcy back to the EBulletin, with the COVID-19 update being one part of the overall EBulletin. COVID-19 Update...
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Mike Zilles
Apr 5, 20205 min read
April 5 NTA COVID-19 Update
This past Wednesday, April 1st, the NTA reached agreement on a second Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Newton Public Schools that...
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Mike Zilles
Mar 29, 20204 min read
March 29 NTA COVID-19 Update
Dear Colleagues: Thank you to everyone who filled out the survey that I sent to you on March 25. When I closed it on Thursday, nearly...
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Mike Zilles
Mar 18, 20203 min read
March 18 - NTA COVID-19 Update
We have reached an agreement with the district that covers the period from March 11 until April 4, 2020.
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Mike Zilles
Mar 14, 20202 min read
March 14 - NTA COVID-19 Update
The next few days will be a "settling in and taking our bearings" period. I am sure that you have many questions and concerns. I will be...
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Mike Zilles
Mar 12, 20201 min read
March 12 - NTA COVID-19 Update
You just received a phone call from David Fleishman announcing that the Newton Public Schools will be closing tomorrow, for all of next...
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