CEA Fundaraiser Through Gazelle

Monday, January 04, 2010

Dear CEA Board and Commission Members,

Happy New Year. It is cold here in the Baltimore-Washington area but I hope you are warm and doing okay. The other day I found out that you can receive cash from Gazelle.com for old cell phones, printers and other techno gadgets that are just laying around the house. Gazelle had been written up in the Washington Post newspaper and other places. So I tried it and was able to get $104 for two older cell phones and a camera. Plus, Gazelle will send you the post paid boxes to ship the gadgets back to them. Also, even if your items are not worth anything they will take them off your hands and recycle them.

Even better, they will donate the cash for your gadgets to non-profit organizations. So I signed CEA up. If you would like to help CEA out with a donation you can go to Gazelle, get a quote for your old gadgets and authorize them to send a check to CEA. Here is the link to the website that they have created for CEA contributions. Let me know what you think.

CorrectionalEducation.gazelle.com

Stephen J. Steurer, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Correctional Education Association

Region VIII TOY Announced!

Debra Branson, Special Education Teacher at Lee Arrendale State Prison (Alto, Georgia) is the Region 8 Teacher of the Year (TOY) and will be honored at this year's CEA National Conference in Madison, Wisconsin.

Region 8 congratulates Debra on her exemplary work and looks forward to honoring her at the Madison conference.

CEA Region VIII

The Correctional Education Association (CEA), founded in 1945, is a non-profit, professional association serving educators and administrators who provide services to students in correctional settings. The CEA is the largest affiliate of the American Correctional Association. Visit the CEA National website.

Region VIII serves correctional education professionals in:

• Alabama
• Florida
• Georgia
• Mississippi
• North Carolina
• Puerto Rico
• South Carolina, and
• Tennessee

CEA Vision Statement:

CEA is the leading professional association in correctional education, both nationally and internationally, providing leadership, direction, and services to correctional educators and programs, and representing correctional education to broader educational, political, and social agencies.

Correctional education is an effective rehabilitative program enabling detained and adjudicated adult and juvenile students to reassess their values, goals, and priorities in life in a positive way, while acquiring the personal, social, and technical skills necessary for a successful and permanent reentry into society as productive citizens, parents, and coworkers.