CTA's Good Teaching Conference is the highlight of each year's instructional program. Respected names in education fill the program, which covers a wide range of education issues and ideas. Through general sessions and small group workshops, educators receive the benefit of two-way communication with leaders in education.

 

Striving for equity in education is a prime activity of CTA-NEA. The annual Equity/Human Rights Conference concentrates on ways and means to achieve equity both for students and for educators, regardless of their ethnicity, their sex, or their special needs. Focusing on issues important to women's groups, the "equity" portion of the conference brings major speakers and workshops to CTA members on an annual basis. The "human rights" portion includes ways to address minority concerns. It also provides access for members to information on a broad range of human rights topics from the harmful aspects of pesticide use to working with gangs and coping with drug-abusing students.

 

Each year, at the conference, CTA also presents the Human Rights in Education Awards to outstanding educators for their work in the area of human rights.