Colleague Stephen Sawchuk, who blogs at Teacher Beat, will bring you coverage this week and next of one of the most political conventions of them all: the National Education Association’s Representative Assembly.

Will delegates of the nation’s largest teachers’ union endorse Barack Obama? How will the delegates shape their policies on teacher-evaluation practices and reforms? And, will the convention organizers bring back balloon arches and confetti?

Starting today, Sawchuk will answer these questions, and more, at Teacher Beat.