Education Support Professionals
We’re NEA ESPs and Proud of It!
Education Support Professionals: It's More Than a Job, It's a Career
ESP's are the school support staff working side-by-side with teachers and administrators to help students achieve their best. A major source of support professionals' work satisfaction is the personal fulfillment they get from working with students and serving their communities. Listen to Stephone Avery, in the video below, about his work as a head custodian in the Camden, Arkansas public school district.
Share Your Interactive Technology Idea to Win $1,000
The NEA Foundation and the Department of Education challenge you to propose a solution to how interactive technology and game-based learning help engage student learning. Up to 10 participants will receive $1,000. Submission deadline is March 5, 2012.
Click here for full contest details.
Tell About Your Active School Program and Win up to $100,00
Does your school have an innovative program that gets students active? ChildObesity180 has launched Active Schools Acceleration Project (ASAP) Innovation Competition. The competition is looking to uncover and highlight the most innovative and effective physical activity programs in elementary schools across the country. If you have a great physical activity program and want the opportunity to share your program’s success, enter the competition for a chance to win up to $100,000. Top programs also will have an opportunity to develop and expand their initiative to other schools. Deadline for entries: April 2, 2012.
Click here to see First Lady Michelle Obama discussing the Active Schools Acceleration Project (ASAP) Innovation Competition in support of the Let’s Move! initiative.
Healthier Lunches Coming to Schools
New standards for school meals were released on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture through legislation championed by First Lady Michelle Obama.
Remarks by the First Lady in School Lunch Standards Announcement
VIDEOS: ESP - It's More Than Just a Job, It's a Career
ESP members across the country speak out on what their work means to them. Listen to what Jossette Threatts of Delaware, Stacy Yanko of New Jersey, Karen Blackwood of Maryland, Lynn Witts of Montana, Joseph Almaguer of New Mexico, Stephone Avery of Arkansas, Debbie Solis of Colorado, Chris Bridges of North Carolina and Wende O'Brien of Massachusetts have to say.NEW: NEA ESP Bullying Prevention Brief Series
Now available for download are 3 bullying briefs, the first in a series of briefs, based on findings from NEA's 2010 Nationwide Study of Bullying: Teachers and ESP Perspectives membership survey. These 4-page briefs provide practical tips on bully prevention and intervention.For additional information on bullying prevention visit NEA's Bully Free: It Starts With Me page.
VIDEO: Education Support Professionals Talk School Modernization
Education Support Professionals are on the front lines in the fight for school modernization.VIDEO: Our Students Deserve Better
NEA Vice President Lily Eskelsen visits a school in Reading, PA in desparate need of repair. This school represents just one of thousands of schools across the country in tremendous need of repair, remodeling, or replacement to provide a minimum environment for effective teaching and learning.TAKE ACTION
Tell Congress to Support the National Classified School Employee of the Year Award Act.
Save the dates
2012 NEA ESP Conference Reminders (PDF, 1pg)
The 2012 NEA ESP Conference will be held March 9-11 at the Memphis Cook Convention Center. The host hotel will be the Marriott Memphis Downtown Hotel, Memphis, TN.
EDUCATION VOTES
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Video
A Day Without Education Support Professionals (ESP)
See for yourself how important every education support professional is to the daily lives of our students and our schools. This poignant video illustrates the value of our work on so many levels. It was produced by Indiana member Mary Neylon.
Dave Arnold: This school custodian and former Illinois Education Association ESP of the Year is a published poet. But most Association members know him best from the editorials -- Dave's View --
