Professional Development Catalog

Do you feel like your officers are the only ones engaged in the work of the local association? Is your local association ready for a more active role? How can you promote active engagement from more members? This “kick-start” session helps to identify priorities and build off success through a 3 to 5-year plan.

Through this interactive session, participants begin to engage in conversations about race and racism through personal experiences and stories. This session serves as an introduction to the Challenging Racism facilitated conversations, in which teachers gain the skills necessary to talk about race and racism with their students, colleagues and communities.

The EHA will give an in-depth explanation of health care plan designs while focusing on individual’s needs. We will also open the session for question and answers. 

Educators need to care for themselves before they can take care of others to avoid burnout and compassion fatigue. Participants will learn how to recognize the signs of compassion fatigue in themselves and their colleagues. They will learn preventative measures to avoid burnout and other strategies to utilize once burnout has set in.

What is it? Can it happen to me? What to do if you receive a RIF notice?

Social psychologists and scientists have found that all of us, regardless of race, have cognitive biases that influence how we perceive and make decisions about other people. This workshop will raise participants’ awareness of unconscious bias and its powerful effect on student learning and teacher/educator performance while explaining how unintended thoughts can contradict our beliefs and how acting according to our values can require more than good intentions. Participants will work on ways to overcome their bias.  

Leading a meeting you need to be familiar with parliamentary procedure. Basic motions will be covered with lots of hands-on practice.

Learn how to effectively lobby your state senator; help create positive change both in the classroom and the teaching profession. You will receive training on the legislative process, testifying, and the NSEA Legislative Agenda.

Carol Dweck, a professor of Psychology at Stanford University, has conducted more than 40 years of research on the importance of mindset in reaching one’s potential. Her research is significant to the field of education because of the influence it has on student motivation and student learning. If educators and students view intelligence as a fixed trait, Dweck believes this message translates to students in the form of identity. Whereas, setbacks are opportunities to learn for those with a growth mindset, people with a fixed mindset associate failure (I failed) to an identity (I am a failure). This way of thinking about challenges undermines a student’s ability to learn. The current educational reality is filled with labels: ELL/ESL, gifted, special education, at-risk, etc. These labels can become a student’s fixed identity and influence the way teachers view students and ultimately how students view themselves. Learning about growth mindset theory and the simple practices that can support a growth mindset environment can help both students and teachers improve student learning and create additional opportunities for success.

From movies tickets to travel discounts, find out about all the many benefits that are available to you through NEA member benefits.

Do staff want more of a voice in district decision-making? Do staff feel disrespected and mistreated? Do educators in your district need a reminder about their power to move from a complaint to action?