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Postponed: ESP Rights and Respect: How to Build a Strategic Campaign

Wednesday, September 13, 2023 7:00 PM –  8:30 PM ET (Postponed)

Please note that this event has been postponed. You are welcome to sign up, and we will provide an update via email once we select a new date. Thanks and we apologize for any inconvenience!  —– Join us in this webinar series to learn how NEA members, staff, and leaders have partnered to build a strategic campaign to increase ESP visibility, rights, and respect. Hear from three state affiliates—Massachusetts, Maryland, and Illinois—on how they built their campaign from the ground up, what successes and challenges they faced, and what resources and strategies they have for affiliates seeking to engage in their own campaign. Note: This webinar series is only open to NEA members, staff and leaders.

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Are you ready for rESPect?

Join us this Thursday for our September virtual meeting at 5:30-6:30.

We know that support staff are typically the first to arrive at school as they unlock doors and turn on lights. They are some of the first people to greet students when they arrive at school in the morning, who give students the academic support they need to become successful scholars, who carefully assist with their health, safety, and nutritional needs, and are the last people who see students safely home at the end of the day. The value of their work is priceless.

So it’s time we start treating them that way! rESPect is a statewide campaign by ESPs, with the support of IEA staff, to improve working conditions by focusing on four areas: Wages, Health Insurance, Pensions, and Retention, Recruitment, and Job Duties. Join us to learn how you can help bring the change we need.

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Illinois’ rESPect Coordinated Campaign is part of a National Movement

Join us for our upcoming webinar series: ESP Rights and Respect: How to Build a Strategic Campaign.

Learn how NEA members, staff, and leaders have partnered to build a strategic campaign to increase ESP visibility, rights, and respect. Hear from three state affiliates—Massachusetts, Maryland, and Illinois—on how they built their campaign from the ground up, what successes and challenges they faced, and what resources and strategies they have for affiliates seeking to engage in their own campaign. Note: This webinar series is only open to NEA members, staff, and leaders.

The first webinar of this series will be held next week on Wednesday, September 13, 2023, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. ET.

Register HERE for the webinar >

Please share this event with fellow NEA members, staff, and leaders.

Education Support Professionals, Illinois Education Association

So, We Did a Thing Yesterday

What an honor to share this space with so many great union advocates! Thank you NEA President Becky Pringle for coming, listening, and collaborating with many of our rESPect leaders. We have big goals we want to achieve and together we will succeed!

Our students deserve the best quality education so they can reach their academic goals and achieve their dreams. Education support professionals are the key to their success. We support students, teachers, buildings, districts, and communities in which we live and work. Join rESPect today. https://ieanea.org/members/esp/respect/

#unionproud

#IEArESPect

#ieaesp

#neaesp

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NEA President Becky Pringle is coming to Illinois to discuss rESPect

We are excited to announce that NEA President Becky Pringle is coming to meet and discuss the rESPect coordinated campaign with a group of amazing education support professional leaders. We are looking forward to sharing stories from our members that will explain both the struggles and successes our members are facing here in Illinois. We also will be advocating for a national call for rESPect!

Raising Education Support Professionals by Elevating Careers Together

Education Support Professionals, Illinois Education Association

Who Makes Schools Work?

WEMAKESCHOOLWORK.COM

What makes our schools/universities work? It’s the ESPs, the education support professionals! All of the amazing lunch and recess supervisors, custodians, maintenance, and so many more essential job categories that support our students and schools throughout each and every day.

We’ve reached 10,000 views, let’s go for 20,000. Help us share and spread the word about who ESPs are and how they make schools work.

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School-Home Communication Essentials for ESPs

Thursday, September 28 7 – 8pm EDT

About this event

As an education support professional, you know you have an essential role in the day-to-day work of schools, but you also play a unique role you may not even be aware of. Your smiling face, your understanding look, and your extra effort can help welcome families, build trust, and forge powerful communication highways between school and home. This webinar will highlight the knowledge and skills you need to make the most of every interaction you have with parents and caregivers. You will leave with a greater understanding of the power you have when it comes to engaging families and a greater understanding of how to use your words, tone, and information to build relationships and help bring families into the learning process.

Presenters: Patricia Weinzapfel, M.S. Shasta Rosales, ESP Leader, WY


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Proud to present rESPect!

I am extremely proud to have presented rESPect at the IEA Grassroots Political Activist kickoff last night in Springfield! What an amazing group of advocates and leaders! #IEArESPect

RESPECT stands for: Raising Education Support Professionals by Elevating Careers Together

Join rESPect today, www.iearespect.org

Mad rESPect to our Education Support Professionals who are the glue of our schools.

#IEAESP #neaesp #rESPect #ItstheESPs #leader #livingwage #recruitandretaineducators

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